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Sad to come here and see so much bickering and blaming.
When EarthLink merged with Windstream, every manager / director had to submit their resumes. There has been plenty of middle management laid off. Doesn’t mean we aren’t too top heavy still.. perhaps this is the next round?
Win turd is laying off the wrong people
As much as I hate to say this, get your resume out. It’s over.
SDWAN is snake oil. Anyone who thinks SDWAN replaces mpls is a idiot. Can it be coupled as a OTT service with mpls.. yea sure, so can ucaas but to put Enterprise on SDWaN with Consumer grade broadband (cable DSL gpon or cellular) and expect them not to have horrible latency affecting their QOS is a real fools errand.
No one wants WS sh--ty dumbed down ‘SDWAN’ product.
In the end, it's about the customer experience. They pay us for services.
Also, customers have a choice to spend money with someone else.
I agree there is a lot of people b--ching or talking about the rumor mill of the day. No real information here from day to day.
The only things that we know is TT is transforming the business from a phone company to a software company. Everything else is an afterthought and has the potential for a cash sale.
I was reading the news (not a business book while hiking French alps) about the Toys R Us bankruptcy. All those employees are getting shart canned without severance because of bankruptcy laws. We are a ways from bankruptcy - but how much more would it take?
The only ones in the know are sitting at a high level. Everyone else is eating poo like a mushroom in the dark.
I was in FOPS for a decade. I was from a company that had 80 Million on our balance sheet at acquisition. I was working between 5 and 10 orders per week, so even more. However in the last 3 years we've go to 1 to 2 per week. So with that being said, I found a new opportunity.
Don't wait for the shoe to drop. Take your telecom skills to other places, stand on the customer side and demand service.
I wish you all long and happy life/career. The market is opening up with higher pay and better places to work.
Put it this way, WS is giving 1.5 raise, I got a 25% increase in base plus up to a 25K bonus for doing the same type of work JUST SOMEWHERE ELSE.
Don't count supervisors or front line managers in the management of a corporation... They are in the dark and in the sh!t right with the rest of us...
I know some people feel this site is just for kill counts and random layoff rumor, and the occasional stomach turning 'its happing' posts...
But it's a little hard not to discuss these issues after watching seat after seat go empty while the number of middle managers stay level. Knowing damn well the potential this company has or well had....
There is a common thread from the various people in various departments I have communicated with.
They keep laying off people and move the work load to the ones that remain. Repair, service delivery, PCs and PMs all say the same thing. Too many orders and tickets for them to work. They also say that there is too many layers of management above them. We need to stop laying off the people at the bottom who are needed to progress an order to completion or work a ticket to restoration. I have gone through the organization chart and I can see that we have way too many in management. We don't need that much management.
If you look at some of the direct managers you can see that there are not many that report to them. Why not get rid of some of them? Mostly those managers just sign off on timesheets and deal with petty drama within the various teams.
If we need to trim some fat in this company to make it more profitable, why not start there? Getting rid of those that actually work orders and tickets is only harming us in the end.
This isn't blaming those in management but pointing out a fact that we are way too bloated in that area.
Repair technicians and those in service delivery only have so many hours in a day to work their tickets and orders. If a customer doesn't have a repair or order completed in a timely fashion, they leave. If a coordinator is overwhelmed with orders and doesn't scrub them to clear out issues thus causing delays during install and activation, it costs us.
In the end, it's about the customer experience. They pay us for services.