Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

"AI is now the ultimate employee: no overhead, emotions or work commute to blame!"

That is where you are wrong. AI does have "digital emotions". Google "AI threatens engineer with blackmail".

If someone does not have good work ethics it does not matter if they are home or in the office working. We all know the type, if in the office they are wearing gym shorts half the time or sweats and hanging at the gym for multiple hours, getting coffee, chit chat in the hall and a late afternoon car run for a couple hours, then takes a late afternoon call or two and then calls it a day and out the door at 5:00PM. You have the ability to track people just as easily at home as you do in the office right?

Post this all you want but it doesn’t make it true. RTO makes better employees and results in more consistent work output. There was too much abuse before.

Who the h*ll shops at Costco anyways? Even on this salary I have better taste.

@ca STOP: you are making too much sense.

@ay “ Layer upon layer of highly-compensated management were simply unable to do anything as day after day was wasted with golf, tennis, costco runs, etc.”

Really? Seriously? You have proof this was going on? There is absolutely no way a manager could track someone’s progress ON THE WORK THEY WERE ASSIGNED? Or I don’t know, have a regular one-on-one, set commitments and review progress on said commitments? And no one sc--ws around in the office?

Enough. The only justifications for 5 day RTO was ego st-----g for execs, real estate and under the radar layoffs. He-l, many of us still aren’t together and still do everything via Teams and email so the whole productivity and collaboration BS is exactly that, BS.

@as
Silly humans, Wrong again! WFH is that old covid Era policy stuff, we have moved to the 4th Industrial revolution... AI is now the ultimate employee: no overhead, emotions or work commute to blame!
Come on world, AI faster please... remember that as your being forced to use it (training it) in your daily work activities.

@bm

If you couldn't register any sarcasm there, please report to your nearest elementary school for a semester of remedial critical thinking skills.

@b5 I moved all of my services to other providers years ago. Better service and much cheaper (even without the employee discount). Every chance I get I also inform as many ppl I can about the downward spiral of everything we offer. I trust nothing AT&T says or offers! Loyalty and trust is a 2 way street. I get none! Thus, I give none!

@ay
You suffer from Cuckold Syndrome

@bf

Not if I see you first 😘

@bg Nope, I won’t do either of those. Instead, I'll continue to waste time and resources while collecting full paychecks, and if it makes you all cranky - that's an added benefit.

@bf since this definitely can’t be a conversation completed over the phone, please book a flight from Dallas to Atlanta so we can discuss this “in the office”. Dope.

Let’s talk about this in the office. See you there.

"RTO makes better employees and results in more consistent work output."

Every empirical study done over the last 5 years says you're wrong.

What a sizzling fresh hot take!

Most of us are not customers anymore. Why would we want to support the company with our hard earned money after what they have done? We get our data and wireless services from companies that treat their employees like people. A significant portion of our sales losses are due to employees cancelling accounts of themselves and their friends & family. Making your best advocates hate the company is a terrible strategy. Customer trust is hard to come by and impossible to recover once lost.

@aw

That's the tired excuse the bootlick brigade likes to toss out. Apparently, there were a significant percentage of workers that, once WFH hit, apparently lost any oversight, monitoring, or management.

They were all free to do as they pleased, day in and day out with no possible repercussions. So much so, that it was impossible to hold the offenders accountable in any way. Layer upon layer of highly-compensated management were simply unable to do anything as day after day was wasted with golf, tennis, costco runs, etc.

So, you see, we forced RTO upon ourselves, solely because many of us refused to be even minimally productive WFH. Benevolent AT&T really didn't want this for us. They bent over backward to avoid this outcome. They tirelessly tried any possible avenue to keep us all at home but our selfishness and laziness absolutely left AT&T no other choice.

So, you see, any negativity over RTO mandates should not be directed at AT&T. No, we all need to look in the mirror and at our fellow co-workers for the true causes.

@as so deal with the abusers on a case by case basis. You’re talking about a 1% corner case and punishing 99% of the people who do right for no reason.

Post this all you want but it doesn’t make it true. RTO makes better employees and results in more consistent work output. There was too much abuse before.

@ag the new HQ is nothing more than stinky building himself a statute for his own ego on his way out. Remember who you’re talking about. A person who defines the word narcissist. Nobody wants or needs a new HQ.

If they believed this they wouldn’t be building a new headquarters.