Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

Cry babies will never grow up. I am entitled to all the freebies.I deserve them

Anyone under 45 is actively planning their exit. Anyone over 45 is just trying to hang on for retirement.

We have some of the young new hires here. We have the grunter. He never says anything. If you say good morning in passing, he grunts at you. Then we have the headphone guy. Wears his wired headphones and stares at his phone literally all day. We've seen him walk into things. Also blue haired feminazi. I wonder who is leaving all that propaganda in the cafeteria.

Have no worries, the companies in good hands.

If someone is not happy about the RTO, they are working for other companies. Whoever still working for ATT, they are just under qualified abd can’t go anywhere.

@b9 "Boy the internet makes everyone an expert these days"

LOL -- You are a complete id--t, Stank "psychophant", or both. The reason I refer to the empirical studies is because I know I am not an expert in this area, but I am smart enough to read the multiple studies that have been done (starting with the study out of the University of Pittsburgh around 2024). Feel free to look it up yourself and explain where I am wrong. I won't be holding my breath though.

"Stop lying about companies not rto."

Wow, 10 examples out of the thousands of companies that exist. He-l, at least go to the Forbes 1000 list and find all the companies that are 5x8 RTO before you try arguing.

@b8 the sh-t getting thrown at the fiber installers or field techs is ridiculous. But also true. Your labor is replaceable. Just another high school dropout in a hard hat and vest.

@b8 25k bonus? That tells us a lot about what level you are. Back to the truck you go.

@b6 find a competitive salary and benefits anywhere for the same line of work well maybe not the same if you’re a field grunt.

@am “every empirical study”.

Boy the internet makes everyone an expert these days, even dum--ss low life’s sitting in a truck watching pron on their lunch breaks.

@b5 you actually think people come to work here and put up with the 5x. RTO for the $25k bonus at the end of the year? 😂😂😂 half of that goes right to your commute off the bat.

RTO is here to stay @ AT&T. If so against it, why have you stayed?

No need to actually respond. The answer is well known.

@b5 you say 120% like it’s a lot. 100% = the standard amount they owe you + 20% extra. You got a 20% bonus. That’s nothing special. It’s much better elsewhere at places with better growth

120% bonus payout.

@ar WOW!… 10 whole companies are 5 days RTO!?!?!! What happened, your AI chatbot couldn’t come up with any more than that? Just 10 out of the millions across the globe?? Really sounds like a standard…….

@ar half of these tested 5 day RTO and backed out of it after it was a major failure. Dell actually offered its employees WFH for a pay cut which most people would take as RTO is a pay cut due to the cost. You shouldn’t trust AI to give you accurate and current information that you can copy paste since you couldn’t even name them yourself. Better luck next time.

@ar there are 2,200 companies in the country with over 5,000 employees. You just named 10. Since math obviously isn’t your strong suit, that’s less than 1% making it an extreme corner case. So, your logic is flawed and your argument is invalid. Not to mention every company you just named is under financial distress. Maybe think before you post some half-baked buffoonery BS.

@as correct, and you are as well. Whelp, time for you to get back to the company truck and harness up. Lunch break’s over and you’re back on the clock, punchy.

@a4+1ktkngvpd- You must be a "desperate undesirable" because you are still here.
See you on the commute

Stop lying about companies not rto. Most are

1. Amazon — Required corporate employees to return to the office 5 days a week starting January 2025. 
2. JPMorgan Chase — Ended hybrid work and mandated 5 days in-office for most employees (effective around March 2025). 
3. AT&T — Required all staff to work on-site 5 days a week starting January 2025. 
4. Goldman Sachs — Longstanding full-time (5 days) office policy, with ongoing enforcement. 
5. Dell — Employees near offices expected to work in-office 5 days a week starting March 2025. 
6. Home Depot — Mandated 5-day return-to-office for relevant employees (announced early 2026). 
7. Stellantis — Required 5 days in-office as one of the more recent mandates (early 2026). 
8. Instagram (Meta) — U.S. employees with assigned desks must return 5 days a week (from February 2026), stricter than other Meta divisions. 
9. Truist — All employees back to 5 days in-office starting January 2026. 
10. Paramount (Skydance) — Implemented 5-day office mandate (effective early 2026

@ak nah. I just spend less time working now instead to ensure I have time for all those things. Deliverables come in slower than before, but this is what they wanted. You play stupid games you win stupid prizes.

"most companies are back to rto"

Most companies are hybrid. Only the companies in trouble and trying to reduce head count are 5x8 RTO.

Further, every empirical study done since Covid shows that there is a disadvantage to forcing 5x8 RTO, and performance metrics do not increase. The companies doing the best on performance metrics are those companies that are hybrid. But you are a Stank "psychophant" so you will just regurgitate what he tells you to. You are the type of person AT&T needs to get rid of . . . the people that cannot think for themselves.

RTO cuts into all the personal things I get to do - tennis, coach kid's soccer team, work on my house.

@OP , spot on save one thing. Please never refer to those dark triaders as “leaders” or “leadership”. They’re totally unworthy to be classified as such.

I don’t have any other employment option. So moving to Dallas this summer and doing 5*8 for life.

No other employment options.

The couple of new hires I met came back as return T employees who couldn’t hack it anywhere else.

The company purged the workers with tribal knowledge and now get to comb the dregs for anyone desperate enough to work in the gulags of constant surveillance and zero flexibility or trust.

@a3 Haha, you still think this is one of those premier places to work, don't you? Silly boy. We're a joke. We're a legit #3 with zero chance of becoming #1 ever again.

@a3 “most” companies are Hybrid. 2-3 days in office with flexibility when needed. Trust that employees will complete work from anywhere. Not this adult day care we have here. The industry standard is Hybrid. Less than 5% of companies are full 5x RTO and that isn’t going to change. 5x RTO is a sign of a financially distressed company that wants to reduce headcount without severance because they can’t afford it. #truth

Only the most desperate undesirables from the bottom quartile of talent will apply here. Once they learn of the strict 5 day RTO policy and the nefarious tracking tactics they run the other way. This is not an attractive place to anyone young or with talent and options. Wonder why all your TDPs and new hires have so much churn? It’s RTO, bad policy, sh!t culture. This place will continue to struggle until things change.

Because people are adults and most companies are back to rto. Stop complaining, either go to work or quit. Seriously no one cares. This site should be about layoffs and information being shared, not constant complaints about something most companies are doing.

Work is done at the office is why

To have a job.