Any dates floating around for surplus announcements?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/04/disney-dis-q3-2020-earnings.html

Decided to click on their links at the top of the page. Smaller content but other than names mentioned you would think you were on the AT&T page. Same issues and complaints. Different business models but the thrust of their posts are the same.

Just had to think hard for about 60 seconds to remember the name of HBO's streaming service. HBO Plus? HBO Go? HBO Now? This is not a good sign. (P.S., it's HBO Max.)

Retirees who are eligible for a pension are often offered the choice of whether to actually take the pension payments for life, or receive a lump-sum dollar amount for the “equivalent” value of the pension – with the idea that you could then take the... — read more 

Just curious - how did you get your unused vacation pay reimbursed? Was it added to your final paycheck? Was it an additional paycheck just for unused vacation? Do they pull out 401k contributions from your vacation pay? Expecting I'll be there... — read more 

It's been difficult. Lost a lot of friends and colleagues. Did you?

We get speech after speech on Transformation. Video after video. Town Hall after bloody Town Hall. Yet… All we see and understand is pain. Whether it was VIP, Vision 2020, Virtualization and SDN, or current Transformation, all we see are... — read more 

Plenty more to go, it'd be nice to know when.

Hi folks, I was one of the "lucky" ones off payroll 7/24. they owe me for 7/16 to 7/24 (pathetic POS folks, couldn't go until 7/31 oh well) and two weeks of vacation I accrued. for those who were in similar place previously how long after you were... — read more 

I'm leaning towards taking the one time lump sum option and rolling into an IRA. The pension, stops after you pass away, and your heirs get none of it, not the case with IRA. And the payout and compares, they are much the same. Too much negative talk... — read more 

Anyone have dates or other info for any upcoming announcements?

AT&T Mexico ruled by interim CEO and a interim thing called CTIO (Chief Technology and Information Officer) both obviously not fitted for the job, trying to figure out how to gain more "friends" (of course HR is one best friend) based on arse-kisser... — read more 

I'm here to look for tip offs on layoffs, and answers to questions that relate to the process of being terminated. Not politics, or race wars, or anything else. Please save that for Facebook and Twitter.

Is there still going to be a layoff on the 13th for wiretechs? Did they get enough volunteers?

Please send check to AT&T. Inc. https://seekingalpha.com/article/4360243-t-lack-of-focus-pain

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510279-trump-order-aims-to-curb-us-agencies-use-of-foreign-workers

Anyone know about more retail COR stores closing? Or when?

Seems 2020 is living up to its reputation of being a bloodbath. With that, lots of changes to coverages, benefits, and perks, and things like: leave before 1/1/21 and get some Medicare benefit. But what about other bigger potential changes, such... — read more 

We took our son to the Dr today, they told us our healthcare is inactive. I called Blue Cross, they say you cancelled it Aug 1. You told us as part of our severance we would have our healthcare benefits for 12 additional months. Did you change... — read more 

Stank and company figured that a 10 page power point and lots of yapping is going change culture. This will surely surpass Donovan's ATO Culture Series in the amount of talking involved. Yep, lots of talk, zero action. "Our old, bureaucratic... — read more 

Any of you started that work from home job as a customer service representative?? I’ve heard stories about them forcing more sales than ever before. Is this true?

How is it fair that people with senority get every saturday off that should be spred out evenly with the team. I can’t get a single saturday off after 9 months with company some of us have lives outside work this senority rule is not right and the... — read more 

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I wanted to see what the forum thinks about “shareholder capitalism” vs “stakeholder capitalism”. In this case, stakeholders are “workers, customers, suppliers, shareholder and the society: nation, state, county, city, neighborhood”. Stakeholder... — read more 

Consider the reasons why T might not want to sell DTV just yet: Directv makes up almost 90% of current T video subscribers (17 million out of about 19 million combined) ATTTV is essentially the same service as DTV, except it requires a fiber... — read more 

been 5 years of no work or rework.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bye-boomer-the-coming-cull-of-workers-over-50-2020-07-29?reflink=mw_share_linkedin

And I'm not asking about the leadership, we all know they don't deserve even a tenth of what they're getting (and don't get me started on their bonuses.) Just regular employees whose pay is much higher than their productivity. Another post here got... — read more 

Wow he likes fiber!! adding...... “I have an appetite to build fiber that serves a combination of our needs in the consumer space, what we need to do: Deploy 5G and what can help our business segment. Fiber deployment that I think others... — read more 

If we continue to lose subscribers at this pace - and I see no indication of it slowing down - by the end of 2022 DirecTV will become completely unsustainable. And that is a generous assessment, chances are it could happen even sooner, especially... — read more 

If you’re laid off switch providers.. i switched to Verizon & never have anything to do with the t again.

Health insurance is the only benefit of any significance under MTP. Is it worth subscribing to MTP and get AT&T health insurance or are we better off getting health insurance via ACA? Example: Severance Amount: $50,000 Tax:... — read more 

Did McElfrsh really state that no one who is part of this massive layoff/surplus will be allowed to work for AT&T ever again?

Lost a lot of friends from this round, some which I have known for the past 20 years. Did you lose anyone recently? It has been tough. But I will go on. Still have not been layed off, after a 25 year career. But the lose of these friends are... — read more 

Hi - I joined AT&T in 1997, and left AT&T in 2011. Somewhere around 2012 or later, I heard that AT&T would no longer allow me to re-join the pension - is this true, and what year did this policy happen?

They so hard up for money, now they have COR reps selling AARP memberships in Retail!!

During July AT&T Mexico carried out layoffs across all functions, no notice, no apparent reason, just a quick 10 min call conference with your boss to tell you that you no longer work for AT&T Mexico in the middle of the pandemic. AT&T has been... — read more 

Any news on the next MVO date?

When you are no longer in PHONE: You will miss seeing yourself lined up with a team. You will miss their voices. You will miss their passion for doing the right thing. You will miss being asked for guidance. You will miss their honesty. You... — read more