Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

“ What's so hard about being in the office 5 days a week? I did it for nearly 43 years and it didn't ki-l me. You should have known this work from home wouldn't last forever. Man up!”

Yep, I bet you still live in the same zip code as you were born? and the office you go to is in the same town your ancestors were also born? Didn't get out of SALEM LOT to make a living eh? Most of us in this century needs to get out of SALEM LOT to make a living and follow the job elsewhere. The mentality of living/dying under 1 company is such a BOOMER mentality, but I guess that's what makes it better at SALEM LOT. Say hi to CUJO for me.

Can I get a desktop computer since I’m supposed to be in the office now and can leave it there?
No way to contact me past 5.

“ What's so hard about being in the office 5 days a week? I did it for nearly 43 years and it didn't ki-l me. You should have known this work from home wouldn't last forever. Man up!”

Yea, well I remember those days too. Before modems, ISP, internet, broadband. Culture was 'live for work'. Then we got the modem, ISP, internet, broadband. And decades of hybrid working where we learned that you can have work AND a life. and BALANCE. And once pensions, good medical, and all the other good benefits were stripped away that's what kept us here. Those were the perks that made us bare the 'live for work'. We don't have that now. . . . After years of stressing they were for 'work-life-balance', Stankey shows his true colors and Boomer belief in 'live for work' era. Minus the benefits we had during that era. Disgusting.

It’s Jover!

RIP

Imagine holding T stock for any period longer than the time it takes Fidelity to sell it.
Crazy.

@1gco+1v7jOspp

that guy probably had his own secretary using typewriter

“Stankey Rally update. 22.48. Stock is up 50% going back one year. 4.5% just today. Love RTO.”

You’re a re--rd.
They literally just said on the Q3 meeting that actual performance was basically the same as prior years.
RTO has had no effect on anything besides attrition and morale.

Stankey Rally update. 22.48. Stock is up 50% going back one year. 4.5% just today. Love RTO.

“Can confirm this is happening. The rollout may be staggered but everyone 5 days in January. NVW be wary of the follow the work. It’s coming for all. May not have hit you yet but that’s a big big yet.”

Definitely not relocating now.

Can confirm this is happening. The rollout may be staggered but everyone 5 days in January. NVW be wary of the follow the work. It’s coming for all. May not have hit you yet but that’s a big big yet.

I am not playing their games. This 3x a week on a zip code I normally would not even apply because of how far it is from my house. I have changed buildings several times and this new office in Alpharetta is my 5th. The 3x a week takes me 1.5hr one way. I used to live nearby the office, they closed that one out. Sent me to another one, then they closed it too. My group can barely even find people and is hanging by a thread. I am quitting if this happens. I cannot afford to lose 10hrs a week commuting.

“No hourly monitoring, no LAN checking, just the old swipe 3 days a week.”

A lot of it has been fear mongering up to this point, tbh.

Still waiting for my 5 days in the office notification. Anyone else?

Thinking this won’t impact me…None of the rumors have….

No hourly monitoring, no LAN checking, just the old swipe 3 days a week.

“ What's so hard about being in the office 5 days a week? I did it for nearly 43 years and it didn't ki-l me. You should have known this work from home wouldn't last forever. Man up!”
I’m sure back then you actually had face to face meetings with people, used snail mail, had paper charts in meetings, flew and had business trips to meet with people, etc. it was a good time I’m told. Well, today we have this thing called teams where all the meetings occur virtually, we have to do the jobs of multiple people (you had tons of support roles back then), everyone is spread out all over the world today. Sitting in an office on a teams meetings all day and actually speaking to no one around you because everyone is in different orgs, your teammates and bosses are all in different locations. It’s just d-mb, antiquated, expensive for the company and bad for the environment. Kind of like using paper charts, snail mail memos, and a landline.

“If you worked for me and did that you would be fired for insubordination.”

Did what?
Lied about RTO?
Catch me if you can, hehe.

This means Mondays and Fridays too. No more four day vacations every week.

If you worked for me and did that you would be fired for insubordination.

"So happy I said stick your move to Dallas. Haven't missed it one day since May. There is life after the sh*t show"

But here you are reading and commenting on an AT&T message board.

So, this is a lie.

“So happy I said stick your move to Dallas. Haven't missed it one day since May. There is life after the sh*t show.”
Still here still posting? Are you sure you haven’t missed T?

WFH is officially dead.

“This is no longer true.”

You clearly don’t report to Lenox at least because it’s absolutely true.

"I call BS. I do 5 days a week and most days there are no seats available after about 7:20 am."

Same here after 8:00. People slowly shuffling looking for a desk remind us of scenes from the walking dead

It doesn't affect those protected by the good old boys club. We have 2 full time remote workers, both worthless sh**heads. My team was confident they would be released during the forced RTO or surplussed for convenience. Nope! They were the only ones allowed to continue to work remotely. I call it fulltime but they do come to the office 1 day per month. We've complained about them for years but our manager says his hand are tied by his leadership. Neither are significant contributors. The randomness of surplus and RTO enforcement makes no sense to the rest of us.

Happy Holidays!

“And there’s still not enough seats for everyone in these offices.”
This is no longer true.

“So happy I said stick your move to Dallas. Haven't missed it one day since May. There is life after the sh*t show”

I just lied, wanted to keep the cash, stock, and insurance rolling in, but yeah, looking forward to it.

So happy I said stick your move to Dallas. Haven't missed it one day since May. There is life after the sh*t show

“It’s obviously happening but I’d thought they’d at least wait until the Lenox and Alpharetta floor renovations were completed. I have no clue where people are going to sit until those are done.”

Stop being a pa--y!
Back in my day we worked from the girder grids while they were still building the tower!
They didn’t even strap us in!
I tell ya, we’d take our typewriters up there and notepads and work up the new plans with the wind in our face and the pigeons at our back all the while old Walter ran the rivet g-n.
You kids are such cry babies, why can’t you buy a house for $12.64 like I did and have $15 million from investing in Mcdonalds and Apple when it was .50c a share.
Incompetence and entitlement I say!

Look at Stankey! He RTO’s in his private jet with his armored SUV, driver, and special parking - why can’t you?!

Gets my jimmies all ruffled.

What a coward, the useless appendage should have just announced it at his town hall but was probably scared of the response.

It’s obviously happening but I’d thought they’d at least wait until the Lenox and Alpharetta floor renovations were completed. I have no clue where people are going to sit until those are done.

This is Walter Stonewall I started at AT&T in 1920 and we rode horses up hill both ways to the switching station to watch the se-y ladies pull the wires out and put them in other holes for the rotary landlines!

Oh please, I used to haul two pails of water in my shoulders, in the snow, up hill both ways, during WW2 Leningrad, where we had to eat rats to survive.

But I tell ya h'wat, I always made it to the top and restored AT&T's morse code landline service.

“What's so hard about being in the office 5 days a week? I did it for nearly 43 years and it didn't ki-l me. You should have known this work from home wouldn't last forever. Man up!”

Yeah!
I’ve been saying this about cars for years!
This is Walter Stonewall I started at AT&T in 1920 and we rode horses up hill both ways to the switching station to watch the se-y ladies pull the wires out and put them in other holes for the rotary landlines!
Why’d we ever even bother with cars, Bessie my trusty steed never failed me!
I also bought my house for $500 and now it’s worth $3 million!
Only whites lived in the city, we kept all the riff-raff on the other side of the fence I can’t imagine anyone not wanting to commute to the city!
Hog wash I say!

5 days a week starting Thanksgiving week huh?

Are they providing Turkey dinner for us on Thursday, or?

What's so hard about being in the office 5 days a week? I did it for nearly 43 years and it didn't ki-l me. You should have known this work from home wouldn't last forever. Man up!

Why is the simple fact that there aren’t seats to accommodate everyone at the same time being discussed?

And no, sycophants…we’re not sitting on the floor.

“Not fake at all people. I am a direct report to an Officers Chief of Staff. “

Chief of Staff do not have direct reports.

“This has been happening in other or now for at least a year and a half. And there’s still not enough seats for everyone in these offices.”

Too bad, not enough parking spaces either.
Guess you’ll need to sit on top of each other, in hallways, etc.

This has been happening in other or now for at least a year and a half. And there’s still not enough seats for everyone in these offices.