Mandatory in person meeting for employees on cor retail under 100% attainment first qt and monthly it makes no sense when you are taking them of sales floor. It wont fix the problem problem is the slammers that are that unethically pushing these... — read more 

The constant fear of losing my job. It gets old, does anyone else feel the threat?

This is the first time in a long time where I just let it all go. Gave disagrees to all major leadership and my own leadership a neutral. Couldn't agree or tend to agree on much of anything. It was as eye-opening to me as it will likely be to... — read more 

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion goals for mgt. There is a big difference between Equity and Equality. Companies continue to focus pushing Socialism.

AT&T = Blockbuster of telecom companies

Wow Failure of a company. https://simplywall.st/stocks/us/telecom/nyse-tds/telephone-and-data-systems/news/telephone-and-data-systems-nysetds-might-be-having-difficult

Which groups, orgs and buildings? I’m hearing more support centers, finance, marketing, staff and engineering.

gotten messed up and Verizon would have been the major benefactor. I am telling you ATT Executives can't shoot fish in a barrel and look like monkeys trying to hump a football. It's just what they do. They have this arrogance like they are somehow a... — read more 

How about some good news for a change. Just saw the Annual Funding Noice for the AT&T Pension Benefit Plan with 2022 figures. Funding Target Attainment at 100.4 Percent. Do not recall ever seeing at or above 100%.

A few folks I know that are contractors were told they can be converted to T employees. Some are in their 50s & 60s. How can this be in light of layoffs? This is supposedly coming from Legg.

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the time period leading up to the T-Mobile Debacle and then all that followed? It seems as if they had just stuck to their g-ns and invested in fiber, spectrum, and wireless they would be out in front running with a full head of steam. Appears they... — read more 

The TDS elevator is not and it is climbing. I think within a couple of years it will hit the top floor. The building has at least $27 floors.

And less talented workforce. Many mistakes are being made and costing the company lots of money. India and Malaysia are not the answer. How long will this continue? Being set up for buyout by Microsoft, apple, Google, or Amazon.

TMobile Market Cap per Postpaid Subscriber $1800 US Cellular(82% Owned by TDS) Market Cap per Postpaid Subscriber $425 Keep dripping those AT&T shares all the way to $14. US Cellular is buyout candidate from multiple sources: Big Wireless - ATT... — read more 

Scandalous. https://www.thedailybeast.com/atandt-is-spying-on-americans-for-profit

If TMobile makes a move and scoops up TDS/USM. Who will strike first? Will Verizon toss their name into the bidding war?

Can you just picture Stankey marching into stadium meetings? Telling everyone he knows more about football and football stadiums than anyone else. Since nobody respects him or his opinion, they probably have learned the best thing is to ignore him.

Keep getting bounced around in this crazy company... I have not had the same manager for more than 1 year. Now, moved to a group that came directly from DTV and they now manage mostly all AT&T Employees... now it is live that culture inside of AT&T... — read more 

“Layoffs are definitely a confession of poor management,” [says] Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Business School https://fortune.com/longform/layoffs-2023-bad-management/

Someone mentioned in one of the posts that this company no longer encourages or promotes technical excellence. Yes, that is true but I'm wondering why?

We’ve lost our way. It will be a long road for T to recover from their current situation.

People should be outraged when they see a former Northern Illinois Director get hired right back as contract project manager with all of his cronies reporting to him. The cherry on on the sundae is the tight lipped project they have been assigned... — read more 

Verizon knows the Streets!!! Do you AT&T schleps know the streets or just CUID, Control Alt Delete, and Powerpoint. Ha ha ha!!!! Taking it to the streets!!!

The trains are leaving the station. ATT is a dud, a freighter with a broken rudder and incompetent captain. TMobile and Verizon are Battleships each at and angle during away at the id--tic ATT.

Does anyone know when the close date will be for CFL?

These surplussed 38-40 union craft jobs in Texas are now being transferred to the Access FTTx Tac group which are managers, Where are D6 union officers? They should be fighting for these jobs!! They are also developing software tools for CO techs to... — read more 

Does at&t still offer home garaging to our craft and management employees? I ask because we seldom here of home garaging anymore.

Thanks to our employees’ anonymous reviews, we just landed the #2 spot on Comparably’s list of 2023 Best HR Teams! 🙌 We are thrilled to receive another Best Place to Work award, and we couldn’t have done it without all of our amazing people. Find... — read more 

some large mega-cap services company will scoop them up.

Local center no longer having security guards in order to cut costs. It’s that bad.

Can someone who has retired explain the advantages of retiring in terms of benefits? Is it worth to wait to retire if you are close to MR75 rule of retirement? Especially for health benefits if you don’t qualify for Medicare.

How much longer can at&t survive? With a debt load of $135B, interest rates continuing to rise, it seems highly unlikely at&t will be able to exist into the future. It seems like Stankey intentionally destroyed at&t, how else could anyone explain it... — read more 

AT&T should have changed their name years ago. The Executives at AT&T think the name has value while the customer market associates it with Monopoly, Bloat, Over Billing, and Belligerence. You didn't see Bell Atlantic, GTE, or Deutche Telecom? They... — read more 

And let's be real, no amount of patching up or quick fixes is gonna make up for the many, many poor choices they made. It's gonna take some serious soul-searching and major changes in leadership for AT&T to bounce back from the mess we're in. I just... — read more 

be to pick up TDS Telecom and/or US Cellular. Rural Properties is where the growth will be 4300+ Towers 4M+ High ARPU Postpaid Customers and Spectrum 500K High ARPU Prepaid Customers Fiber, Cable, Legacy Telco Cash Flows

Open mike call with Fin VP. Listened to concerns from underlings wanting work-life balance by instituting no meetings after 3pm on Fridays, no more weekend work unless he specifically requests…could hear sigh of relief from everyone. Making other... — read more 

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What do layoffs look like in call centers? Are you notified by the top brass, an email? What kind of timeline, severance does that look like?