I don't know, but I like working at AT&T. I guess I'm technically working at DTV, but I enjoy the work. Software engineer working with microservices. Team is great, scrum master is great.
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I wish you luck. I can tell you...you will need it. They are super unhealthy and the company only meets it's numbers by downsizing. Covid just gave them an excuse to escalate those efforts. If you're good at what you do, keep an eye on the market so you can get out quickly. You will need it at some point. They are literally one of the worst run companies ever. With your skills, there are companies that make their numbers on the upside...not by laying people off.
DTV's scrum teams are so lame, if anything doesn't get done, the stories just get pushed to the next sprint. Lots of story points are inflated so people can do stuff at thier pace.
Good for you, and I hope your resume and LinkedIn are current.
OP said “ I guess I'm technically working at DTV". He/she is likely a project-contractor on a work assignment that AT&T outsourced to reduce its TechDev worker-bee headcount yet avoiding having to thin out its rank of senior management.
OP said “ I guess I'm technically working at DTV, but I enjoy the work.”
How are you unsure where you are working?
10 hours ago by Anonymous | 13 reactions (+9/-4)
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Because the organization and department you are assigned to and your overall job function can have little to do with your “Payroll” company.
Enjoying your work and your colleagues is great. Too bad you work for AT&T, so really every job is just a temporary assignment.
your head is in the sand. DTV has been dead since randy bought it. customers fleeing. great job, yes you are different, probably special in many ways
Love to know how the "micro-service software development work" OP is enjoying would help stem the endless loss of DTV subscribers ever since its acquisition, which greatly contributes to the financial decline of AT&T and rounds of layoff in recent years.
Technologies like micro-services and virtualization, and organization techniques like DevOps are important tools, but sadly wholesale misappropriation of these tools as cure-all by ATO leaders like Donovan/Fuetsch, did untold harms to AT&T's leadership in new network/service development.
This doesn't make sense..if you like your job and everything is peaches, then why are you trolling a layoff board?
“ Software engineer working with microservices”
Att is moving into the gig realm. Developers are contractors, who are provided requirements, they produce a product, and then they are gone. Onto the next contractor. Devs are the easiest thing to cut. There’s only a small number left in ago techdev.
If you like your job, it means your boss is screening and deflecting the endless company BS that makes the cost of writing 10 lines of code $100K. Like I try to. Good for you, and him/her, but it won't last. Soon enough ASLA, AVT, CCDR, SAST, DAST, Tenable, and other useless bullsht will be along to ruin your life or someone's close to you, with the result that you need to get fired to fix it according to Bill Morrow.
OP said “ I guess I'm technically working at DTV, but I enjoy the work.”
How are you unsure where you are working?
I like working at AT&T as well. I have always worked hard, followed the rules. Started out as clerical and moved up through the management ranks. I’m a millionaire thanks to the opportunities afforded to me by the company. If I get cut one thing is for sure. I’ll be leaving with a lot more than I had when I got here. No one makes a victim out of me.
You really like working for the most indebted company in 'Mericuh?
I think the majority of folks posting on this site for the most part really like their jobs and working at AT&T. If they did not they would not be so upset with the current state of affairs. A lot of those posting are not only employees but shareholders re-investing in the company hence their disappointment. Of course there is the exception of disgruntled employees or ex-employees. However, I do not think that is the majority on the website looking for answers or just camaraderie that others are dealing with their same emotions, anxiety and stress of the current environment.
I think most of the people posting on this board (including myself) like their job as well. Armchair quarterbacking the multiple mistakes of AT&T is what is referred to by some as low hanging fruit. If anyone is honest with themselves, you can’t be surprised that we are facing layoffs. You would have to be out of touch to not recognize aspects of any position that could be done more efficiently or provided greater customer satisfaction. What really upsets most people (besides losing their job and the financial and emotional distress that comes with such news) is that you are leaving on someone else’s terms. In a perfect world, each of us would decide when we would stop working for the company. If you truly hate your job, you own part of the responsibility for getting surplused because you could have made plans long ago to leave on your own terms. Getting surplused is one of the risks we all face as an employee. How you prepare yourself and how you manage that risk is mostly on your shoulders. Working for AT&T has never been a job for life. If you like your job but your position is going away, you’ll find a new door to enter as this one closes behind you. I’m going out with a smile and thankful for all the AT&T has provided me during my career.
That’s great but what percentage of Directv do you represent?How many Directv techs that work at customers homes and go under the house or in the attic and go 40 feet up a ladder to mount an odu? How much is that percentage? We deal with no numbers on the mailboxes, customers who don’t answer phones or text,barking dogs,elements of outside ,wrong work orders,unattainable metrics,no equipment on truck because it didn’t get shipped this week,a route that is changed through out the day,some crazy person not following the traffic laws,and did I mention the 15 thousand dollar a year pay cut we took when Att purchased Directv!Thats just half of the things techs deal with,so go be a Directv technician for just 6 months and let us know how much you like your job!
Glad you’re happy but what does this have to do with layoffs?