How can you believe greatness until you see it . . . can anyone confirm what the new products are? are sales starting to yield positive results. . or is it just more green washing.

Lumen is where your sales career goes to die, unless you have enough “house” accounts to pay your bills. If you don’t you won't last a year, two at the most. Ask anyone who has worked in the Norristown, PA office would they ever go back. They will... — read more 

wondering if KJ and Stansbury are enjoying some cracked crab and lobsters, on their Lumen stock earnings today, while planning the next round of RIFs to cause further "Disruption"

What is our ki-ler strategy ? Which unrealized needs are being met by connecting through the cloud. Is this just more 1st to market technology play, no customers yet. What tactical we-pons do we have to prevail against last-mile obstacles... — read more 

Does anyone look at the numbers? Mass market (green) is bleeding the rest of us. Sell them off. Enterprise (red) is making mad money. Keep Level3 and send Century link packing.

I just listened to the Town hall meeting, not impressed with the same buzzwords. I don’t know what weed farm in CO Kate, Anna and Chris have been visiting but they need to stop! The only thing that is a disruption is their decision on my day to... — read more 

Who else was assigned allyship training? First we spend a fortune for DTL and now this? These people are literally worrying about people's s-x lives more than the health of our network / ledgers. Lumen is now pushing CRT and woke ideologies on its... — read more 

I am starting to that what Kate says is not the same thing that her front line managers (directors on down) are telling there techs. So confusing

More Layoffs to come. It will continue to come in waves. Dare to Lead !!!

From what I gather, Lumen is trying to corner the market . . what's unclear is . . with what product or service does she dominate to render this a reality. When Steve Jobs . . was attributed with saying, "people don't know what they need until you... — read more 

Does Kate understand the difference between "Disarray" and disruption , if one intentional deconstructs a watch and tosses the parts high in the air a billion times "or more" and expect them to fall together into something remotely cohesive and... — read more 

Lumen stock bouncing; up down up down….just like the Titanic.

Has anyone heard anything about another RIF we definitely took a hit early this year after the EOI…just trying to think ahead and see how hard I should be applying to other jobs in order to prepare. The uncertainty is tough but watching/reading Lumen... — read more 

wonder how many more will jump ship?

Can't say those numbers show that Lumen is a great place to work.

Longleaf Partners Fund stated the following regarding Lumen Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:LUMN) in its fourth quarter 2023 investor letter: “Lumen Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:LUMN) – Global fiber company Lumen was the top detractor for the year, and we sold... — read more 

They finally told our area in the PNW in a meeting today with Maxine that no more money will be spent on copper. No tools, no cable, no peds, nothing. Mean while we have over 1700 tickets and FCC complaints piling up. Was only a matter of time I... — read more 

In other words, Lumen is going to the trash heap of failed telecom companies that decided that moving away from their core business was the right decision even when it wasn't.

Kate Johnson is union busting. Kate Johnson is trying to abandon customers and employees. Dare To Lead has cost how much? It hasn't brought in one customer to our aging network. They even laid off people working in Quantum Fiber, Lumen's hot new... — read more 

It’s an all time low here in the PNW. Second and third level incompetence is impossible to ignore these days. From openly telling us to not fix damaged peds/bsw/cable and fudging our times to make there metrics look better is just the start. They are... — read more 

KJ even thinks about how many careers she has lay wasted to, good, experienced loyal employees that gave their all through many mergers, only to be sent packing for the almighty dollar , to try to pay mortgages and support families.....

Lumen has no money. They are cooking the books to look good. Hiding things. They are calling in markers desperately wanting ppl to pay up. This is a hole we won't get out of.

https://x.com/lumentechco/status/1788252548874510469

Why didn't Kate say goodbye? He claims responsibility for growing Public Markets at double digits and fixing Enterprise Sales. Not sure how much is hyperbole since his entire tenure hasn't grown Public Markets nearly enough reviewing TAM vs... — read more 

Stacey Goff hung in there placating the CTL Board for years. Now he is leaving. Chad Ho, graduate of Standford undergrad and Harvard Law, and the legal technology teams of Sabre Corporation, The Walt Disney Company, Hulu, and Myspace is moving in. ... — read more 

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18926/000001892624000056/xslF345X05/wk-form4_1714738669.xml

Thankfully, the clown show was able to push the debt out & not declare a chapter 11 reorganization. I was worried I'd be stuck with the trash annuity versus a lump sum under my control when I retire at the end of the year. In chapter 11, the lump... — read more 

Let’s not forget that late last year Kate “invested “ 1 million dollars of her own money when Lumen stock hit under $1… I mean… she still making 300k in the stock market… no blister in her heel yet… I guess if my salary was 4Mill/year and I had a... — read more 

Nothing to brag about. I don't see how this company can last more than a year or two with revenues declining like they have been. https://news.lumen.com/2024-04-30-Lumen-Technologies-reports-first-quarter-2024-results Reported Net Income of $57... — read more 

How do people work here and not have anxiety? This is a genuine question. How do you deal with all the bullying, backstabbing, and mobbing knowing that HR will be of no use if you report the perpetrators?

Not my circus. Not my monkey

Cut all these IT jobs and move them to India, that's what's happening, been slowly moving this way for many many years. Good luck with that Chad, the people they hire are right out of college and are just looking to get some skills and go find a... — read more 

Lumen sold To brightspped for ? Sold mineral for ? Sold boulder for? Sold fleet garage for ? Plus other buildings for ? Where did all the monies go?

Windstream hired at least three former executives from Lumen and they have came in and making changes like crazy. Layoffs for the last several months, including today. Rumor is a possible merger or buyout 4th quarter. Your thoughts?

but we are laying people off

Kathleen Lutito, president and CIO of Lumen Technologies’ corporate defined benefit plan, CenturyLink Investment Management, will retire effective May 3, a spokesperson for the company told CIO.

Unfortunately, Lumen has descended into full cult-mode, with Kate as spiritual leader. While we often refer to transformation, a better word is evangelization - with a nigh-on religious belief over strategy taking hold. Most recently this was... — read more 

At maybe 2K ees, it's barely 30 percent of the RIF we keep wishing for. Can't sell enough services or provide value added "savings" from your position, let the head counts keep rolling since this is fundamental Capitalism vs. Socialism. Kate tricked... — read more 

Did they just lay off a bunch of engineers,, with Friday being their last day,, but DIDN'T take away their access to virtually every core device on the network in the mean time? This company is either very trusting or very stupid. I suspect the... — read more