I got this company promoting cr-p in the mail yesterday. A baseball cap, blue tooth speaker, t-shirt, blanket, and a large sign for me to put on my lawn promoting fiber. The problem here is how much money we spend promoting through employees. I'm... — read more 

It is clear to me that both compensation and mentally wise I could do a lot better at another company, for the amount of work and unrealistic expectations I have to deal with here. Although, I think there are many who have agreed to a lower pay... — read more 

What is T offering new employees to lure them in? I keep waiting for our reputation to catch up to us and come to the point where we can't hire anybody, but that's not happening. Do the recruiters lie to people? Does nobody vet the company they're... — read more 

Do I have to wait until retirement age to cash out my vested pension if I leave the company for any reason? Thank you for your time.

It always surprises me again and again that our management does not recognize the archaic equipment we are working on as a big problem that frustrates employees, wastes everyone’s time i.e. costs this company a lot. Is it possible that they consider... — read more 

A message from John Stinkey Happy Thanksgiving! To: All US-based employees I destroyed the company. Happy Thanksgiving!

Although there are plenty of 'rumored' retirements and the majority opinion is that there will be no huge announcements this time, to give them time to see how many will retire, I still believe the desire is strong to send out at least some of those... — read more 

I my VP group, looks like the retirement rate will be around 3%. Anybody know the rate in their VP group?

Every time I read these posts, there's always massive back and forth about layoffs. Then someone comments re: the 'dead weight' and layoffs are justified. Here's the reality- Come next year staffing will look drastically different (ie- reduced) in... — read more 

Mgmt employee (ie- non union) considering flying the coop in early 2022. I know the PTO policy has a formula to pay out for a portion of PTO depending on time of year you leave. Does it make sense to take a week at the beginning of the year before... — read more 

When will they fix OPUS? Fix the scanners? Fix the crashes of the computers? Bad bad cust service; custs are mad, store managements shrugs there shoulders and just say thats the way it is! They "management" are scared to push things back up the... — read more 

There is more and more talk about how it is very likely that this will happen. I don’t want to claim anything, but I personally believe that rumor could come true. Does anyone perhaps have more detailed information on whether they will decide to cut... — read more 

This outcome was a mathematical certainty on the day Sprint bought Clearwire. AT$T never had a chance. History will show that in the end, it didn't matter that Stephenson gambled away all those $Billions on TimeWarner and Direct TV. He was just... — read more 

Is anyone aware of what is going to happen with the DirecTV discount for ATT employees starting Jan 1? will our service just cease or will we be slammed with the regular price?

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4471161-att-stock-peak-absurdity-long-term-investors-entry-point

5g is a joke with no real application for major profits. marketing has not invented a new product in about 10 years. $15 stock price incoming, wait for the divey cut -which i stated about 5 years ago, everything i foresaw has come true. find a new... — read more 

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The taxpayers will be footing the bill for $70 Billion dollars to go to private telecom and cable corporations to build their infrastructure and communications networks. One of the biggest recipients of this massive welfare package for the rich will... — read more 

I have posted on this blog several times only to find that my post does not make the grade. It's not fair, I see many other posts that are very similar to my posts that are posted. The latest post was today, regarding the share price at $24 and... — read more 

Day after day the stock price continues to drop and finally went under $24. Stinkey undoubtedly will use this as a reason to cut headcount when this drop is due to management incompetence/ineptness and not lack of profit. We need an upper management... — read more 

Everyday they push tons of spyware on PCs and bring the PCs to a halt!

Share price just a little above $24. Ain't nothing nobody can do. Thanks Stankey for wrecking a once formidable iconic company.

They office retail employees incentives for all rhe fiber internet they sale! Ok cool, but what about when you work on an area that the county has approx 10% coverage? No sales, and no $$

These two organizations need to be eliminated after the abysmal track record of mergers and acquisitions. The only purpose they serve is to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to external consulting firms and investment banks!! The track record... — read more 

just heard there’s a plan to outsource all field tech jobs to 3rd party contractors. less headache to deal with unionized cry babies.

I totally agree with the person who wrote that one should not have false hopes of security because no one is safe here. Truth be told, they can tell anyone tomorrow that they are not needed. However, I still think that IT is one of the more secure... — read more 

Apple hits a 52 week high, AT&T drops over one percent. Six figure Retention bonuses are being handed out to SVPs like candy. With double digit wage compensation for the c-suite on the horizon!!

Brought up by upper management today in Manager Call Expected to be enforced around the end of the holidays / start if the new year, They are going to implement the expectation that every RSC must submit at least 1 new CRU (business) or FN (first... — read more 

I have never seen a group of people that get paid so well, stellar benefits, fantastic real world perks/discounts and still bad mouth the company and want even more. They believe they are OWED a paycheck no matter what as many game the system for... — read more 

The Jules org is getting a reorg. Effective Jan 1st. Expect headcount reduction first quarter!!!

Tell Asplnd to knock of the BS storytelling about Arnldi and Dnvan

More work! Now I am angry at myself that I tried to finish as much work as possible as fast as I could. In fact, I wanted to make it easier for myself by completing a terribly difficult task that put a lot of pressure on me as soon as possible... — read more 

So, we were told our office was going to face a surplus. We are already only about 16 people maybe and at least 5-6 were retiring by year end anyway (subsidy). They cut 50% and all the ones retiring were surplussed and will be getting severence... — read more 

It’s something I said at the time - what makes lifelong telco guys think they can run a media company? https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/11/17/fmr-time-warner-ceo-on-att-merger-it-didnt-turn-out-as-well-as-we-hoped.html?&qsearchterm=jeff%20bewkes — read more 

Now what???

https://blog.techstaffer.com/att-employees-may-not-receive-unemployment-benefits-amidst-vaccine-requirements Not only are they pushing out anyone who is choosing to be unvaccinated, but now they're going to take away these people's unemployment... — read more 

Does anyone have any insight on the odds of an actual work stoppage taking place in regards to the Midwest contract that is coming due early next year?

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/11/17/fmr-time-warner-ceo-on-att-merger-it-didnt-turn-out-as-well-as-we-hoped.html

I gave notice because I have been doing work for several people for months now and I could no longer put up with such a pace of work.... After I gave notice, I thought I would finally be able to have some relief but no.... This company decided to... — read more 

from AT&T since I retired. Overpriced, bad product, no support, why bother?