Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

If you don’t like RTO, then go find a new job! Why you are still here because you are under qualified and can’t go anywhere.

Name ONE company who went hard on RTO and is pulling back. I know of none.

@ef maybe for a few more months, but it WILL end eventually. They simply cannot afford to keep bleeding talent.

@ef

Coming from someone who doesn't know the difference between "here" and "hear", your comment isn't worth much. Back to 4th grade for you, until you get a grasp on the basics.

So sorry that you won't get your jollies by peeking at my di-k in the restroom. I'll stay WFH and unspied upon.

RTO is hear to stay. Get used to it.

so many people very wrapped up in where others work.

why is it so important to you? just hoping for a quick glance at a fresh di-k in the men's room? or maybe a few new farts to sniff?

@dh wrong.

"Home is for retired folks, and I have that covered."

LMAO

For crying out loud, give it up! You lost , big time buy a Prius. C suite wins again!!!

“ My wife and I retired at the end of 2023..“

No one cares. No need for you to weigh in. Go back to starting at the wall.

"RTO is Ending everywhere but here" OP, please list 5 major corporations that are ending RTO. Thank you

@ay Hey genius you don’t think people have applied out? Like the article in the first reply says, right now employers are doing this because they can. Job markets change and when this one does, dinosaur companies like AT&T will be ones who lose from these ridiculous policies.

@ag - when was it OK for a president to dictate the commercial operations of a publicly traded company (unless something is illegal).

If he wants to tie it to some government contract or program, then write it into the contract or the law governing the program so it applies to all. Not tie it to how he feels if he sees his orange combover flopping in the sink or not.

In other words STFU m0r0n!!

@ay

I did change my circumstances, I was a high performer and got virtual when I said “yeah no I resign” when they asked me to move.

I still think RTO is d-mb af and feel genuinely guilty about my co workers who have to commute everyday when I don’t have to.

My question to you is, if you’re such a boss, why are you in the office and on here trying to shoot people down who hate commuting everyday?

Why didn’t you negotiate virtual and change your circumstance?

At the least, Beetlejuice always had a game plan

@ay

I choked at your comment. It's mesmerizing! I envision a room full of people like Beetlejuice from The Howard Stern Show. Just drones that trigger one another's emotional annoyances, and they ALL have THE ANSWER.

@av Haven't heard a comment about it in the office in months other than traffic, filthy restrooms, and people wearing far too much perfume. All pre-Covid BAU. Mature people adapt to change, or change their circumstances. The immature whine and complain, and those are a special novelty on this forum. They have nothing to offer, can't change their circumstances and lack the intelligence to shut their pieholes until they've done something to improve their chances of getting out of the hellhole they perceive themselves to be in. It seems counterintuitive, but it certainly is amusing.

@av the new normal for who? 70% of companies still operate in a WFH or Hybrid arrangement. Your claim is egregious.

It's no longer RTO. It is the new normal. The time for whining has long passed.

Why the techs need to show up for 8hrs and the managers just need 6hrs. Management can take the company cars commute to work from home?

RTO is just used for firing in AT&T , there is no intention for collaboration or increasing productivity. Whoever telling these things are just covering up illegal firing.

My wife and I retired at the end of 2023. Currently pulling a combined $6975 per month from SS, rolled our penions and 401K's into IRA's. No Bills to speak of, and no plans to touch any of the retirement funds until maybe 2034 IF the SS reductions are made at that time. Here's the deal, and you can help us out. Stop complaining, and start working. Don't get fired, quit working or take a lesser paying job just to work remotely. I am at home, and you need to be in the office. Home is for retired folks, and I have that covered. You can help by continuing to contribute to SS so we don't have to dip into the retirement funds in 2034. Teamwork, we each do our part. Now is not the time to be selfish and think only of yourselves.

The quality of the work offshore is abysmal regardless.
You can stop RTO, and curtail offshoring at the same time, they’re not mutually exclusive.
You can also stop H1B which will help.

You can allow people to work from home and stop hiring foreigners to undercut Americans.

We can do both, and if you don’t think so you’re a tool.

RTO is expanding not going away. Trump supports RTO.

RTO is needed to stop all the useless offshore people. no need to have them if people are working again the usa. we already are over spending on ovffshore

RTO didn't work in Alpharetta. Our DEI manager didn't leave and is even flying to Dallas to hang out with the team. Not a single person on the team is in the office they are at, and Torretta turns a blind eye to it all, not to mention all the remote workers that got a free pass.

Not sure if that's true, though I'd like it to be. Different industry, but Big 4 accounting firms have recently implemented 3 days in office in many offices.

@a8

nope. try harder next time.

Your getting paid so RTO and actually work.

RTO is a joke and anyone that reads this knows that. There is no need for it.

You still don’t get it… People who list managements reasons for RTO are complete useless eaters. RTO was never about any of that. People have told you over and over, RTO is about making people uncomfortable so that they will leave.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91418980/rto-mandates-backfire

In case “RTO is the standard” guy chimes, and we know it will, even the normally sycophantic business press is coming around to this.

Our brilliant leadership, well their heads are a lot harder and denser.