Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

Jeffy is so hip though

Cool vans and a cool sporty logo coat

To bad he lied. I know many that were laid off last year or demoted

Then he gets all tough that he is going to take it to Comcast.

Dude you couldn’t sell a hot dog to a starving dog

I dare you you to come out and do a ride along!!!

It’s funny, McFresh must had rehearsed the pause effect and still failed on his face. What he said after the pause isn’t anything substantiative or convincing. Time for acting classes and a better script writer.

It’s funny, McFresh must had rehearsed the pause effect and still failed on his face. What he said after the pause isn’t anything substantiative or convincing. Time for acting classes and a better script writer.

Why would anyone watch one of these silly things?

Why do people slow down and gawk at a car wreck when they pass one on the highway?

woke is broke

Why would anyone watch one of these silly things?

I love the canned applause when our "leaders" walk in!

Mr. McElf has learned a few tricks from Mr. Stinkerley. Did you notice that he allowed a few moments anger to show through the empathetic, caring persona? Actually, it was more than a few. Just watch the facial expression.

I take home pencils, erasers, paper clips, batteries and post-it notes.
Reasonably priced on e-bay.
Helps me pay for reductions in healthcare, dental care, lowered pension payouts and lack of meaningful raises.

I'm someone who earned two nanondegrees, got multiple badges in things like data science, big data, tech transformation, and all the other '2020' initiatives. I always had strong reviews (the lowest rating I ever got in anything was "Meets Expectations', with almost all others at Exceeds or higher). I often volunteered for evening and weekend coverage during crunch times. I was frequently selected to work in cross-functional groups on 'enterprise critical' projects, like the HBO Max rollout. And I was awarded the Service Excellence Award. My t-space badge area looked like the sash of an Eagle Scout.

I was laid off in Oct last year.

Trust me -- nothing you do at T matters. The quality of your work is irrelevant. The number and type of badges you have on T-space means nothing. The level of your performance review is pointless. Your dedication to development and adherence to company initiatives like 2020 is completely without value. All that is just a bunch of bright-and-shiny noise to distract the employees from senior management's incompetence.

The only good any of that did me was show my new employer my quality and my willingness to grow and contribute. Both things that have no importance at T.

"For anyone who thinks cross training or nano degrees will get you anywhere in this company...."

I've concluded the nano degrees are better for your VP than they are for you or the company. Our VP told everyone to go get one (and it was always in something completely unrelated to our jobs) - a bunch of people did - 6 months later they all got re-badged and the VP got a big pat on the back for "developing his people". I've never seen anything like it - he threw away thousands of dollars on people he knew good and well were about to be kicked to the curb - but he got something to put on his A&D, which is what's really important around here.

For anyone who thinks cross training or nano degrees will get you anywhere in this company, listen to how Fluffy semi-addressed the one layoff question they chose to give to him. Something like "there will always be legacy operations we will be shutting down". So if you are on one of those, it doesn't matter what you know or how good you are, your gone no matter how many badges you have on your tspace. Pick your training to serve yourself, it won't help you here especially when transfers are blocked because they consider you essential for shutting something down.

Did someone catch what they said near the end implying they were going to bring the HR beast back in 2 weeks for another one of these? Like it will do any good, will she just "apologize" for not communicating better about taking away benefits?

This was no failure in communication, it was a failure in leadership. The things they took away don't matter to interns and new hires. Did you care about life insurance or health care subsidies when you were 25? They have destroyed people's retirement and families now have to rethink how they will pay for their golden years. No one cares about the vacation days, most people never took the full amount or worked while on vacation.

First, let’s assume he was truthful. The leaders are highly paid and we can assume relatively smart. How is it they roll this stuff out and after the fact have to apologize for not communicating it very well? Did they not have the foresight to see what was going to happen? As for the connection award. Provided I heard it correctly it was not even communicated correctly to management and I believe he also said it has not been fully rolled out and that is another 3+ weeks out. Oh my.

Not sure about you folks but today was the first I heard that our bonus was supposed to be paid out at 60% but Jeff went to bat for us to get approval to pay it out at 100% !!! It sounds great, but thinking realistically, don’t you think they would have told us that from the beginning and would have made sure it was repeated multiple times? This is especially important since this gift was in lieu of reasonable merit increases for those that deserved one. This immediately begs the question of what groups not reporting to Jeff received as their bonus.

Okay, so this was all a misstep, blamed on communication. John must have been busy drafting his “Speaking Out” email sent on 4/24 which in my opinion he had no business sending. If the thoughts shared in that email was a topic of regular discussion from him, yes it would be okay. But, he caved to political pressure, did not want to be canceled.

I am feeling a little better after the town hall. Too many whiners around me that never has anything positive to say at all. Only way they feel better is to put someone else down.

You can tell when they are lying as soon as they show up.

Reported.

All bow down to the mackerel fish!

Sorry I had to miss the fabulous, fantastic, beautiful, town gathering. Was it as magnificent as a MAGA rally? Working takes precedence in my world, not lip service but, I did take the survey!

Does this mean you didn't agree with what they said? Does this mean you are not happy?

Worst than teenagers, what you intended and what actually happened are very different things.

You can argue all day along about what the intensions were, doesn't change a thing about what actually happened.

Meanwhile, company is doing great on all fronts. Do you know anyone who had received a connection award? No, shocking, and the year is almost half over. Executives and HR are bad at communicating, and they are pretty bad at doing what they said they would do.

Nothing new here. Same story, same lies.

I guess I now get to figure how to charge 5 days of vacation to "paid caregiver" leave because I'm supposed to be happy now.

Another hour and a half of my life wasted...

Cha-ching! Paid to watch BS!

Where is the replay? I want to be paid to watch this 50 more times!

Got to milk it just like Ratty and Stink milk this company!

Notice Poppin Fresh was only interested in answering two questions?

And he lied answering both.

What a piece of $hit he is. Stinky^s @ss kisser!

"be happy your benefits were taken away because we gave EVERYONE benefits they didn't ask for."

Now I have a puddle of vomut I have to clean up after seeing the liars Stinky and Poppin Fresh