I mean, this can be okay only for those who have no healthy ambition. To work without any will only from paycheck to paycheck, that’s awful. Any person with healthy ambitions is always striving to be more and more successful, to work harder and... — read more 

All this nonsense about getting back into fiber should have been done when they spent the money on DirecTV which had no synergy with our networks. *They completely misread markets and forgot about the differences between DirecTV network and AT&T's... — read more 

https://nypost.com/2021/05/22/how-stank-steered-att-into-multibillion-dollar-disaster/?utm_campaign=nyp_postopinion&utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20210523&utm_term=NYP+-+Post+Opinion

AT&T Inc. (T - Free Report) — the dividend aristocrat that hiked its dividend for the past 35 consecutive years — took the investor community by surprise when it unveiled plans to reduce its dividend payout... — read more 

On the backs of shareholder and employees. Always great with Other Peoples Money and next to no skin in the game.

Carved up like a Thankgiving Day Turkey and doled out in Tupperware with the sides at the end of the day. I have never see such gross incompetence and lack of controls. Do Stephenson and Stankey have a substance abuse and gambling problem? They... — read more 

1 - Lose badly and easily outplayed in every major deal you get involved with. 2 - Ignore your existing lines of margin rich cash cow businesses to go after the things you lose very badly at time and time again. 3 - In all lines of business you... — read more 

We thought you were the smartest when it came to media and streaming? We thought nobody knew more than you do and anybody who said otherwise was just a hater? So what happened? Why would somebody with such enormous knowledge and insight let go of the... — read more 

Anyone else sick and tired from hearing from leadership day in and day out about what we are supposed do? Every single webinar is about their journey and what we need to do to be like them. When it really doesn’t matter what we have done when they... — read more 

Anyone taking the offer staying past 6/24?

From the NY Post -- hardly a leftie, anti-business rag. There are some very choice quotes such as: "... with the deal, Stankey all but admitted to corporate America that the last 10 years of his career — and Stephenson’s — was a significant... — read more 

From the retail side of the company, someone should be doing "mids" with Stankey! It does so well in Retail as far as sales!!!! NOT! What a joke the system is in retail. Dosent solve or mean one thing! Just makes the consumer even more so mad! ... — read more 

Cant wait, its gonna be good! Anxious to hear how he single handedly saved at&t. How it was never his idea to acquire DTV and WM, he was merely a soldier carrying out orders. How many jobs will be cut and when? Will he announce a 15-20% cut across... — read more 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/21/shareholders-fiasco-att-time-warner-discovery/

I think we can all agree this deal hardly did AT&T any favors. When the whole thing is done and over with, I'm thinking the leadership will realize some more cost cuts are necessary to make the numbers (artificially) look better. The best (and the... — read more 

Past week has been Just shuffling business units and numbers around. For AT&T the remaining employee base has been beaten up. All the failures of Randall Stephenson, John Stankey, and a flacid Board Room have been "We" and as a result the employees... — read more 

*"some analysts have made a persuasive case that the AT&T chief executive, John Stankey — who spearheaded the 2018 deal, as well as AT&T’s disastrous acquisition of DirecTV three years before that — is the worst media strategist in recent... — read more 

With the spin off of DTV and TW who are the customers T should be focused on? The place is a hot mess!!

Thank you Jim for pointing out very visibly how dishonest Ratty and Stinky have been. The BoD should claw back Ratty's and Stinky's compensation. But the Board of Misdirectors will not. You need to add each and every Board member to the Board of... — read more 

No matter how hard he tries to spin this, this is a huge loss for us. We get fired for the smallest infractions, how is he going to survive something as big as this?

Bell Works (not to be confused with any Bell telcom company) is taking over our old residence and building "The Metroburb." "The Ameritech Center in Hoffman Estates, originally built as the former AT&T research facility, is being transformed into... — read more 

https://www.barrons.com/articles/att-stock-upgrades-51621601401

If you are in Legg organization please vote up the questions for June 3 Townhall. This will be the 3rd exec to dodge the questions

Seriously did Stank just blame wall street for our problems

This stock is not worth over $30. I hope on the 2nd qtr. call ALL of the severance, transactional and restructuring costs are laid out. There needs to be clarity on Kilar’s new role. There should be some senior level terminations behind this... — read more 

I've been saying we need to cut dividend for years. I've posted it here before and got laughed at. But the fact remained through all that that we were (and are) not able to afford what we were paying out. Our levels of debt are the best indicators of... — read more 

My apologies. 5 years ago, I stumbled across this site while looking for more information about AT&T acquiring TimeWarner and how DirectTV was handled/treated. When I read the posts on the site, I remember thinking to myself, “what a bunch of... — read more 

Anyone else feel the timing was a little odd? The announcement took place after AT&T’s BOD re-election. Some might consider this to be an integrity issue. AT&T’s top 10 shareholders must demand the resignation of all BOD members. JTS needs to stay... — read more 

https://variety.com/2021/biz/news/discovery-breakup-fee-warnermedia-merger-att-1234978186/ Just like the T-Mobile a $4 billion breakup fee?

Got notified that my group is going back to the office full time starting June 7th- I’m so nervous - anyone else going back?

I love that, build the box. Don’t just think outside it. That’s what you need to do with 5G for sure. You have a fascinating story and how you got into this type of work and also a little bit about your journey.

After 50,000 Layoffs And Absolute Chaos, AT&T Ends Its Bungled Media Experiment Failures from the great-job,-Bob dept Tue, May 18th 2021 6:46am — Karl Bode You might recall that AT&T spent nearly $200 billion to acquire Time Warner and DirecTV... — read more 

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/20/jim-cramer-adds-att-ceo-to-wall-of-shame-thanks-for-nothing.html

How can this deal create money out of the air? Why is Stnky claiming that T share holders make 100B out of the deal?

I just wonder what the next stupid move is or will some miracle happen to get things back on track? I’m afraid a lot more stupid moves will follow. Sometimes I can’t believe the moves that are made by those at the top and, unless they were trying to... — read more 

Do we lay fiber? No. Run our own RAN? No. Create software? No. Innovate in a Bell Labs-like setting? No. There is nothing that makes this company special anymore. Someone remarked very well that this company no longer has cards to play and I... — read more 

The CEO just got a seven year extension which me Kilar will not stick around. The BOD will pay him $52 million to leave. This crew is “brilliant”!!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaharziv/2020/05/12/while-republicans-balk-at-2000-second-stimulus-check-retiring-att-ceo-gets-274000-every-month-for-life/

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