Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

No one is happy about working in the office 5 days a week. Let me repeat "No One" regardless if what is being said on here. However, what is worse is jockeying for a seat daily as there absolutely no reason for this when folks are suppose to be in the office daily there should be assigned seating. It is inhumane and it is unhealthy especially in the winter with people sick everywhere and coming to work. It is just gross. Stope the B.S. about collaboration as I have no idea day to day where to find my colleagues as we are all over the place and on different floors and is not until noon before we run into each other.

@dk listen to me office troll, any brown-nosing will not help you to stay employed and you can be laid off at anytime

Stop acting like a baby

They are literally only doing this to get people to quit so they don't have to pay severance, etc. That's it. Because you're right, there's no collaboration, innovation and engagement taking place outside of Teams meetings. Sure, some people show up in-person into those meetings but they're largely staring at their laptops or phones like a tool.

This is only about getting people to quit to save them money. Which is why blowing up buildings and erecting a brand new one when we have so many cash and debt issues is mind blowing. Oh, and we're WAY behind T-Mobile. Never going to be #1 again. Just wait until T-Mobile starts to show the marketing power behind fiber. Hate to break the news to anyone that's optimistic. You should probably just quit. It won't work.

I'm off to go innovate and collaborate (on a Teams call, of course)!

Look I get it wanting to complain I don't think there's anyone who truly likes coming into the office 5 days a week but company leadership has made it clear it's here to stay. No amount of complaining is going to change it unfortunately.

@ca no.

“I don’t want to spend 3 hours of my day driving in the car to sit on calls I could have done from home.”

Then seek employment elsewhere.

@a7 When they start the post with "Kindly" you know exactly who is posting. They are also prone to doing the needful. Paid social media shills on the subcontinent steering the narrative whichever way McStinkfresh wants.

As long as low IQ John Stinky is at the helm noting will make sense. Stock still in $20.00 range after all the chaos John is still inflicting on this company. All the layoffs and retirements and hardships created by this loser.

@ac “job requirements”? You sh!tting us? So the only places on the entire planet where you can send emails and sit on Teams calls is one of these big d-mb boxes with the blue globe on it? Really? Then I guess no work can ever be done from home, a hotel if traveling for business, meeting with customers or vendors off-site, etc. because it doesn’t match your imaginary job requirements.

If you’re a thoracic surgeon, a job requirement is that you work in an operating room. That makes sense. What we have is an arbitrary ego stroke for minimally competent but maximally overpaid monkeys masquerading as leaders.

“There’s absolutely no reason we can’t be 3 days in the office and 2 from home like every other company.”

There’s actually a very good reason. Job requirements now have 5 days office presence as a requirement. If unable to meet this standard, you are free to leave.

@a4 you have to be either a bot, a company troll or too d-mb and out of touch to work anywhere other than a nursing home. The holes in your “argument” are larger than those Florida sinkholes that swallow entire homes into the abyss.

You nailed it. AT&T leadership is awful and they do not lead.

Kindly work in the office 9-5 M-F as has been done over a century. Family, daycare, and commuting has been factored in since the first day. Not a new endeavor.
Business is done when in the office and home is full of distractions and issues with family matters, family ties, and the View. Start your own company or quit sniveling about your current role

Then go find another job so you can work from home if you have the qualification and ability. Why the company has to bend over to satisfy the unqualified

There’s absolutely no reason we can’t be 3 days in the office and 2 from home like every other company. Whatever make believe collaboration there is can happen in 3 days it doesn’t need to be 5. You’re just making the worker bees angry and spiteful.

Remote work WILL eventually be 100% for office workers... may take a few yrs, but why doesnt "t" jump ahead of the competition and go virtual. Isnt this a communications company? Demonstrate your product and leap ahead of VZ.
If you don’t you’ll have nobody willing to work here in 5 years. Nobody wants to RTO anymore, especially not the younger generation. How about being a company that is actually appealing to new hires?