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Posted by: Freakshow105

I heard some news about a bunch of stores here laying off a bunch of reps. Is this happening nationwide?

Posted by: cellulargiant

My store will be getting official notice very soon. We got unofficial notice a couple of weeks ago.

Posted by: progamerz

it's almost to the point where their isnt going be any corp stores...

Posted by: StattlichPassat

Is this corporate locations and/or agent locations? What's the scoop?

Part of me isn't surprised... after the merger, a Blue store went Orange and now within literally a .3 mile radius, we have two corporate locations, my Agent, and now a Radio Shack. Somehow, we still maintain pretty decent numbers in our region, but if they weren't around, we'd be #1 in Texas probably and I'd be making $100k+ as a sales rep from the business this area draws in.

Posted by: cellulargiant

I'm corp. A blue store in a 2 store town. The orange store is about a half of a mile up the road.

Posted by: Alfred_Neuman

like they said 2006=layoff time.

at this rate i need to move up or out. this month theres no way im hittin $8 in features.

Posted by: Freakshow105

well here in our market because of the union it is based on seniority ONLY

Posted by: ChocoDough

With the union agreement being different in every state, it is tough to know how things will go in different parts of the country.

But as far as I know, in PA, I don't think they can lay you off. If they close your store down, they have to give all the reps a choice to transfer to another local store.

Posted by: ivwshane

Anyone heard anything about the bay area (CA)?

Posted by: tekelberry

There's a Blue store and an Orange store literally one block away from one another in the Milwaukee area (they're practically right across the street from each other).

Posted by: tendura

I haven't heard anything about any layoffs, but we're pretty saturated with stores. I'm in a corp kiosk in a mall. here we have 2 agent kiosks, and a radio shack in the mall, plus an agent store and a corp store within a couple of blocks. it's not looking good right now. I'm trying to get transferred to another store closer to home.

Posted by: Wide_opeN

Cingular is not a very good place to be employment wise right now, actually ever since the merger!

Posted by: Alfred_Neuman

true, but i am not giving up my shot to get into management. i want/need the title so one day p0w, move elsewhere (tmobile,verizon,etc)

Posted by: timinstl

Yeah, 2006 will be a big year for changes at Cingular. I look to see quite a few stores close but also think they will be opening some others in other locations. I went from selling over 50 a month to barely selling 25. It sucks! So I look forward to some of the closings, I don't think customers need 7 places to buy Cingular within a two block radius.

Posted by: audiovoxx

they are closing down 5 cor stores in the san diego area but none of the reps will loose their job they will be placed among the remaning stores in the district... but i think this will lead to over staffed stores.... my manager gave us a speach saying they would be strictly enforcing the sam from now on.... how f**ed up is that s**t

Posted by: Count Cellular

The Rocky Mountain Region is getting their pink slips. Idaho, Utah and Colorado. Keeping very few full timers and firing or making them go part time. I absolutely can not believe that Stan Sigman can blame the front line reps for management decisions.They have continued to open up indirects exclusive and radio shack in even when it is cheaper to do corporate retailer stores. Is all the media just missing this completely?

Posted by: pauldg

i'm @ a premiere agent location that was 4 storefronts down from a corporate blue store. When the merger happened, our owner petitioned some higher-ups within the corporate ladder (they even came in to inspect our big beautiful store). SOMEHOW our owner convinced them to close their corp. store. it took a few months, but that store closed in march '05 i believe. we even got one of the blue store's employee's

Posted by: cingularkelly

I have not heard anything about layoffs? I am in a corp store in Upstate NY, My store is in a great location...We are the only corp store in 40 miles.

That sucks about the layoffs though..

Posted by: theclarks1

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Originally Posted by timinstl

Yeah, 2006 will be a big year for changes at Cingular. I look to see quite a few stores close but also think they will be opening some others in other locations. I went from selling over 50 a month to barely selling 25. It sucks! So I look forward to some of the closings, I don't think customers need 7 places to buy Cingular within a two block radius.

I dont know what its like in your market but sales as a whole around here are down with all carriers. I have friends that work in all carrier locations corp and agent and they are all down. but this time of year if you have worked cellular for a while is a time when its down. Ride it out for tax return season. Thats when it should pick up again!!

Posted by: theclarks1

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Originally Posted by Count Cellular

The Rocky Mountain Region is getting their pink slips. Idaho, Utah and Colorado. Keeping very few full timers and firing or making them go part time. I absolutely can not believe that Stan Sigman can blame the front line reps for management decisions.They have continued to open up indirects exclusive and radio shack in even when it is cheaper to do corporate retailer stores. Is all the media just missing this completely?

look for more and more of this as the employment market goes down the tubes. used to you could work for a company for 30 years, retire and feel like you made something of yourself. Now you are lucky if you get to work 10 years and dont get put out because they dont want to pay you pension that you have worked twords and benefits that you have earned. I hope the market really changes or im gonna go live in jamica on the beach in a hut or some unknown island and live on fish and coconut oil!!!

Posted by: SoCal91302

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Originally Posted by audiovoxx

they are closing down 5 cor stores in the san diego area but none of the reps will loose their job they will be placed among the remaning stores in the district... but i think this will lead to over staffed stores.... my manager gave us a speach saying they would be strictly enforcing the sam from now on.... how f**ed up is that s**t

How did you find out about the closings? Were you told by management ir was it circulated through rumor?

Posted by: anubis9278

cors have to maintain 200 to 300 new acts to stay in business, thats what they told me anyway. as far as agents... agents buy phones from cingular, cingular pay agents. its a bobby brown whitney houston kind of relationship. I posted earlier that exclusives and premier will be getting paystations in Q3 of 2006, some have already recieved them as test stores. So yeah, Cingular will be laying people off. when doesn't cingular lay people off especially the wrong people. Hell, they just "retired" my boss in December.

Lastly, I have absolutely no point in this post. Except no one knows the direction Cingular is moving right now except for the millionaires.

Posted by: ivwshane

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Originally Posted by theclarks1

I hear you and agree

I'm hoping that as time goes on companies go back to the old days where loyalty mattered.

Posted by: theclarks1

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Originally Posted by ivwshane

I hear you and agree

I'm hoping that as time goes on companies go back to the old days where loyalty mattered.

I dont know that we will ever see that time again. I think that like everyone knows greed has taken over the corporate world more so that ever before. Employees arent appreciated. They are seen as a unit that can be replaced for an updated model at any given time. So I dont see that happening but stranger things have happend.....Ie... crop circles!

Posted by: Perceptions

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Originally Posted by SoCal91302

How did you find out about the closings? Were you told by management ir was it circulated through rumor?

The LA/OC market is pretty funny. They are closing COR stores that are to close to other COR stores. However they are opening up 40+(I do not remember the exact number from the then ARSM) in the same region just in different locations.

Posted by: audiovoxx

well we were told by our manager because ude to this some stores will be recieving extra reps.... the other sad thing is to see either some managers beging demoted or being let go... rumor has it the will re evaluate all cor managers in our district and 5 of them will probably let go....

Posted by: timinstl

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Originally Posted by theclarks1

Yeah, my buddy works for sprint and he said they've been quite slow. I've been in retail long enough to know sales go down after the holidays but I mean they've gone down as a whole. This too is to be expected considering the amount of places you can buy a cell phone these days. Pretty soon, we'll all just go to Wal-Mart and buy our phone off the shelf just like we do with home phones.

Posted by: suicidal2af

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Originally Posted by Alfred_Neuman

true, but i am not giving up my shot to get into management. i want/need the title so one day p0w, move elsewhere (tmobile,verizon,etc)

Verizon rarely hires into management from outside. Actually, our market has only done it 3 times in the past 9 years.

Most managers from other carriers come in as sales reps...they make more, anyway.

In other news: Chris Pelesky apparently moved to Amsterdam. Who would have guessed?