Being asked to move. I will be sole-earner. I can move but I am seeing a lot of surpluses right after move. So am wondering if I will be jobless in new location, if there are more surpluses. Did anybody find themselves in this situation?
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This is a specific AT&T issue, though.
What once used to be a long-time, illustrious career has been whittled down to an office full of surplus and toxicity.
They still try and hire young, eager wire techs under the premise that you can retire after 40 years.
You can retire after 40 years, it just won't be with AT&T.
I retired and told them to stick it side ways. Haven't missed it one day. Miss my colleagues, but not the toxic incompetent leadership that ruined a once great company. When you reward failure, you get more of it.
“A job without job security.”
This isn’t specific to AT&T.
"What have you done to prepare during the last 3 years since the main announcement about company migration to hub offices was made?"
Even if you are in a hub office does not mean your job won't be moved to another hub.
I can’t find a job in current location or remote. I am choosing to relocate to hub cutting other family income streams. If they cut me loose there right after move, our family will be renting iiiias I am pretty sure I may not find a job in Dallas too due to not upskilling. Whst do y’all suggest? I am working to upskill but it doesn’t happen overnight. What shall I do? What did y’all do who rented in new place and got stuck like this? I have kids too
Don’t do it! Start looking for another job immediately. I was put on a surplus list 6 months after moving and luckily found another job. There are many folks here who did the same thing and regretted it, like me!
Yes I've heard of people surplused a year after moving.
You have two options:
Don't move. Stay close to friends and family.
Update resume.
Use your network of friends and find another job.
Move and be "the new guy".
Rent for at least a year to find a desirable area.
Update your resume.
Create a new network of friends.
- If* there's a surplus in Dallas you are "the new guy" and first on the chopping block.
Find another job.
There is no such thing as job security anywhere. Stay up to date on skills and resume.
My group has been RTO the past 8 months or so. My commute is nearly 3 hours round-trip. I'm almost wishing they would ask me to move.
I can start a new life, get away from it all. Almost a new job, really.
Hoping it wouldn't be as toxic as it is now.
A dream, far, far away.
Why, John. Why?
They usually wait till the home purchase, then surplus or what ever you want to call it. No money. Then you lose all the down payment when the bank repossesses. It’s in the corporate manual. You will be offered a lucrative wire tech position.
If you were asked to move it’s because they want you gone. It’s not because they want you in location XYZ.
I saw it happen to a co-worker. He had to relocate and then was hit by the following rounds of surpluses. The good news is he landed on his feet in Dallas.
Dallas is best place to move. Good schools and many opportunities.
Dallas down town office is a great place. More visibility, more opportunities, health center and they have ping pong and pool. It’s like its own city.
Surpluses in T are there always but it mostly depends on your organization. If you think you will surplussed, then you should leave the company before they removr you. If you are happy where you are you should just stay there and quickly find some new job.
Very likely. If you choose to go, go by yourself, rent something or find a room mate. Chances are, you’ll be laid off within the year. I’d only move to Dallas if that was a better location than where I currently live.
Stop baby crying and get sympathy on this board instead do what needs to be done.
Goby yourself; rent something cheap. Don’t uproot kids. You’ll be home in a year probably.
@ab GFY goofy. What have you done to stop being such a loser the last 3 years. You’re the guy everyone at the office can’t stand.
What have you done to prepare during the last 3 years since the main announcement about company migration to hub offices was made?
You know you don’t “have” to move..
Right??
Find another job.
I am recently seeing improvements in the job market monitoring LinkedIn, Indeed, etc.
It's AT&T. You'll eventually be jobless anywhere you go.
No where is safe. This is the atmosphere they have created.
A job without job security.