Thread regarding Windstream Corp. layoffs

Rumors are true. US based ERC will be terminated

Former VP who is a relative of mine has contacts with senior leadership. We all know they are outsourcing, but it is now confirmed the US ERC will be laid off sometime after Thanksgiving, possibly early December.

Apparently there is a lot of executive based fighting going on. A lot of disagreement on this whole move, because it substantially lower value when they start the firesale of WINDSTREAM.

I was also told that most of the executive team have a deep resentment for TT. Apparently he is not a man of his word, and overall dishonest

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In the contract filled with the SEC TT gets $1 mil pay and $2 mil in options through the end of 2019. If he gets fired, he will receive $5 mil in compensation.

I wonder how many people that actually do important work on the network with years of talent could be spared with the money we're throwing away on this loser?

I mean heck, $2 mil could help keep many prime players in the position to salvage a sibling network.

Automation is garbage as is the Calix E3 that Century link dumped because it's plain trash.

However, our yes men keep saying how awesome it is and how many heads we can cut but implementing automaton and let me tell you, I could write a better program than that!

India is driving this automaton into the ground. It's like having a one wheeled car and selling it to a consumer. Your product best be perfected in a lab before it's street ready. These things take four hours to do when a human could do it in an hour.

Nobody has the guts to stand up to upper management and say this is an utter failure. It's destroying morale and the network. Everybody involved hates it and knows it s---s.

Fire Ciena and take the network back !

Oh and to cutting CO tech they're about to do irreversible damage. You can't buy 20+ years of experience for less than $30/hr. Your new Network Techs will be lost in a CO, field splicing, friends and crossboxes.

It takes talent, experience and good mentors to build up those skills.

An id--t that can go in a house, plug in a phone line toa dsl modem and plug in an Ethernet cable is completely unqualified for what everything else upstream is coming.

This is nothing more than riding unicorns that are c-apping rainbows!

Windstream is done for if they believe this all can happen and turn the red ink black. Somebody better act fast or it's over and this garbage company isn't worth recycling.

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Post ID: @swwe+WaDJZcE

This is not true

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Post ID: @eyby+WaDJZcE

Stupid move but nothing surprises me at all.

My question, is why stay?????

I come here to let people know there are better companies, better pay, better benefits.

The ship is sinking

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Post ID: @3bzh+WaDJZcE

The call center in Saint Louis has been outsourced to Mexico. Their last day will be at the end of the year. Those who think TT isn't outsourcing to other Countries. Think again.

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Post ID: @1yit+WaDJZcE

I call bs.

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Post ID: @1rai+WaDJZcE

"Maybe on 11-29 they should start with Tony"

Something like this

"Today WE announced that all the executive team is being outsourced to India. CEO Tony Thomas finally admitted after years of lying that he is just not quite up to the task of running a company. None of the executives will receive any pension/stock options, and will need to go on Cobra once they clean out their offices, effective immediately. Since the executives didn't do any real work, the India team was up and running in less than a day.

All the monies earmarked for executive compensation/pensions/golden parachutes will instead go back into company infrastructure investment, and handing out raises to employees."

Weeks after this is released in the news, the stock price will jump over $10.

Yeah I know - "back in the real world"....

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Post ID: @dzh+WaDJZcE

Maybe on 11-29 they should start with Tony and work their way down instead of the bottom up.

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