I have about 2 months to go due to an agreement to allow for a backfill to be familiarized with the role. RTO was the deal-breaker but not for the reason the whiners complain about. Prior to Covid my team came to the office 1 day each month. Not the same day. I've been on this team for 13 years and I had never seen the entire team in the office until our 5 day RTO began 16 months ago. RTO has shown me that I work with some of the laziest people in all of AT&T. WFH hid all of that. 2 weeks ago I decided retirement would be the only change that would provide me with an immediate quality of life improvement. There is not much within AT&T that is not broken, some beyond repair.
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They just do not get it. Those who took advantage during Covid WFH are the same ones that take advantage in the office as they are sitting for two hour coffee breaks, taking long lunches etc. If you are a hard worker and responsible it does not matter where you work from as you will do a good job.
@OP You survived. Let it go now and enjoy the retirement you've earned. Good luck!
“ You look on Teams and it says they were seen 3 hours ago…”
I am often sitting at my desk with my Teams indicating saying “Be Right Back” or “Away”. I also know people that simply never log into Teams .
@d1 making RTO entirely pointless. You need to get your managers to deal with the slackers, not pi-s off your doers
Live your Designation, unless you are protected by the good old boy network.
“That’s why RTO is completely pointless.”
Let’s keep this conversation going at the office next week. See you there.
RTO or Vo does not matter those you could not find in the PM still leave and come back when they want. You look on Teams and it says they were seen 3 hours ago.
Shame on the managers who did not know what their team was doing.
Are you really d-mb enough to think people played golf and tennis instead of working? You can’t get away without being available and delivering real results on your assignments and commitments. Where, when, how you do that is irrelevant as long as it gets done. That’s why RTO is completely pointless.
RTO has made my work life he-l. No more golfing. No more tennis. Gotta work now.
The office is the only way for 90% of the employees to produce and move ahead. Too many people took advantage of Covid WFH after moving to another state and never put kids back in daycare and bought some pups since everyone was mostly home. They learned to play tennis and golf and joined country clubs with mid morning and afternoon tee times.
Now they have to find a daycare and teach the dogs to crate and have to buy another car and complain about the end of goofing off at home. The end.
I always thought RTO was wrong until reading more of the posts on this board. I now see it as needed and necessary.
@ah it seems like a lot of the telecom industry has the same issues with leadership simply not knowing enough about the organization and/or are simply too lazy or greedy to care. Go look at what is going on at Crown Castle. What a waste of good talent. Elliott has a reputation of destroying good companies and systems & CCI is no different.
I’m thinking AT&T and others will soon be looking at alternatives to try to move away from the dumpster fires going on at CCI, because you know it will only get worse over there.
Many assigned full time to office very seldom go to the office now that less attention is given to presence reporting. Usually unavailable online for long periods of time. What are you doing if you aren't where you are supposed to be?
Company could care less about lazy or skills. It's simply a headcount per org game they play. A person let go in one org could be smarter or harder working than the stupidest in another. They don't let go people based on their overall value or ability to contribute to the entire company. It's first and foremost a location and then organization level decision.
That's why all these skillset rehashes are also a joke. When will you ever see an org saying, "we'll layoff one of our people in exchange for bringing in someone else being let go from another." Just doesn't happen.
That's also why people get upset with all the exceptions the company makes...one org allows someone remote and and another org lays off a good person for not being in a hub. Or another org makes up "centers of excellence" to save an entire group while another doesn't.
Glad to see you go - you and your boomer-era outlook won't be missed. Unfortunate that we had to endure you for as long as we did.
Everyone pays the price for layers of bloated sack "management" who can't be bothered to do their jobs. It's just too hard to enforce any measure of accountability and we know these folks are deathly allergic to hard work...
That was their plan all along. Make your life he-l until you voluntarily leave.
And there was no way to performance manage people like that? Yeah right buddy.
I do believe what RTO has exposed is the lazy people in the company. There were many people hiding out while WFH. Unfortunately, everyone pays the price for the lazy among us.
@a8 not quickly enough
Cool story bro.
It's not as much RTO as lack of any assemblage of seating. Can never find anyone as they could be anywhere from day to day so it's the same teams calls as before... only harder to concentrate or hear anyone
I was against RTO at the beginning but now see how important it is. My team had a number of employees who were never responsive during the afternoon. Being in the office has caused them to now have presence throughout the day.