wondering how far below a buck it will go next week

Some apparently didn't get the memo, or research the classic case studies on competitive advantage. Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (CSSE), the parent company of Redbox, has filed for bankruptcy, with a bill of nearly $1B owed to hundreds of... — read more 

Etrade alert this morning: LUMN has been initiated by Goldman Sachs as a sell. Ugh.

Long ago Batelaan the EVP and VP Stotzki/Stolzki pushed "managed services" as delivered by Meraki and Versa SDWAN etc appliances. Do those customers stay happy with Lumen over the long term? Was aware of customers leaving over them believing that... — read more 

FACT: The company is receiving revenue. Not a quarter goes by that we received 0 dollars. The company is NOT exceeding expectations and the dollar received is less than previous quarter. Therefore, we are not generating revenue only declining. What... — read more 

from former employees on LinkedIn. They may be doing them piecemeal, or just not making a major announcement.

Any thoughts on the stock price over the next six weeks or so? Do we retest the .78 cents low seen on 11/02/2023?

This is for the board of directors. Do you want want the company to fail if so keep the current CEO in place. Ball is in your court and the lives of a lot employees are on the line. We do not get golden parachutes.

I have never had a case where a Director level mgr was useful in resolving issues. Has anyone else had good experience with them?

99 cents Disruption and Winning Like He'll! Great Job KJ!

Now that dare to bleed is a fact in the wind they roll out mandatory allyship training. WTF is going on here? Why don't they take some "how to make a business make money" training and let the working stiffs do their fu--ing jobs.

163 jobs at the moment, from intern to vice president. 150 in the US. surprised it's not 163 vice presidents. From jobs.lumen.com: 43 Sales and Marketing 23 University / Entry level 18 "Corporate Careers" (whatever that is) 3 Executive 14 "High... — read more 

I am learning just how bad our customers have it. We are weeks behind on installation and repairs. It is a combination of poor dispatching. If you ask dispatchers it is the fields problem not dispatch. You look at tickets and see a minimum of three... — read more 

Jobs.lumen.com. Only 6 job openings available. Why?

The stock since Kate was hired is an industry worst. When does she get shown the door. What did she expect if you don’t replace the field leadership? Most of the worthless goons are still in place receiving a check. If they were any good at all... — read more 

get ready all, if KJ follows her plan, there will most likely be RIFs this week, quiet or otherwise, to boost the quarterly numbers. Doubt if I will be proved wrong

is it just me or did "dare to lead" get really quiet lately? or maybe I'm just lucky!

Kate Johnson I know that because I'm in conversations with all the hyperscalers and all the cloud companies. Nobody else is doing this. Nobody else has Exaswitch. Nobody else has “true NaaS” “as we're providing it”, and the vision is capacity on... — read more 

NPS Scores: Quantum Fiber: 64 AT&T: 15 Verizon: 7 Cox: -9 Comcast: -20 Yeah, Quantum Fiber sure is a disaster. You guys make me laugh.

“Presently, Lumen plans to go very deep and provide a tremendous amount of coverage in six of its urban markets, said Moreau. Keeping the cost of fiber deployment down is also a key consideration due to the scale of the project.” “We know there are... — read more 

I look at the home page and the first thing you see is Ethics and compliance. Next Pride month and nothing about all the new programs that do not work. Programs such as, Forte, Fast, Tech2go. WFS, to name a few. You will never guess when this... — read more 

I am feeling pessimistic and down that I might let my family down and potentially uproot if get out of town job. I have survived a few rifs already but writing seems to be on the wall on potential job loss. Some folks comments here are optimistic on... — read more 

I'm surprised she lasted this long.

Kate Johnson So you're never finished recruiting and retaining and developing and growing talent. I have sort of very publicly now completely revamped the senior leadership team. And we've got some world-class athletes that have joined. Dave Ward... — read more 

KJ and Stansbury have already made a tidy profit when the bought millions of shares at 88 cents, they will be fine.

No one is holding you there leave !

This place is horrible, so many folks leaving or being forced to leave, I have never seen morale this jacked up, supervisors and managers bullying technicians to the point that I wonder when one of them is going to snap. This new culture is... — read more 

SALES are definitely MIA, so that HUMAN won't be missed.

Are Lumen VPs leaving in droves or is Lumen creating more VP positions? Seeing lots on VP hiring for Lumen in LinkedIn posts lately.

“ My problem is not directly about driving costs out of the business, but rather trying to figure out just what the business is now, and what it will be in the future - at least beyond the marketing headlines . . . “ “ I'll have a crack at... — read more 

Meta spent billions to close offices and lay people off. Now we know why. (msn.com) Remember when investors were worried that Mark Zuckerberg was incinerating money on the Metaverse and virtual reality? “ Well, that's still happening: Last year... — read more 

Some rumor chatter about another another carve & sell, because stock price is dwindling. Anyone hear this? I guess selling off is better than a RIF? If a section of Lumen gets purchased does the Lumen severance package follow you? What if the new... — read more 

Someone please explain to a out side tech, how a pots small business customer has Disconnect order written and then completed, opens a case of trouble for no Dial tone, and repair calls the tech to say they are either lying or incompetent. Because... — read more 

Posts are being censored out here. I wonder why? Maybe too much truthful info being divulged and some dummy at Lumen is complaining. Big broke ship sinking faster than Titanic.

Just more of nothing from Lumen. The incident happened seven months ago and all the routers were bricked, there was no botnet established. It's also confirmed that the FBI and NSA had already informed Windstream as to how the routers were bricked... — read more 

“ So is Schafer (Cogent) correct, NaaS is just a made up term that companies like Lumen invented to describe what others "have been doing" successfully for 10ish years??? SDWAN !! software companies and hyperscalers have arguably proven... — read more 

" Just listened to Schaefer (Cogent) at the Cowen conference… He said “network-as-a-service” (NAAS) is a made up term that no one has been able to explain to him… Funny, every time Kate and Chris talk about it, I feel like that is what they are... — read more 

How long will the non floats stomach $1.23 share price? Another one year, two years, five years when Kate is gone? Holders are starting to mount the pressure which cannot be tamped using the buzz words of nonsense published via PRNewswire.

Ever watched the small table @ Thanksgiving dinner - usually it's called the "kids table". When there is a surplus of adults seated around the "Big" table one can find themselves seated amongst the wee-people. Some folks feel slighted to be seated... — read more