Topics regarding layoffs at AT&T

Topics regarding layoffs at AT&T

The rare good thing about RTO is the office hours

I no longer care what’s going on after 5. Nor anybody will make me, ever again. If they wanted me to work overtime and be available until late at night, they shouldn't have forced me back into the office (it ain’t really an office, it’s the fighting... — read more 

Fast reliable internet

I hear big Jon was on cnbc or something saying they have a new plan of investing in fiber and fast and reliable internet. Managers were telling him this 20+ years ago. How this mo--n has a job is beyond me. Hey Jon how about destroying my... — read more 

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| 990 views | | 7 replies (last January 1, 2025)
Post ID: @OP+1wecevHr

Chooo Chooo!! The ticket of riding starts a new year!

Choo Choo!! 2025 begins another new year of the Ticket of Riding Program. Tell us what’s in store for the program this year Bob? More cash flush at greater speeds. Flush, Flush, Flush goes the cash! “Failing Faster” with speeds never seen... — read more 

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| 820 views | | 3 replies (last December 31, 2024)
Post ID: @OP+1weR6j6h

Drop-in desks with personal belongings

I'm one of the su-kers who moved to a "HUB" to keep my job. I was told that the entire floor is all first come first serve drop-in desks, but clearly people are calling dibs and leaving personal belongings at these desks. Some even have name tags... — read more 

What's next after RTO?

Per Jeremy Legg's email, they're not increasing seating because they expect people to quit as a result of the 5-day RTO mandate. Let's speculate what comes after when things don't pan out exactly as they would hope. How do you make employees... — read more 

AT&T claims it's cleared of Salt Typhoon

https://fortune.com/2024/12/28/att-network-china-typhoon-hack-espionage-foreign-intelligence-verizon/ Does anyone actually believe this? I don't. We have people in our org calls saying things are breaking and there's no coverage to get them fixed... — read more 

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| 770 views | | 1 reply (December 30, 2024)
Post ID: @OP+1wedYzU6

AT&T for sale?

Kind of looks like AT&T is prepping company to be sold off as the people in charge have no idea what they are doing. Evidence of this is constantly making changes like darts with a blindfold on. They are tripping over each other on a daily basis... — read more 

Oh well!

Multiple sources shared to shut the MSM conspiracy theorists... — read more 

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| 1340 views | | 8 replies (last December 31, 2024)
Post ID: @OP+1we1jZua

Sunday planning for Monday Scamming

Coffee badge in and log in. Search laptop for the newly created Network Lan log csv file and edit start and end times. Save and change the file to read only. Log off. Goodbye. Drive home and log in from home or log into Teams from Costco. Log entries... — read more 

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| 1330 views | | 6 replies (last December 30, 2024)
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Disparate-impact claim

If the employer is choosing specific employees to relocate, does a company have to be aware of their race and gender? If it turns out that all the employees who have to move to Toledo are women or people of color, that’s grounds for a... — read more 

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| 1010 views | | 8 replies (last December 30, 2024)
Post ID: @OP+1wdl01BC

T will lose a lot of very competent people due to RTO

It’s been happening everywhere. Skilled and experienced talent leaves first. I’m beginning to think that for some reason they want to get rid of all of us, very valuable workers included. And I can’t really grasp why. AI and offshoring are the only... — read more 

Inventory

Dear John, Your wonderful email about the holiday season was loaded with nothing but pure outright lies! Your the Chief with so many “yes” people around if you were to fa-t there lips would flutter!! You have lost all respect of your front line... — read more 

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| 1230 views | | 5 replies (last December 29, 2024)
Post ID: @OP+1wcmuwrk

Festivus for the rest of us!

We shall now begin the airing of grievances! To those who commend our CEO making “tough” decisions - those wouldn’t be necessary without same person guiding us into disastrous decisions to begin with. Our CEO could be compared to Al “Chainsaw”... — read more 

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| 620 views | | 1 reply (December 29, 2024)
Post ID: @OP+1wcacvXg

Water bill

My office has 18 bathrooms with 2(manual)sinks in each bathroom. When leave on fridays I’m the last in office. How much water can 36 sinks running full open waste in 56 hours??? Asking for a friend.

Festivus for the rest of us!

We shall now begin the airing of grievances! To those who commend our CEO making “tough” decisions - those wouldn’t be necessary without same person guiding us into disastrous decisions to begin with. Our CEO could be compared to Al “Chainsaw”... — read more 

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Post ID: @OP+1wcVYX8R

This is why

“AT&T's top line has dropped by $83.1 billion between 2017 and 2023 but Verizon saw its revenue rise by $7.9 billion over the same period.“ Anyone know who’s in charge of revenue? Was it the same guys who destroyed the company with failed mergers... — read more 

New Jersey

Sure is nice having the benefit of 90 days notice before they can lay us off and 1 week guaranteed for every year of service. Don’t want to give me 90 days notice? Ok! Now you owe me another 4 weeks pay. lol make sure it paid the very next check... — read more 

I just can’t manage RTO

Length of commute is prohibitive, and my expenses will considerably go up. Complying in hopes to be laid off soon and get a whole two weeks of severance is not worth it. So I will let them be pleased with themselves and quit. Fortunately, my skillset... — read more 

AT&T Stock

I’m starting to think that AT&T is purposely keeping the stock down so investors don’t bailout.

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| 790 views | | 2 replies (last December 28, 2024)
Post ID: @OP+1wc5IgYB

Rumors that severance is being reduced

Can anyone confirm? Hearing that there is going to be a reduction in severance again coming soon because they are unable to get to their soft layoff numbers from RTO and relocations. Even though they just announced a 40 billion stock buyback plan to... — read more 

Monitoring

Has anyone been disciplined/fired for all the monitoring we keep hearing about? Have heard a ton about it but haven’t seen anyone actually be talked to about it.

CEO become enriched while layoffs increase

https://apple.news/AoNDqSS6EQo2hkJ3RZddyuQ Jack Kelly Contributor
 - Dec 27, 2024 Forbes article about CEO compensation +1,000% increase over the past 50 years vs worker’s 24%. Their main focus is stick price and not the company’s long term growth... — read more 

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| 1020 views | | 9 replies (last December 31, 2024)
Post ID: @OP+1wbuLJDW

Tell me why?

Why does Stankey hate Chicagoland? I realize there was alot of corruption within Ameritech, but that was the same with all baby bells Can Chicago do anything to redeem themselves? Stankley has painted all cities within Ameritech as garbage, Chicago... — read more 

Exactly how ugly will it get?

Okay. Stankey has warned/threatened us about 2025. How bad will it get? Is Stankey just blowing smoke? Has Stankey ever, I mean ever, executed on his threats? I say no.

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| 1240 views | | 5 replies (last December 31, 2024)
Post ID: @OP+1wb0BEl9

Censorship on this site

All comments about moving jobs to India, other countries or H-1B visa workers is being censored in this f’ing forum. Go to X and see under handle H-1B what people are saying. Next time Legg boasts about increasing headcount (mostly in India) know... — read more 

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| 1180 views | | 13 replies (last December 27, 2024)
Post ID: @OP+1wbnrWqj

Made The News

We were called out on Fox Business as one of the many companies that are going to 5-Day RTO in 2025.

What happened to wanting to work hard?

Not because you have to, but because it’s the right thing to do? Because you were raised to put in your best effort and take pride in your accomplishments? Frankly, I couldn’t quiet quit even if I tried. How do people just show up, sit around, and do... — read more 

Funny thing about coding… dates!

Built the “coffee badging tracking” PBI dashboard, then they laid me off too. I’ll have the last laugh when the automations fail because I set them to expire 12/31. HR stinks!

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