CWA has released a new report detailing how AT&T has let down their employees, specifically those in the Premise Technician and Wire Technician title... — read more
Layoffs
It’s interesting how big companies seem to always be in headlines when they lay people off. How has ATT managed to stay under the radar when it seems like they’ve done more layoffs than anyone else? Is it because T cuts less people at one given time... — read more
T-Mobile read the fine print
“Angry T-Mobile customers have filed a class action lawsuit over the carrier's decision to raise prices on plans that were advertised as having a lifetime price... — read more
Bosses admit that return-to-office mandates were meant to make staff quit
From Fox, may or may not be true
RTO mandates mean companies are losing talent.
https://fortune.com/2024/07/23/women-workplace-return-to-office-mandates-losing-talent-upwork/
Is no one going to talk about the obvious?
I’m really annoyed that leadership has said absolutely nothing about how everyone is essentially walking on egg shells about lay offs, so when is it going to be addressed? It’s super uncomfortable coming into the office and hearing that multiple orgs... — read more
Question
Does not being a white male make you an automatic DEI hire? I see people with education and qualifications being called DEI and I would like to understand.
I'll give quiet quitting a try
I'm underpaid, overworked, and not promoted, so it's not as if I have much to lose. I just feel like a complete id--t for not doing this much sooner.
Employee count according to Q2 Earnings report
The employee count is now at 146,000. It was 150,500 end of 2023. Chances are employee count will be slightly less than 140,000 by end of 2024, as wave 2 hits for those who decided not to follow their jobs to a hub city, and more surplus to come. .. — read more
Stankey looks and sounds lost
As per usual it's word salad answers to real questions at his 2Q earnings webcast. I had the "honor" of being in the audience to watch him stare off in to the distance as others answered questions. When he answered questions they were meaningless... — read more
Severance getting cut?
What is this rumor of severance getting cut?
Your experience with LFW?
Since many of us are literally waiting to be laid off, I guess you, guys, are looking into other options. How are you faring? I’ve been searching for a job for 3 months now, not everything looks as dire as others comment. I wonder if things will get... — read more
Threw a fit
He said he read our surveys, didn’t he? I swear I heard him say “I read all your surveys!!” When do we get to hear those results. Then he basically said he is doing everything “perfectly” and it is all our fault for not executing. He threw in... — read more
Mid market
Does anyone know the real plan for mid market? This does not seem sustainable
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-t-boss-accused-bribing
Just some reading material to ki-l some time...
Bargaining Talks for D9 and D3 and other industries
The clock has ran out for West D9 for over 2 1/2 months, they can have a work stoppage at anytime. SE D3 clock is winding down because the contract ends at midnight Aug. 3rd. With all that has been happening internally, a major transitional period... — read more
RTO reporting question
I heard that if you take "x" number of vacation, sick, holidays in a week they ignore looking at how many days you are in office for that week. Is that true? If true, what number is "x"?
25% GM Reduction Target for every officer, including Hubs
All officers are making plans to reduce an incremental 25% L3/L4 for the September or October surplus off payroll dates. This is a Span of control edict. Many GMs that made the move to Dallas will end up surplus. Any GMs currently in the process of... — read more
Woke Tech Tyranny
It’s funny. I posted about AT&T being a woke socialist he-l hole, then the trolls appeared and lost their minds from their TDS, and now the post is down. Will anything anywhere get better with this type of thought policing and inability of grown... — read more
I gave up being bothered by layoffs
I just can’t be fearful about losing my job anymore. At one point my health will break down completely, and I’ll no longer be able to take care of myself, let alone work. We all are unfortunately entangled in different debt schemes, and with today’s... — read more
Nearly half of Dell’s full-time workforce in the U.S. has rejected returning to the office. They’d rather work from home than get promoted
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nearly-half-dell-full-time-215348261.html Even months after tech company Dell pushed its strict return-to-office policy barring fully remote employees from promotions, its workers still refuse to come back to in-person... — read more
Warner Discovery
Don’t pretend to understand this, but sounds like C suites looked after themselves. “Warner Bros. Discovery, which was formed in 2022 from the merger of AT&T’s WarnerMedia and Discovery Communications, has agreed to pay $125 million to settle a... — read more
the plain truth
The fact of the matter is that you WILL BE laid off as soon as the company can possible replace you at lower cost, whether it be thru automation, outsourcing or off-shoring.
GM Surpluses
Anyone have any insight on the timing for the next round of GM layoffs within ATS? Was curious if it would coincide with the earnings call on Wednesday. I heard August but wasn’t sure if that was off payroll or when notifications are coming out. No... — read more
Stock crashing … AGAIN
Why? Just because we have an incompetent CEO and CIO? C’mon, some of us want to retire in 5 years and negative growth in a time of inflation doesn’t cut it.
Tempus Fugit
Tick Tock! 2 weeks left on the D3 contract and D9 still hasn’t come to a tentative agreement, let alone ratification. Contingency team, it’s time to get the bags packed and boots shined, the labor team is about to put you into action. Only person... — read more
Verizon selling cell towers???
New York-based Verizon has hired advisers to gauge interest from potential buyers for a package of roughly 5,000 to 6,000 towers, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing confidential information. A sale could bring in more than $3... — read more
BIG outage, many network issues, data breeches --are big Corp going to leave ATT?
Seems we had more towers out in the last year from a Tech support employee than we ever had. I think some of the big corp are not going to be renewing contracts with ATT in the future. ATT can't afford to give them a big discount to stay. Thoughts?
Silly Workspace
It's funny working where most people WANT to be laid off creating a joke of an environment without care. Managers at all levels are routinely surplussed leaving those left behind walking on eggshells in constant worry for their role and how much... — read more
Comparing employees from different locations.
Have you noticed that the quality of the employee differs drastically from state to state? Dealing with employees from Atlanta and Dallas is the worst. I’ve never seen such lazy entitled do nothings. They know I’m 3 levels above them, and could... — read more
Wireless plans
Recent retiree here, I am seriously considering taking all of my 10 lines to tmo or Verizon. Any suggestions? Even with that 30% discount it is way over other carriers. I also realized we have the most confusing website for comparing plans and... — read more
Imagine working at a company
Where you don’t have to visit TheLayoff.com every single day just to find if you’ll have a job tomorrow…
Who was the genius that chose Snowflake?
As everyone knows now, someone at T gave the approval to upload customer data into the cloud service provided by Snowflake. Who was that genius? How far up the hierarchy did the silly idea sound good? If dust the crime scene will we find the... — read more
I'm so tired of working at T
I need a job that doesn't completely drain me by the weekend to the point that I can't even relax properly. Between the toxic environment, unrealistic expectations, and the constant threat of layoffs, I don't know how any of us are still sane. How do... — read more
Outage
Two since 7/9. Six in the last year. Two massive data breaches in the last five years, exposing all customer data. Att su-ks in technical and strategic areas. Let’s all move to a single point of failure - one vendor, few employees, save C-Suite’s... — read more
Another AT&T Mobility today outage in northern Phoenix, AZ,
customers were complaining that they couldn't make or receive calls. If they did make calls, had to call back numerous times due to the poor quality of the calls. This type of incident is occurring all too frequently and has to stop!
AT&T can be run by vendors and ChatGPT
AT&T is really just a holding company that does not build any technology but licenses products from vendors and uses them to operate. Just needs a minimal layer of management to provide strategy and direction.
D9 Walkout
Headed to the beach…