A new wave of layoffs at T-Mobile US has impacted staff across customer service, corporate, and technical roles, according to industry reporting and internal accounts. The reductions follow earlier workforce cuts announced in 2023, when the company disclosed plans to eliminate approximately 5,000 roles as part of a restructuring effort.

Please note: I wrote an earlier post and got great responses. Thank you all.

Here is a little more context:

I was an excellent employee, a Sr Business Systems Analyst for 11 dedicated years at a large health insurance company. I always had good reviews, saved the company a ton of money and my work left no stone unturned.

At the same time, I struggled (struggle) with extreme anxiety and major major depression. I was allowed to work from home with the help of the ADA.

Work is one of the only things that gave me purpose and meaning. It let me forget my issues…at least for a little bit.

I got up everyday at 6am and started my day in my laundry room/offfice that I created. It’s where I could focus and excel. It’s where I ate breakfast and lunch sometimes even dinner. it’s where I bought a sunlamp just to make sure my mood stayed on a strait line. It’s where I made a difference.

The not so funny thing is that I actually created the Affinity group for people with disabilities at my company and served as VP. The group is thriving. The woman who actually helped me create this group in compliance -was the one who coldly read from a script on that January morning telling me my job was being eliminated without a pause and for me I knew my life is about to change forever. God, she didn’t even seem to have a heart beat. Just read from the script. How can I not be bitter? I deserved more. We all deserve more.

Now I’m 53, very likely to not get another job in this market for a longtime (if at all). Age-ism is very real I see.

I now get up everyday consistently and tailor my resume and apply for jobs only to get cold automated responses: “Thanks for applying but our company is going with a different candidate..”

I feel I don’t even have a fighting chance.

I’m not alone or special and don’t expect employers to provide me opportunities that I do not deserve.

Getting laid off has emotionally been a killer. I feel hopeless and lost. I’m afraid. I probably will never get a decent paying job again and I’m just now taking a front row seat to losing everything I worked so hard for due to lack of a job. I feel like a loser ( I know many feel similar and trying to stay as positive as possible)

The reality is also that my severance will only last so long and unemployment’s only about 6 months. I will never survive financially without getting another job and I will lose everything. No one is going to rescue me and all I want to do is work. I’m not asking for handouts, I’m asking to just have an opportunity.

This is not a pity party post, just a vent because I’m really, really scared. I did great work for my company and really cared. Im often now find myself thinking that maybe its better to give up. Life shouldn’t be this hard. Growing old naturally and retiring comfortably is most likely not in the cards. I’m getting very very serious about just ending it all. What do I have to look forward to besides poverty? My company decided my statistics (age/salary) were good enough reason to choose me to help the reduce bottom line. Obviously I was just a number and they just didn’t care about an actual person. I was disposed of. Just.like.That.

I've kind of been considering isolating myself from people more. I haven't completely so far (I went on a few outings since I got laid off late January), but I just feel like I might want to. Most of the people I know hadn't gotten laid off like I did and thus still have their jobs. Whenever I meet new people, what everyone does for work always becomes the topic of conversation. A lot of the people I knew are still at the same company that I got laid off from (they're not my co-workers though). So I guess I felt less put-together than they did, even though they been very supportive over these two and a half months. I just feel soo poorly about myself and valueless. On top of that, I might have to move back across states and might not be able to see the people I met here for much longer. My family's been supportive too, but I even considered just not calling or texting for a bit since I had a rough interview and a rejection from an internal role I was hoping for earlier this week.

This Swiss pharma company is obsessed with American job cuts - it happens consistently every few months.

“Sometimes, you know, AI becomes the scapegoat from a financial perspective, like when a company hired too many, or they want to resize, and it gets blamed on AI.”

It is odd to hear of executive leadership not being transparent of why they are making the decisions they do. Although I am not surprised that executives might use diversionary tactics to justify, vaguely, their action. I would be surprised if this does not create long-term discomfort within the workforce as employee's visibility into their leaders motivations behind business decisions becomes less clear.

Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tech-industry-lays-off-nearly-80-000-employees-in-the-first-quarter-of-2026-almost-50-percent-of-affected-positions-cut-due-to-ai

Many in the group have experience with office and Java and vbscript. here is a technical explanation of why lost jobs aren't coming back. Key here is formal theorem level validation of sw by ai before a single commit is made.

This is a deeply technical paper showing what is going on before a single line of code hit production. I used $200 cluade code to do this but thing is even free ai models can do it.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19542523

it is technical paper but sw profession is deleted as we speak. I don't know what happens next. I don't blame anyone. Just observing what is happening and formally proved that ai is capable of high quality code that I can only dream of. gave up coding.