Get ready for more inspirational CEO LinkedIn posts about leadership, transformation, and how amazing everything is going! Thirsty much? Our newly streamlined, U.S.-ONLY tower company is heading to Europe for an investor conference. Because... — read more
The Crown Clown Show: Houston, IS the Leadership Problem!
This week they spent a fortune pretending employees matter while cutting benefits, threatening jobs, and spreading fear. Attendance is “voluntary,” but absences were noted, employees out aren’t spared, and those who speak up became targets. Nothing... — read more
New “Health Insurance”
Has anyone had the chance to take a look at the lack of benefits Crown is giving to us next year? I sure hope there is a raise to make up for the more than 30% pay cut we are taking for the “opportunity” to be here. I wonder what’s next?
Towers Aren’t Dead — Stop the Fake News. The Next Growth Phase Satellite Is Coming!
History matters. Iridium’s original business model failed in part because it couldn’t compete effectively with terrestrial networks. The future isn’t satellites OR towers — it’s satellites AND towers. SpaceX needs ground infrastructure. Morgan... — read more
No Room for Growth
I’m deeply concerned and disheartened as I look across the current landscape at Crown. My manager and director have each remained in their roles for more than 20 years, and I understand my immediate manager has been in the same position for over 25... — read more
Zero Experience. Maximum Authority.
There’s a dangerous trend in tower construction: The inexperienced are now leading the even more inexperienced. People with little to no real construction experience are being placed in leadership positions, then tasked with developing project... — read more
Arium Network construction Taking over
As we all know VCA2 is coming to an end so what are they doing to protect their jobs? They’re attempting to take over. break fix Operations.. They have no clue What our Job consists of and they think they could just hire any GC off the street to do... — read more
Sunit Has the Mic Today… What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Today’s RBC challenge: Sunit has the microphone. Please don’t scare anybody. CCI doesn’t need analysts to suddenly decide it’s worth $94 today. It just needs the market to become less convinced that $67 makes sense. The stock has been hammered, with... — read more
Enough: We have to Stop Hurting Ourselves
The Letter to Leadership was good and their call to action, this is ours. Leadership and the Board absolutely need to get their sh-t together, stop the leader revolving-door with swag bags of cash and create stability, but as employees need to stop... — read more
Arium layoffs, how about Crown and Zayo?
I heard from someone who went to Arium that they had layoffs last week. How are the Zayo folks doing? Are we thinking more Crown layoffs? Raise your hand if you are tired of this.......
Change of Attitude
If your slide deck slogan is ‘we are going to hold the Customer accountable’ then you probably need a box!
Wait… Who’s Grading the Board? Layoffs Downstairs, Golden Parachutes Upstairs
We talk constantly about management accountability, but what about the board? After years of strategy changes, executive churn, restructurings and layoffs while approving significant executive compensation and crazy separation arrangements how... — read more
No more site managers?
Is it true they laid off all the site managers, or field operation techs, or whatever they call them now?
Letter to Leadership: Enough With the Whiplash. Now Fix What It Broke.
It started with a letter from Elliott. Maybe it ends with a letter from the people still in the Tower. From: The People Still in the Tower Next stop: stability. Removing two EMT members is not a cultural reset. What leadership does next determines... — read more
Ding Do-g, the Exec is gone!
Scene: Doors of the Canonsburg office swing open. Three members of the Lollipop Guild emerge, wearing matching puffy vests, untarnished hard hats, purple sneakers, and holding enormous lollipops. Behind them, a banner reads: "Congratulations on... — read more
Hearing another round before q3 earnings
Basically that’s it another round coming along with a reorg as “we now need to level set after the sale of network”
Hey y’all, JayB here. 👋 How y’all doing? Miss me yet? 😂
Just checking in on my old Crown family. I hear things are going… great. Culture at an all-time low. More reorgs. More layoff rumors. Eight job openings. Stock anxiety. People asking, “Why are you still here?” And apparently SpaceX may need 1.5... — read more
SpaceX
SpaceX may need 1.5 million small cells to compete with TMO to bad Crown caved to Elliott management and no one would listen to JB. Now Crowns is a singular business with no growth
Maybe Spend Less Time Maintaining Your Network and More Time Leading the Company
If our CEO spent a little less time on social media maintaining his network and relevance for whatever his next role might be—and a little more time actually leading this company—maybe the rest of us would spend less time on Layoff.com wondering when... — read more
Crown culture at an all time low
Is it just me or is the culture at an all time low? It feels worse than ever before.
Anyone know what the org changes in D&D could look like?
Heard about upcoming org changes in D&D, not sure when and what it’s going to look like.
Zayo & Arium Folks: did the Crown issues carry over to your new company?
Inquiring minds want to know, is the grass really greener or are the same problems from Crown being passed down the line?
A Crown Castle + Starlink Partnership Could Redefine Wireless Infrastructure
Why just wait, let’s act! Crown Castle’s nationwide portfolio of communications infrastructure provides an ideal platform to accelerate Starlink’s vision of a hybrid satellite and terrestrial network. By integrating Starlink equipment and... — read more
Stock is Suffering
Deeper employee cuts must be made, shareholders are not going to tolerate the stock price continuing to erode. Quickest way to recover short term is to cut headcount, Wall Street loves to see operating cost reduced.
Q2 Earnings
So... Earnings today and then what? O_o
What’s next?
Though in the past meetings the CEO has mentioned no more layoffs for this year but this doesn’t seem realistic. The numbers don’t lie and we aren’t naive on what’s going on. So what’s next? What will this Q2 earnings call bring?
CEOs demanding RTO more likely to be narcissistic
https://finance.yahoo.com/small-business/articles/fortune-500-bosses-demanding-staff-070000467.html
Layoffs this week
There were rumors about cuts at the start of July, is that happening?
Job Titles
All the job titles are messed up. Do we know when they will update them?
App Counts
With our app counts down, MLA negotiations not going well with one carrier, and backfills not happening, has anyone heard of any more layoffs? A small one seems likely to me after the earnings call.
Crown Career Barometer
Here it is…The first week of June and a quick look at the career section of Crowns website shows eight openings…split between half in Houston and the other half in Canonsburg. Nothing in the field…nothing remote. Any chance at a lateral move out of... — read more
Why are you still here?
Why are you still here at Crown?
Thanks for the sc--w job Crown
Only time will tell, but no one has a good feeling about Zayo
Non-Compete
Anyone have issues with moving on to another telecom role after the last layoff due to having signed a non-compete document when we started at Crown? Is Crown going after folks saying that they have voided their severance agreement because of voiding... — read more
Layoff
Now that the sale has been completed and continued work load being taken off the field force is another layoff of the field in the plans
SiteSafe
Is SiteSafe still up in Virginia with all of that "talent"?
CCIC at it again?
They cut me in 2002 one month before my daughter was due. As an RF Engineer I tried to explain to them that the carriers have their own engineers and that marketing the towers to them wouldn't work. They already knew where they needed towers. I... — read more
Bonus
Anyone hear anything on when we will get the retention bonus now that the sale is through?
Reorg
Now that the divestiture is completed, when do you think reorg will occur? Titles are all over the place. And do you think reorg will include layoffs? I noticed small layoffs here and there of long time contractors.