When did bullying become so normalized? I'd honestly like to know, because I remember it wasn't like this before.
23 replies (most recent on top)
When did the bullying culture start?
I tell you when, back in 1999 when VoiceStream used a flood of Hutchison Whampoa ChiCom cash to buy up other US GSM operators despite being smaller than most of them. The Seattle based operation bullied anyone it could in those gobbled up operations to mask its own incompetence and lack of experience. Despite the DT buyout and Sprint merger, that culture has never abated.
@126 so tell me oh wise one how many Sprint data centers we haven't shut down and sold. We decommissioned all sprint networks and sold the fiber company for a,dollar because it was worth it to spend the funds to bring it up to date because it had been starved for funding. Oh don't forget Sprint isn't a company any more, just a sad footnote.
The hose that came from Amazon and Microsoft are the worst bullies. Fo real 🍑 🍆
T-Mobile would not be the 5G powerhouse without 2.5 GHz spectrum that Sprint bought from Clearwire. That’s it. Thank you, Michel Combes!
@11s Legacy T-Mobile people like you like to run your mouth, but don't even know what you are saying. Sprint wasn't sold off for parts as you say. T-Mobile acquired 100% of Sprint. That is not being sold off for parts. You also seem to forget the 50 million+ customers that came over with Sprint. So the point is real simple, T-Mobile would not be where they are today without Sprint. Quit hating on Sprint.
@jp Thats the spectrum Sprint held and could do nothing with, not the company, it's business practices, or its management structure. It was a basket case sold for parts only
@jp This person gets it. Not sure why there are any down votes on their comment. It's a fact that without the Sprint merger, T-Mobile would never be where it is today. And BTW, I am a legacy T-Mobile employee. Anyone down voting their comment is just being intellectually dishonest.
Any guesses on which side of the company jp worked for prior to 2020?
All this talk about how great T-Mobile is and how much Sprint su-ked lacks context and any knowledge of telecom history. Not all that long ago, T-Mobile was behind Sprint and was in 4th place in dead last position. However, in 2011 T-Mobile received a $4 Billion dollar poison pill when AT&T abandoned its attempted $39 billion acquisition. T-Mobile used that money to market the he-l out of their brand and in doing so leap frogged over Sprint. But they were still in a distant 3rd place behind VZ and ATT. It took Sprint's coveted 2.5 GHz mid-band spectrum and the customers Sprint brought in the merger to finally move T-Mobile to #1 with the best network in the country. So without those 2 big things happening, the T-Mobile brand would likely be no more as they would have been acquired and part of telecom history. Dog Sprint all you want, but T‐Mobile would still be in 3rd place, or worse, without Sprint. History lesson over students.
I just spotted another arrogant Legacy TMo perception. They think they were exceptional and out performing the telco industry. Mergers and acquisitions are a norm in corporate America to takeout competition (Mint is a good exampel). If that makes Legacy Tmo think they are God Sent super human exceeding AI brains then you are up for a rude awakening.
Legacy Sprinters were a part of a failed firm. T-Mobile = success. Sprint = failure. Do not be confused.
@f5 They created this environment by merging two different work cultures. It leads to hostility power struggles and fear.
@f5 100%. I second you as a fellow Sprinter. I found legacy TMo, to uncooperative, cut throat, playing mind games and generally very difficult to work with in a team environment. I, also, found TMo came with a tilt towards a certain ethnicity.
@bp as a Sprint person who is a hard worker and has relatively flourished, the cut throat bullying was 100% coming from the magenta side. Everyone out for blood. Silos do that. As do Pele who foster cultures where people don't matter
@OP It's called survival of the fittest. Bully or be bullied. Prison culture and corporate culture are not as different as one may think. One is just a little more blatant.
and when you complain even with documentation about it, HR nor your managers care and will flip it on you and make you the problem, furthering the bullying. i was thinking of trying an integrity line call but doubt they'll give a sh-t either.
It began (in fits and starts) many years ago when they started hiring a--holes from Amazon and Microsoft who were brainwashed by said companies that they were superior to everyone who didn't come into T-Mobile from their former employers.
Now at its peak, bullying is one symptom of the disease of cultural rot at T-Mo where its legacy employees and its new'ish Sprint employees compete with one another to remain employed.
In my experience bullying was normal shortly after the SPRINT merger
Normalized Bullying? In T-Mobile culture or American culture? It is rampant in both. Thanks MAGA!
@OP Oh it’s felt that way since back when AT&T wanted to buy us. It calmed down after legere came in. It’s definitely been this way since return to office mandates started and of course layoffs.
I can trace it back to them bringing in folks in who used to work at AT&T. They brought the Bellhead culture of beating people up. I know of one who was brought over and who had multiple HR filings against them at TMO, and they're still at Big Pink.
When people with no value got into “leadership.”
Welcome to layoff culture where everyone has insane time lines, no way to hit it, but massive pressure from VPs. This is the culture now