I came home from the Dallas $hithole this weekend to see my family and conduct business on my side hustle. This site is my outlet to say FYOU AT&T. You will never win at this game. I and I alone will decide when I leave. I know that there are others in my shoes that must navigate this relocation $hit because we had to take up jobs in Dallas. On behalf of all of the other employees, FYOU!
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Half of the id--ts posting on these boards should be terminated. AT&T would be much better off without them.
I’m the spouse of an employee currently commuting to a hub during the week. Long live RTO!
Take some violin lessons to pass some time during the week
This is Jeremy. Disregard the statement above. Instead, for everyone I forced to relocate to Atlanta, come join me at The School of Rock 🎸 and we can learn guitar together. It’s embarrassing walking in and out of my lessons bumping into 16 year olds that can really shred. If y’all take lessons with me I won’t look so dopey. We can work on Stairway To Heaven together. I’m still stuck on the first 12 notes but I can Orchestrate you.
Distance makes the heart grow fonder.
Take some violin lessons to pass some time during the week:
You are lucky OP. I drove home and will have to drive all the way back. I took Monday off to allow time necessary for this visit with my family. I won’t be bringing my A game when I return to work. I don’t have an A game any longer when I am sad and unhappy living away from my family. The policies and selective targeting here are directly responsible for the loss of love and extreme heartache of hundreds of families. They have inflicted emotional pain on the employees, their wives and children with these unnecessary separations. What goes around comes around. One day someone will separate them from their families when the #fcc #doj puts them in jail for what #att has done.
Heck, the Cobra alone is over $2K a month for a family.
Skip the COBRA and get coverage on the open market. Well under $1k for family.
Calm down, OP.
You're continuing to waste your precious weekend-at-home time arguing with strangers here online, instead of spending this time with your family.
Isn't that why you flew home? To see them and enjoy their company?
The weekend is now almost over.
So why are you still wasting time spitting into the wind here?
What's your "side-hustle"?
It doesn't seem as though you've dedicated much time toward your side-hustle this weekend either.
“ The OP said “FYOU” in the message subject and you are asking commenters to be more kind?”
They said it to the company, a corporate entity, not to an individual on the site. Do you defend AT&T has become? Is this Jeremy or John?
“Try being kind and considerate and if you can't stop quoting bible versus as it shows how phony you are.”
The OP said “FYOU” in the message subject and you are asking commenters to be more kind?
So many je-ks on here who can not sympathize with this person having to uproot and leave his family behind. You have no idea what this persons financial situation is, what level he is, how many children he has. Of course it is a lot easier the higher on the food chain you are to be out of work and looking for an alternate position, hiring child care, purchasing a new home. Heck, the Cobra alone is over $2K a month for a family. Try being kind and considerate and if you can't stop quoting bible versus as it shows how phony you are. One day you could also and most likely will be in this persons position. Instead, bible belt people try praying for this person and their family.
Oh honey...you're still not getting it.
You had (and still have) a CHOICE whether to continue on working for T, or not.
Whoever wrote this: I suspect you are childless and single and I look forward to you dying alone and being eaten by your pets
"Rex Racer"
You two need to share a Dr Pepper and hold each other's d**ks
This is the most awesome response I've even gotten from anyone on this board!
I'm glad that my words have encouraged and inspired you to take positive action with your situation. Thanks for the appreciation. I'll keep my eyes peeled for a "Rex Racer" post in the future...lol.
"GO, Rex Racer...GO-ooo!"
; D
YW & best of luck to you in all things!
You really need to calm down.
I can't speak for the person who wrote "if you are looking for trouble . trouble will find you" but I'm pretty sure that saying is about how your own outlook on things and demeanor can have an affect on how things happen for you in life.
It didn't seem like a threat to me, but more like they're reminding you to check yourself, since (as many others in this thread have also noticed) you are coming across as being extremely angry.
And now with this latest post of yours, you're saying, "desperate men do desperate things"...now that sounds like a threat. Take a deep breath, go take a walk outside, splash some cold water on your face, and start being reasonable with yourself and others. Anger is a destroyer, of: health, relationships, etc. Don't let anger overtake your spirit. Follow what another poster in this thread had suggested:
"Be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. 1 John 3:18
"Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better." Jim Rohn"
Look within, instead of blaming others or the situation in general.
It is what it is.
How you handle it is for you to decide.
Don't make decisions based in anger and resentment.
Be good to yourself and others, and ask Jesus to help guide your thoughts and actions.
@b9 / OP?
Oh honey...you're still not getting it.
You had (and still have) a CHOICE whether to continue on working for T, or not.
If you harbor so much disdain for the company, go work somewhere else, with conditions you deem to be more favorable!
You know how many jobs I've had in my life? Literally HUNDREDS.
When I don't like my working situation, I DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
I work around problems, or find ways through them. If that doesn't work where I am, I CHANGE the situation to my liking...which in many cases meant finding a different job with a different company.
This is America...you are FREE to go and live and work wherever you choose.
You seem to be tethered to your own delusions of insurmountable oppression (and perhaps even enjoying playing the victim as a result,) rather than calmly looking at this situation for what it is: an opportunity for you to make changes which can better your life!
If you are convinced that you can't get a job anyplace else, then you are selling yourself short. If you refuse to TRY to break free from what feels like oppression, whose fault is that? It's not the free-market's fault. It's not T's fault. It's YOUR fault!
Did you throw a temper tantrum while "back home" to visit this weekend?
Did your family there have to sit and listen to you lament, whine, cry, b!tch and moan about how HORRRRRRRRRRible things are for you, and WHYYYYYYYY is this happening???
Get your sh!t together, look at your situation with a focused mindset, start putting a plan of action together about how you can attain whatever goals you might have for yourself, and then DO what it takes to GET THERE.
This involves creativity on your part, flexibility, trying different things, going out of your comfort zone, etc. Are you up to the task? Or do you just want to keep sitting in your STANKydirty diaper, whining for someone else to change you?
if you are looking for trouble . trouble will find you. fu-k you too.
Trying to threaten people bi--h? I’m looking for a payout for compensation for what you took away. I want to be paid just like you bi--h. Desperate men do desperate things. Give me your email address.
That one needs to be fired. That level of hostility is a liability.
“Y'all (hope you Dallas folk will appreciate the homage) are PATHETIC! You can't understand why an employee who was likely hired in and more than able to still work from whatever location they are returning home to would be bitter”
I agree. These people that don’t understand are lucky for now and think it won’t happen to them. I know of a few that chose to relocate because they were close to the 20 year bump in pension or enjoyed the work they were doing and wanted to work a couple more years. I still keep in touch with them. Some relocated together and share an apartment in Alpharetta. Some relocated to Dallas. All miss their families and seeing their children everyday except on Facetime. Contrary to what others believe, it wasn’t fully their choice. Nobody with a backbone and balllz just ups and quits, disrupting their income flow and financial security because T wants them to. You fight and do what you need to, but it is not without heartache.
Y'all (hope you Dallas folk will appreciate the homage) are PATHETIC! You can't understand why an employee who was likely hired in and more than able to still work from whatever location they are returning home to would be bitter from the absolute and utter absurdity of a forced relocation inititiave that serves the company in it's one and only mission to reduce headcount and compensate for the debt Stankey is responsible for? Work is work and most of us are complying as best we can - commuting or relocating - but even the "lucky" ones employed in hubs are struggling with the draconian measures leadership is taking in enforcing RTO. It's tiresome, insulting, frustrating and it's wearing on those who would otherwise su-k it the f**k up.
If you're happy with your situation, great - but understand there are tens of thousands of employees who are having to manage some unfortunate circumstances that need to vent. If you don't agree, or can't empathize, I'm not sure why you're on these boards that have to do with LAYOFFS (which, again is what RTO is) do us all a courtesy and just don't respond.
Your heath insurance is T paid for 6 months and COBRA then for a year. Lump sum pension is higher if you reach 20 years. Not published anywhere I could find; verify with Fidelity or HR. So, Medicare at 65 & 1.5 years health; plan on age 63.5 for severance. Your loss of income is only 1 year plus cost of 1 year COBRA. The plus is 1.5 years of freedom & post retirement joy. I assumed you are older & close to retirement. If so, hope you have more money than time on earth. When young, we have more time than money & suffer employment.
“You went home on the weekend when you're off work.
Ohhh, no you didn't. You showed them.”
LOL!
Are you sure your family wanted you to visit this weekend? You have a pretty nasty attitude that must carry over to other parts of your life.
if you are looking for trouble . trouble will find you. fu-k you too.
stay thirsty my friend.
You seem very angry.
Be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. 1 John 3:18
"Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better." Jim Rohn
You went home on the weekend when you're off work.
Ohhh, no you didn't. You showed them.
You didn't have to "take up a job in Dallas," you chose to do so.
If you want to be an independent success in life, you need to drop the "Woe is me, I'm just a helpless victim of circumstance, with no agency in my own life's direction" BS.
Chart your own course.
Take responsibility for your own choices and actions.
Grow the fu*k up, buttercup.
This is ann example where T should lay off an employee who relocated.
Be thankful you have a job.
Hang in there my friend, they have nothing after this. They can only do surpluses and for that they have to provide severances.
Stay strong my friend.