{"id":740869,"date":"2013-03-07T08:45:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T13:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=362598"},"modified":"2013-03-07T08:45:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T13:45:33","slug":"job-cuts-to-accompany-t-mobile-metropcs-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/740869","title":{"rendered":"Job cuts to accompany T-Mobile, MetroPCS merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/t-mobile-metropcs-merger-layoffs-362598\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"609\" height=\"421\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/t-mobile-sign-9812.jpg?w=609&#038;h=421&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=609%2C421\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"T-Mobile MetroPCS Merger Layoffs\" title=\"T-Mobile\" \/><\/a><\/center>The proposed merger of No.4 wireless carrier <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/t-mobile\">T-Mobile<\/a> USA and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/metropcs\">MetroPCS<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=PCS\">PCS<\/a>)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/06\/t-mobile-metropcs-merger-doj-361836\/\">cleared a major hurdle earlier this week<\/a>, but some troubling news accompanied the win: more than 100 T-Mobile employees are reportedly set to lose their jobs. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.seattletimes.com\/brierdudley\/2013\/03\/06\/big-layoffs-at-t-mobile-headquarters-ahead-of-merger\/\"><em>The Seattle Times<\/em> reports<\/a>\u00a0that more than 100 people in T-Mobile's marketing group and across other departments will be laid off during\u00a0\"integration\" meetings scheduled to take place on Thursday. T-Mobile employed approximately 36,000 people across the country in 2012. MetroPCS shareholders will\u00a0convene\u00a0on April 12th to vote on the merger, which is still being reviewed by regulators.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/1zMYGJtxrmg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed merger of No.4 wireless carrier T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS (PCS)\u00a0cleared a major hurdle earlier this week, but some troubling news accompanied the win: more than 100 T-Mobile employees are reportedly set to lose their jobs. The Seattle Times reports\u00a0that more than 100 people in T-Mobile&#8217;s marketing group and across other departments will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36Jv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}