We all know he is a World Class Cork Soaker.
The Stevenson and Stankey Dynamic Duo
Have cost shareholders $150B to $250B and many employees their careers. ATT is a brand that is despised by most consumers and their foray into Hollywood and content will result in more contempt as they will forever be known as the entity that... — read more
Tmobile Purchase
Imagine the damage to Tmobile and competition if the attempted AT&T purchase of same had been successful. And I hope that Tmobile does not make a mistake and attempt to buy the floundering AT&T business. I'm making all sorts of money with my... — read more
Bonus for Former Management Employee
I left the company towards end of November last year? Am i eligible for CPI payout this march?
Vacation time question?
For those folks who have left AT&T on your own without a surplus. Did they pay you out your unused vacation time on your last check? I looked on HR OneStop but couldn’t find any info on this.
AT&T CEO asked for — and got — less compensation despite promotion
https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2021/03/11/john-stankey-att-compensation.html AT&T’s John Stankey saw his overall compensation fall in 2020 even as he was promoted to CEO of the company. The reduction came after Stankey himself asked for... — read more
DirecTV
When I started at directv, we all used to laugh at you AT&T folks, who were universally seen as sluggish, stuck on dead technologies. An AT&T team was perceived as incapable of delivering a project on time, so we needed to do it ourselves. My manager... — read more
Kilar $52M in 2020 compensation
How does that grab you?
It is official, Time Warner has mailed it in and doesn't
Want anything to do with Stankey, Kilar, or ATT. The males don't want to experience child birth and the women were horrified and insulted by the analogy. Too many at Time Warner lost loved ones and experienced Covid 19 so boasting about the deadly... — read more
You know what would be nice?
If this leadership was capable of admitting failures and learning from them. Everybody makes mistakes. But not everybody refuses to admit when they make a mistake and then advertises it as an unmitigated success. How about swallowing your pride for... — read more
Time Warner CEO praises Covid as being great for business
Kilar would probably run down grandma and girl scouts in a crosswalk with Bentley to pick up a few HBO Max subscribers.
Can most remember Stevenson and Stankey when they were
Head over heels talking up content content content and competing for eyeballs and screen time? The content space beyond oversaturated at this point and there is so much political social garbage out there that people's eyeballs are tuning out to the... — read more
Work From Home
For NON-MANAGEMENT, BARGAINED employees: Many of us have been working from home for about a year. The MOA is set to expire sometime in June/July 2021. What is the news on when or if we will return back to the call centers/offices? Or do you... — read more
ATT is just that more hateable with Stankey
Customers hate ATT Employees hate ATT Business Partners hate ATT Wall Street hates ATT ATT has zero chance with Stankey as he is the worst kind of toxic hubris. ATT will never be able to get it's arms around content and make it flourish. They... — read more
The three stooges RANDY WHITAKER STANKEY
I think it’s time to flood these guys with questions about how they think their contribution to ATT justified/justifies what they are getting paid? I still cannot get ATT fiber at my new place. I’m using our competitors and it’s fine. Why do they get... — read more
So Depressed Working at T These Days but Need My Job
Why are there so many horrible people these days at T? It is difficult to just get out of bed and to work on Mondays? Is it just me or is anyone else experiencing the same situation? Mean, nasty, dishonest, lying people who dump their work on... — read more
Managers: is there still "strike training"?
I'm a non-bargained/manager (not supervisor) in district 6 and last time I went on strike training was in January 2017 for the March 2017 contract expiration. I understand that was a four-year agreement which puts the next expiration....now. But I've... — read more
AYCO Financial Planning offered by AT&T
For those of us who are eligible only until the end of 2021 to retire with company subsidized retiree health insurance, AT&T has offered financial planning services by AYCO, at no cost to the employee. There is an online group seminar as well as... — read more
What’s next for sale?
After DTV, I wonder what’s next going to be sold? I completely agree with someone who said that ATT does not know how to use Time Warner at all and that it is very possible that this will be the next step. And then CNN, it would come as no... — read more
Ego driven leadership
Everything that has been going on with ATT lately, all the moves, are absolutely more ego driven than anything else. How else to interpret everything that happens? They don’t seem to be aware of the risks this has for the business. Ego will not help... — read more
Next reorganization
Aren't we due a reorganization? By my calculations, we'll be getting an announcement before the end of next quarter.This leadership loves acquisitions and reorganizations. There's never follow through but that never stopped them before so I don't... — read more
Wireless Auto Pay Discount when retired
They are telling me I won’t be getting my auto pay discount of $10 per line because I have the Retirement Discount...can’t have both. anyone know if this is true.
Typical AT&T...the corruption starts at the top!
Sued by the SEC. https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/03/10/att-is-getting-sued-by-the-sec-should-investors-be/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article&yptr=yahoo
HBOMAX
Why doesn’t AT&T throw in 6 months of free HBOMAX with the purchase of a smartphone?
IHX SFO “Sales Force Optimization” aka layoffs
So big news with IHX. They are expanding in foot print areas with new hubs and directors even but about to slash or eliminate a lot of out of footprint areas. If you are in a out of footprint area if your hub does less than 250 a month say good bye!... — read more
Survive through organizing other businesses?
CWA revenue declined over several years because there is not enough effort in the fight for jobs. Membership is nearly 1/3 of what it once was. Call Center jobs eliminated or off-shore for less pay. Local CWA will either survive through organizing... — read more
They Bought Dreams
Someone sold Randall and Stankey dream of being next Amazon and Google where advertising will be biggest driver of revenue if they purchased Time Warner. They kept talking ad revenue. Created a entity named Xander. It was all the gibberish... — read more
An accountant... Period...
RS is nothing but a glorified accountant. He does not have an engineering or finance background. The guy did not even perform a good ROI calculation on Directv and TW acquisition. The ROI calculations shows that T grossly overpaid for these... — read more
Does your work matter?
Why do you care? Are you getting paid? That's all that matters. You can not, nor will, make a pinch of difference. They will spend $50,000 to save a dime. You people here for some self fulfillment or accolades or to make a difference will get a... — read more
FAN discount push!!!!!!!
So the new directive in the gulf states is to add signature discounts at all costs. Going so far as to to add AARP discounts to anyone availible. So now we convince customers to pay $12/year to enroll and we have to go onto the AARP website and... — read more
It was a good bet
I can understand the hate AT&T and those in charge get for the TW acquisition, but that was actually a good move at the time. The problem was that once it was here, nobody knew what to do with it (and yes, I count mister "I'm the smartest when it... — read more
The more you fail, the higher you land
Randy nearly destroyed AT&T during his tenure here with bad decisions and he gets rewarded for it with a place on Walmart's board. Over and over again he proved to be an incompetent leader and yet he gets rewarded for it. There really are two sets of... — read more
Here is your solution...
Stankey was the driving force in buying DTV at that ridiculous device and then managed that business as it continuously declined. Then bought Time Warner where he drive out the talent to the point that HBO is no longer thought of as a leader as... — read more
C-Level Compensation
There is ABSOLUTELY no way in hell any CEO for any company should be making 3000 times the amount of the average employee. They’ve done a great job over the years conditioning the Pleb’s that this is normal and we should just genuflect at the Alter... — read more
Videos Woo Hoo
I'm happy to say I didn't watch (waste my time on) any of the LwD videos. I would just log in, hit play, then mute and minimize, and enjoy my lunch while I watched Golf Channel, or Price is Right on my U-Verse tv at my desk! Survey was always 5's... — read more
ATT basically traded equity for debt to reduce debt??
Can someone explain this deal please?? Nett worth of ATT before the deal ( 2015) was say X based on ATT's book value w/o good will. Nett worth of ATT after the DTV+TW deal was Y-debt(150B$?) where Y is the combined book value w/o GW. .. — read more
Tomorrow March 8 will be the last day for several hundred in Financial Billing
In Oct 2019 it was announced approximately 1200 jobs were outsourced to Accenture. Over that period many have left through MVO or attrition. A large number got their 14 day notice on Feb 22 and leave tomorrow. The billing problems and Accentures... — read more
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2AX2IV
Randall S. Joins Walmart board (to destroy it with brilliant acquisition strategies?)
I heard news is Hitting CWA 3104 on Friday.
Anyone else hear news on this