Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

I am not buying it as there is a woman in my org who has probably used all Caregiver, Vacation, and Maxed out Sick days and when she is in ofc is MIA and rarely working or at her desk (generally taking calls from her car) and this has been going on for years. If true she would have been talked to or canned by now but neither has happened.

@ej ok grandpa time to take your pills and change your diaper

There are so many people who just call each other in the team over call and keep their calendar busy and remain on call to show they are very busy and in meetings and are very productive. Good way to make fool HRBPs and Leaders more fool. Come to office, enjoy 8 hours and leave.

The culture is getting so toxic, thanks to Stankey. How to vote him out?

My director puts in block meetings to herself for the whole week to look busy in Teams . Look closely she 3-4 meetings only mostly 1-1’s . This is a L3?

this is called "slowly cooking the frog"

@BIG BROTHER

In this age of technological intrusiveness is this really a surprise?

Be sure to commit some code every day though so you are a Doer and not just an Orchestrator

The Big Stank mentioned in an article today that they are also monitoring the training to see which employees are "training" up to make themselves better employees.

Making excuses and being lazy. Trying working.

"How about a metric to measure how many times I am interrupted from my work by someone who has no business with me in the office?"

Or a Teams instant message that was far from urgent and could have been an email?

God, I hate that... Right in the middle of deep thought and DING! "By next Thursday, can you tell me if you're taking any time off in early January?"

Seriously...

They canned me this summer because of rto. And I couldn’t be happier. After 38 years. I don’t know what young person would want to work there.

Thats OK. A few of my coworkers and me set up recurring daily meetings, Every day for a few hours a day. Log onto meeting, mute and minimize it for a few hours. Now we're looking busy.

The "engagement" is inversely proportional to the level of the manager hosting the meeting. This is because of our IQ pyramid management structure. The higher you climb, the more clueless the empty suit becomes. At L6+ You may as well take the same AI corporate buzzword generator and have it host every meeting in every company in the Fortune( Blackrock) 500.

How about a metric to measure how many times I am interrupted from my work by someone who has no business with me in the office?

More people to count swipes, mouse clicks, Teams times than to actually do productive work.

Business schools everywhere will be proud of the Stank and use him as an example!

Give your balds a tug!

Does upper management not realize how all the metrics,
spying, etc only proves how poorly managed this company has been for a long time. As a L2, I am insulted by all of this.

sure, rto to collaborate, but it better be on teams, makes perfect sense

This place is making me hate my life.

LOL! This is your fearless leader. If you have questions send them to me. I read and reply to all.

With AI it's better to be "engaged" than get work done.

The funny thing is I could easily demonstrate that someone that is not attending back to back to back meetings all day is actually getting more “real” work done.

But no, we are going to call “attending meetings” working. It is so utterly ridiculous. I intentionally minimize the meetings I schedule to only when absolutely necessary.

It is not necessary to have a meeting when an email status to stakeholders with pertinent updates will suffice. It’s is not necessary to have a meeting with 10 people, when a phone call between 2 people and a subsequent email update will suffice.

I can’t tell you the number of meetings I have attended over the years that have 20-30 people on them and 1 or 2 people contributing, and 95% of others never uttering a word , or having any input, of any kind, ever. Daily or weekly. For years. Yup. We need more of THAT. Oh brother…

@b4 “Loving the paranoia”
Treatment of employees as if they are guilty until proven innocent, can make them paranoid.

Remember you're not paranoid if they're really after you.

Loving the paranoia.

Kindly work 9-5 M-F as prescribed before back office responsibilities move to India. It is written as such

All the lonely people where do the come from..

Oh boo hoo.

Ask a technician how many metrics they have to deal with on a daily/monthly basis.

And techs actually have to show up to work. No WFH.

Get back to work.

It’s about time we go back to punch cards.

He-l, we had one this week, and about half of the under 30 crowd didn't even show up.

They just keep "tightening" the sc--ws.

Which org?

should look into all the “busy” people too

If your close to retirement dont do it and you will hit a layoff list. Leaving with a surplus package will be amazing!

This -rap is getting so out of hand.

Easy when you don’t care.

@a3 I'm sure it does

Will the report have intelligence to identify users with long idle times in Teams? There are a number of employees who are regularly connected but idle or nonresponse during meetings.