Thread regarding EchoStar Communications Corp. layoffs

Barebone skeleton crew is left to put out fires when the time comes. A sad day for all

@ar Charlie ergen is about to FAFO, he will make millions less than what he could have. maybe his AI sycophants tell him everything will be fine

@an yes

Paul Gaske apparently pushed out today too. There will be basically no customer support left for the residential customers. Customer service, experience, procurement, inventory, engineering, SDG, enterprise billing, QA, etc all left with only a handful of people. VPs and SVPs basically all gone.

Are people still getting emails for next rounds?

@af correct. Pay and benefits will continue until end of September, but no longer need to report to work.

@a8 no, it was still happening even after I posted that comment.

@ae heard they are keep people on payroll till end of September.

Does that mean that today is the last day, or they have time to transition? Under the warning Act, large firms during bankruptcy have to give 60 day notice for firings unless there are exceptions like unforeseen consequences that force them to do so. The market knew that we were going to the courts

@a7 did they state that explicitly? I haven't gotten an email but many of my teammates did.. wondering if I was missed or if I should expect an email next week

eventually everyone is getting laid off, Charlie has no clue what he wants or where his companies are going.

Heard 50% of management. Why do we think this is happening ?

@a9 which business group?

It looks like only business group is affected? Were any engineering folks affected?

@a7 so done for today??

Vast majority being laid off. Some have already received emails and left, additional emails to go out next week.

anyone got email at 11.00?

Anyone in LFF was affected?

@a3 400 from all of EchoStar?

In other threads it is said 400 people will go? Crazy

It sounds like it. Check some of the other threads. All buildings are affected.

basically everyone is being laid off today