Wonder is the sly layoffs will continue tomorrow or are they waiting for settlement or trial verdict from uniti. Reorganization is on our heals and hatchet man shall maketh deep slashes....
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All i have to add to this is, some of the bad seeds who doesnt do anything in SD picked from my group. I do not feel bad at all for them losing their job. It's a business at the end of the day, if you're here to just sit and talk. That's without saying i heard a few good folks went in other groups.
More layoffs today in emerging
Agreed on field managers. They dont assign out jobs or do their own metrics. Techs rarely see or speak to their managers and they arent very technical so they arent used for support/training. CBRE handles all the site/vendor responsibilities. Not sure what they do to occupy a 40hr work week at this point. Of course there are some good ops managers out there that know the network and are quite technical and support their teams from that aspect....but there are not many left like that around here.
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Is this all on the CLEC side? Is the ILEC side any better?
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We didn’t realize in 2015 We entered the point of no return when TeeTee coordinated the REIT deal. It should’ve been an immediate Red Flag when Whittington up and exited the company.
I heard last week that by the end of March most of the field managers will be let go. WIN is sticking with the planners in Ohio in order to manage the workload for field techs so local management is becoming a useless position. The managers I’ve worked with have no idea what the techs are doing anyway and there’s much BSing up the chain. They rarely leave the house and have desk phones forwarded to personal cell phones. Keep in mind, the shady people at the top are creating shady managers all the way to the bottom.
Nobody has seen so much as an email from my VP or director in about 1yr. My manager pops into the office maybe once a month and when he is onsite zero work gets done. He makes his rounds with his coffee in hand telling everyone how bad other departments are. He bad mouths engineering, the NOCs and repair the entire time. When we offer suggestions on how to improve things we get “oh well, not our problem. We will all be out of a job soon anyway”. Its clear we are beyond the point of no return and you should either find work elsewhere or put your feet up and enjoy the end
Probably not. It's not just Thursdays anymore. It's more frequent and more stealth so not to startle the new hires which do not know any better. Props up the engagement scores. Also they've just gotten more efficient. More frequent and smaller is more efficient. It's the hidden Law of Small.
Sadly this is one thing WIN has improved on, cutting workforce on the sly.
If you have been at WIN more than 5 years but were not promoted in last 2 years or put on the bonus gravy train consider yourself fired. They only need your warm bodies to get the managers more compensation and more prestige.
It's all cronies. Wait around a bit and you might get severance if the executives are feeling generous. But don't consider that a given because WIN managers got to get the bonuses first. It's all about the money all the down screw accountability and screw customers.
How are these execs still employed? Guessing their crooked acts have financially benefited the board. Because windstream is going under due to court rulings on those very executives illegal acts.
Yes the Uniti decision could break Windstream’s back.
Nothing tomorrow. Most likely another round before we goto court in another month.
Once they announce the restructuring plan, we will have one following that.
If we combine or sell off business units some of that activity might help with losses by attrition.
The x factor is that the courts will decide what happens with Uniti.