Sprint Corp., the fourth-largest U.S. wireless carrier, said it aims to slash fiscal 2016 expenses by as much as $2.5 billion, through layoffs and a wide array of cost controls, as an essential part of its ongoing turnaround efforts,
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Sprint's board is busy here. AT&T too...
It looks like Frontier is doing fine? Really, the middle class is being attacked now, all good well paying jobs are being given to foreigners. They did this with blue collar workers in the 80s and 90s, the pushed them all below poverty line. If you work in a blue collar job, you'll need gov assistance. They pay peanuts, not enough for a person to live, so the goverment is stepping in and paying the difference in hand outs to blue collar workers. The difference is kept by corporations. They will do the same thing with us, OK, you want to do a purchasing job here, OK, here is an H1B who will do it for ten bucks an hours, you want to code, OK, here is 11 bucks an hour. So it goes. We'll all be below poverty line. Hillary supports this. Rubio supports this. All of them are in bed with big money.
If you can retire and start Social Security-do it; If you can collect unemployment-do it; get any monies you can while you are looking for other employment, because you are not going to find anything decent. I have been looking for years, since they riffed me. Fortunately, my husband did not work for VZ and was able to retire with pension and SS.
Not sure where all these people are going to find work...this country is out of control.
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