Comments on: Alcatel-Lucent: We Suck in French and English http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080729/alcatel-lucent/ by John Paczkowski Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:19:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Report: Employees Facing Layoffs More Likely to Talk About Layoffs | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080729/alcatel-lucent/comment-page-1/#comment-3473 Report: Employees Facing Layoffs More Likely to Talk About Layoffs | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:52:56 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=2903#comment-3473 [...] In fact, according to Glassdoor, the percentage of employee comments mentioning layoffs has grown six out of the last eight months, increasing some 64.2 percent from a low of 2.8 percent in April to a high of 4.6 percent in November.   Says Glassdoor, “We searched company reviews on Glassdoor.com for various forms of the word “layoff” and found that the percentage of reviews that mention “layoff” has increased sharply, particularly with employees at AOL/Time Warner, Sprint Nextel and Alcatel-Lucent.” [...] [...] In fact, according to Glassdoor, the percentage of employee comments mentioning layoffs has grown six out of the last eight months, increasing some 64.2 percent from a low of 2.8 percent in April to a high of 4.6 percent in November.   Says Glassdoor, “We searched company reviews on Glassdoor.com for various forms of the word “layoff” and found that the percentage of reviews that mention “layoff” has increased sharply, particularly with employees at AOL/Time Warner, Sprint Nextel and Alcatel-Lucent.” [...]

]]> By: Yang Wang http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080729/alcatel-lucent/comment-page-1/#comment-1612 Yang Wang Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:05:18 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=2903#comment-1612 Pat Russo and Rich McGin are definitely the two of those people who should be held accountable for the problems of Lucent and Bell Labs. I'm very sad to know that the situation is getting even worse. It's a pity that such a great company ended up with such a miserable future. To name a few stupid decisions made by them: 1) split Lucent into Avaya, Agilent and Lucent; 2) sold enterprise service unit (INS) and focused on telecom; 3) tried to rebuild a service unit without changing the political culture and organizations; 4) made the wrong decision which directly resulted losing China Mobile account. These people should have resigned many years ago! --A former Lucent employee Pat Russo and Rich McGin are definitely the two of those people who should be held accountable for the problems of Lucent and Bell Labs. I’m very sad to know that the situation is getting even worse. It’s a pity that such a great company ended up with such a miserable future.

To name a few stupid decisions made by them: 1) split Lucent into Avaya, Agilent and Lucent; 2) sold enterprise service unit (INS) and focused on telecom; 3) tried to rebuild a service unit without changing the political culture and organizations; 4) made the wrong decision which directly resulted losing China Mobile account.

These people should have resigned many years ago!

–A former Lucent employee

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