I got a couole of friend who work at T-Mobile and they have been complaining more and more about micromanaging from their leadership plus a more and more toxic environment. One of them is about to accept an offer and might even take a pay cut to move out while the other is already actively looking for offers. Seems the merger with Sprint left the company with the worst of both worlds, unachievable goals and metrics and continuous micromanagement. Where leadership is gone and just management is left asking sometimes more than once a day a status update on every single item they are working on. I told them they should try and move departments but they say the culture seems different since a year ago and all T-Mobile is toxic now. Wondering if other people working at T-Mobile feel the same or is this more due to their direct leadership? The work on different departments but under same EVP, so it's definitely not a team only issue.
I wouldn’t call TMO toxic (though I can only speak for my personal experience) but it’s definitely not the same TMO that it used to be. Really unfortunate 😞
I agree
One of my friends has been at T-Mobile for over 15 years and he said it’s not the same company. He feels the reason the company wants people to leave since they are fat from merger. Apparently on April 1 the non vaccinated will be asked to make decisions and the two year agreement with sprint for employee retention expires. Not sure if any of this is true. Just what was said.
The level of toxicity depends on the department and team, of course, but I see the last remaining specialists leaving (most of them left already after merger). It looks like the alignment with leadership is more important than domain knowledge.
Could not agree more
The culture feels a lot different than pre-merger. Not in a good way.
All the pressure was on the contractors before
Are you my friend 😂 this looks like something I said 😂
Too many people to stir the pot and everyone wants to be the first to tell their leadership that Soup is ready! This is not in all teams or orgs. It's actually the reverse where we have to shout out to get some kudos!
Agree, no leaders left,only management and managers have no clue about the work,still pretend to manage!!
Am I the only one who finds the "Speed of Trust" push from Brian King hypocritical vis-a-vis the pushback against and broad rejection of WFH requests?
Which one? There was a Speed of Trust initiative a few years ago and that went over like T-Vision...
If any of the SLT or management look at the employee survey, they can easily tell if the morale is good or not, are we faking saying we are collaborative culture or silos in reality, are employees empowered to make decision, or seniority matters. Is employee rewarded because of they innovate, or Follow BAU? Does the seniority creates maturity in culture, or disconnected knowledge gap from the industry. Toxic seeds have rooted for years. It just the merger and massive, constant reorg made it surfaced and unbearable.
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All of telecom is toxic. It's not the companies it's the service became commodities and they're in a promotion war so everyone is in cost cutting mode
Couldn't agree more
This is so true, used to work for one of them and was fed up with the incompetence.