I was just on a call with my boss (L4) and heard 90% of people with a Virtual or TW office designation will be off payroll by 1Q25. First 2,000 will be receiving letters by September, and they don’t care if they lose knowledge, they want azzes in... — read more
How much should you spend to go to work everyday??
As of 8/1 I’ll be at a new office in Webphone in the next state over. I was originally assigned to an office the next state over, only to be told not to come because there is no space and stay home. This was all because Welday didn’t know how to... — read more
JBV
Does anyone know how JBVs bosses view her? She is clearly unsuccessful at this and has zero idea what she is doing. Do they see that?
Quit mid-Jan 2025, when would bonus be paid?
Assuming one quits in mid Jan 2025, when would the 2024 bonus be paid? Also I assume the full bonus would be paid. Anyone with experience or confirmed knowledge on this?
AT&T's spending to hit six-year high as it ramps Ericsson 'open RAN'
https://www.lightreading.com/open-ran/at-t-s-spending-to-hit-six-year-high-as-it-ramps-ericsson-open-ran-
District 9 Tentative Agreement
D9 has a TA. And word is it will trigger everyone in management crying about RTO.
Office hours mandate
Had a few team members get called out on what time they leave the office they arrive around 6am and leave 1p/2p. they spend majority of time in office and finish up work at home. However upper management is giving pushback saying these “in office”... — read more
Virtual Employees…
I heard an upper level manager say, “if you have virtual employees, you better make sure they have a backup!”. Are the virtual employees next on the hit list?
Layoffs
Intel announced 10,000 employee cuts this week. Interesting.
LevelBlue- today's the last day at T
Nearly all USA employees in the group remaining on T payroll are terminated today and will be LevelBlue employees tomorrow. Good luck to all, and good luck especially to internal T cybersecurity division which already let a great many cows out of... — read more
Do not RTO!
You will find out if they need you or not? They wont fire you if they need you.
LinkedIn vs Stock Price
To read LinkedIn posts from AT&T officers, you’d think we struck gold with the Q2 earnings. Of course, each AT&T officer has a Social Media agency cultivating their “brand” for approximately $20K per month (for each Officer!!). So next time your... — read more
CIO town hall
Missed the answer about when the results of culture survey will be available. Had to be a very short answer but would still like to know what was said if someone can share please.
I need courage to quit
I'm thinking about it every single day but I'm too scared to do it. The worst part is that I have enough savings to be okay even if I can't find something else for at least six months. Plus, I don't have a wife or kids who depend on me. Still, I... — read more
RTO
What if we all just didn’t go?
L3/L4 RTO Finally Hits
After a year of making the L2’s fall in line with the BS RTO agenda, finally the L3/L4’s start to feel the pain. NJ, Dallas or Atlanta it is! Should give it up and cancel RTO before T reaches the point of no return. This executive leadership team... — read more
Layoffs last Friday?
Does anyone know how many were impacted by last Fridays layoffs? Heard it was mostly L3 and L4 affected.
We need a complete reset in strategy as well as executive leadership
That's the only thing that can save this company from sinking to the bottom. All this strategy and this leadership have achieved is to make our debt astronomically high. That's it. I can't think of one positive thing they can point to and say, "Here... — read more
Network budget ran out?
Saw fiber going in all over the place in the spring and early summer. Now the work seems to be abandoned. Did the budget dry up?
When are presence reports changing?
Does anyone know when the reports will change and what exactly it will capture?
When can I be released from my current role
How does realeasability work for those of us who were placed in to new roles once our previous role was done away with? Are we able to move around as soon as an opportunity comes or do we have to meet the 18 month rule
Cwa contract
Looks like CWA may actually strike was recently asked if I have tool bag experience doesn’t look like they’re budging off bringing the wire thec aka premise technicians into the core agreement I hope this company realizes I’m not gonna be climbing a... — read more
Health Insurance with Severance?
Are there any health benefits included in the severance or only COBRA? Thanks if anyone with experience can comment.
Negotiated severance?
Would HR entertain severance negotiation?
on the topic of surveys--
Some of you are still confused about the most recent 3rd party survey for which the results have been deliberately buried by executive leadership, and the more routine eNPS surveys we are asked to complete. They aren't the same thing. The executive... — read more
The not so anonymous employee feedback survey
If you have nothing nice to say don't say anything at all.
Olympics
How much did it cost to send Stankey to Paris?
Data Breach
AT&T Retiree here that just joined a class action suit against my former employer that hide the fact that my social security #, driver’s license #, DOB, personal cell #, address, etc were all part of the data breach. Now I’m getting alerts from my... — read more
Outage reveals deeper problems at AT&T
Like a pervasive rot in the professional culture during the past 10 years ? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/fcc-details-att-sc--wups-behind-outage-that-blocked-25000-calls-to-911/
Why we need so many chiefs?
AT&T has a hundred executives pulling in around a million bucks a year in salary, benefits and perks. There’s also another thousand directors and avps pulling down about a half million. But, when all is said and done, outside of coming up with ways... — read more
US Congressional letter sent to John Stankey on bargaining
https://cwad9.org/news/att-2024-bargaining-support-letter-congress Will the letter signed by 20 members of Congress and addressed to Mr. John Stankey, get the negotiations moving? He may tell them, employees are just human capital and if they don’t... — read more
Have wave 2 notices started today?
Anybody got the 2 week notice?
Co-Workers
I am retired but still have work friends still working at T. They say they have nothing to do and take every Monday and Friday off. If I knew I could have done this I would have stayed.
Real effort to protect the “Feelings” of DEI.
Feelings aren’t facts!
Platinum layoff
10% of platinum account managers were surplussed today.
ATS is rife with alignment problems
ATS is bloated with non technical people with technical titles, relying upon a technical few. ATS is wiping out technical people with the same net used on non technical ones. Lots of L3 IC’s too. Legg’s ATS is rife with alignment problems. You can... — read more
Wave 2 finally getting 2 week notice?
Late tonight I got an email to meet with my boss tomorrow. Assuming I am finally getting my 2 week notice for Wave 2. Anyone else?
Question for not moving
I had a question in terms of choosing to not relocate. If you choose to not relocate is that considered quitting, or being laid off? As in, would you still receive severance and your prorated bonus if you get fired for choosing to not move to Dallas? — read more
SMB FIBER SALES GOING DOWNHILL
People leaving for other companies, slow months, high pressure, performance plans, angry landline customers, no expansion of fiber, low morale, increased quotas, leadership that has no clue how hard the role is… will things get better?