Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

This opinion piece is total BS. The jobs aren’t going away or being taken by AI. They’re all going to cheap labor overseas.

Gene is probably divorced and has a couple of estranged kids. Work is his life and he believes that should be true for everyone else.

He's making assumptions that just shows his ignorance of a large corporation. Yes, there are big email lists and stupidly large meetings, all because of the CYA culture. The corporations have done this to themselves.

And just because poor Gene doesn't have the discipline to work from home and not spend all his time watching p0rn, doesn't mean the rest of us weren't giving extra hours and getting "exceeds expectations" year after year doing a great job for the company.

And no, employees don't care about the business like they are the owner, because they aren't. Why would I care about AT&T like Gene cares about his business if AT&T can say "we're disbanding your business group, here's your 2 week notice".

And Gene is butt hurt about employees using the benefits that are part of our compensation? Oh, and he's upset because nothing gets done when said employees are using those benefits? Well maybe that corporation shouldn't have decimated its work force to where there's only 1 person responsible and no one to cover when that person is on vacation.

Its so funny how people like Gene and companies like AT&T get upset about disruptions to the business, when it was the business that made the decisions that caused the disruption (not the employee).

I'm sorry, I think Gene and Stankey both suffer from little d!ck syndrome.

What are companies suppose to do with unneeded workers? They don't want to keep them around if there isn't work to do.

@bv exactly. Between them and vanguard they own nearly 70% of the entire market.

One word “OVERSEAS”!

The CEO of blackrock has a big hand in all this. They buy up a large enough stake to control the company.

Thankfully we're all safe. It's all the innovation and collaboration stuff! Whoops, almost time for me to hop on my next Teams meeting!

@a6
We do not need to hear about your personal or transitioning struggles. Anti RTO only!

That’s why you’ll see more implement 5-Day RTO. It’s a cheap layoff and nothing else. Talk about the quickest way to get the bare minimum out of your people.

Greed pure and simple

Opinion piece from a small business owner that has never worked at a big company. Just a lack of understanding since he is his own accountant, project manager, developer, etc… Things can’t move fast at big companies because there are a lot of people involved and a lot of internal processes to manage the sheer number of requests. When you’re a startup or a small business it’s easy to run fast because there are fewer folks/departments to deal with. At a big company like att, there is just too many which unfortunately necessary to get all the work done. There’s just a lot more work to do which is why things take longer.

Business strategy. Buy other businesses, inflate debt, collect acquisition bonus, blame first line employees for business failures. Rinse and repeat.

Here’s a trade secret: leaders lay off employees that are unremarkable and not mission critical. If someone else can pick up the work, why pay two people to do it?

Summary

Corporations layoff people because it helps their bottom line. Mind blown.

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