I'm not sure why so many people on this site think that 1st levels decide how things are run. When I was at AT&T we had to do things a certain way for audits. I was an engineer and there is a "set" way for things to be done. I was one of the ones... — read more 

They will have to make some move to either absorb or shed DTV given the paring down of resources in the last year. Just in the last few months, they have announced no replacements for the two aging satellites due to be decommissioned later this year... — read more 

Wondering if a management person recently surplussed can inform on supplemental term life insurance that you had in place while employed? I know it is at least partly subsidized by company so I would guess that it goes away...wondering if they gave... — read more 

There will be announcements of a few level 2 and 3 surpluses in mobility. Most of those affected already know and have new positions waiting for them in MSE.

Middle age surplus is a life changer for me and my family. To young to retire and to old to start over. What I had planned out for me, my wife, my kids will never be. I feel like I really let them down. Not many options left

What are the forecasted numbers

Any managers in Birmingham/Hoover/Huntsville surplused?

When will these techs be targeted? I have never seen this position involuntarily surplused.

This seems to me the logical move, especially if the story about it being sold turn out to be false. My question would be how many cuts could the move of DTV under the WM umbrella produce?

Interesting article that points out HBO’s role in the AT&T’s media business and approaches the question whether HBO can be a force that will power that business , or will it just fail to be a revenue maker it was intended to be... — read more 

On this forum, there's a lot of complaining about management and their style of managing people. Looking back at C&E, we have a lot of personnel from the military where they bring forth excellent technical skills but poor interpersonal skills causing... — read more 

Awaiting appeal with my attorney, any insight would be appreciated.

I imagine that some departments of both companies that overlap in their domains o work will be merged, at least that’s what’s commonly done in these situations. A y info what parts of the two companies will be merged into one entity and what is the... — read more 

What's up with payout... Did not receive one????

I know I’m risking that my question could be labeled as stupid, but I don’t know anything on the subject , so here it goes. I’m a WM employee, and in the case that I get laid off from the company, what severance package would I be offered, the... — read more 

Unfortunately for T, consumers are paying more attention to how their information is being used. The next US administration will adopt European-like privacy standards that greatly restrict company plans to monetize customer information. Oh, and GOT... — read more 

I am in a techdev org, From a VP down look at my org: 1,315 managers (I filtered on on mgt positions), 1,088 are hires prior to 2007, thats 83% of that total mgt force. There are 255 (19%) that have 30 or more years. Then there are others that meet... — read more 

According to annual reports: 2015 - 281,450 2016 - 268,540 2017 - 254,000 Anyone have the official total for 2018 from the annual report? Anyone know know what the total is as of today?

Kinda odd to see all the open mics and town halls be abruptly canceled after that document leak, lol.

MGMT SURPLUSES —. Well, more mgmt surpluses announced today — will be notified if affected 3/22/19 and off payroll 5/22/19. If in one of the affected titles and want to go — leave by 3/29/19 to get the better pension interest rate.

Does anyone have a definitive answer as to our severance affecting when one can file, and if the severance is really severance at all? Isn't it a payment from the employer to the employee to release the company from liabilities ? And if so, this... — read more 

So J.Stankey in a town hall didn’t hold back in making the direction of T clear. They want you on your device, more hours a day, so they can collect your data and use it for the new advertising business they bought. I get it we need to make money... — read more 

I really am trying to work up what the method of cuts could be so I was hoping for some other opinions on that? Will they thin every part of the company and expect the remaining employees to pick up more work, or will they target specific parts of... — read more 

How can John give Kevin Tsujihara more responsibilities with this going on in the background. Especially when Kevin’s new responsibilities is global kids / young adults business. Must have totally different business values in WarnerMedia... — read more 

I ordered a cell phone on Saturday. At the end of order I was supposed to schedule delivery. Someone is supposed to come to my house with the phone and set it up? What the heck is that? My modem broke in December and they sent someone out to install... — read more 

http://www.ibew21.org/index.cfm?zone=/unionactive/view_article.cfm&HomeID=736994

Well, wonder how long until COR Retail takes the hit? Agents and National Retail has screwed up the rest so I guest leave it to them....

XWvEDLd-hnx the end of C-E ? I dont think so ..A smaller C/e like the rest of the company. Ok ..all you repair tools wishing the end of Construction to make you feel better? I mean actually C-E makes the comp.run.

cutting layers and integrating pieces. makes sense, double management on both sides in each org. more info coming soon to all of you

Hearing another ATO surplus in April. Also have an AM in our group that keeps saying he has been telling us he has info but they have all been told not to say anything.

Anyone know anything about 12 pm calls tomorrow? There safe 2 separate calls that I'm aware of but they are both at the same time. Usually the first call is the surplus pending g group and the second call is the safe group. A little thrown that the... — read more 

https://ibb.co/k4g3dsC Apparently a leaked email....

Things will be great and we will make lots of money. Texas size money! SIgned, Juan St1nky

https://hronestop.web.att.com/group/hr-onestop/mgmt-surplus-sev-plans

I’m awfully skeptical on how this change is going to go for T, especially now that the legal boundaries have been lifted. Any company that gets its profits from subscribes consummating its content has to innovate all the time in order to keep them. T... — read more 

Image seems authentic. This seems to be a conversation within AT&T, possibly labor relations. Some managers were talking about it this morning. https://imgur.com/CFXMcSN

With the TW acquisition now solidified, there's the huge debt that will inevitably trigger surplus in cost cutting measures by the company to manage their debt. This is double the debt of the DTV acquisition, but ownership of content should be a... — read more 

Now that it's officially ours, I expect it to slowly but surely turn to rubbish like everything else AT&T touches.

Does anyone know if employees who were surplussed in 2018 will get paid on March 6th (prorated to last day on payroll)? Will it be direct deposited or will a check be mailed?