I hate AT&T. Simple. When someone asks me, I badmouth, send all to competitors. Got to go on my hour break now and drink a little everclear.
Tired of being customer support off the clock
Do you have those friends and family who keep coming to you with their phone or account issues just because you work at AT&T? It has absolutely nothing to do with my job but somehow I'm expected to know what's wrong, why it's wrong, and how to fix it... — read more
Good article captures AT&T re:retirees
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ctpost.com/opinion/amp/Opinion-AT-T-turning-its-back-on-retirees-16030069.php
More Centers gone overseas?!
Found out today that India is handling Ethernet tickets? TDM switching (5ess and DMS) has been gone to India. Today was the first call I received from techs in the center at India now handling Ethernet trouble?
Just checking in
I got my 20 years in, and voluntarily retired last year. I still check this site occasionally for the heck of it. Looks like things are going downhill fast. I am not ashamed to say that I am glad to be finished with that place.
What id--t in att decided...
Whatever id–ts at att decided to waste company money and time trying to write up and fire employees that break/broke the covid 6ft policy working retail your one of the reason this company is failing , this company will remain $150 billion in debt... — read more
Ruined career?
I feel pretty devastated when I look back and think about it. I have been here for more than 15 years and now nothing can be fixed. It is my fault that I allowed this company to ruin my career. I’m sure I could have made a much better career at... — read more
Quantum - Social Media for Performance?
Can anyone explain why our personal performance needs to be tracked and maintained by a social media application?
Shareholder Proxy
It’s your chance as a stockholder via your 401k to make your voice heard. You can vote for the ATT board, including Stanky. You approve or not on executive compensation. Please vote.
Lack of competencies
I’m just an ordinary worker who doesn’t understand much about business processes, but it’s still very clear that competence is no longer very important in ATT. Competence used to be the most important thing, and the situation in the company as it... — read more
Why is bullying tolerated at AT&T?
Why are those of us who are getting bullied expected to develop a thicker skin instead of bullies being expected to adjust their behavior? This should be a no-brainer and yet this is what we have. I know it's not just my team, I've heard from several... — read more
This is a new level of delusional
When AT&T (NYSE:T) introduced HBO Max in October of 2019, it estimated it would have 50 million domestic subscribers and another 25 million to 40 million international subscribers by 2025. It now sees an opportunity for as many as 150 million... — read more
Yo. Where's my Vaccine Bro?
14 months ago the T Suits convinced my State that I was an "Essential Worker" and had each day enter into 4 or 5 strangers houses potentially full of sick people to make sure they could still watch Fox News and Dancing with the Stars. I exposed... — read more
1st Qtr Layoff?
Has anyone heard from the wigs at the quarterly meeting regarding any possible layoffs? Union head told us last year this time that the business rep is always at these meetings for proposals. Please don’t bash the question, just wondering if there’s... — read more
Who else likes their job?
Am I the only one? I frequent this page to make sure layoffs don't catch me 'with my pants down,' but I have no axe to grind against the company like so many here seem to. I'm well compensated for what I do, I like the people I work with, and what I... — read more
The Manifestation of a Toxic Anti Employee
Culture by leadership in order to thin the payroll due to leaderships bone headed hundred billion dollar plus blunders will linger for many years with the remaining employee base. Stankey and Stevenson created a carcass simply to feed off of. No one... — read more
CWA D3 Layoff
Any word on layoffs today?
AT&T Fiber to the home expansion in 90 metro areas.
ArsTechnica.com has an article about three million more homes will have access to fiber by end of year. The company has already hired contractors, temporary linemen (OPT) and temporary fiber splicers (FT) in the SE for this new project. Thankful for... — read more
AT&T pays new WarnerMedia boss $52 million in 2020
But we have no money and we must have layoffs all the time, right? Jason Kilar, head of AT&T Inc.’s WarnerMedia division, received $52.2 million in total reported compensation last year, more than twice the level of the Dallas-based company’s chief... — read more
Song and Dance show - by J & J duo
On Friday there was a Q & A session between Jason K–lar (head of Warner Media and Jeff McElfresh (ACC CEO). More than anything, what stood out, was how J. K–lar seemed to laugh at every question. He seems like someone who knows he won the... — read more
2021 Proxy
The officer compensation table shows that despite the underperformance of AT&T in the marketplace and financial markets, there was no compensation hardship to those at the top. Randall took out $90 million over three years of disastrous leadership... — read more
Dividend stays the same
Never for the life of me will I understand this stubborn refusal to cut the dividend we realistically can't afford. Will it really be the end of the world for the company if the dividend is reduced slightly?... — read more
Anybody else actually misses Randy?
I didn't think it was possible but Stankey made what I thought unthinkable true.
Hey, here's an idea
Reinstitute the sbc Ambassador Program & get 1st level managers to go out on their time, using their cars, burning their gas to visit small business owners and attempt to talk the owners into buying more bad antiquated services that they don't need... — read more
Stankey is into fine wines and how they are made
We all know he is a World Class Cork Soaker.
The Stevenson and Stankey Dynamic Duo
Have cost shareholders $150B to $250B and many employees their careers. ATT is a brand that is despised by most consumers and their foray into Hollywood and content will result in more contempt as they will forever be known as the entity that... — read more
Tmobile Purchase
Imagine the damage to Tmobile and competition if the attempted AT&T purchase of same had been successful. And I hope that Tmobile does not make a mistake and attempt to buy the floundering AT&T business. I'm making all sorts of money with my... — read more
Bonus for Former Management Employee
I left the company towards end of November last year? Am i eligible for CPI payout this march?
Vacation time question?
For those folks who have left AT&T on your own without a surplus. Did they pay you out your unused vacation time on your last check? I looked on HR OneStop but couldn’t find any info on this.
AT&T CEO asked for — and got — less compensation despite promotion
https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2021/03/11/john-stankey-att-compensation.html AT&T’s John Stankey saw his overall compensation fall in 2020 even as he was promoted to CEO of the company. The reduction came after Stankey himself asked for... — read more
DirecTV
When I started at directv, we all used to laugh at you AT&T folks, who were universally seen as sluggish, stuck on dead technologies. An AT&T team was perceived as incapable of delivering a project on time, so we needed to do it ourselves. My manager... — read more
Kilar $52M in 2020 compensation
How does that grab you?
It is official, Time Warner has mailed it in and doesn't
Want anything to do with Stankey, Kilar, or ATT. The males don't want to experience child birth and the women were horrified and insulted by the analogy. Too many at Time Warner lost loved ones and experienced Covid 19 so boasting about the deadly... — read more
You know what would be nice?
If this leadership was capable of admitting failures and learning from them. Everybody makes mistakes. But not everybody refuses to admit when they make a mistake and then advertises it as an unmitigated success. How about swallowing your pride for... — read more
Time Warner CEO praises Covid as being great for business
Kilar would probably run down grandma and girl scouts in a crosswalk with Bentley to pick up a few HBO Max subscribers.
Can most remember Stevenson and Stankey when they were
Head over heels talking up content content content and competing for eyeballs and screen time? The content space beyond oversaturated at this point and there is so much political social garbage out there that people's eyeballs are tuning out to the... — read more
Work From Home
For NON-MANAGEMENT, BARGAINED employees: Many of us have been working from home for about a year. The MOA is set to expire sometime in June/July 2021. What is the news on when or if we will return back to the call centers/offices? Or do you... — read more
ATT is just that more hateable with Stankey
Customers hate ATT Employees hate ATT Business Partners hate ATT Wall Street hates ATT ATT has zero chance with Stankey as he is the worst kind of toxic hubris. ATT will never be able to get it's arms around content and make it flourish. They... — read more
The three stooges RANDY WHITAKER STANKEY
I think it’s time to flood these guys with questions about how they think their contribution to ATT justified/justifies what they are getting paid? I still cannot get ATT fiber at my new place. I’m using our competitors and it’s fine. Why do they get... — read more
So Depressed Working at T These Days but Need My Job
Why are there so many horrible people these days at T? It is difficult to just get out of bed and to work on Mondays? Is it just me or is anyone else experiencing the same situation? Mean, nasty, dishonest, lying people who dump their work on... — read more