Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

Tell your immediate manager in privacy. In most cases, your Director gets a number and they will try to meet it in the least painful way possible. They may need to pretend you are a bad performer but they can also pretend whatever you work on is being reduced.

Some Directors this round in Walters were able to take people in this situation, but some filled their number with their "no, won't relocate" people...and we're all being told there will be another round in fall, so just hang on a few months. Answers vary because it depends on the situation.

Some of these responders are clearly low performers going to be next. Any intelligence would deduce from the context that the title was a typo, probably a phone fat finger. Low performers don't come out and ask how to get surpluses. It's highly likely the OP is a consistent top performer, maybe even retirement eligible, looking for a way to maximize their exit, as any smart person would do.

@ha Walter’s org told us no volunteers. This one’s gonna be a bloodbath

Walters org lets people volunteer. But it’s too late now - the list has long been made.
Maybe next layoff.
L3s&L4 protected in this org. They are going after L1s who do union work and get overtime. It adds up to L2
costs.

@dytomato
This time they will pick those who refused RTO. Teaching others "if you refuse RTO, you will be surplused." That's the goal this time.
There will be surplus in October and in December, and they will take those who want to go. HR

@e5 whelp, time to get back to the company truck and harness up.

Wilp. See you on the cimmute.

Let your manager know you’re interested in leaving should a surplus come around. Your volunteering gives your 2/L & 3/L an easy way out of the dirty work. Believe it or not there are some managers that hate to surplus a team member. You should get picked unless there is someone on your team they really want out. Even if you don’t get picked they will have you top of mind when the next surplus comes. You can bet there will be a next one.

OP is a top performer.

He graduated from the Learing Center!

@cq
The three I know leaving volunteered after their second level had a team call and said for those interested in leaving to call and let them know.

If you are wanting to leave, tell your second level.

Since you don’t possess even basic spelling skills, you’ve likely already been targeted for termination and won’t need to volunteer.

Vilunteer (noun)
vil·un·teer /vɪl-ən-TEER/

A combination of the words villain and volunteer.

1. A person who enthusiastically volunteers other people for tasks they have no intention of doing themselves.
   "When the office needed someone to organize the fundraiser, Dave immediately became a vilunteer and signed up three coworkers."
2. Someone who appears the moment help is needed—not to help, but to assign helpers.
3. The friend who says, “We can totally help you move this weekend,” and then mysteriously develops plans.

Example sentence:
"My boss is such a vilunteer—before I knew it, I was doing the job of three people who had been laid off."

My group was told they're not taking volunteers so don't bother telling them.

How do you “think” you might do that?

You don’t seem too bright, so you may not need to worry about the “vilunteering” part.

They do not want volunteers as they know you’ll be leaving soon anyway. They want the people planning to stick around 5+ yrs

I told my supervisor I wanted to go. Was told we do not pay people to retire. I said OK I will stick around until you cant stand me anymore. Six months later I was surplussed

Let my supervisor know earlier this year. Last day on payroll is 7/1.

Retired L2, told my director and our HR Business Leader that should there ever be a surplus, I would like to be included to save another's position. Long history of consecutive far exceeds which would normally exclude you. A few months later when the surplus was announced, I was included.

Tell your manager.
Right now, it doesnt mean you will get it.