Thread regarding Lumen Technologies layoffs

You know it’s bad and almost feel like SLT makes things up in these conferences and public talks when the Lumen workers, product and delivery team are hearing first hand that some solution is being dreamed up and how we will be next best since sliced bread. In reality it’s nothing behind the scenes it’s a sh-t show where a you have to find a third party to deliver and uncompetitively marked up. Either our directors also don’t know or don’t give a cr-p to inform us
2 days ago by Anonymous | 7 reactions (+7/-0)
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Some Women in SLT who talk ship in front of crowds is just a creepy sales tactic. The audience is basically just a bunch of clueless people who think what they are being told is a new bread slicer that will be made in China for $1 and sold in US for $96. Basically junk. It's about the same as when you see a local garage sale going on, you drive by and tell yourself "wow, it would just be easier to toss all that junk in the garbage".

You know it’s bad and almost feel like SLT makes things up in these conferences and public talks when the Lumen workers, product and delivery team are hearing first hand that some solution is being dreamed up and how we will be next best since sliced bread. In reality it’s nothing behind the scenes it’s a sh-t show where a you have to find a third party to deliver and uncompetitively marked up. Either our directors also don’t know or don’t give a cr-p to inform us

What nonsense are you talking about? They're converting legacy customers to growth products at higher rates than ever before. They're adding more logos than ever before. The CEO is ex-Microsoft and is tight with their C-suite. She's in regular conversations with all the hyperscalers who are telling her this is what they need.

What proof do you all you idi-its have that she's just dreaming all of this up and there's going to be no demand? Big shifts in technology take some time to play out - she even gave you an irrefutable example in cloud.

18 hours ago by Anonymous | 10 reactions (+0/-10)
Post ID: @1dpr+1t7OBQbN

The reality answer is simple. When a company performs well and does great things, or if the company just su-ks, the stock price follows. Lumen leads in nothing but does lead in trying to make up new junk to sell year after year.

Management destroyed Service Delivery and got rid of all the experts for low paying temporary solutions to make certain to cut costs and keep their jobs! How did that work out? Outsourcing is a temporary bandaid and cannot sustain! Prove me wrong!?

"The CEO is ex-Microsoft and is tight with their C-suite."

Kate was at MS for four whole years before getting canned, er resigning for personal reasons.

“ The question is not about the demand. The issue these products are being talked about in market and sound fantastic. But internally in Lumen where are the architects and delivery team for these solutions. As someone in the ecosystem of all this we are already in situations where we are marketing stuff and people signing up for products we don’t have a delivery organization setup and our costs are not competitive”

This exactly…

We are bare bones in engineering, diluted to ops academy. PMs and contractors lead the way of developing infrastructure. Kate isn’t in the room conferencing with other companies if she was we’d have their VCs dumping money eating up stock at this price. No one else can be in hexaswitch. It was Google and ms attempt to keep up with aws.
We can promise whatever and to whomever but if we don’t have a backbone Fiber big enough it doesn’t matter what we promise…

We need boots on the ground getting b2b contracts to help build that backbone to make way for enterprise… we don’t need outreach programs for PR… we need to start making money again and THEN sure let’s build a park with swings and sh-t but let’s pay our bills first…

What proof do you all you id--ts have that she's just dreaming all of this up and there's going to be no demand? Big shifts in technology take some time to play out - she even gave you an irrefutable example in cloud.

This company would be in Ch.11 proceedings as we speak if Jeff Storey were still in charge.

1h ago by Anonymous
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The question is not about the demand. The issue these products are being talked about in market and sound fantastic. But internally in Lumen where are the architects and delivery team for these solutions. As someone in the ecosystem of all this we are already in situations where we are marketing stuff and people signing up for products we don’t have a delivery organization setup and our costs are not competitive

"The real problem is things are getting dreamed up in executive suites hardly anyone knows what is going on or how to deliver it. Is there a team to solution this and build it for customers currently at lumen? It’s a common theme sales is told to sell these make belief products that don’t exist or have a mature setup in place"

What nonsense are you talking about? They're converting legacy customers to growth products at higher rates than ever before. They're adding more logos than ever before. The CEO is ex-Microsoft and is tight with their C-suite. She's in regular conversations with all the hyperscalers who are telling her this is what they need.

What proof do you all you id--ts have that she's just dreaming all of this up and there's going to be no demand? Big shifts in technology take some time to play out - she even gave you an irrefutable example in cloud.

This company would be in Ch.11 proceedings as we speak if Jeff Storey were still in charge.

Been promoting exaswitch for a year now. How many other Hyperscaler customers have contracted other than Google and Microsoft partnerships? How many more markets? As far as we know, none.

The real problem is things are getting dreamed up in executive suites hardly anyone knows what is going on or how to deliver it. Is there a team to solution this and build it for customers currently at lumen? It’s a common theme sales is told to sell these make belief products that don’t exist or have a mature setup in place

I'm torn

Facts are, Lumen doesn’t like customers or Employees.

If we actually believed and did those things we’d probably be higher than $1.20 in stock

Time to go before the big Broom comes out.