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    • Thu Feb 21st 16:59 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sprint-Nextel Takes the Gloves Off?
      Might as well enter marketplace irrelevance, bankruptcy and/or liquidation with a bang, not a whimper.

      It's a start, but Hesse has to clean house down to the director level in OP. They are the source of the company's ills; process trumping results, fiefdom building instead of customer service and network integrity. The hubris of tenure of the OP "leadership"... their plodding, labyrinthian bureaucracy and fiefdom building & sustaiment is what's killing the company.
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    • Wed Feb 20th 16:48 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sprint Must Resist Ralph Whitworth
      Whitworth does not have a good track record, but any infusion of accountability and pro-activity in this derelict BOD will be a welcome change. Customer service and shareholder must be restored.
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    • Wed Jan 23rd 17:15 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Who Would Want Sprint? Google, Comcast
      The board will never sell to Google or Comcast. They want the company to be based solely in OP. They'd never allow Google or Comcast to move them out of the campus. They have tunnelvision when it comes to KC. Subscribers and shareholders mean nothing to them.
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    • Fri Dec 28th 14:31 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sprint's New CEO Hesse: So Far So Good
      What dept were the laid off people in? Were they at the campus, Reston or elsewhere?
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    • Fri Dec 28th 09:41 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sprint's New CEO Hesse: So Far So Good
      OK....guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Good luck.
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    • Thu Dec 27th 12:06 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sprint's New CEO Hesse: So Far So Good
      I was told, "move to OP" and we'll have a job for you. No mention of salary, relocation assistance or what that job would be. That's not a job offer, nor was anything provided in writing. I didn't feel entitled to anything, but professional courtesy and respect; got none. It's OK for your to spew your insults and venom, but when you get it back, you can't or won't respond. Talk about limp-wristed; typical right-winger. Like your midwestern hero Limbaugh, why don't you have some oxy with your whine.
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    • Thu Dec 27th 09:01 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sprint's New CEO Hesse: So Far So Good
      Hey Dad, can you qualify the limp-wristed faggot remark? Because I criticize my former employer and lament its demise? You sound like a typical right-winger who can only respond to the opposition by using insults, since your views have no credibility. I guess those years in uniform, and months in combat, away from my wife and children make me less of a person than you.
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    • Wed Dec 26th 20:27 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sprint's New CEO Hesse: So Far So Good
      Oh, and Dad, I take it you're an elitist, racist, laissez-faire capitalist, homophobic, theocrat and think GWB is a competent POTUS? Considering the mindlessness and vitriole of your remarks, name calling is all you have left. If you're Sprint's and KC's defender, they have serious problems.
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    • Wed Dec 26th 20:22 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sprint's New CEO Hesse: So Far So Good
      Thanks Dad. Having spent years with Nextel, then several months working for the OP gang, I would get writer's cramp documenting the stark differences between the two companies. In my case, there was a nearly 10:1 ratio between the legacy companies' manning for an identical department. Process implementation took 18-24 months at legacy Sprint, as opposed to <6 months for legacy Nextel. My OP bosses were more interested in budgets and superfluous metrics, then network integrity. Not to mention the blatant, bald-faced lies I was told. Of course, after I called them out for their lies, I was black-balled. The Nextel manpower purge was primarily due to most positions being located in OP. Legacy Sprint personnel were not affected by the Nextel acquisition. We were told, "move to OP" and we'll have a job for you, knowing full well people could not move due to familial responsiblities and home sales. This was a cynical and disingenous move to eliminate Nextel personnel. Moreover, who'd want to move to OP/KC? It's a one-horse town, and considering legacy Sprint's penchant for quarterly layoffs, you'd have the potential, especially as a legacy Nexteler, of being stuck there with a new home, and little or no job prospects. But hey, Sprint acquired Nextel and could do with it what they wanted; and you're seeing the results. Glad I'm not with them any more. Been gone two years, and every bad thing that has happened, was predicted by us laid off legacy Nextelers. No gratification in that, just sadness and exasperation.
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    • Mon Dec 24th 13:01 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sprint's New CEO Hesse: So Far So Good
      I agree with notexactly, OP and the labyrinthian, overmanned, overpaid, myopic bureaucracy is the root of Sprint's problems, not to mention their systematic purge of legacy Nextel employees. The board wanted Hesse because he'll preserve the OP bureaucracy, and is a retread. They're more concerned about the KC economy then about improving customer service, increasing subscribership or enhancing shareholder value.
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    • Thu Dec 13th 18:03 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sprint: Yet Another Bad Decision
      I worked for Sprint-Nextel, but not at OP. I travelled there for meetings, and was wholly unimpressed. The contempt for Nextel employees, and especially our processes and procedures, was palpable. At least in my group, they had no interest in how we did business.
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    • Wed Dec 12th 19:09 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sprint: Yet Another Bad Decision
      Playfair, I couldn't agree with you more. You perfectly described the legacy and present Sprint management. They act like an RBOC in a wireless world. Their "if we build it, they will come" mentality does not work in a totally wireless company. Legacy Nextel people left in droves due to Sprint's stifling of initiative, condescending mangement and their hubris of tenure. Unless you close the OP campus and flatten and/or purge the managers and employees with a sense of employment entitlement due to longevity as opposed to merit, nothing will change. Donahue could do it, but the board won't let him; they prefer the status quo and a dive into irrelevance in the marketplace. Two months after Foresee was fired and they still can't find a CEO. Surprised? Expect to see another OP re-tread lead the company to an acquisition by Google or other entrepreneurial company seeking mobile spectrum.
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    • Wed Dec 5th 16:41 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sprint: Yet Another Bad Decision
      What is the basis for the limp-wristed liberal comment? Because the author is from Massachusetts? Or, is it that you simply don't like his analysis, and instead of formulating an intelligent reply or alternative, you utilize a stale, snarky remark? The right-wing drug addicted pundit hardly has the credibility to comment about anyone's political views. He is to legitimate political analysis what the WWE is to professional sports.
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    • Tue Dec 4th 18:58 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sprint: Yet Another Bad Decision
      Ah, the revisionist history of legacy Sprint employees. The midwestern, myopic vision of their treasured company, led by people who couldn't manage themselves out of a paper bag. Where process pre-empts results, and preservation of position and the cumbersome, overmanned, labyrinthian bureaucracy in OP supercedes network integrity and subscribers. As a former employee, it has been no surprise how they bungled the Nextel acquisition (it wasn't a merger). They purged most legacy Nextel management and employees, and you're seeing the results. Tim Donahue is not the panacea, but he offers a much better alternative than another OP retread. He'd get the company moving forward, since he was silenced by the board in deference to the incompetent Foresee (ever wonder why he left before his contract expired?). He knows where the bodies are buried, and would get the company moving forward, in unity. If he gets in, say goodbye to OP. Say hello to lean manpower with multi-tasking employees and managers, with accountability. In fact, any new CEO would probably do the same.
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