Company Responsible For Mobile Implodes Overnight
Dec 08, 2022
Costco Rollover!!!!!!!!!!!!
The whole department said that the order was closed and no one paid attention to it. The customers have no choice. It was a mess
In the early morning, Costco's mobile phone sales department suddenly closed violently, 1800 employees lost their jobs instantly, thousands of orders could not be handled, leaving a mess that we still don't know how to end.
This time, Wireless Advocates a third-party company was cleared overnight. We should all be familiar with it, every time we enter Costco, we will always see two or three young brothers and counter sisters standing in front of a row of mobile phones trying to solicit customers: pass by, don't miss them. Yes, they are.
Wireless Advocates has been working with Costco to sell mobile phones and mobile network service plans such as T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon. Its business scope covers at least 535 Costco stores and 65 military bases in the United States.
However, on December 5, Wireless Advocates suddenly stopped all business.
Costco was stunned when the partner unilaterally terminated the relationship and did not receive any notice. What happened?
There were also 1800 employees in Costco stores across the United States. The boss didn't give any warning in advance, Until that morning the Dan Brettler, CEO of Wireless Advocates, held a conference call to tell them about the layoff.
Dan Brettler said:
The company faced serious supply chain problems during the epidemic and these problems still exist today.
The emerging 5G technology has not brought.
Since the beginning of the epidemic, the demand for military sales channels has dropped by nearly 50%, so we decided to terminate the cooperation with the military🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️.
Costco will not renew the contract after their cooperation which in addition to cutting off military sales. Basically leaves Wireless Advocates with no available sales channels❌.
Brettler also mentioned that he tried to save himself in other sales channels before. For example, they used to set up branches in Staples stores all over the United States, but it was useless ❌.
Later, even though WalMart achieved good performance during its trial operation. But the two sides were unable to reach an agreement on the terms of expansion to more locations, the two sides failed to negotiate.
Therefore, Bankruptcy is the only option.
However, most employees couldn't hear the CEO's explanation, because no one told them that there was a teleconference. When they went to work, they found that they had been fired. Then they received an email informing them to leave the company.
A former employee revealed that early this morning, they found that the company had disabled or deleted all employees' previous login information and could not access the intranet. After they go to work, they are told that the company they work for is gone. "There was no early warning at all, and even the middle managers did not give advance notice." Employees disclosed that the company's speculation violated the WARN Act. According to the law, companies with a certain number of employees must give 60 days' notice before large-scale layoffs
The employees lost their jobs. The customer's orders were left unattended. The orders were piled up like mountains. A large number of customers did not know who to look for when encountering problems. In short, it was a mess
They fired all of us after all the promotions on Black Friday. Nobody knew about it. In addition, the company deleted Facebook, Twitter and the website.
Our email has been disabled, so we can't even log in to UKG (Human Resources System). This is crazy.
Costco employees said that almost all mobile phone orders were sent back to the company, and customers were told to contact Wireless Advocates' customer service, but the funny thing was that no one answered Wireless Advocates' customer service phone.
We have at least 53 orders that haven't been processed yet. Customers need to wait for their mobile phones for some time
We have at least 53 orders that haven't been processed yet. Customers need to wait for their mobile phones for some time
As of press release, Costco or Wireless Advocates have not issued an official statement on layoff
In case of capital accident, the most injured are always migrant workers. I hope that the affected employees can be properly placed, and that customers who have no access to help can finally get through to Wireless Advocates
