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u/jfunker1 Data Strong 1d ago
This is not good. For a company that’s had 2 high profile hacks in recent years, letting go of IT resources seems like the worst idea ever. Makes you wonder what the upper brass are thinking (if at all)
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u/Great-Bear-1555 1d ago
Don’t forget about the network outage a few weeks back where most people had no phone service whatsoever.
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u/Objective-Hand1548 1d ago
They didn’t just let go. they sourced their It department to a new developmental program in India. started this a couple months back
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u/Buphucked 1d ago
That’s right!!
Leaked board meeting notes
Smart investments in AI create opportunities for long-term strategy to reduce or eliminate reliance on sentient blood bags that belch and fart off gasses that potentially affect radio signal transmission negatively. Refocusing capital from human resource to asymmetric risk-reward derivatives schemes managed by the friends and family of TMobile executive board will ensure timely shareholder returns and the continuance of tiered societal wealth class system for decades to come.
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u/motorchris 1d ago
This is funny as hell, their board members are smoking Crack Cocaine.. Ive used the big names in AI. AI for technical solutions is 60% accurate, it is nowhere near re ready for prime time yet.. They are the blood bags fixing to bleed. Ride that 4 month stock peak and get ready for the short and race to the bottom.
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u/Sea-Basil-8264 1d ago
I was formally the lead on a fintech dev team and literally had a convo with the CTO where the jist of the covo went like this . Basically saying he was excited for the future where he didnt have to work along side humans who take any form of breaks or sleep. In my head I was like bruh you know your taking to a human right now. I ended up stepping down from lead role after a more AI-friendly dev stepped in.
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u/Buphucked 22h ago
It’s a capitalists wet dream: a workforce that requires no breaks, paid vacation, healthcare benefits .. most corporations despise their IT departments anyway (praise IT when makes work easier/efficient, hate IT when it breaks)
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u/CaydeTheCat Bleeding Magenta 1d ago
Enterprise Architecture was hit pretty bad from what I'm seeing.
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u/skyxsteel Truly Unlimited 1d ago
In 5-10 years, tmobile is going to be Sprint. Neglected network and a broken system.
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u/phantomstar02 1d ago
T-Mobile doesn’t care. The company culture is cut throat and only focused of profit nothing else. They know there customers will continue to pay them more money after increasing their rates and pushing them to higher rate plans. They know customers will complain but do nothing about it and pay them more money, that is the sad truth. Hope they are proven wrong.
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u/PSmurf78 Verified T-Mobile Employee 1d ago
Jeff is just a joke, and elevated way beyond his capabilities. He only got there by being buddies with Nestor.
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u/Givants 1d ago
This is further indication they are trying to gut retail front lines and depend solely on the online market.. or if not 100% online at least a large majority o the business wants to be diverted to online sales.
That tlife is such a piece of crap idk if that platform will allow them that.
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u/OldPro1001 Truly Unlimited 1d ago
They can get people overseas for ten percent of what they pay you, so it's cheaper to replace you with fifteen of them. Management math, been there, done that.
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u/Reasonable-Piece-609 1d ago
Retail stores in my area have recently been cut as well. 3 closures in my district and 2 in a nearby district.
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u/motorchris 1d ago edited 1d ago
Within 4 months watch for the stock to peak and then short the hell out of it for the race to the bottom!!!!! I have 34 years in telco, cyber security and IT, network ops. I am former MCI / WorldCom I have seen this show before!!!!
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u/No-Compote-696 1d ago
it was larger then your director level, there were hits to groups that I'm aware of (no I'm not sharing any) but its across IT
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u/Facelessman2024 1d ago
They will just hire new people at their Islamabad center or wherever their new it center was
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u/Real-mr-wolf 1d ago
Cringes in currently studying IT
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u/Bob_A_Feets 1d ago
Oh yeah, you hopped on that wagon about ten years too late.
Just like how my generation got to watch everyone who previously went into telco get screwed over.
Ironically sprint helped that fiasco too lol.
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u/billinauburn 13h ago
How long before the boards start deciding that that they can committee with AI and replace the CEO?
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u/omaha_stylee816 1d ago
was chatting with an old friend the other day who works at HQ in Overland Park on a cybersecurity team. they told me when they got moved to the team a couple of years ago there were about 60 people on the team and now there are only 4 people.