What’s going on?

I wanted to ask if you would label an empty coaching as when your report to pulls you in after being gone for your days off and days 3-4 people complained about you when you were gone and then when you ask for names and account numbers they bulk and... — read more 

No calls this week at Orlando call center, calls are being routed; to new call center in Mexico?

Founders may be the inspiration behind a great entrepreneurial idea, AT&T is the exception, this CEO has fail at execution many times, unable to adapt, this company for decades now continues experiencing low financial performance, IT IS TIME he goes... — read more 

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-streaming-tv-service-to-be-free-for-device-users-report-2018-10-10?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo

AT&T = Capped at 6 months Verizon = Capped at 14 months

DirectNow will go away? C AT&T Inc will be launching a new direct-to-consumer streaming service in the fourth quarter of 2019, WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey announced Wednesday. "This is another benefit of the AT&T/Time Warner merger," he said in a... — read more 

Providing terrible service to our existing legacy DSL and POTS subscribers. Seeing dispatches scheduled 7-10 days out even for business customers. Group outages unresolved after 2-3 weeks. Techs having their replacement circuit cards taken away... — read more 

So, at&t is starting a new streaming service...AT THE END OF 2019. Why, if this company is supposedly a world leader, are they always far too late with everything? It's almost as if they intentionally and perpetually miss the bus...on purpose. New... — read more 

Today stock back at $32, and Randall said that he will launch a neyflix product, very soon.I think this guy is on something, lol

imagine.... John Stankey: do you have any media experience at all? ummmmmm, no. john donovan: have you ever run a wireless company at all? ummmmm, no Melissa Arnoldi: do you have any network exp at all, any? ummm, no randy: you are an account... — read more 

I’ve spoken with a few people who outright refused to sign the paperwork after being surplused to get their severance benefits who now regret it. They left believing they had a case to bring a lawsuit. AT&T has teams of attorneys who will quash... — read more 

This was posted three years ago at @Fz9NAK2 or https://www.thelayoff.com/t/Fz9NAK2 Rule of 75 rumor I heard on the grapevine that the majority of people being surplussed are those within 3 years on the rule of 75 in relation to pension payouts. For... — read more 

What a freaking mess. Reorg after reorg, surplus here, surplus there, surplus everywhere.....blah blah blah. How about a stable plan with a stable leader we can trust? I have never seen so much greed and self preserving backstabbing in my long... — read more 

An article on the step-down of AppNexus’s CEO is not something I would ordinarily post on this board, but another thing caught my eye in the article and got me thinking. The article states that there is insider information that, in light of the... — read more 

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/6ep14b/a_whole_nother_level_of_angry_right_here/?st=JMWTOCAW&sh=944f9177

Verizon offers payouts to 44,000 staff Updated 12 hours ago Verizon has offered early retirement packages to 44,000 workers, more than a quarter of its workforce. The severance packages, which offer three weeks pay for every year of service, is part... — read more 

this place is being run by mo--ns....

Hedge fund manager Todd Westhus recommends betting against AT&T bonds Olympic Peak’s Todd Westhus recommends shorting AT&T bonds. AT&T “has a ton of debt,” he says. “This is a very mature business. Revenues have been declining and the trend will... — read more 

Per Market Realist... Year-to-date, AT&T has fallen ~10% as of September 28. While this second-largest wireless provider has been posting higher earnings growth, its revenues are falling due to cord-cutting.

I have worked for many companies and have faced layoffs. Technological advances (automation) will continue to displace the workforce. You’re more likely to stay employed with T if you have skills in automation and you’re in Plano and Dallas. I can’t... — read more 

Just had a question is the ERM manager for your area a Human Resources manager in HR by definition? I left the company recently and was told to talk to my ERM HR manger but when I asked to, I was told they couldn’t talk to me until I talked to my... — read more 

The offer must be accepted by 10/22. Last day is Nov 15. Standard severance package applies. Offer to L 1-4 managers. Lump sum pension offer to some legacy wireline. Offer states get a better lump sum calculation before rates are adjusted in Nov for... — read more 

Call EAP or seek help if your tormented with POTENTIAL lay off's or if your unhappy. There is ABSOLUTELY NO NEED for you to ruin it for the ones that do APPRECIATE AT&T & EVERYTHING they have done for our community & families. Times are changing &... — read more 

Customer service week is coming up! What a joke. My manager doesn't give a hoot about customer service. It's all about that pretty spreadsheet of our "numbers" that he posts every week. Taking care of the customers is NEVER mentioned. In fact, we are... — read more 

By the end of the year?

Its great in the beginning as with any job but once you're out of 100% comp it's all or nothing. Every month is a gamble. You can be great one month and SOL the next. Yes it's a sales job. We all know it coming in. But then we run into the 3rd party... — read more 

The Verizon folks will never make back what was lost when pensions were frozen in 2005 and health care benefits were frozen as well. AT&T people are so lucky that their management team did not follow suit behind Verizon. (YET!)

att is a c-ap hole.

I was surplussed recently, even though I look at it as early retirement, and it does seem that Verizon has always been run a bit better than AT&T. I'm not saying this with 'sour grapes' but their stock always seemed to do much better than ours. It... — read more 

att is just a joke...keep failing everyone, racking up debt...and not executing.

Who else is really jealous of Verizon employees right now who have been offered a buyout option? A friend will receive over 200k if he decides to accept it. I can't believe he is even thinking about it. I would be responding within a minute of such... — read more 

Cleveland, Ohio, suffers from a lack of meaningful broadband competition. With only one provider AT&T has avoided upgrading lower-income minority neighborhoods at the same rate as higher-income parts of the city, despite decades of subsidies and tax... — read more 

After customer is survey if customer have call twice already and the third representative receive a call and the customer grade at 0 percent after 3 months just not meeting in 1 survey the company will place the employee in a program action... — read more 

Any news about more layoffs at the beginning of October?

Called in to cancel my internet, 4 cell phones and DTV. Of course I got an oversees person but once I told them I was cancelling ALL my att accounts they said please hold, then someone in St. Louis, MO came on the line to try and change my mind. Not... — read more 

Its a damn shame, muti billion dollar company and they have no equipment! COR retail reps take the blunt of cust complaints and more! But when we sell a product (DTV) and the cust calls the rep on day of install only to find find there is no... — read more 

http://news.morningstar.com/all/dow-jones/us-markets/201809213535/att-divides-company-into-new-reporting-segments.aspx An even bigger question is why this hasn't been reported on a bigger scale. Can you say DIV reduction?

Though AT&T is earning record profits, spending billions on stock buybacks and is expecting an estimated windfall of $20bn in savings from Donald Trump’s tax reforms, it has continued to lay off workers and outsource jobs... — read more