Principal is having a major outage with no ETA for when you will be able to access your retirement fund.
Update soon?
Uniform ordering was delayed, maybe because we will know our fate soon? AT&T, Network CO, Lumen or layoff?
New Leaders Ops
Has anyone worked with the SVP of Strategic operations and transformation under Enterprise Operations ? If so what has been your experience with him because it seems like he isn’t the best partner around
Vampire lumen
💀🧛♂️ Working at Lumen sometimes feels like being in a vampire clan. • We work best in the dark (data centers, anyone?). • We su-k the life out of bandwidth — in the best way possible. • We’ve been around for ages and still keep reinventing... — read more
New cobtract
Hearing rumors of a contract extension?
Lumen Loophole: No RIF/Unemployment If you refuse ATT
If you refuse an ATT offer Lumen per conf call referenced you would be effectively be quitting your Lumen job. Since you had a viable similar job option to continue working with att on the table that you refused. Translation your punked by Lumen if... — read more
ATT/Network Co offers.
Union employees, if you get an offer, and decline, you are not guaranteed a job with Lumen. Non union, if you get a job offer and decline, you lose your job.
Cloudy 2.0
OMG I want to go swinging. Great timing.
GTT?
Heard a bunch of folks last month jumped to GTT. Looked at their Layoff.com page and last comment was from 2022…ah…that is what stability is like.
Blowing Smoke
Every single person who posts about coming RIFs are just blowing smoke. You all know nothing. Nothing. You're like those psychics who continue spewing predictions until one of them comes true so you can go, "See?! Seeeee?! I was right!"
Meetings and awards
Seems like alot of posting on Linked in " look at me, look at us meetings" getting various groups to travel somewhere to discuss "strategies" and fun on the company dime. I also see awards from little known companies that say Lumen is great at this... — read more
EOI Sent to MEC
To absolutely no one's surprise, a show of interest was offered to PM's, ENG's, Fiber Splicers, etc to go to Network CO / ATT. A fun rollercoaster!
AT&T
I'm hearing rumors AT&T wants to close the Lumen deal before the end of the year. This might explain why. AT&T announced yesterday that they will pay EchoStar $23 billion in cash to acquire a portion of EchoStar's wireless spectrum licenses... — read more
A direction
Lumen is once again hiring someone from Microsoft. Shedding certain assets. An increase in insider stock buying. Makes you wonder if Ms. Johnson is not possibly setting up the company to be acquired.
Ops leadership
I can’t believe the whole ops leadership is from Roger’s communications and they are the worst leaders possible trying to be top dog creating duplication and headaches as if they know what the heck we all do. Better yet some have been here 5 months... — read more
RIF coming
Person who works with SVPs under Ward said a RIF is coming for STEPN. This week or next due to projects over budget.
Kate buying more shares again
Half a Mill worth this time.. Seems like every time she does something like this, its not good.
Well, this place has managed to force my hand
I’ve been working on launching a business for years, just kept putting parts of it off. But everything happening here lately put things into perspective, and I’m done playing it safe. It won’t be easy, but I’ve already wasted enough time trying to... — read more
Whoopsie Kate?
Look, I am not a rocket scientist but none of this makes sense. Lumen 2nd quarter results were just announced on Thursday. Lumen did NOT make the same revenue as the previous quarter. Lumen's Revenue dropped 5.4% as it has been dropping each quarter... — read more
Brace Y'Self, Effie
Here we go! My source just told me to expect things to happen tomorrow morning. It won't be everyone, but it will be significant. The struggle is real. Be mindful of others and be kind.
Earnings predictions
One word bad.
Feeling sorry for AT&T Spin off
AT&T is going to find out how bad the plant is in Denver. The elite cable maintenance has frogged the cable so bad it takes us awhile to find the right ports. They are lucky they are only going from the FSAI out. The other side of the FSAI is even... — read more
Lumen gets an award for "great place to work"
How.... Please explain
AT&T tax break for fiber
So AT&T is taking an $8B tax break for fiber. Just crickets from Lumen. Why aren't they taking it too? It's awfully quiet. Too quiet.
Rumormongers
Y'all are nothing but a bunch of rumormongers. Your logic is lacking, and your proof is even worse. Shame on you spreading this cr-p.
Lumen needs a lot of help
I wish to use names but know that is a no, no. In Denver the current management has lost total focus. They do not care about customers, only themselves. We want to do our jobs and take care of those who pay the bills. However we get told no! Now if... — read more
Any other rumblings?
Other than the 98.99% operations/installers/union folks on this site, are there any sales RIFs looming? Looking to buy a house and checking any potential shifts in Lumen sales.
AT&T or ???
Any new info on who's been identified to move to the "new" company as part of the fiber sale?
Cameras installed in vans
Who has cameras now? I keep hearing rumors we’re getting them but haven’t actually seen them yet.
another VP shown the door?
4 months might be a new record heard a bunch of his reports are gone too. was this part of a reorg or a rif?
D7
So how was the big phone call tonight with D7. I’m low on seniority so I didn’t listen. Any news worth while
$10K Phased Retirement Sweetener: Voids Severance/RIF Packages
So they sweetened the pot on early phased retirement with a $10K offer. But if you accept you will not be able to take a severance RIF package if one comes along. Probable cheaper way for them to clear out low hanging fruit before they go to... — read more
More layoffs coming
It looks like more layoffs will soon be announced. Has anyone heard anything specific?
The truth about AT&T
I spent 22 years at AT&T before I was laid off and came to CenturyLink. An AT&T acquisition is not a good thing for the employees of the acquired company. They will slash management right away because the way they manage is different. You you guys... — read more
So is there anything to these Microsoft rumors?
Been hearing that a lot lately. Would that be a good thing for employees. Or do they gut? It sounds exciting. A lot our bosses are ex micrsoft anyways.