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Brian202
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 Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:38 pm Post subject: Layoffs... ZOMG |
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ALL ACCESS heard from 16 tons of XM SATELLITE folks who surfed to a page on the company's Intranet site, that listed their benefits, vacation days, etc.
Shocker when some of them found out their personal information included a termination date of OCTOBER 15th. Stand by! The list could be long.
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Spencer
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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The report is from AllAccess.com, a radio industry news site. You need to register for free in order to view news items on the site.
Well, it would not surprise me if this report is true. |
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Ryan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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I know for a fact that October 15th is the day because many people that I talk to and work with there are being let go on that day.
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theawfulwaffle
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm not surprised. This needs to happen if this company wants to survive. They have to start cutting costs. |
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Danceradiofan
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 12:16 am Post subject: |
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| theawfulwaffle wrote: | | I'm not surprised. This needs to happen if this company wants to survive. They have to start cutting costs. |
But what about the SIRIUS side sharing the cuts? This sounds like a takeover to me. |
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theawfulwaffle
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 12:32 am Post subject: |
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| Danceradiofan wrote: | | theawfulwaffle wrote: | | I'm not surprised. This needs to happen if this company wants to survive. They have to start cutting costs. |
But what about the SIRIUS side sharing the cuts? This sounds like a takeover to me. |
Sirius had been growing faster than XM had been up until the merger. What's your point? There has been people from XM and Sirius put into positions in the upper managerment department. |
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Carnivore
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:19 am Post subject: |
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| Danceradiofan wrote: |
But what about the SIRIUS side sharing the cuts? This sounds like a takeover to me. |
Nobody said Sirius isn't sharing the cuts, only that XM employees saw the list on their side. I guess we'll see. |
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marker101
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:34 am Post subject: |
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Wasn't Radio Shack or some company like that that did that a few years ago? Sent out an e-mail to some employees kindly telling them that they were fired?
Nice. Better than a text message, I guess. Or Donald Trump.
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syphix
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:45 am Post subject: |
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Wow...maybe that Nov. 5th channel merger "rumor" is correct....can't run 69x2 music stations with "16 tons" less employees...
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marker101
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:48 am Post subject: |
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Yeah. That's 32,000 pounds of employees gone. Hopefully most of them weigh 700 pounds each.
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xm_lcr
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 7:06 am Post subject: |
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ha im only 180lbs hopefully ill be safe
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SuperH
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 7:16 am Post subject: |
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Duh.
They have all the equipment. Now they just have to reduce fixed costs.
Unfortunately, this happens through staff reductions most of the time.
And, "Becoming more 'green'". |
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xm_lcr
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luckily i dont "actually" work for xm the company i work for just has a contract with them, and being as we are xm's #1 call center and our branches #1 call center i think im safe
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MNXMFan
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:01 am Post subject: |
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| xm_lcr wrote: | | luckily i dont "actually" work for xm the company i work for just has a contract with them, and being as we are xm's #1 call center and our branches #1 call center i think im safe |
That doesn't mean your safe. It means that as long as the company that holds the contract does so at a lesser price than the company that holds Sirius' contract you will have a job.
However, given how other choices have come down, it would not surprise me to see Sirius take over the customer service portion of it as well. They just haven't gotten down to merging call centers yet. It will happen, bet on it. |
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marker101
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:05 am Post subject: |
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| MNXMFan wrote: | | That doesn't mean your safe. |
 See, http://www.xmfan.com/viewtopic.php?t=95250 
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