Saw a LinkedIn post from an Intern polishing John’s Cue Ball head by say he runs a $200B company and leads 150,000 customers. Guess nobody at his business school explained that we are a telecommunications utility and all that we need to do is keep the strings between the tin cans taught. They also must have run out of room to tell him that John led both the DIRECTV and WarnerMedia failed mergers, costing us Billions. Omitted the massive layoffs of the qualified employees that keep our customers connected and that’s why we have all of these outages and a slower network than T-Mobile. Guess they didn’t explain that when he sat in the high chair at Stankey’s lunch table.
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He retained Legg, who likes to trivialize date ra-e. Remember when Legg pretended to be roofied and couldnt find his own Town Hall, while the rest of his svp’s wasted marketing resources for achievement videos? I remember. All 4-5 months before they suddenly decided to upend people’s lives due to financial hardships. Legg said that 2022 was very healthy financially. What changed? I guess Legg was outside the Stankey circle of trust until 2/2023.
He’s in it now. Should have stayed at Warner Jer. How’s that 30 min /12 per week Stank gives you?
LinkedIn nothing but a circlej--kof globalist virtue signaling
I was responsible for launching the iPhone. Steve Jobs couldn't have done it without me. A business consultant. Not even a telco employee. You're all welcome for me saving the day!
Stephenson and Stankey did not offer the breakup fee of $6B and spectrum to get TMUS to the table. They were already there negotiating in good faith. Stephenson decided to double down thinking the deal would be approved without issue. Talk about arrogance, TMUS never requested a breakup fee! This is a prime example, one of many, of the stupidity displayed by both Stephenson and Stankey. These two id--ts are treated like lepers by the entire business community, everyone avoids them like the plague.
Yes, he is a genius, just ask him...lol!
Boy, I sure hope we have more than 150k customers.
OP response to “ What big ideas did you ever try? How have you tried to innovate at T?”
I proposed to the senior leadership team at MDP that we eliminate the “span of control” metrics of x employees per director, y employees per avp, z employees per vp, etc. I was met with stunned silence when I explained to at most headquarters teams only have a hundred employees to substantiate the junior varsity titles (director, AVP, SVP). I backed it up with payroll stats to prove out ROI if each “leader” could remove 80% of people under them by the end of the year by automation and keeping productive workers only. They couldn’t fathom that only 20% of employees are contributing to business goals and the remaining 80% are just pushing paper (or as they call it these days, opening tickets, escalations, war room calls, email filing and the back to back conference calls where the 20% above are talking and the 80% are on TikTok.)
$6B was a great price for T-Moblie. I can see how it didn't work out.
It would have been nice if John would have ben able to get the T-Mobile merger done.
John Leading is a contradiction.
Stank was also behind that failed bid for TMO. Gave $6B and $6B in spectrum to tmo just to get them to the table. FCC would not approve the deal and TMO got to keep the $6B and the spectrum. Awesome negotiation. His B school is probably changing their name to avoid the reference from Mr STANK
Got rid of unneeded workers. Kept the massive company going.
Did the poster also mention that Stinky is at the top of the CEO Wall of Shame, and that Ratty is second to the top? Quite the accomplishments by both!
At least Ratty dressed like a CEO and never hosted any Pajama Parties like the Stink did!
What big ideas did you ever try? How have you tried to innovate at T?