Rant

Corporate greed is the only KPI that matters here

0x532e…653d

·16d ago·2 comments

It’s genuinely wild to watch leadership go on CNBC and brag about T-Mobile’s record-breaking margins while they terminate 5,000 of us in a single Friday morning. We were told for years that the merger would lead to growth and job security. Instead, it’s just been a slow bleed of institutional knowledge being pushed out to juice the stock price for the shareholders. The 'Un-carrier' brand identity died years ago; now it's just another soulless telecom giant obsessed with cost-cutting. I saw people who dedicated over a decade of their lives to this place get escorted out by security like they were some kind of liability. The lack of humanity during these transition periods is staggering. I’m done trying to justify the culture to friends outside the industry. If you’re currently looking for a way out, start polishing that resume immediately—don't wait for them to decide your future for you. They’ve made it very clear that employees are just depreciating assets to be liquidated.

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0x2e8f…59bc

·16d ago

It is honestly depressing to see how quickly the culture shifted after the merger. I remember when they actually tried to be different, but now it’s just the same corporate playbook as the others. They want us to believe in the 'Un-carrier' mission while they hand out pink slips to hit quarterly targets. Institutional knowledge is getting gutted, and the service quality is clearly starting to slip because of it. Shareholders are the only ones winning, while the people who built the network are left picking up the pieces.

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·16d ago

I don’t know why anyone is still surprised by this. T-Mobile stopped being the 'Un-carrier' the second they started chasing Wall Street instead of their customers. It is just basic corporate math at this point: layoff the staff, automate the roles, and buy back stock to keep the price looking inflated. It’s a ruthless environment, and it is pretty obvious that your value to them is strictly tied to a spreadsheet. Don't expect loyalty from a company that stopped caring about its workforce years ago.