Another round of layoffs occurred today within both Sling TV and DISH. It happened across corporate but not sure on how many. Sad to see so many more great people be let go.
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they fire or layoff the stupid ones and the better ones consultant contractor or regular stay but then are asked to do more than their fair share of work and wear even more hats than they already were wearing, so then they leave and it snowballs from there
I believe it was around 400 corporate employees this round that were let go. I haven't heard any names that were management though, only people that did actual work.
a lot of the contractors/consultants at dish are smarter than the regular employees, they're not the problem and sometimes have a greater breadth of experience and skills overall.
The hard working employees JUST GOT CHEATED OF THEIR HARD EARNED RAISES!!! THIS WAS SENT OUT
At DISH, we’ve all felt the impacts. We’re working hard to make the best decisions with the information available to us. Things continue to quickly change and we’re figuring out the best ways to position both our current and future businesses for success. In addition to the changes above, we’ve made several other difficult but necessary decisions.
First, we’ve made the tough choice to further reduce our team. Many of the team members who are leaving us were based at our corporate locations in Denver, were committed to our culture and our mission, and made important contributions. We will do our best to help them through this transition.
Second, our leadership team will take pay cuts of between 10 and 30 percent for the remainder of 2020. These reductions will apply to me, our chairman, our board of directors and all of your leaders at the director level and higher.
Third, we will cancel merit increases for 2020 at all levels of the business. There will be a few limited exceptions for those who have truly distinguished themselves in an extraordinary way—not just in their performance for 2019, but also more recently in leading or supporting our business during the COVID-19 crisis. Examples include some of our IHS team members who were engaged in field activity, and a few of our facilities team members who have done a tremendous job preparing for our return to sites.
These steps help to better protect our future and save additional jobs.
Yes, they lay off employees because of losing money, rather than look at all the ways and processes they are losing money and try to fix them. Subcontractors steal a lot of money. Their Sling service is riddled with inefficiencies. And don't get me started on their customer service reps and the work they outsourced. People try to address these, but rather than fix them, people get laid off. I bet not a single dollar was taken off Charlie and Erik's pay. Like the other person said above, the "Dish family" is a lie. There is something called karma, Dish.