I’ve seen reference to an interview with Stankey basically admitted “had he been doing his job” he would’ve noticed trouble early on. Does anybody have a link to that interview?
Luong Town hall at 10 AM, don't miss it. (network engineering and operations)
Prepare for the hammer to be dropped by employees asking the hard questions. Luong seems to be more to the point, and won't beat around the bush unlike the people above him. Will be interesting to hear what he says, although we all know bad news is... — read more
AT&T wants you if you make a lot of mistakes
Make sure you reveal all your mistakes and you have a better chance at getting a job at AT&T. Especially at the top. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/08/avoid-this-common-mistake-in-a-job-interview-says-atts-top-hr-exec.html
You're part of the problem
Many posts on here about people saying how they are working 60+ hours a week and working through relief periods. Do you not realize you are part of the problem because you are doing 1.5 persons jobs for the amount you have been salaried for? You... — read more
Medical exemption
Will the company grant medical exemptions for relocation or RTO?
Anyone outside a Hub get an RTO letter ??
How did you receive it & What EXACTLY does. It say? ( without revealing identifiable info obviously)
Reality check
You are replaceable, period.
Does direct leadership know?
Leadership has stated all controller group must report to Dallas if not in Dallas or atl already. Do direct directors know? They are playing d-mb and saying they know nothing. When will notices be received, why not just let people know when?
Relocation - Management FAQs
Q: What is the eligibility for company-initiated relocation? A: Company-initiated relocation benefits are authorized for the needs of the business by Direcr Supervisors and leaders of the company. It is not available for employee self-requested... — read more
New Report Suggests CNN Corporate Parent WarnerMedia while owned by ATT….Chris Cuomo to Lobby Brother Andrew
It’s official- T leadership was and still are blubbering id--ts.
ATT would be a behemoth like MSFT or AMZN
Over the years if they bought companies and hold on folks, this is a crazy idea, hold on tight.....drum roll.........just left the companies alone and collected the profits. After that Stankey Town Hall with HBO it was a direct ice berg hit with a... — read more
T's stock price as of 6-12-23 at closing
The DJIA closed up 189.55 points, the NASDAQ closed up 202.78 points, the S&P 500 closed up 40.07 points, Verizon closed up 0.14 point to $35.61, T-Mobile closed down .58 point to $130.78 and... AT&T closed down 0.02 point to $15.93. 3rd... — read more
I and my wife work for AT&T, she got the RTO paper to move to Dallas, I didn’t receive anything , we both wfh
I am Union and she is L2, what would happen in this situation?
$16B in Annual Cash Flow for 2023?
Only if Stankey has them cook the books. That will be Somebody Else's fault as well. Succes for Stankey is all I and Failure is all Somebody Else.
Reality in 2023
The Marble towers of Babylon built through monopolies regulation of yesteryear are burning down! They failed to realize that there is a cost to doing business in a free market and they were unable to pivot off their monopolistic, reactive standards... — read more
Hangon tight, some shakeup at high management level is goimg to happen
From stnky down, there are cahnges going to happen
"AT&T Cares About My Family"
How ironic.
Bonus to be paused?
Just a rumor I heard from a few people, but I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be true. What do you think?
Culture is the single best predictor of the performance and viability of a company.
Culture is the single best predictor of the performance and viability of a company. The fact that this conversation is even taking place here illustrates THE problem. There will be no investor confidence until leadership gets their act together and... — read more
The employee who rejected the move and was terminated on Friday, was asked today to pay 5 days back to AT&T
This is official, my colleague who was terminated on Friday didn’t get severance benefits, actually in the termination letter he has to pay part of his last paycheck since he was terminated before finishing the two weeks
This is not really a "Return to Work"
What's happening at AT&T isn't really a "Return to Work". It is far broader than that, with the massive consolidation of work areas, purported reorganization of distributed teams, etc. It is being couched as RTO- but that is gas lighting; that this... — read more
Stankey is good for a disaster every 3 years
TMobile, Direct TV, Time Warner, Collaboration Zones, RTO Head Chopping Policy. Yep that's about one every three years. His latest is to knee cap every employee and then see who really wants to stick around, brilliant I tell yah just pure brilliance. — read more
What will happen this week?
Do you think it will be another week of waiting around? Or will some updates actually happen?
When there are zero consequences for poor decisions and performance
This is what you wind up with. Folks it is over and ATT is in the early stages of a salvage liquidation operation. 15 years of terrible management and performance have led to this. The latest bt Stankey with his RTO execution will further drain the... — read more
The RTO may have unintended advantages
The useless tools that run AT&T are going to have unintended consequences that may destroy the company for good by mandating relocations. The incompetence is staggering! For the employees who say F you to skankey, this may turn out as a huge... — read more
Time to cut the fat.
Now the question is who will do all this work once the forecasted 70% are gone?
Purpose, are you ready to talk?
The company’s yearly buzzword, “ Purpose” is a marketing technique to try and get employees re-engaged after morale has been driven to their lowest levels. A sells ploy to try and get employees to think of only the few positives then develop passion... — read more
Public/Sector FirstNet Layoff
Anyone hearing anything? It sounds like a large layoff/restructure is about to happen. Hearing subpaid getting hit
So instead of taking advantage of and marketing to the
Work from home phenomenon ATT decides to project it's old stodgy monopolistic mentality of we want people sitting at workstations. The brilliance and business acumen of ATT Leadership is that of a fish flopping around after being caught.
Easy money in the Bay Area
I got a callout. 2 hours easy money to get to work. 1 hour in traffic to drive to the work location. Closed ticket due to junkie camping at the work location entrance. 1 hour drive back to yard. Paid to drive home. Life's never been better. — read more
My wife is sick, disabled, and I’m looking forward to hybrid RTO
because it actually keeps my mind off of being a caregiver. It appears this is what retirement in a few years is going to look like and we’ll figure out how to manage. When you think of forced relocation consider a person in my position. Getting our... — read more
New Quarter about to start
What policy changes, benefit reduction or layoff news may happen that you can share, everyone is now aware of RTO and current announced layoffs The previous bombshells were retiree medical and pension changes. This only applies to employees below... — read more
Att product group have to reapply before offered relocation! Really..
Coworkers are being relocated only after they reapply and maybe interviewed. Our most valuable resource, employees have to see if HR will even interview them first.
Smart man
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/kevin-oleary-disagrees-with-martha-stewart-about-remote/453861
Shortsighted and small-minded leadership
AT&T will just continue to go down the drain with this ELT. Facts.
The company has “generous” relocation services, Stankey said. “We’ve been reconfiguring our workforce for a very long time.”
So much dishonesty to Wall Street and the employees.
HR terminate people who reject the the relocation notifications immediately
Guys be careful, if you reject the relocation notification you will be terminated immediately, don’t expect the two weeks time to get your things together, 5 employees in my office were walked to the door yesterday in a very humiliating way, they... — read more
Dish 5G rollout
Dish is looking for money for their rollout. Given AT&T’s bad decision making Dish probably talk AT&T to finance it.