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    • ON: Tue Apr 29th 12:56 PM
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      Sprint's 'Against the Odds' Turnaround Looks Less and Less Likely
      OP913, good luck, the reasons that people have cited for recently leaving, have been the same through the last 3 CEOs, ever since I left 6 years ago. I really do wish you good luck, I'm a resident of KC and don't want to see the local economy get hurt by a Sprint fall and would much rather see the company turn around, even working now for a competitor. I still have friends and family working there that would be hit hard and be hard pressed not to move away to survive. It's bittersweet to me, as the company gave me my start in telecommunications, but my own company is gaining so much from Sprint's downturn that it's hard not to root for Hesse to fail.
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    • ON: Tue Apr 29th 11:49 AM
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      Sprint's 'Against the Odds' Turnaround Looks Less and Less Likely
      Ed, defending your statements about KC here. As a one-time (birth to about 25) and now again resident of Kansas City as well as a one-time employee of Sprint (now employed by a competitor); I think that your statements were spot on and actually mirrored my own assumptions about my career prospects in Kansas City and your article actually mirrors the fears of a lot of my ex-peers in the local market.

      There really are few places to work unless people are willing to move away from the midwest, and folks here are traditionally hesitant to do so. Being involved in and trained in a network specialty means you'd almost HAVE to move away from the KC metro area to find a position in voice telecommunications, and considering a lot of the more technical jobs at Sprint are centered around the KC area, those are the people most at risk of having to move.

      You have to bear with the negative response because people who've never been farther west than Topeka don't realize that "the farm" really is a place where people grew up and go back home to on holidays. I've lived in Dallas and Denver and these things could be said and are true about both of those major metropolitan areas as well. You are correct, people simply have to have a reason to lash out when they fear that "an oustider" is talking trash about a place they hold so dear. The reason I now live back in Kansas City was because I fought hard for a position that would not only keep me at my new company, but bring me back "home". I think that's a true testament to the kind of place Kansas City is, people are willing to defend it and want to come back to a place they love
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