Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

@qf I won’t be leaving until I’m paid to leave. Until then it’s bare minimum and you bootlickers can pick up the slack. Hope you enjoy doing 2x the work for no increase in pay and minimal bonus, su---r! Your hard work and dedication to the titanic keeps my bills paid while I chill. Thanks for the cheese!

@OP
Okay then, re-read your post and act upon your personal indiscretions with RTO at T....

Good thing, according to you... over 80% of business are WFH now. You should have no problem getting rid of your huge issue of 100% RTO at T.

Let us help save you from future anxieties and T corporate transgressions... Please go look up the meaning of insanity and do just the opposite.

Speak for yourself. Not everyone is livin that. I dont have a lot of meetings. I babysit racks of vendor equipment that we'll probably never use again but we fight for every inch of space. The secret is to never retire anything! Don't understand all the complaining. I'm not in Dallas and never will be.

Austin strong!

@aq

And their performance management competency is limited to shrugging shoulders all this time, hoping it'd improve on its own?

They are nearly as useless as you.

@as

Not at all as I've never played either at any time in my life.

There are many issues at play but the biggest one is regular contact with abrasive corporate cucks like you. Life is so much better when I can avoid mentalities like yours altogether.

@as less than 1% of people were playing golf or tennis on company time, yet it seems to be the only thing you can point to. It’s all about the misery and wasted money on the commute and sitting in an office for zero actual reason. You can’t point to any of the benefits of RTO (I know it’s hard because there are none) you just say “gOlF aNd TeNnIs” like the smooth brain imbecile incel you really are. The vast majority of people who work here don’t even participate in either of those two activities, so what now? You just gonna keep on with the same boring stale nonsense? No one agrees with you. Are you just a troll?

Why are you really complaining about RTO? Is it affecting your golf or tennis?

@ac It's really not that hard. I got one within 2 months of leaving AT&T in August.

@ap

Leadership knows people don't do ja-----t at the house.

@am right, kind of like the “leadership” and the RTO push no one wants but they think everyone loves. Totally out of touch.

Lololol...the WFH entitlement is hilarious.

See you on the commute!

@a5

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@ag yeah right, as if people are lining up to work here… a company with one of the worst cultures and widely known as one of the worst places to work. Get your head out of your a$$. Nobody is signing up to work at a 5-day RTO disaster where employees are micro managed like children and have their time tracked like prisoners. 5-day RTO is a deal breaker for anyone except the most desperate undesirable un-hireables.

@ag there’s quite literally no one willing to work here… there’s no new external hires. The only people being hired already work here and are just shifting roles to avoid having to move to another state. Again, you’re an id!ot.

Why do we continue to let someone with such a long history of failed ventures and bad decision making continue to make billion dollar decisions?

Exhausted by the dinosaurs on this forum who love to snicker about commutes and RTO. All you’re doing is telling on yourself. Just because you can’t be trusted without a babysitter boss watching you in your cube and just because you hate being home around the wife you chose to marry doesn’t mean it’s true for the rest of us.

You want to complain about any flexibility and quality of life that WFH provides, as if the average employee has done even an iota of the damage and swindling that our c-suite and BOD have done for years.

No one is giving you a medal for being miserable to be around and we don’t want to be trapped in a gray building with you all day every day.

@ac that’s why everyone is looking to jump ship. The only people staying are the people who see the light at the end of the tunnel to retirement. This is the entire point of @OP post. You have a workforce where well over 60% are 5 years away from retirement. What happens when they’re all gone? You’re an id!ot.

@a2 but, but...collaboration, inclusion and casual collisions!!

"Then it should be easy to get another WFH job."

That's why everyone stays.

@a5 “RTO is the industry standard”
You keep telling yourself that Karen (or is it Ken).

Then it should be easy to get another WFH job.

Good luck guys!

@a5 RTO is not an industry standard. It’s not even close. Your claim is patently false and I’ll call it out as such every single time. Over 80% of companies operate in a Hybrid of WFH model. Out of all of our competitors in our industry we are the only one with a strict 5 day mandate. Why do you feel the need to come here and lie?

@a5 Please educate us on what "industry". Finance, big tech (some; not all) and AT&T. Cable and telecom companies are not 8-5, M-F except for us.

Please give us the facts vs your POV

@a5 are you unable to read? 80% are hybrid of WFH, how is that a standard of any kind? Also what “industry” are you even talking about?? We’re the only telecom company with a strict 5-day RTO policy. You must be high!

I wholeheartedly agree with this. The antiquated work in office model is dead. People are complying with RTO mandates simply they have no choice. Once the job market turns around this policy will die or they’ll be stuck with bottom of the barrel employees.

RTO is the industry standard.

Golf and run your errands on your own time.

We had no in-office requirement in 2019/pre-pandemic. I came into the office 2-3 times a week max, and only for meetings.

This is going to be a real problem to attract top talent as the boomers phase out. Does leadership not realize this is the reason they have such a hard time retaining employees under 40? When all the 50-60 something year olds are retired they’ll have to change their stance on RTO to convince anyone to work here. Go ahead build that office that no one’s going to use in 10 years. Bunch of dopes.

I would take a $30k pay cut to not have to do a commute and still get more done. I couldn’t care less about fancy office campuses.