Sprint/nextel employee benefits?

[samrozzi]

I jsut found out I am getting a great job as a Sprint/Nextel associate in store to sell phones/plans etc...

I was wondering what are the perks?

I am assuming free phone and plan from them? but are their limits to the phone or plan. I remember seeing they all usually get blackberrys free but not the pre. Could i get the pre with my own money but sprint still covers the bill?

thanks :)

[LazyGenius]

i work for best buy mobile and i know that i can get a 25% discount on my monthly bill.(if i chose to go with them.) im not sure what discounts you can get on phone. you can try google'ing it, thats what i did.

[samrozzi]

well while at interview i heard they got free blackberrys. but i dont remember if they said the plan was free or not.

[LazyGenius]

well while at interview i heard they got free blackberrys. but i dont remember if they said the plan was free or not.
im only "kind of" a sprint employee so idk for sure...

[techboi]

Idk about Sprint but when I use to work for T-Mobile they gave me a free blackberry and I paid $20 a month for unlimited everything though this was many years ago. I assume each carrier has something similar but idk

[samrozzi]

thanks

techboi

could you choose from any phone in store? or did they just say heres a blackberry?
and if you wanted to could you of upgrade to a diff phone.

like I think sprint gives you a blackberry but Im wondering if its possible to upgrade to pre.

[ggrant3876]

Don't you think you should have asked this during your interview? Not here on an Android forum.

[bobzoz]

i too was a best buy mobile employee but i got free blackberry and unlimited everything for just price of surcharges... this was like 2 years ago in suburb of chicago (one of first stores to have best buy mobile, i was the beta haha) but a friend of mine worked for sprint for past 2 years she said she got free blackberry and only pays like $22 a month for unlimited everything =D

[samrozzi]

no OF COURSE NOT, asking a question like what do I get for free is very unprofessional. Its not good to ask things like that. But she did tell me just forgot about plan thing

[DaYuMu6ft7]

I'm sure you wont get the phone until your probation is up...

[ggrant3876]

no OF COURSE NOT, asking a question like what do I get for free is very unprofessional. Its not good to ask things like that. But she did tell me just forgot about plan thing
No, all benefits of the job should be discussed before entering in to a contract with said company.

[samrozzi]

and like I said they did go over it such as I know a free blackberry, just not sure as of upgrading to another phone like the pre.

[ggrant3876]

http://androidcommunity.com/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif Sprint/Ericsson network deal
Sprint is transferring day-to-day operations of their network to a new division of Ericsson. Here's the article in the KC Star, Sprint's hometown newspaper:
http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1315926.html (http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1315926.html)

They try to slap a lotta lipstick on this sick pig in the article so as to not worry the locals or remaining customer base, but it's really just another sign of how serious problems really are at Sprint. They've laid off so many people to stay alive and are so incompetent they don't trust themselves to run their own operations anymore, so they're contracting that out to real professionals.

Probably only a matter of time before Sprint is sold for their most valuable remaining asset - not their lousy network or dwindling customers, but the large amount of prime bandwidth they control. Kinda sad...
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[ren857]

http://androidcommunity.com/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif Sprint/Ericsson network deal
Sprint is transferring day-to-day operations of their network to a new division of Ericsson. Here's the article in the KC Star, Sprint's hometown newspaper:
http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1315926.html (http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1315926.html)

They try to slap a lotta lipstick on this sick pig in the article so as to not worry the locals or remaining customer base, but it's really just another sign of how serious problems really are at Sprint. They've laid off so many people to stay alive and are so incompetent they don't trust themselves to run their own operations anymore, so they're contracting that out to real professionals.

Probably only a matter of time before Sprint is sold for their most valuable remaining asset - not their lousy network or dwindling customers, but the large amount of prime bandwidth they control. Kinda sad...
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What a great way to make him feel good about his new job! :rolleyes:

[techboi]

thanks

techboi

could you choose from any phone in store? or did they just say heres a blackberry?
and if you wanted to could you of upgrade to a diff phone.

like I think sprint gives you a blackberry but Im wondering if its possible to upgrade to pre.

No there were a few options but at that time I was on the blackberry wagon so thats what I went with. They never gave me the newest phone for free but I did have the option to buy one at a discounted price if I wanted to.

[Crashdamage]

What a great way to make him feel good about his new job! :rolleyes:
Sorry if I bummed him out any. I was just tellin' it like I see it when I posted that...

How 'bout this...
Sprint's kickin' arse with the awesome Pre! With their newly announced power partnership with the most excellent Ericssson, they are now positioned for world domination in the mobile arena!

[Rusty]

You should probably call and ask human resources as it is not unprofessional to ask HR about benefits. It's their job!

[znoblebb]

dude c'mon really!? think about who you work for.. a huge mobile phone company, a company whos employees are going to know all about phones before they come out that they want info withheld on until public announcements are made so dont you think there are people all over the place who go on all these websites to make sure no sprint employees are publicizing confidential info!? ill tell you that im a Sprint employee and you dont get any free phones and you pay the same price as any upgradable customer on a phone, and thats pretty much all you can say.. not smart todisclose any confidential info on public sites, thats the quick way to the poor house.. id suggest talk to your co-workers and managers and not ask a public website because any sprint employee who wants to keep his/her job is going to tell you anything, because we all seen people get fired for posting stuff on sites.. not to be a **** but u gotta be smarter then this