He's out and new guy is AT&T guy, dominoes falling fast now.

Hearing that a lot of RIFs coming next week....

All the contractors are training to do fiber optic Installs and maintenance. Contracting companies told to hire more and more techs because they plan on laying off the majority of CTL outside technician work force by the end of the year. I’d be... — read more 

kept in the dark and fed s**t.........

I am still with the company and I work with a lot of different department to get services delivered to the customer. 99% of the people I work with over the phone or in person work hard to do the same as I do. We want to do our jobs and feel a part of... — read more 

I currently work on the enterprise sales side. From what I heard on the global call after the email fiasco is this: Residential and Small business will remain CenturyLink. Basically the copper side of the business. Mid size and enterprise fiber... — read more 

CenturyLink Rebrands as Lumen September 14th, 2020 by Rob Powell · Leave a Comment The big news at CenturyLink that was rumored over the weekend has officially come out. It's primarily a re-branding rather than anything more drastic, looking to... — read more 

Heard that we may have seen the last of VSPP pkgs. . Should we have been told about this move so we could have made our decision on if we were going to go or not,I mean this is life changing stuff,come on!

Anyone else hearing rumors about something big going down next week

So right before I took the vspp, I had sold 4 gig fiber jobs. Boss tells me oh yeah you'll get paid even though you're gone. Keep your youcan card. Well it's been five months and I don't need to tell you what happened. For a brief second I considered... — read more 

Haha. Century link with contractors doing copper lines. What’s next ? Doing fiber? Negotiate contacts better. Where is ppe? Gas cost exploding. Broke. Hearing about layoffs before contract expires. Supplies running low.

Major outages this weekend. It was enivetable. You layoff all your talent and keep contracting out, and your end result is outages. It has been happening at lower levels and nobody cares. Now it's happening at higher levels, now will management pay... — read more 

With century link looking at fiber. Will the one guy bring it down like mentioned before. Big cities to small town in the past or future. So tired of management c-ap. Time to try harder. Vspp. Cobra. Just vote

Centurylink settled at least two cases against them this week. One being with the Department of Justice for antitrust violations, and another a class action by engineers for violation of FLSA overtime wage law. Other lawsuits have been settled... — read more 

For anyone that took the recent VSPP offers, can you explain how Cobra works. I keep getting different answers from HR. Have upcoming surgery very shortly after my end date. Can't get a straight answer about going from payroll deduction to paying for... — read more 

Recently One of the best most Knowledgeable managers I ever had in all my years in Telecom Retired and I am sure he was forced out by your out of date " Iron fist " micromanagement, metric style. Yet you keep those directors and managers with... — read more 

This is from the recent 10Q report. https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/18926/000001892620000022/ctl-20200630.htm

Took severance in June, feel like my old happy self again. No more weighted down stress, apologizing all day to customers for being a company that makes ZERO changes to streamline delivery. Changes they do make are counterproductive. I feel for... — read more 

Devistating!

Remember in the 80 Pages you signed when you left and there was a part in there that within 20 days a job counselor would call you to help you find a real job? Another lie. Been gone 90 days and nothing. Anyone else get any placement assistance?

Recently VSPP and found I was entitled to a pretty nice chunk of change in the pension plan and requested the immediate lump sum transfer to my rollover ira. How long does this normally take? It’s been almost 2 months and nada so far. The 401k... — read more 

Apparently more cuts announced tomorrow?

Six of us were let go three months ago. Nobody has seen a dime of unemployment. We all got papers to fill out asking foe our supervisors name and number, how much severance we got and why we thought we deserved unemployment. Not another word. Has... — read more 

There are rumors going around that Indianapolis is about to collapse under its own weight. The stories are true management is dysfunctional treats their employees terribly and even verbally assault their employees to get the work done that can't be... — read more 

I heard that another VSPP was offered. Any news/confirmation /details?

Massive Involuntary layoffs this Friday after voluntary exits failed to meet quota.

If you decide to do well on voluntary separation make sure you have copies or screenshots of everything they send you. Make sure you have your pension estimate, lump sum estimate, PTO hours, EVERYTHING. If you are divorced,.mKe sure to screen shot... — read more 

Centurylink has found a buyer for the crumbling dialtone side of company. Unfortunately they dont want a union company. What happens next. I dont know.

Net Tech , CDT lots of others

I realize there was a recent offer. Any idea on next round?

Org spire inc ,,Looking to place technicians in the field for CTL positions .....no interview immed hire sending e-mails leaving voice mail and text messages —CTL Properties

First Monday not under CenturyLink control. I have my life back. I am no longer being held hostage. I would highly recommend taking the enhanced RIF. It's a great day in my neighborhood.

Hearing that no money us being spent till August for capitol expenditures like growth. Anyone hearing rumblings of mergers, acquisitions or spin offs?

Has anyone else noticed your SRO flipping out Way more than normal?

Well, the rumors have started..... next round of layoffs is rumored to be coming week of July 4th

Portland, most of Washington state under Sue Anderson to be offered a VSPP tomorrow morning, off the books by 8/31and yes this just a few weeks after a forced layoff or ISPP.

One of the three group presidents is no longer with the company as of June.