Return on Equity and Return on Assets for T Way too low compared to Mob and Vz
California man, 90, spends $10G on ads to complain about AT&T's shoddy internet service.
California man, 90, spends $10G on ads to complain about AT&T's shoddy internet service: https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/california-man-ads-complain-atts-terrible-internet-service
Why renegotiate the lease now?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/wtov9.com/amp/news/local/jefferson-county-att-in-talks-regarding-antenna-atop-water-tower
Slow Internet, Bad PR as a North Hollywood Man Pays for $10 K full page ad
https://youtu.be/CGFTusokchs
Can some SPAC buy Vrio please!
Enough said.
Is att the next frontier?
I laughed at this news article (see following link). They are running this id–tic add bashing cable companies upload speeds and touting fiber. The problem? Fiber is way less widespread than cable high speed. I have a gig from Comcast and I use att... — read more
Either Stanley is so far removed from reality or his emails
On Leadership and Financial Influence and Savy are simply to antagonize and throw salt in the wounds of employees. Stankry and Stevenson will be case studies in incompetence enabled by an apathetic board and a low interest rate environment that... — read more
And we continue to underperform...
AT&T Inc. stock underperforms Wednesday when compared to competitors "Shares of AT&T Inc. T, -0.24% sank 0.24% to $28.55 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock... — read more
Stankey on Financial Fluency
Did anyone catch the latest video? One of the core leadership pillars he needs you to understand is FINANCIAL FLUENCY. In other words, how losing $15 billion on an investment translates to raises and bonuses for the C-suite. Y'all got that now?... — read more
Snow removal
So. At&t will not remove snow from locations less than 2 inches. OK. Fine. Now the 1 inch of snow melted and refroze. Now I have a quarter inch of ice. Who do I call now mutha f—ers?
Time to form a Management UNION
As our company continues to evolve, current Management continues to find WAYS to reduce/ change our bonus, holidays, vacation day, medical and other items. All of which are family effecting. I say its time to form a UNION which will have a say and... — read more
TSRs
When will the new TSRs be released for merit increases?
Pension Changed
For those who received the AT&T management pension Changes starting in 2022 - changes on pension aren’t supposed to come to fruition until February 19 but it looks like they might’ve put calculations in prematurely. I went into Fidelity and... — read more
T Benefit Cut Article
I found this article from some recruiter on LinkedIn. It says a lot that it's more informative than anything I've seen from T. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/att-cuts-retiree-healthcare-employee-benefits-nancy-johnson-bsn-phn/
Is sales force voluntary ?
Management threatened to coach representatives if leads are not put in.leading into coachings to termination
Massive Round of Layoffs coming in Q2
Severance going to be capped at 10 weeks. Rule of 75 eliminated Pension clawbacks
Layoffs
Anyone hearing about Q1 layoffs?
We are the best at something, after all
A few days ago I read somebody mention in a comment on an article that AT&T is the best company in the entire history when it comes to destroying hundreds of billions of dollars in value and I think I’ve never heard of a better description of AT&T in... — read more
I am just trying to live my life and raise my kids
i don't have the years of service as many do. I am not a bargained for employee. I am sitting at just over 15 years as a "manager" but have been well compensated as I see it. I am not disgruntled about pay/benefits, even though it is disheartening... — read more
With Mr. Stinkey In Charge
I see this company achieving unparalleled success. With a man of such vision and charisma who has forgot more about TV than the rest of us ever even knew, how can we not succeed? A few more of Stinkey's signature acquisitions and we could even be the... — read more
AT&T: Get out of a Sinking Ship
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4404325
Survival without respecting workers and clients?
I understand this business model less than ever. ATT doesn’t value employees, ATT doesn’t value clients, every day there are fewer and fewer of us and the clients - so what do they think this business model should be based on? Their business logic is... — read more
Hey ATT,do you now see how important customer service is?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9q74/90-year-old-att-user-wsj-ad-berate-ceo
Former CEO and retirement
I remember when Ed Whitacre retired, he was looking forward to running his bulldozer on his ranch in Enus TX. He was pulled back into the workforce by President Obama to navigate GM through their bankruptcy. Later went back to bulldozing. Why can't... — read more
DEG and CO Integration
Does anyone know what’s going on with the CO and DEG folks?? Heard they were integrating. Worried about layoffs....
2/5/21 - Just received deferred severance pay
For those who were surplused last July 2020 and chose to defer severance pay into 2021 ... well, deferred severance pay just got paid by att today, 2/5/21.
ATT does not have the ability to retain quality employees anymore?
I no longer know anyone with a lot of talent that stayed in this company. They all found better positions. It seems to me that the company has nothing left to offer to keep those people around. The worst thing is that the they did not even try to... — read more
Meet the people at AT&T, owner of CNN, who think it’s OK to loose $1B year.
Speaks volumes on why Stinky is not qualified to run a hot dog stand! Good riddance if Zucher really leaves. Zucher looses $1B a year and yet he went on and on? https://6do.news/article/3668041-41 Was a feature last night.
AT&T Stagnates Despite Its Massive Cash Generation
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4403436-t-stagnates-despite-massive-cash-generation
Just imagine if
Randall had not blown Billiions on the T mobile deal. Just imagine if he had not wasted Billions to buy a Direct Broadcast Satellite company. Our esteemed "leadership" even stated that "We have lauched our last satellite" not soon after acquiring... — read more
Sankey fix the pipes
HBO is a dumpster fire. "The little things" is terrible! Sankey needs to pursue other career interests. He knows nothing about the entertainment industry. Just a series of bad decisions.
Rename this board to The Whiner
That's all, I think it would be a more fitting name :D
AT&T Cuts Retiree Healthcare & Employee Benefits
AT&T Cuts Retiree Healthcare & Employee Benefits By techstaffer in ATT on February 2, 2021 No comments As a recruiter I’m often asked about benefit packages offered by certain companies. Over the last year there have been substantive changes... — read more
Rebadge Followup
For those that were rebadged in 2019 hows it going? Are you still with Accenture, IBM, etc? Are things better or worse than working for T?
Stankey's "Thoughts on Leadership" this week
#2 Drive Execution "Fancy presentations don't mean anything unless they are backed with results. " (like losing $15billion on an epic "buy high, sell low" play, giving your direct competitor billions of dollars in cash and spectrum and... — read more
AT&T is pushing customers into a whole new level of customer complaints
Not sure that was money well spent, but it sure made me laugh (and take notice.) "Aaron Epstein, 90, is so frustrated by his 3Mbps Internet plan that he took out a Wall Street Journal ad in today's print edition in order to post an open letter to... — read more
Att borrows 14.7B to buy Spectrum
https://telecoms.com/508489/att-borrows-14-7-billion-to-buy-spectrum/
SUPERBOWL and DTV
I dont understand why we dont push the picture quality of the DTV product we have especially with the Super Bowl upon us. Take one look at a side by side of the compressed cable product, Uverse or streaming for that matter next to a full blown HD DTV... — read more
Life AFTER VZW
Worked for VZDub 12 yrs. Took advantage of their tuition reimbursement & got my Masters degree. Did multiple projects even moved several states & never got the positions I wanted. The positions I did get either didn't come with a raise or no more... — read more