I am a Crown survivor caught in the last layoff debacle. I worked for both sides of the business, so I have no dog in the fight. It is unfortunate to see employees and other survivors fight in the message boards. Nobody can identify the single cause of failure, besides bad management. As I interview at other companies, it is becoming painful on how staying at Crown’s clown show could hamper one’s career. It is amazing to see the educational and growth opportunities at other companies, with managers who were hired for skill and knowledge, as opposed to political and social appointees. Stop fighting and pin the blame where it belongs, directly on Crown’s poor leadership and incompetent managers.
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100% agree with the OP, there should be no Tower vs Fiber/SCN, you are all on the same side. You probably have lunch with each other in shared offices or have worked on projects together. Don't be the faceless enemy of your allies and friends at the workplace. Don't give the EMT a tool to leverage you for or against others. Tower and Fiber are 2 very different businesses that on their own are very successful, however the combining of the 2 are 2 completely different businesses. The EMT built division and lacks the leadership to correct this culture. Again, they should be Real, be Accountable, be an Owner of this. instead they're finding ways to conquer and divide. Be stronger, and don't work against each other.
Crown was 20 years too late to the fiber party and anyone who needed fiber already got it. So all the money spent to get Crown fiber to where it is today was a terribly executed plan that only benefited suppliers and the organizations to build it. All the acquired entities were doing great and would continue to great without the EMT trying to find ways to ingest more dollars from the customer.
Now the larger carriers are already scaling back SC deployments because Crowns build strategy is too long, and too expensive as commented by the same customers. The customers are significantly more business minded than Crown, and they know they're getting screwed, and they're we-ponizing their spend against Crown.
In hindsight Crown could've acquired all these Fiber and SC companies but operated them as wholly owned subsidiaries and made above board transactions.
It’s also been happening for over a decade in the CA offices-even with vendors with crazy awesome, secretive, kickbacks.
Ya its at the top but it started at SP in the late 00s and grew from there. Sales, Property, Finance, Services. Not so much engineering and legal because you actually need an education there. A dozen/2 dozen people at SP had way more operational power than the emt. Could tank anything or anyone quietly behind the scenes. And they did.
True. JB and PK were college roommates so it’s straight from the top.
While you're there you see all great things that happen for the connected people and think it can happen to you too. Then you start to realize this guy is that ones nephew and this girl is that ones cousin and this girl is that ones sister in law. This guy is the mgrs husband's college room mate. All end up ours and above with no talent. You start to understand that its not about work ethic, knowledge or experience, its entirely about 40 or 50 people and their web of a few hundred. That's when you understand Crown isn't remotely what it claims to be. Its a joke and I'm sorry I wasted one day there.
Agree. While I was there, I thought it was a great company. Now that I’m interviewing with new companies, I realize just how bad Crown is to its core. How could I have been so blind?