We heard very soon. Ridiculous. Do they realize how employees react to that? They react by being unproductive. Get it over with!

Do Channel Partners bring value to the client as part of the team in your opinion? I know a few that have expert technical knowledge and a great back office that have freed up my time and made customers happy, but a lot of other SPs just try to eat... — read more 

So two months ago I turned down an offer to move to Fiber team as they were only going to bring me on as a sales executive 1. Considering my CSE II salary vs fiber I passed on it. Now with all the rumors going around ( Solution Providers are going to... — read more 

Anyone with a conscience can understand why NPS is low. AT&T's public plan is to get rid of 'value' customers and only focus on 'high quality' customers. AT&T is using data mining and artificial intelligence for the past few years to analyze exactly... — read more 

We need executive management at the very top to be an outsider. Continuing to promote each other within the executive pool is bringing the same culture and process. Literally giving you a pig and slapping different lipstick on them AND saying this is... — read more 

Note that due to large number of surpluses across the whole company, different teams/orgs will get noticed on different dates, starting at the earliest on 7/10 through mid August, possibly into september as well.

AT&T has quietly initiated cross-tier price increases for its new IP-based pay TV platform, AT&T TV, as well as its legacy satellite TV brand, DirecTV. The base “Entertainment” package for AT&T TV will see its first-year promotional price shoot up... — read more 

Email from Business Sales Compensation Effective 8-1 directv sales are no longer compensated

I know more layoffs are coming but does anyone know if there will be more COR retail locations closing?

affecting 23 work groups total number of employees 1,684. Number of employees needs to be reduced by 291 percentage of employees reduced by 17% date needed to be off the books july 24th. IT HAS BEGUN.

There was a video for the Video team (within Arroyo > Welday) that brought up an interesting point. Apparently, NPS is a big deal for the suits, and they're wringing their hands because the DTV customer NPS scores have gone down from 13 to... — read more 

Do you think, with all contracts in place AT&T could by any chance selling the wireline of business/legacy products. I could be wrong but from what hearing from the Town halls is more 50% will work from home, saving money for AT&T ON REAL ESTATE... — read more 

So Stankey's "your future together" is just a lot of corporate drivel , but it's pretty clear from the tone midway down, there's going to be significant cuts. Really , this is leadership?, what clueless CEO sends out an , "I'm happy to be your new... — read more 

Price increase to 64.95? Are they trying to make ATT TV relevant?

Do you remember a town hall before the Warner acquisition when Randall was asked by a "lowly" employee about the wisdom of taking on so much debt to acquire a media company? He smirked and waved it off, saying, he "would never bet the farm" on an... — read more 

Finally, somebody to point out something that should be blatantly obvious to everybody. With its 7% dividend and its $209 billion market cap, AT&T (NYSE:T) is widely considered a blue-chip investment. However, General Electric (NYSE:GE) investors... — read more 

Thought I'd seen it all, then I was greeted with this. Branded face coverings Beginning next month, you'll be able to purchase AT&T branded face coverings. Our new company policy requires us to wear face coverings at work. And while standard face... — read more 

Does anyone know how many techs took the SIPP offer. I keep hearing they got more than the 176 they were looking for, not sure if it’s true

https://techstaffer.blog/2020/06/17/att-layoff-crystal-ball/ - good reading.

Thoughts?

We just wrapped up a call with our sales manager and director who both confirmed that the people impacted would receive an email Friday July 10th and be off Payroll within 14 days. They also informed us that our job title “could” change effective... — read more 

I get on this site about once a week. I read everything about the Surpluses within the company. I was Surplused myself last year. So, I figured I would leave my insight for anyone who wants to hear it. If you do not, then that is okay. But, hear was... — read more 

Anyone know?

Legg a Warner lackey basically started this conf call with slickly produced but cheesy intro segment, wonder how much that cost To produce? But the real substance was about 30min in when he basically confirmed lots of workforce reductions and... — read more 

and good riddance to you, you miserable pr1ckk. You steered this ship right into the iceberg with your overpriced buy of DirecTV. Soon the company will be dumping it for pennies on the dollar we paid for it. You should be paying $274k/month... — read more 

Let's see, I get about 6 emails a day from various officers and corporate email spammers touting T's support for the new social justice causes BLM. The millions of $ T has donated to their cause to prove that T is WOKE? Maybe T's mismanagement ... — read more 

The company should waive testing requirements for 6 months. Maybe would help with technician movement.

I see a lot of people panicking over being laid off right now, but I don't see where the problem is. There are currently plenty of available positions - and not just in my field, I looked around. If you are capable and can back up your knowledge... — read more 

Any thoughts on how this will affect all Warner employees? Something tells me once the relocation begins, there'll be more than one position that overlaps, of that I'm sure... — read more 

What's the scoop? Is it woke? Is it a joke? Or maybe both ?

AT&T has made two huge strategic mistakes: Not deploying FTTP more aggressively Ending the U-verse TV platform Change my view...

This has been going on got 10+ years– same story "more information to come". That never has happened. Nobody ever knows - even your Manager doesn't know until the last possible moment. Then it's a forbidden topic - you're told not to discuss it with... — read more 

We are screwed under this leadership!! Cant even execute a layoff in a proper manner. They want to ruin everybody's morale and then destroy some more!!! They want to give life time achievement award to HK but at the same time lay him off. Every... — read more 

That AT&T built the core fiber overlay infrastructure 10 years ago along side maintaining copper EVERYWHERE it already has copper. Imagine where we would be right now. AT&T’s growth plan was basically let’s build a garden of a variety of different... — read more 

With the 2018 Corporate Tax Cuts and the Fed now buying AT&T's bonds to save them from becoming junk, all while AT&T lays off tens of thousands, how can they lose? Does anyone not understand how we all (non-rich) are being hosed?... — read more 

Supposedly more fiber builds next year for business and 5G. Should keep engineers ,business Midwest. And outside forces busy. Many older techs applying for retirement in midwest.

Fuetsch "I don't want to sugar coat things here... it's coming up and will be significant" "we will have some force reductions across the org but I will not get into specific numbers" "we'll have more on this in the coming weeks" zero... — read more 

Anything new regarding the wiretechs? I’m hearing July 1st but no “seems to know anything”.......