Does anyone have a list of offices that are going to Zayo or EQT?
Question
Has anyone ever taken a hardship withdrawal at crown? What does that process look like?
News about cuts
Somebody has to know something, right?
Supply chain safe???
Wondering if anyone has heard what will happen to supply chain personnel, including PC, CMs and warehouse personal? What will they do with all the inventory in the GCs and Crowns warehouses… time to leave it seems!
D&D Leadership Is Toxic and Broken — It’s Time to Rebuild
The D&D organization is one of the most toxic environments I’ve witnessed. Leadership here doesn’t just mismanage — they ruin people. The core issue is the sheer number of leaders — most of whom are ineffective, self-serving, or downright harmful... — read more
Run
If you’re competent here, you’ll either burn out carrying the team or get blocked from advancing. They promote people who won’t question anything. Two years in and I’m already job hunting.
This sounds so familiar
A Japanese company and a North American company decided to have a canoe race on the St. Lawrence River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race. On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile. The North... — read more
So now what?
When's the last time we heard from our #1 guy? I miss his cander... What's going on behind the scenes?
Incompetence Olympics
What team has the most incompetence? This place su-ks, let's get it flowing.
Offer or no offer
Is it me or did they delete all the evidence that they once said perimeter peeps would be getting an offer from the buyer... Now it's just an automatic transfer... What concerns me more is they appear to just change anything they want without... — read more
How Elliot Management Destroys Companies
If you needed confirmation for awful Elliot Management is The Downfall of Southwest Airlines by Wendover Productions on YouTube follows the same dog and pony show Elliot did here
Where’s the reach-around?
This constant not knowing what's happening or even where we're gonna be working, is ki-ling us. For the last two years, we've been busting our backs, picking up the slack for our buddies you just let go, all while still doing our own jobs and... — read more
Managers and below
Someone must give credit where credit is due. There are individual contributors who are holding up entire departments while getting ignored by DM and Directors. Those people also took on extra work after a massive layoff last year. It's easy to read... — read more
Just a reminder
DS was in charge while everything bad happening now was decided. Lets hope he goes with the sold off departments or finally exits
CCI trims dividend by 32%
Who did Elliot actually help ? Thousands of employees laidoff, fiber assets sold for pennies on dollar, and tower company left with negative equity and no future growth. Sure wasnt Crown shareholders or employees
Office townhalls
Is anyone getting the schedule of these townhalls, or do they show up with an hours notice? Are they quiet because a new CEO is in the works or will his interim title just be removed? Seems a little quiet as we are 2 months into it without much... — read more
CCI in a short
Let’s talk about our core competencies and leverage our bandwidth to streamline and capitalize on actionable insights with best practices to achieve synergy with proactively aligning with executive leadership to secure stakeholder buy-in prior to... — read more
Crown Derangement Syndrome
This is very real and my Tower Manager suffers from it. He does everything to destroy the company and his Team and thinks he is doing the right thing!
This ship is sinking
The ones who kept this place running are long gone. What’s left is a skeleton crew drowning in extra work just to cover the gaps. There’s no fixing this mess.
EMT a sold bunch of stock
A lot of the EMT sold stock including CL. Last time they did this the stock went down 20%.
Retention Bonus & Unpaid Commissions During Pending Sale – Questions for Others in Fiber/Small Cell
We’re in the middle of an acquisition in the fiber/small cell space, and leadership has rolled out a retention incentive plan offering a bonus if we stay through the close. No formal agreement yet—just verbal communication. What’s unclear (and... — read more
Crown Castle "managers"
Why does Crown insist on making people managers who are NOT managers? I have never seen such an array of non-people skills people being promoted to managers. None of these people have degrees in management. None of these people are fit to manage... — read more
Sounds like Tower team cuts to me
They just are not sure how many other people they will attribute to the sale of fiber and small cell.
Earnings call today
Think we will hear any more big announcements???
Tower layoffs
Has anyone heard when a layoff or reorg is planned?
CFO’s First Major Decision Raises Questions
The CFO’s first big move, reverse a previous decision and retain a leader who has proven to not lead and destroyed morale of their past and present organization? The ongoing concerns about this leader’s understanding of the business, ability to... — read more
MM and LN overhead
The company collects tower rent, not develops products that bring revenue. Why does the company have an overhead of people who are always playing politics? Now, the old guard remains in this organization, and others have moved to the perimeter; there... — read more
Selective Moderation : Why when they don’t violate rules?
Forum supposed to be for layoff talk and some leaders are making the permitter lists their personal vendetta list, but posts about leaders and layoffs getting deleted. Some leaders changing story—we noticed. Why only those posts go missing? ... — read more
FIBER LAYOFFS
Does anyone who works in fiber know about any layoffs yet? Is it happening yet? Did anyone get letters to stay?
Layoffs, Lists & Retention: Where Things Stand Now, what do you know?
The transition is in full swing. The lists tied to CCi, Zayo, and EQT are made and they’re checking them twice to see who’s been “naughty” or “nice.” Many already know their fate, while others are still anxiously waiting to see where they land. Some... — read more
Thank you EMT & Board
Great job to the board and EMT making moves needed. Time to clean house, make us efficient bring in real leaders people who respect people in their teams and know how to build, not break. Change is hard, but it’s needed. Some leaders were put in... — read more
Zayo please read
The Purple is gone and Zayo needs to do their research on bad employees at Crown Castle. Houston OSP has the worst supervisors and above. The way they treat people is speechless and should not be tolerated! I see the bad treatment everyday and the... — read more
The death of Crown
For those of you that will be left after the rapture, it's gonna by a rough ride. We all know Cathy P will run this company in the ground. She's done it before.
Changes Are Life and Are Inevitable
Let’s be real—things have been a little wild lately, no doubt. But guess what? We’re part of a publicly traded company that’s evolving. That means change isn’t just expected—it’s necessary. If that feels uncomfortable, it might be time to either get... — read more
I wish I sold
When will I ever learn. Oh hopefully it goes back up within a few years.
Don't expect improvements
This place has been wrecking careers since the late 2000s. Anyone with an exit plan should bail while they still can. There’s zero loyalty left, and the pay isn’t even worth the stress anymore. Plenty of other fields actually treat people like humans... — read more
I'm optimistic
We wanted to see changes in the ELT, and changes are happening. I'm not saying their replacements are guaranteed to fix this place, but what are the chances they can do worse than their predecessors?