#morale

This is a term used when convenient, but not one that represents reality.

50% of his org was impacted by RTO while ATT as a whole was only 30%

What’s that tell you?

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/07/on-precipice-of-incredibly-contracting-workforce-says-jobs-expert.html

Look around, it’s already happening here. They’re trying to force out the 55+ crowd, but instead the under 30 crowd is leaving in droves for companies that actually offer flexibility and trust. Five-day RTO isn’t appealing, it’s a deal breaker.

RTO isn’t saving culture, it’s driving young people out. If AT&T wants to stop the bleeding of “new talent”, it needs to end RTO and start listening before there’s no one left to listen to.

I’d just suggest that you don’t fill the surveys out next time.
Corey A. point blank said he Read them and Shred them.
He’s convinced he won’t be fired for making such statements.
That speaks volumes about our company.
Back in the day, what Corporate Executive would say that to employees?

What's the point of them when nothing useful is ever said?

Another performative meeting. Same fake smiles, same empty hype. The opener must’ve said “I’m so excited” five times — and I couldn’t tell if he was convincing us or himself. These things are so staged it’s painful. Nothing real, nothing transparent. At this point, soap operas feel more honest. At least actors admit they’re performing.

Who’s ready to get told they didn’t qualify for the yearly merit raise again?

MW did not answer how he's going to try to win back the employees who have absolutely no trust in him and any of the leadership at Chevron. Morale is at the worst its ever been. The RTO mandate does nothing to help this either and comments that we need to be like the workers in the field. When teammates are in India how can you "collaborate"? The reorg is a disaster. He didn't make tough decisions, he made decisions to pad his pockets!

We can’t control who leads Chevron. What we can control is our attitude about our sphere of influence. Nothing you do to improve your skills or deliver results is without merit. At the end of the day you work to provide and honor the one that has given you the intelligence, skills, and work ethic. We may be humble servants, but we’re not servants to Mike, the ELT, etc. If we’re meant to be elsewhere, then so be it.

Getting laid off is probably the best thing to happen to someone. You get a paid vacation for whatever your severance covers. You don’t have to work. All of your work is just dumped on some poor soul who was chosen to stay. You can do whatever you want. If I stay, I’ll be jealous of everyone who goes.

To produce to the full capacity I’m capable of with all the noise going on here. Why doesn’t management recognize that the environment they have created is toxic? I hate getting up in the morning to come here and that was never the case.

Verizon and T-Mobile just named new CEOs, and it really makes you wonder… is AT&T next? The mood across the company says it all. People are exhausted, morale’s crushed, and trust in leadership is at an all-time low.

If a change at the top actually happens, you can bet there’ll be a huge sigh of relief across our hubs. It wouldn’t just be about a new name. It’d be about hope for a new direction, one that finally listens to employees and fixes the mess RTO and poor leadership have created.

We’re overdue for a reset. Maybe this time, real leadership will show up…

We are so numb to constant changes (always for the worse) that the workforce no longer cares. Enough with these nonsense townhalls. Let us just collect our paychecks and spend as much time caring about Chevron as the Chevron leaders care about us.

Judging from what people have been reporting, the better you were at your job, the more essential you were to a project, the more experienced and skilled, the higher your chances of being laid off. I guess quality is expensive. I just wonder where the breaking point is, when everything will finally fall apart, seemingly all at once.

does that mean we can officially do less than the bare minimum? I mean, hard to stay “deeply engaged” when there’s a decent chance I’ll be shown the door very soon.

Thank you.

We don’t need performative corporate cr-p when our livelihoods are on the line.

MW was definitely sweating it out up there. Almost no in person questions cause no one cares any longer.

Prime example, the employee well being ranking low. Now we see all this stuff on healthcare and mental health. Uh, that’s not what was meant by that. People were referring to work/life balance, recognition, promotions, bonuses, pay raises, taking care of your people, doing special things for them. Saying “if you don’t like it, leave,” highlights they don’t care.

MW: “the puff piece i commissioned in the wsj was supposed to be bait for investors, but exposed how unselfaware we are. I don’t accept responsibility for the second part, because at Chevron LT accountability is not a core value”

Get fu---d you gas lighting clowns

I’ve only been here 5 years. I work directly with/answer to people who have — wait for it — never worked ANYWHERE else and they’re 25+ years deep and when I tell you it’s nearly impossible to get them to evolve into a space that ACTUALLY eliminates silos and makes work more efficient AND effective….they’re gatekeepers, and quite frankly they’re in my way. Not having experience outside of one single company is no longer the flex yall think it is. The tunnel vision and kool-aid drinking (lawd). Why are we doing reorgs if nothing is going to change other than “doing more with less”. This place pays well, sure, but they pay well enough to make you forget you've moved around laterally for years, screaming into the abyss about process improvements that would genuinely streamline things.

Any suggestions?

Let the gaslighting begin

This time my manager was laid off. That useless, d-mb weasel of a man managed to avoid every layoff so far and was even close to a promotion when this happened. I admit, I did a happy dance. That man made the lives of his entire team miserable on a daily basis, and for once, literally for once, they actually got rid of the right person. So yes, I hate layoffs, but this one I kind of enjoyed.

The SLT and legal team are experts ant appearing to follow the law while behind the scenes, discriminating on age and other attributes; anything to make the stock price go up. Real business leaders don’t layoff good loyal people during good times. Wake up world to what the Cisco SLT has been doing the drive the stock price up! We need a good class action lawsuit to make things right. Nobody in the world has the resources to stand up to the Cisco machine, but there are plenty of voices out there that want to be heard. While I doubtful that all the people impacted can coordinate a class action lawsuit, one thing I know for sure, is these SLT folks can look at their big bank accounts, but they have to live what they’ve knowingly doing to us!

Well said, @b1+1k6zc141p.

I have long seen a strong resemblance between James Bond and our job as Account Executives. The mission is tough, failure can strike at any time, yet, like James, we rely on special skills and talent to survive. Mission after mission, year after year. And like James, we must be the best to still stand tall…even when facing death.
When I joined Oracle in 2005, I was threatened three times with being fired before turning 0% into 150% with a single deal. I was a Quota Achiever. An indescribable feeling. I survived. I was a hero.

That was my first Apps Win.

130 Apps Wins later, I am still a Quota Achiever, today at 170% achievement…but the excitement is gone. Management demands performance, and we deliver, year after year, pain after pain. But when performance is constant, why are we not allowed to grow?

Passion powers performance. Mission Impossible when there is no motivation. Even Ethan Hunt would agree.

To those who see my value and commitment for this company that I still love, I thank you deeply, it means the world. Soldiers should not be treated this way.
I am leaving today heart-broken, but I am leaving standing tall.

I mean John Stankey pretty much ignored the survey results of everyone working at T, told us we were in the wrong, our priorities were mid-aligned of the company, and that we are going to be in a market based culture.

Aside from being a buzzword, can someone clarify what that actually means. Does that mean we were not market-based before?

Sounds like I’m going to start ignoring the id--tic messages they send my way. I already have email filters to delete all these endless corporate company-wide emails we get from McElfresh, Robertson, etc.

Oh and to think they sent me a $25 coupon to buy something from their brand store. The last think I want is another branded shirt.

Its funny that the definition of SETH in mythology is this:

In mythology, Seth (also spelled Set) is a prominent deity from ancient Egyptian mythology. He is a complex figure associated with chaos, storms, deserts, and violence

Its exactly what MW has done to the company. Will he acknowledge his failures? Will he be accountable and take a pay cut or better yet leave? Will it just be more lies?

Alright, enough is enough. We’ve been doing 5 day RTO for almost a year now, and things have never been worse. Morale is shot, people are exhausted, and everyone’s sick of wasting time and money commuting just to sit on Teams calls all day.

The under 30 crowd is leaving in droves for companies offering hybrid or remote work because they actually value flexibility and trust. Meanwhile, AT&T is ranked dead last among the major telecom players, and the stock keeps sliding.

Maybe it’s time leadership admits the obvious: this isn’t working!! If the goal was to improve culture, performance, or retention, 5-day RTO has done the opposite. Time to stop doubling down on failure and try something new. If the goal is headcount reduction just have a standard layoff instead of pi----g off anyone willing to stick around. You’re nearing the point of no return.

This quote angers me so much:

“It won’t be anything special,” Chief Financial Officer Dominik Asam told the German newspaper Handelsblatt, saying the annual job reductions are “like brushing your teeth.”

It shows arrogance and lack of empathy of the CFO. These cuts mean so much to everyone affected by them. And even to those not directly affected. It affects the community of SAP immensely.

And what else can I say, things are just not good.

Period.

Is anyone else beyond f u c k e d off at this stage with this absolute clown show?

So many of you are complaining but you’re the reason why the higher ups have to babysit us. I can’t tell you how many people I witnessed who would come in at 8 or 9 and leave by 11-12. I’m sure there were many others who even stayed less than that. You took advantage and now we all have to pay the price. If you don’t want to work then quit. If you find another gig, chances are you’ll have to RTO there as well. It’s industry wide. This company has always been slow trimming the fat and boy do we have more than what around Derek Flowers waist

We have been holding hands together and singing "Kumbaya, My Lord" so much for One Weatherford Week that we forgot how bad our stock and market are at the moment. Could this mean that layoffs are right around the corner after this One Weatherford Week?

It’s been two years since AT&T blindly followed Amazon into the RTO disaster. And for what? Nothing’s improved… morale, productivity, retention, all worse than before. The only thing that’s gone up is burnout.

Since then, almost no one else has moved to 5x RTO. The vast majority of major companies are still hybrid because they see the damage this kind of policy does to reputation, to employee engagement, and to the bottom line.

And to the guy claiming “5-day RTO is becoming the industry standard” - no, it’s not. It’s been two years, and nobody’s joining this sinking ship. No other major company in the industry does more than 3 days. You’d have to be completely delusional to believe otherwise. Or maybe you just think we’re a tech company. LOL.

it's been chaotic like this at intel for a while now.

the last value-add ceo was grove, but everyhting after him is just junk & leaches.

nobody cares, they are just milking thecash cow, a long succession of ambitious but incopetent clowns.

One of our core values is 'Embrace Change '. And you will be penalized if you don't. Any concerns voiced about the negative impact of some changes get you referred to HR for a talking to about teamwork.

It does not seem like they are as concerned about being a great place to work for all as they are about putting on a show about it. A real shame as they used to be great.

Everyday I see more people exodus in mass from this god forsaken company
What was it like in the old days because how did it ever get to this point of disarray every system is falling apart and our records are complete trash

MW has lost the locker room and fans have zero confidence in him. Who is up next?