The kiosk chaos
So, I went into work yesterday to receive a memo from Sprint Nextel explaining to me and my co workers that all of the Sprint Nextel kiosk locations across the country are being purchased and restructured into franchise locations. All 130 some kiosks will become Enhanced Wireless, which will become Sprint's largest exclusive dealer once the transition is complete.
Here is the kicker, as of right now none of those employees that work at the kiosk locations are able to relocate to another corporate location, we are being offered positions with Enhanced or nothing. No severance package if we were to leave, no transferring, and our only option is to take a position with this dealer.
Granted this is still in the early stages but the impres...
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Here is the kicker, as of right now none of those employees that work at the kiosk locations are able to relocate to another corporate location, we are being offered positions with Enhanced or nothing. No severance package if we were to leave, no transferring, and our only option is to take a position with this dealer.
Granted this is still in the early stages but the impres...
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I do not see how this could actually be legal because you are employed by sprint not by enhanced wireless.
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I don't understand it either, the new company can buy out the lease, the location and inventory but the employees? of just a hundred locations?
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I was in a similar boat last year when I worked in one of the Sprint land line(LEC) retail stores in sales. We basically were told that our stores were getting spun off to become a new company with the leadership of Dan R. Hesse(former AT&T Wireless President & CEO) at the helm since Sprint Nextel had to divest one of it's business units and seeing how land line didn't play into the big scheme of things for them, Embarq was born. Here I am almost a year later now in the wireless security side for them. Be thankful and grateful digitmasher you are at least being given the offer of employment with Enhanced Wireless as I'm sure some of those 5,000 Sprint employees across the country who are going to be axed shortly who would love to be in your ...
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Those 5k plus people at least received a severance package. I feel like my co-workers and I are being strong-armed into this situation. I can see if ALL of the retail stores were to go through this transition, but I think it's a bit unfair to single out the kiosk locations. As for those who are getting the axe I honestly dont think they will stick with the industry. I would love to but if I'm going to I want to stay within the corporate realm. I've already worked with cingular and t mobile. and to frank I actually see alot more potential with Sprint.
In your situation it was your division of the company that was spun off, not just select locations.
In your situation it was your division of the company that was spun off, not just select locations.
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I have to agree with digitmasher. I work in TX and not all kiosk locations got sold to Enhanced Wirless, some were completely closed and most reps were absorbed by near by Sprint stores. Upper Mgnt wants to act like 'they' didnt know of this transaction yet, mgrs from other near by 3rd party kiosks were aware, even the radioshack mgr knew of it. And to add to the injury, we still continue to get emails from SMs and RSMs indicating openings at other stores due to short head count, yet we at the kiosks are locked from requesting a transfer. i cant even find a website or info on Enhanced Wireless. Its BS i say!!!
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Dirty e you just touched on a point that I recently discovered and has me in a whirlwind. I recently moved into a new apartment and as a result my commute to work is now almost an hour long. I put in for a transfer to a destination store that is two miles away from where I live now, but since I was informed by my district manager I wasn't going to be able to transfer due to my currebt location being short staffed.
I was patient and hung in there but now that this conversion is happen in combination with being told that I can't transfer (even while I see numerous posted openings for stores that are much closer) has really begun to frustrate me. In my district we had a musical chairs session with the district managers which made it more di...
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I was patient and hung in there but now that this conversion is happen in combination with being told that I can't transfer (even while I see numerous posted openings for stores that are much closer) has really begun to frustrate me. In my district we had a musical chairs session with the district managers which made it more di...
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I say take it to your local news paper. Nothing gets companies in an employee friendly mood like the media..... 😈
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a couple questions i would be concerned with, will pay be the same? will net activations and commission stay as well or any word that it will restructured? and the last question i would like to know is will you still recieve your free plan or will they give you a plan like 3rd party with just a discounted rate plan? cause saving $70 a month doesnt seem like much but it sure helps not to have another bill.
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The details of our compensation with the new company have yet to be discussed with us. I would certainly like to make the same as I do now and be able to keep my free line of service.
My bigger concern with this matter is that I moved into an apt at the beginning of the year and have since been requesting to transfer to one of the two locations that are a maximum of three miles away. My commute now is an hour in one direction.
The request wasn't fulfilled and now this bomb drops. I'm certainly am not going to continue to drive an hour to work because there won't be any Enhaced locations for me to transfer to because the locations near me are destination stores.
My bigger concern with this matter is that I moved into an apt at the beginning of the year and have since been requesting to transfer to one of the two locations that are a maximum of three miles away. My commute now is an hour in one direction.
The request wasn't fulfilled and now this bomb drops. I'm certainly am not going to continue to drive an hour to work because there won't be any Enhaced locations for me to transfer to because the locations near me are destination stores.
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that does seem crazy though, because technically it would seem that you would be eligible for rehire through sprint because of this sitituation, not like you got fired or something bad like that and being that you would be working for another company you could resubmit a resume' to be a rehire with sprint. but i have seen crazier things. the nextel store that got shut down gave all the employees their severence package and we wanted to hire this guy from there and because he took the package wasnt eligible for rehire through sprint again.
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you all are cry babies...Sprint cares about its employees, although when it comes to making decisions that better the company well anyone is at risk! The company has to make decsions that will make the business work 110%
so bottom line it is not personal its business... and hes right because of that situation .. that does make you eligible for "REhire" w/ sprint....
tuff luck
so bottom line it is not personal its business... and hes right because of that situation .. that does make you eligible for "REhire" w/ sprint....
tuff luck
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Do me a favor and shoot me the e mail you received to my corporate one. I'm in the global directory.
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The notification we received wasn't via email but by company letter. I could transpose it but that's a bit time consuming.
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If I were you, I would never send an email to ray. He will forward your address to corporate security and anything you say will be reported to them.
Thought you should know.
Thought you should know.
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My great great grandfather's name was orignally O'Carroll. He changed it to avoid being deported along with the thousands of other Irish who came ashore in NYC since there was a maxium number of Irish allowed in the US per month.
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DigAHole said:
If I were you, I would never send an email to ray. He will forward your address to corporate security and anything you say will be reported to them.
Thought you should know.
True. He tried to get my corporate email after I posted some launch info, when I replied from my personal (alias) email, he asked again if I could "shoot him my Sprint email address." I was like, ummmmmm.....no. Later I found out that in fact he was trying to report me to security. 🙄
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Lovely, thanks for the heads up guys! However nothing I've said is proprietary info, nor is it slanderous towards Sprint. Nice try though Ray.
Back to the topic at hand, does anyone else see the logic behind this move?
Back to the topic at hand, does anyone else see the logic behind this move?
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Sorry to hear about your plight, i would definately send your information to a newspaper or tv news station perhaps they could get something done, as far as Ray Carroll it seems to me this guy doesn't have a life, this must be all he has so try to be understanding of him, If what I said is true, (I don't know him or anything about him other than he works for sprint and he was almost fired for passing on insider info and he doesn't appear to be very well liked here) He would be a loser, no wife no kids, etc.
If this is true I wish you to find something better to occupy your time.
If this is true I wish you to find something better to occupy your time.
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Nothing in the letter could be used against you. I'm just curious to see what the letter says that's all and yes, I do make it a point to find out the identities of rogue Sprint employees who post prorietary company information here at Phone Scoop as well as at other wireless related sites such as Howard Forums and Phone News. I've so far been able to forward roughly 15-20 names to our security team along with my findings and let them decide if an investigation was warranted. To those who were terminated for violating Sprint's code of conduct, I feel no sorrow for you and hope a valuable lession had been learned.
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Nothing in the letter could be used against you. I'm just curious to see what the letter says that's all and yes, I do make it a point to find out the identities of rogue Sprint employees who post prorietary company information here at Phone Scoop as well as at other wireless related sites such as Howard Forums and Phone News. I've so far been able to forward roughly 15-20 names to our security team along with my findings and let them decide if an investigation was warranted. To those who were terminated for violating Sprint's code of conduct, I feel no sorrow for you and hope a valuable lession had been learned.
You know now I hate you, you got people fired what kind of *shole are you, ...
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dude that is so wrong, i believe you were caught and not fired (which now I wish they would have) you still are with us so why try to get other ppl fired for the exact same thing YOU did. and if i remember correctly you said CORPORATE started to take intrest in your posts and thats how you got in trouble. not some avg guy with no life forwarding all e-mail up the chain of command. seriously go walk in front of a bus. 👿
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The only thing they were concerned about was the amount of detail I gave regarding various products and services, not that I ever divulged any internal/proprietary information which I can honestly say I can see from their point of view. I have never nor shall every violate our code of conduct because the santity of it is the very foundation on which our company's competetive edge is built. As long as rogue employees post our internal/proprietary information and violate the code of conduct, I shall forward on my findings to the appropriate people and let them decide the course of action. 🙂
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Dont forward anything, it is not your job or your responsability. If your not sure why you are hated by everybody this is the reason, why dont you go step in front of a bus and make everybody happy *sshole.
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I'm sorry you have anger management issues bs259. You do know your company has a EAP for that sort of thing? 😁 I don't work at Sprint to concern myself whether people love or hate me because I'm there to serve a higher function of serving the customers and safeguard my company's assets. 😎
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raycarroll70 said:
I'm sorry you have anger management issues bs259. You do know your company has a EAP for that sort of thing? 😁 I don't work at Sprint to concern myself whether people love or hate me because I'm there to serve a higher function of serving the customers and safeguard my company's assets. 😎
No *sshole no anger mgmt. issues, I just hate people like you, I think you should get what is coming to you by one of the people you hurt.
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I'm sorry you have anger management issues bs259. You do know your company has a EAP for that sort of thing?)
How do you know what my company offers, since you have no idea who I work for, I doubt you are smart enough to figure out who I work for even though I left clue after clue, but your a dumb sh*t loser and you will never get anywhere because your coworkers and your company hates you.
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junglemassive said:
HOW ABOUT YOU GO AWAY. 😈
are you talking to me or the snitch?
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The snitch obviously. That was a reply to his post I believe, 👀 , yes it was. Sorry to get ya all riled up for nothing though bs259. 😛
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I assumed you were talking to him, I couldn't see how anybody could defend getting people fired.
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BTW bs269, you said you work for Sprint Kiosk. Are you a Tandy Corp enmployee or a corporate Sprint Nextel one? I'll tell you how bs259 how I justify my actions. It's called living by what's been set forth in the code of conduct for the various companies I've worked for both past and present. When employees compromise the integrity of their company, it often undermines the very foundation on with it stands both financially as well as market share. All I do is forward what is blantantly in violation of our code of conduct. It's up to the team to decide if an investigation is warrented or not. Every heard the expression of don't shoot the messenger? Well guess what bs259. I'm the messenger. I sleep quite well at night knowing I'm helping keep ...
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It may be a job for some, but for me it's a stepping stone into a position where I'll be able to do corporate audits as well as wireless investigations.
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you will never recieve those positions, even though you think you are helping now, while they are recieveing all the snitch e-mails they are also thinking to themselves that you are indeed an a** and would never want to meet or work with you.
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🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Listen RC, you got a LONG way to go before you could ever dream of becoming an auditor. You have no clue of what being an auditor entails, and just cause you snitch doesn't make you qualified for corporate security.
Keep dreaming 🤣
Listen RC, you got a LONG way to go before you could ever dream of becoming an auditor. You have no clue of what being an auditor entails, and just cause you snitch doesn't make you qualified for corporate security.
Keep dreaming 🤣
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to be a leader you have to be part of a team, seems as though hes the only one on his team. i seriously doubt theyd ever give a promotion to someone who would just run and tattle everytime someone did something wrong
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you might actually be the stupidest son of a b*tch I have ever had the displeasure of communicating with, where and when did I ever say I was a sprint employee?
Here is another bit of advice stop being a rat, I assume you have heard what is done to rats.
Why do you believe it is your duty to report improprieties, as I said earlier let management find the information on their own, you are hurting people that as I said earlier might need their jobs, and perhaps they do not know they shouldn't post certain things.
Lastly I assume the people you reported don't know you or where to get in touch with you, now I see somebody that does know you posted your information and how to get in touch with you, believe me I hope they get in touch wi...
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Here is another bit of advice stop being a rat, I assume you have heard what is done to rats.
Why do you believe it is your duty to report improprieties, as I said earlier let management find the information on their own, you are hurting people that as I said earlier might need their jobs, and perhaps they do not know they shouldn't post certain things.
Lastly I assume the people you reported don't know you or where to get in touch with you, now I see somebody that does know you posted your information and how to get in touch with you, believe me I hope they get in touch wi...
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I just hope one day you slip doing some stupid **** and someone snitches on you. that way u get what is coming to you.
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Just remember MA, you post anything from our confidential and internal information and it could very mean swimming up the creek without a paddle. I take our company's code of conduct quite seriously and am deeply saddened to see when rogue employees violate the trust given to us by the higher levels of management. We hear about the 5,000 employees who are getting downsized. Have you ever though MA of those, how many are losing their postions because of profitability losses due to rogue employee leaking information which our wireless competitors have used to various degrees for the advantage?
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information like the new phones coming out, information like the new plans coming out, information that might help people stay with the company cause they see changes are being done to improve what there not happy with, i think information like that is good and non punishable
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raycarroll70, this is at leat the second time in this thread alone implying that anyone giving confidential info out should be fired. Obviously, to you it's easy to say because YOU WERE NOT FIRED for doing exactly the same thing.
I guess you dodged the bullet on that one...
Maybe you shoud just be a regular guy and let the Sprint corporate security do their joba and you just do your job, or at least what is listed in your job description...
I guess you dodged the bullet on that one...
Maybe you shoud just be a regular guy and let the Sprint corporate security do their joba and you just do your job, or at least what is listed in your job description...
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I enjoy taking on additional responsibilities without having to be asked as it shows assertiveness and eagerness to learn a different scope of a company.
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raycarroll70 said:
I enjoy taking on additional responsibilities without having to be asked as it shows assertiveness and eagerness to learn a different scope of a company.
No it shows that you are an *sshole with no life , which gets back to the piont everybody hates you, Stop thinking that your bosses like you when you do this it makes them think less of you, you being so happy about what you do also shows that you are a suckup and employers hate that in case you couldn't figure it out.
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He has strange and contradicting definitions of proprietary... What you think is public domain and non proprietary, he may feel differently. I would recommend steering clear of lil Ray Ray all together. 😕
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I take it digitmasher and bs259 both work for Sprint Kiosk, the Tandy Corp/Radio Shack folks. 😲 🤨
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raycarroll70 said:
I take it digitmasher and bs259 both work for Sprint Kiosk, the Tandy Corp/Radio Shack folks. 😲 🤨
Let me ask you again *sshole, what makes you think I work for Sprint, I already told you that I do not, so what in your pee brain still makes you think I do?
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It's the super sleuth in him...it's gonna drive him crazy until he can report you to the higher ups...
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He is being pretty damn persisitent too.
Sorry Ray, not going to happen this time.
Sorry Ray, not going to happen this time.
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All I can say to you and bs259 is I'm sorry you two are being lead off to the gallows so to speak and hope you two find positions somewhere in the wireless industry.
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*sshole since you are so interested in who i work for i will give you a hint, I work for a company that sells sprint cell phone service under a four pack, and has the ability to purchase your company, perhaps you can figure out who I work for since you are such a super investigator. The head of my company's first name is richard, Being that you are such an *sshole, you probably still wont figure it out.
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By the way *sshole is your job on the line was your job threatened again, I don't understand the sudden change, you loved your company yesterday, today they suck, not as much as you obviously.
Also were you able to put the pieces together, probably not.
You know my company had a guy kind of like you, he was in charge of signal security, but the thing is that he was just such a major *asshol, just like you they fired him too, He was a director, so nobody's job is safe, and hopefully yours is less than safe.
Also were you able to put the pieces together, probably not.
You know my company had a guy kind of like you, he was in charge of signal security, but the thing is that he was just such a major *asshol, just like you they fired him too, He was a director, so nobody's job is safe, and hopefully yours is less than safe.
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Folks! Thought we were intelligent and expressing our opinions on this miserable turn of events that have taken place at the Sprint Palace.
From my vantage point it seems like Sprint has run the kiosk business (which was primarily Nextel based in its loyality}, into the ground. Now, someone who believes that the convenience factor for the customer, especially the NEW Sprint Nextel customer, will be the saving grace for these kiosks.
Digitmasher, let's face it, a company as large as Sprint does not give a damn about the little guys on the front line. They only care about how far the forces have advanced as a whole at the end of the day. (If they cared about the tenured Sprint folks, they would've lovingly swooped in and tucked yo...
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From my vantage point it seems like Sprint has run the kiosk business (which was primarily Nextel based in its loyality}, into the ground. Now, someone who believes that the convenience factor for the customer, especially the NEW Sprint Nextel customer, will be the saving grace for these kiosks.
Digitmasher, let's face it, a company as large as Sprint does not give a damn about the little guys on the front line. They only care about how far the forces have advanced as a whole at the end of the day. (If they cared about the tenured Sprint folks, they would've lovingly swooped in and tucked yo...
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Does Enhanced Wireless have a website as I can't seem to find it even when I google it? What type of company as large as they are doesn't have their own website?
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The company is forming. They currently operate under another undisclosed name, website. I guess patience is a virtue.
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thats good *sshole, we wish you could find a rock to crawl under, have a nice day and good luck finding that rock sh*thead.
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I have not read all of the replies but I mostly agree with digit. Also I am a kiosk employee and my District stores think it is some big joke. And now they stopped sending us phones, accessories, responding to emails. I wish I was a ASM so I could have received my severence package, Got screwed out of about $5000 before taxes. I have been with the company 3 years and had 120 hours of pto. I even tried to transfer to a store that was closing and they would not let me. I just really dislike the way Sprint is handling the whole situation. Another fact is that I work at a very low volume store about less than 60 phones a month. So when the buyout is complete who knows if they will keep my store open and all I get from sprint is my pto time. I do...
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The mere fact is this.
Yes, I'm new here. Yes, I work for Sprint. Yes, I'm actually Legacy Nextel...You Legacy Nextel people know what that means. (I'd say more, but as we know, there is a mole on this forum.)
Ever since Day 1 of the merger, I personally seemed to notice a definite difference between Legacy Nextel and Legacy Sprint employees/support structure treatment.
I kind of figured that something was coming down the pike, because we have not seen our RSM in over 4 months. We are currently the joke to our district, and evidently to the corporate people too.
Although, yes...I AM looking forward to the switch to Enhanced Wireless, and so should all other Corporate kiosk employees.
They've gone on record as to say that pa...
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Yes, I'm new here. Yes, I work for Sprint. Yes, I'm actually Legacy Nextel...You Legacy Nextel people know what that means. (I'd say more, but as we know, there is a mole on this forum.)
Ever since Day 1 of the merger, I personally seemed to notice a definite difference between Legacy Nextel and Legacy Sprint employees/support structure treatment.
I kind of figured that something was coming down the pike, because we have not seen our RSM in over 4 months. We are currently the joke to our district, and evidently to the corporate people too.
Although, yes...I AM looking forward to the switch to Enhanced Wireless, and so should all other Corporate kiosk employees.
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Are you guys and gals familiar with the stand up routines of one Mr Lewis Black?
Imagine one of his stand ups, but now imagine him in a Sprint uniform and slim him down by about 80 pounds (age isn't a factor because even though I'm probably about twenty years younger I feel and probably look as old as he does). The picture that your imagination has rendered is me after the transition.
I'm counting down the days before I can reapply to Sprint corp.
Imagine one of his stand ups, but now imagine him in a Sprint uniform and slim him down by about 80 pounds (age isn't a factor because even though I'm probably about twenty years younger I feel and probably look as old as he does). The picture that your imagination has rendered is me after the transition.
I'm counting down the days before I can reapply to Sprint corp.
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Lewis Black was hilarious in both Accepted with Justin Long and Man of the Year with Robin Williams. 🤣
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I work in a sprint kiosk, but its owned by radioshack and sprint, it isnt being bought out. Enhanced wireless was advanced wireless, right?
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Only the corporate owned kiosks were bought out by Enhanced, and no Enhanced was not Advanced wireless, it is a new up start.
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i've just seen alot of advanced people work for enhanced now. it just struck me as a coincidence
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