Disruptive DeathStar conclusion. How ? They base hiring and promotion decisions on an employee’s past experience, and then reward them by giving them an entirely different role, and YES! Stankey. You are not a fit.
For the love of God....
If the executives could PLEASE just focus on the business, and give all of the phony social justice posturing and posing a break....please. In the words of John Wayne, "it's getting to be ri-goddamn-diculous". Yes, this stuff is important. No one... — read more
Another launch delay
https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/att-delays-nationwide-5g-back-to-end-of-the-year/2020/06/
D6
I was just informed of an AM call tomorrow for techs. Does anyone have info yet?
Ibew 21
June 16, 2020 AT&T announced today they intend to slash 176 Customer Systems Technician (CST) jobs in Illinois and Northwest Indiana affecting employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 21 (IBEW 21). ... — read more
Bloomington MN?
L3- Credit Representatives? heard there might be cuts?
Surplussed folks ... get those TKT test requests in TODAY and fulfil all of your CO tech dreams !!!
Don't snooze ... tomorrow is too late ... move up in life ... be a winner ... impress your friends !
All company owned Cricket stores closing
All company owned Cricket stores will close by July 15th per John Dwyer email. All impacted employees have been notified.
Scam or mistake?
"Cricket and AT&T continued to market and sell a product to consumers they knew wouldn't work after their merger was complete," Attorney General Brian Frosh said in a statement. "This practice, we allege, was undertaken to maximize profit from the... — read more
Global Business- Chow Org
Anyone hearing timing of surplus announcement in Chow org?
IHX layoffs
How many IHX layoffs are there?
Ibew 21 sipp 176
https://www.ibew21.org/index.cfm?zone=/unionactive/view_article.cfm&HomeID=829113
Fidelity Pension Estimate
Anyone else experiencing problems getting pension estimates from Fidelity. I periodically go to their website to estimate my pension payout for various dates and save those calculations. When I attempted to do that today, I got a message that I... — read more
Still no word.
In the Arroyo > Welday org here (part of the BBV group), and still not a peep about the upcoming slaughter. It's been two weeks since that giggling, pus-filled little twerp McArsehole said there would be massive layoffs, and absolutely nothing... — read more
Dist 4 spreadsheet numbers?
Only heard about my local
Reminder: AT&T to Webcast Talk with Jeff McElfresh at Bank of America Merrill Lynch Telecom & Media Conference on June 16
For anyone that's interested: https://veracast.com/webcasts/bofa/telecom2020/id37106179822.cfm Starting at 8:10 PST, 10:10 CST, 11:10 EST
Junior Tech Thoughts
I am a SE ST with just shy of 20 years. I have been through numerous surplus processes, had the gut wrenching worries and the long hours of suspense working at my brain. Believe me it will eat at you until no end. The bad part is you can’t really... — read more
After you get surplussed, grab your pension and run
I am surprised that ATT has not already halted the pension lumpsum? Interest rates are basically zero, which means your pension value is at its max payout. Realize that pension payouts change drastically, based on interest rates. You are... — read more
IBEW 21 It’s happening
Getting the call NOW!!
Whistleblowers
Can someone please leak this c-ap to Tucker Carlson again? Or any other news outlet, willing to expose this horrid company and unethical drawn out excuse for layoffs? This is getting ridiculous. Again, how much in tax cuts did they get?... — read more
What's planned for EMEA?
Does somebody know what's planned for EMEA (UK, Germany, France ..) and how many jobs are affected?
There are so many better ways to do this
ATT is one of THE most profitable businesses in the US, has no need for a 7% dividend, and has a massive amount of debt to pay back. Stop or cut the dividend! Pay back the debt faster! They could cut salaries of those over $150K/year 15% and save... — read more
This would be funny if it wasn't so pathetically sad
AT&T turned HBO Max into a superhero with a comic book I don’t know why either I don’t think of streaming services as heroes, mostly because streaming services are not real people, and most of them are owned by multibillion-dollar conglomerates... — read more
Job security
Can somebody name a company that offers job security most of the time? Not always, I know that's not realistic, but most of the time? I'm sick and tired of having to worry about having a job every single day. It's exhausting. There's gotta be a... — read more
We are stuck with this for months?
Did I get it right that somebody in the know said yesterday notifications will take place this week, this month, and even after that? So now we are stuck with this nerve-wrecking suspense for months? Well, I guess AT&T never fails to disappoint in... — read more
D9?
Any info on D9?
How many total stores are closing?
And do we know if more will be added to the list any time soon?
Employee in Mississippi test positive for covid
ATT in store employee tested positive for covid-19 and store hasn’t closed. How pathetic for customers and employees safety
HBO MAX will never be able to compete with Netflix
Seriously what arrogance to try to compete with netflix in their domain where they excel and they are experts and not only that, but wait for it....charge more than netflix does with an inferior product. HBO MAX should charge no more than $8.99 per... — read more
SE voluntary offers 685 outside techs
Anyone taking the offer? My I&R FT buddy is taking it, has 40+ years service but he’s only 63 yrs old. Said he can’t take this madness anymore, AT&T current leadership is incompetent and should have been fired a long time ago. Now the employees... — read more
District 6
All quiet in District 6. No news yet.
Jeff Mcelfresh All-Employee Town Hall & live Q&A session
Wednesday June 17 for town hall and Thursday June 18 at 11am for live Q&A
Any updates on Legacy T??
Haven’t heard anything yet
Why att want out of Telephony
AT&T wants to be a wireless, content driven company with a fiber footprint. Period, end of story. It does not want the following: Dial tone - they don't want to deal with it anymore. Data networking, it failed at SDWAN as it was too late and... — read more
Retail Closings *What You Need To Know*
Looks like a lot of stores that are closing were just recently opened or not performing. You can look at MyResults and see what locations are still not open post COVID to get an idea. Run historical on their numbers - it makes sense. RSCs - get... — read more