I was told that last week on Friday around 1,000 people in sales we’re laid off. Any truth to this?
any news on possible VSPP packages coming?
What the word on packages being offered? what states? and which techs? I know someone wrote about it about a month ago... Nothing so far..
Rose colored glasses - OFF
Had to laugh after hearing from an ex colleague (yes I am gone) that one of the kidswho was drinking the coolaid finally took off the rose colored glasses last week, when he found out on of his heroes that was a big rah rah supporter turned in his... — read more
Thread gone
There was a whole discussion about voting here earlier, but I can’t find it know. Pretty odd. Anyone knows why it’s gone?
Omaha Tier 1 front facing to close by March
Omaha's teir1 front facing tech support group is to close by March all signs point to yes there has been a hiring freeze in place for over 6 months last year at this time we had close to 170 reps which has dwindled down to around 70. Nothing has been... — read more
Hurricane
Hurricanes coming....we will be in deep manure with the skeletal crews we run and contractors wise to the condition of the plant. Should be interesting times, maybe we will have actual generators in place this time....? I doubt it but maybe? This... — read more
How’s CenturyLink?
AT&T worker here with 7 years experience, being surplused/laid off to the streets. How’s working for CenturyLink? I’d like to apply.
So is CenturyLink being sold or spun off?
Spinning off CenturyLink’s consumer business also would involve dividing a network and other operations that serve both the consumer and business sides of the company. This would “simplistically imply roughly $300-$600 million in value destruction... — read more
ATT did it.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.clarionledger.com/amp/2139462001
Jeff Storey Salary
The article below outlines the CTL CEO's salary for 2018 compared to other industry CEO's/executives. His pay increase from 2017 was a whopping 24.7 million for 2018. Bringing his total 2018 salary to 35.6 million. Pretty good pay raise for a... — read more
Let's do another org realignment!
Looks like the changes mentioned here https://www.thelayoff.com/t/ZdaOhxd are finally happening. Slowly. Details about the new alignment of LNI and Field Ops to be released at the Walden All Hands meeting next month. Can't waited for the fully... — read more
Monroe order enrty employees targeted
Monroe employee entry employees are beimg targeted due to lies and poor management. They are fighting amomg themselves and throwing everyone under the bus and the new manager is so naive she believes all of it. If you are in Monroe get out! Take... — read more
If they can do it so can we.
https://www.khq.com/news/grocery-workers-in-washington-oregon-poised-to-strike/article_3cdbb8ca-c838-11e9-92ed-5b0ce0109f91.html
So what company will we be in 2020?
We all know that changes are coming very soon. With early negotiations and now having a TA in place what is CTL really up to? Are we being sold as a whole or being broken up? Also who would want to buy us? Knowing that there’s been a steady decline... — read more
AT&T’
Ok CWA. See what at&t did. 20,000 strong. Grow some balls cwa.
I know adcomm is a contractor for you guys but i need a job
i have been surplussed from At&t in chicago with 19 yrs of service, 16 in repair and 3 yrs as a linemen. i am asking for advise, i have a job offer from adcomm doing installs and repair for 25$ a hour. can i ask you guys if i should take it? i would... — read more
Legacy Qwest TA please read and stop the rumors
TO: All CWA Local Presidents Representing Legacy Qwest Members FROM: CWA Bargaining Committee SUBJECT: Tentative Agreement Your CWA Bargaining Committee met July 13-16, 2019 with CenturyLink. We spent... — read more
Contract
Has anyone seen the tentative agreement that we will be voting on yet. Has anybody talk to the union when we will get this information
Where did the post about amazon go? Is it true?
There was a post saying amazon was interested in CTL. Any truth to that?
New contract
Why would century link want a contract so fast. I believe they are moving their pieces in place to finally say check mate.
SRO changes
Any new word on SRO layoffs. Mine seems to be really losing his mind right now. Screaming at our group during meetings, write ups for petty things, frequent threats. Just wondering if there are plans to combine areas.
Should be interesting
Brothers and sisters, Your CWA Bargaining Committee has reached a Tentative Agreement with CenturyLink. This limited negotiations has kept our current protections in our collective bargaining agreement in place while providing improvements in... — read more
Mpls/St.Paul Hiring 100 IR contractors
100 contractors? training them because they expect us to strike??
All Hands Meeting Was A Joke
I found nothing of value during the meeting. They cherry pick the questions during the q&a and spend way to long answering them so they can take fewer questions.
Deleted threads
Look people, you can express feelings toward the company the union, co-workers or threads you read from other areas of the company without all the bad language that fires people up to start with but this is not getting it done. This is almost like... — read more
Network Tech's SW Florida
Has anyone heard their calling back some laid off network techs in SW Florida? I heard some rumblings today.
Centurylink is Closing the New Century Office
It was announced on the local news today that Centurylink was closing the New Century office because it was too large to accommodate the supposedly 800 people who presently work there (if there are that many they must be invisible). The press said... — read more
2019 Second Quarter Earnings
CTL reported an earnings surprise of $0.34 / share, beating the consensus analyst estimate of $0.27 / share. This is a significant earnings per share increase from the second quarter 2018 of $0.26 / share. Second quarter revenue was a miss at $5.58... — read more
CTL Layoffs 2020
Let's start the thread on 2020 layoffs at CenturyLink
ANYBODY Get new UNIFORM Order
August is here no uniform orders something weird with that
Oh yes august layoffs are happening
Good afternoon to all I am a former level 3 employee yes they are hitting us too.let go three of us on Friday in Denver area. Yes I got a severence package but didn't bring me a box the tightwads .good luck to all who are left it's going to get ugly — read more
BIG Changes Coming for Large Business Customers - early August, 2019
Big changes are around the bend, fear not large business customers, CTL will still transfer you all around its c-appy auto attendant tree, and still finally dump you off on someone who has no idea how to help you, nor access to the tools or database... — read more
NorthEast
There is speculation that Centry Link may merge with Dish network. Strategic CO locations would be outfitted with a big sat dish that could provide triple play services for customers within a 13k range. This idea is still in the infancy stages and... — read more
August Layoffs Coming
Heard another round of BIG layoffs were coming by end of August. Anyone else know anything or heard what areas will be affected?
Level3 management is a JOKE!
So they are implementing a no OT policy and taking away any pager pay possible and at the same time this sh– is happening? Story needs to be ousted! ... — read more