Now it's a daily grind of bad managers and worse policies. What happened to us?
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@dy While I was not on the corporate side as a former WT (2021-2026) I can assure you no, no you wouldn't want to be in the field and deal with the unending amount of bs that would come your way whether your sphincter was blown out or not. Maybe if you were CORE you'd have a peaceful life as their union contract is far stronger than the title I previously held (since most of the union reps are CORE already with just a handful of WT reps).
Trust me, just, no.
Don't.
Save yourself the pain and suffering and let it live as a thought inside your head instead of manifesting it into reality.
AT&T does not explicitly map a public head-count quota to its $2 billion cost-savings target, corporate workforce data and industry tracking reveal that achieving this scale of savings structurally impacts between 15,000 and 20,000 total jobs over the life of the cost-reduction initiative.
This figure is calculated by factoring in the average loaded compensation (salaries, benefits, and payroll overhead) of corporate, administrative, and operations personnel, heavily amplified by aggressive office consolidations and AI automation.
The Mathematical Breakdown of the CutsAverage Fully Loaded Employee Cost: A combination of management and technical staff averages roughly $100,000 to $130,000 annually in base pay, health insurance, and employer taxes.
Direct Staff Reductions: Cutting 15,000 to 20,000 corporate and technical roles covers roughly $1.5 billion to $2 billion of the run-rate objective.
The Multi-Year Velocity:
Rather than a single massive "layoff day," AT&T is achieving this through rolling quarterly "surplus" cycles, having cut 8,000 jobs in 2025 and an additional 2,100 jobs through the first half of 2026.
Non-Headcount Offsets Lowering the Job Toll because AT&T relies on non-labor reductions to protect core frontline staff, the absolute number of laid-off individuals is kept from spiking even higher.
Real Estate Footprint Consolidation: Millions are saved by shutting down regional field offices and consolidating core corporate teams exclusively into the Plano, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia hubs.
Legacy Copper Decommissioning: Deactivating old copper wire networks inherently strips away millions in annual real estate, maintenance, and power utilities, absorbing costs without immediately requiring human termination.
Generative AI Deflection: Replacing third-party contracting software and automating customer service triage allows AT&T to drop overhead by letting vendor contracts expire instead of laying off internal employees.
@OP this suggests you’re not a manager, but have been at it long enough to know other times. Low performers always bi--h about roles they’re too d-mb to be promoted into.
That’s all on you. I’m salaried and work 7 hours a day. If you’re not getting extra for it then don’t do it. The goal is to have us all in the middle of the pay scale. I make good bucks for seven hours a day.
“ Go in. Sit in your cube for eight hours and go home. It’s an easy gig.”
We don’t have cubes or desks. I’d take being out in the field getting paid for all the extra hours I work, plus the better healthcare plans, pension and everything else you guys get. Try working 12-18hr days every day with no time off for weeks at a time. Oh and no extra money or anything to go with it. And no, we don’t make more than you. You all make way more than us. At this point working the hours I do, I would almost make as much flipping burgers.
Look at the current slate of unbearable leaders (Stank, McVest, Legg) and it should be of no surprise. What was once considered “bearable”, is now the polar opposite with these -mbeciles in charge.
If you were forced to go into the office or move, you ARE a target . You better start applying internally so you dont get caught in their joke of a two week window.
You moan and cry every day
And yet you stay
Maybe its you?
I bet you guys get pizza parties too!
Totally worth giving up a 3% interest rate in an affordable area that isn’t being invaded by infinity Indians and the homeless!
LFG!!!!
Genuinely used to be a good place to work. Still could be, but the policy is a$$backwards. Makes absolutely zero sense to sell a service to others you aren’t even willing to take advantage of yourself. End the RTO BS and get back to the way things used to be before Covid.
My organization forced all of us to Dallas so we could have puzzle contests and scavenger hunts. I love it here - the leaders are brilliant
You think it’s bad?
Oh boy, you should be on the project with Ericsson…the low quality of work they deliver…
Whoooo weeee
Their whole team is an Indian slop factory!
Go in. Sit in your cube for eight hours and go home. It’s an easy gig.
Technology, cheaper labor handed off to contractors, and AI. Everything else is merely ancillary to the evolution of the business. I'm sure Ford automotive workers in the 1940s-1950s experienced similar disruptions and disenfranchisement.
It’s the “u” is “us”.