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T-Mobile to Eliminate 900 Jobs, But Create 550 New Ones

May 16, 2012, 6:06 PM by Eric M. Zeman

T-Mobile USA today indicated that though it expects to layoff 900 employees during its planned restructuring, the company will hire approximately 550 new employees in other areas of the business. The bulk of the new hires will be added to a facility in the Puget Sound area, and T-Mobile says it is going to fill these positions as rapidly as it can. T-Mobile is encouraging employees facing a job loss to apply for any openings within the company that suit their qualifications. T-Mobile also clarified that the layoffs expected this week do not involve technicians in engineering, customer service representatives in its 17 call centers, or front-line retail employees in corporate-owned T-Mobile stores. T-Mobile expects the net number of jobs eliminated through this process to be about 350, which is in addition to approximately 1,000 jobs already slated for elimination.

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Jayshmay

May 16, 2012, 9:43 PM

So they're really. . .

So they're really eliminating 350 jobs.
Minusing 900, but creating 550, is really only minusing 350 jobs.

srich27

I would assume those 550 created will be different positions filled by different people than the extra 550 they're letting go. In a general arithmetic sense you are correct, though.

Either way, still MUCH better than the 'T-Mobile is axing 1000 jo...
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crood

There's probably more to it than that. Without knowing what jobs are being cut and what jobs are being added, you can't really compare.

It could be that they're cutting 900 well paying jobs and hiring 550 minimum wage positions. There's also the ...
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Vmac39

May 17, 2012, 3:23 PM

Smoke and Mirrors

Most likely 500 much lesser paying jobs. So, the people who will be loosing their jobs, most likely will not be able to live off the income of the current jobs. If you read in between the lines, no front line employees or techs are loosing their jobs. Which leads me to believe that mid to upper management will be ass out.

This is much like the smoke and mirror act of their recent commercial, as cool as it is, I give them an A+ for creativity.
The iPhone 4GS running much faster on their 4G network than it runs on AT&T's network. Truth is, the iPhone 4GS doesn't even have LTE and doesn't run on At&t's LTE but, their advanced 3G UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA850/900/1900/2100 MHz network.

Or, is that another play on words, too. Are they talking about ...
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