Rumors are already circulating about the layoffs, which will begin in April and continue in the coming months. I’m worried because I’ve already been trying to find a job and I couldn’t find anything that isn’t a real downgrade.
I wonder who will be the target and whose jobs are less endangered? Some say Sprint/ TMO store employees are pretty safe. Any thoughts?
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Many on this forum have no clue about metro side of the business and talking a bunch of nonsense
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Agreed. I would look for upwards of 90% of the remaining metropcs people to be laid off anytime April 1 on (possibly all of them). All those locations could easily be switched over to the tmo field crew. Mickey retirement is a very ominous sign. Likely forced the way Keys and the girl vice president were. Very dark sign for anyone wearing a metro badge.
MetroPCS was this small company full of junior regional people whose jobs outgrew them ten plus years ago. They should have been let go a long time ago and the operation streamlined. Took way too long to do. They hit a brick wall of growth in 2018.
Metro is the only growing prepaid brand in the country now. Money was reinvested back into the business after Jon Frier did what no else would do — cut all of the bloated management and operations headcount. That needed to be done years ago under Tom Keys. Frier was vilified for it, but it needed to be done. MetroPCS was never integrated into TMO until 2019. So much better now. Need to upgrade dealers too and that’s happening now.
It’s a shame what happened to Metro once T Mobile took them over. They were printing money. The reduction should come on the T Mobile side. There were so many talented people let go. The Metro folks were more knowledgeable because it was a smaller company and they worked with every department and had to understand what everyone did... marketing, finance, operations, safety and prevention, etc. it was ok to think for yourself and not always have to fall in line. That’s how you grow, thinking outside of a magenta box. Inclusivity is a look over here but not over here word with T Mobile. They never included sprint and metro employees in their plans. Just want you to feel like you are included until they figure the severance package and lay you off. To anyone getting laid off, the grass is greener outside of the magenta haze. Now with vaccines going to be a plenty, nows your chance to find a new you. With t Mobile, you don’t belong to you, you belong to them. No sprint customers to snag, how will you get the ATNT and VZ customers? Going to get interesting... I hope people do not get laid off but with TMO it’s inevitable. That’s how they solve problems.
Another big reduction coming on the Metro side without question. That will all be handled by TMO indirect channel going forward (their workload will be doubled up a bit, but doable).
Probably alot of middle management throughout the company on the hook as well.
There are many, many big money expenses post-merger and TMO over-paying salaries by leaps and bounds.
I would look for massive cuts after tax season but not sure if it will be at once or in waves.
Store employees are almost surely safe. In fact, they want as many store employees as they can afford, both to serve the customer and to count against the promised "job count".
At much more severe risk, are field sales/mgmt positions. There are WAY too many T-Mobile district managers, many having an embarrassing low count is stores such as 7, 8, ridiculous numbers like that.
Also at severe risk are the remaining Metro folk, nearly all not needed at this point as the customer base at this point is nothing but the same customers leaving, then coming back, then leaving, and on and on.