T-Mobile Merger

They've been saying that over the last 4-5 months.

 

managers probably have no inside info on this. T-Mobile has been a potential merger target for years, even before they were bought by DT. We all know TM has talked to Cingular and AT&T. TM (well DT) has also said they are considering just taking TM International (all of worldwide TMobile) public and getting the cash they need that way.....

 

Your sources don't seem reliable.

If it isn't John Stanton himself, or the T-Mobile CEO himself, then they don't know.

 

T-Mobile has about 60 Billion dollars debt. That's just about enough debt to take away any temptation to merge with them.

 

keep telling yourself that aiwa... it's only a matter of time....

 

It's been a matter of time for a year now.

 

umm...i thought its T-mobile's parent company DT who have the $60bn debt not T-mobiel itself....Of course DT is going to try shift some of the debt to the new company form after the merger.

 

It is DT that is in debt, but some of it came from the high price that they purchased Voicestream for.

 

I have heard from a store manager that T-Mobile is positioning themselves to go public, IPO. All this talk about merger is to stir up media coverage and talk about their company to increase interest in their IPO. I don't know if this is true or not, just what I heard.

 

JohhnyCNote, thanks for another post about your information regarding T-Mobile Customer Care. It's all a matter of opinion of course, as I know T-Mobile employees who could refute that information, but it's not worth arguing about. You've posted it enough IMHO...it's in many forums. We hear you

karman - the potential IPO is for T-Mobile International, which is the holding group for all of T-Mobile worldwide (T-M USA, T-M Germany, T-M UK, T-M, Czech, T-M Austria, Ben (soon to be T-M Netherlands), etc.)

 

JohnnyCNote, I don't think your sources are reliable at all. Everything you say seems to be the total opposite of what the whole world says. All of the employees I know are happy with working at T-Mobile. You do know they have employees in more than one location, so just because you know a few unhappy employees, that doesn't mean there other thousands of employees are unhappy.

 

Wasn't it settled in a thread less than 5 days ago that we're going to hear the last word on this merger thing on November 14th?

I know I was one of the biggest talkers recently about this whole thing, but can't we all shut up about it for 2 weeks when the official announcement is supposed to be? If that day comes, and nothing happens, (i.e. they still say "we're thinking about this" and "might" and "maybe") we'll open this up again, but good gods, can't we just wait two weeks?

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Johnny,

AFAIK there's nothing illegal about having your pay scaled to customer counts, price plans, whatever - it's commission based on achieving a goal. T-M is not the only company doing that. Nothing I've seen you post suggests anything illegal. Also, in a company with (I tihnk) over 30,000 employees, anecdotal evidence does not make a policy universal. Policies are different from place to place - store to store, etc., no matter what the "rules" are.....

That said, I'm not supporting unfair labor practices, but AIUI you didn't post anything that suggested this.....

 

sorry, poor choice of words. I didn't mean sales commission. For example, I meant "$200 per week for completing 1000 calls" or something like that - financial motivation to complete a number of calls.

 

Oh c'mon, as if that's not a common strategy.

Mostly in sales positions, I've seen the "hang a prize out that we won't need to reward to motivate people," repeatedly.

At 17, I telemarketed. At the beginning of the month, they'd announce a contest. There'd be stuff up for it, like posters/decorations, they'd say all these great things. And very quietly, on occasion, you'd hear, "Thes prizes will be awarded if we reach quota". Quota was outrageous, and at the end, they didn't say they weren't awarding prizes b/c of not reaching quota, they just made excuses until everyone forgot about the contest.

I've gone into sales positions being told there's a bonus at 15 sales/month, and EVERYONE makes 15 a month. Before anyone says anything about 15 being easy, note that some of these companies have a very structured door-knocking plan, and you follow the structure. There's no way you'll reach 15 in a month.

Sorry, just have to vent this, it's not uncommon to offer a bonus that won't happen or is unachievable.

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ok this could be wrong and it may be for some other reason but i have recently seen the new map for cingular prefered nation.I will not say anymore though i already did but i have edited it so as to not create a conflict of intrest those that have seen the new map undertand that it is good.But it does not solve what this post is about at least not not in black and white.So we will just have to see.

 

Bonuses are just that - bonuses. I've had my share yanked because the firm had a hard quarter or year or whatever. Nothing illegal about it.