Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

I miss seeing all the pretty girls in the office/building. Looking so forward to returning to the office!

I cannot imagine having to give up wearing my onesey and bunny slippers everyday just to go back to the office. It been a good year, hopefully the Delta will provide at least another year of fun WFH. I refuse the vaccine.

I have never encountered a 2nd in my two decades that could clear a "roadblock" with any process in the Central office. A 2nd line manager is nothing more than a place holder position. They can't do anything without approval from "above" (which they will not get) and they don't know enough to solve the problem at the local level. Sorry, but this is just how it is with AT&T.

Sounds like you fellas who drive the trucks are just jealous of our bunny slippers we can wear all day while working from home!

Get off your lazy bu-t and take off your bunny slippers and get back to work.

I do work with a ‘team’; those are the individuals who report to the same leadership member as well as the related organization who I interface with (collaborate) and support for various functions. We are interdependent with the same goals in mind. So if this sounds to you, poster, like we’re ‘sucking up’, ‘starry eyed’ or ‘pathetic’; that would be a reflection of your headspace (add that one to your list of buzz words). BTW, those of us in managerial positions (above an L2) do occasionally hit this site….for fun. And postings like yours, never fail to amuse.

You folks have all the buzzword corporate speak down!!!
Teams...hahahahahha.
They want you to quit.
Re read that.
If they can get you to quit, they win.
So collaborate, sUck up, work for free, use all the social apps, and keep laying awake at night caring.
They don't.
They would rather you get hit by a bus tomorrow morning than show up for work so they could fire you for job abandonment.
You folks come on here all starry eyed and questioning.
"It's going to get better!!!" Um, no, no it won't.
Noble, but they don't care. Managers get on here and laugh at your posts.
They hate you.
Get what you can. Smile and wave.
Stop being pathetic and try to keep some pride.

Don't be naïve , going back to the office isn't going to stop outsourcing and rebadging. Did you really think that IT support worked from home before being outsourced to India? No, they worked in call centers.

There were teams that worked in the office, after rebadged and they longer come to the office. You would think that company will insist that rebadged people to come to the office because it is so damn essential, right?

Company claimed to be big on "data driven decision making". Just look at the geographic data for how many teams are actually collocated? Look at emails and conference call data, how many of these contacts are collocated? This would be too much work, and select executive yahoos are crying bloody mu---r for their teams come back to the office. What a joke, there is absolutely nothing to see here.

I love WFM. Less stress and better productivity. My only issue is now with going back to the office and new COVID variants. I do see more disability and FMLA happening. That’s a given. I know we can’t work from home permanently, but I feel like the safety of everyone needs to come first.

Called Benefit hotline to get answers to questions regarding the Stink's retiree healthcare benefit takeaway costs this week. Got someone in India. Line was totally filled with static, but I tell the agent was working from home. Could not understand anything the agent said because of the static. She called me back and I could not understand her because the static continued. She had another agent call me back. Same static.

Yeah, this India outsourcing is working out just fine - for the Stink!

I agree with the original poster. Long before Covid, many organizations approved their staff members to work away from the office. As an example. enterprise sales teams rarely go into the office except for specific in person meetings. A few years ago there was a push to pull many people into the offices, but the effort failed as the poster pointed out, for several reasons.
I have worked remotely since 2005.My team mates are all over the country; none of us have permanent desks in local offices. Frankly, there are many organizations that cannot effectively WFH, however. I feel very fortunate that my work can be done remotely.

I contend that 100% WFH opens the global floodgates of India type outsourcing taking over all of these jobs within a decade.

Our finding is that remote work from India doesn't translate directly (no pun intended) as our offshore consulting partners do not maintain quality data or voice connections. In our group, it's almost impossible to work through complex problems with the offshore team. Neither CGI, Accenture, IBM....none of them want to spend money on reliable voice and data connections. They 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑, but the choose not to. The result is a lot of the work stays stateside, where even a rudimentary DSL connection gives us better clarity and than the remote service offshore.

We also are finding it terribly difficult to clear offshore contractors for access to the appropriate systems. Again, the company 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 easily provision connections, but security vulnerabilities and difficulty trusting foreign jurisdictions not to claim ownership of hardware or data has the company spooked, and rightfully so. Employees whose families are 12 times zones away used to take months-long trips to work remotely on visits, but that's been shut down hard.

All in all I"m less convinced that work will be shuttled offshore with the same enthusiasm of 20 years ago.

A group of us that work in the office like to party after work. We do this 2-3 times most every week. Sometimes we get lucky! WFH ki--s any opportunity to hook-up and party, that's no fun.

There must be jobs where you don't have to come into the office.

Lol why don’t people want to work at the office ? I never left the office , love going to the office and look forward to everyone coming back SOOON !!

Stop coming up with lame reasons just cuz you don't want to come back to the office. You've had enough time to goof off at home. Time to get back to work.

it seems like @oli begrudges people that can work from home so much that they would rather talk to people in india when they call for help just so some non-management people in the USA would not be allowed to perform their exact same functions at home...

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I disco'd all my AT&T services for cheaper, better, and faster service from other providers. I have zero reason to deal with them except to cash the checks, get the per diem. We used to have new guys taking excused time off. Guess what? That told the company we had too many techs. They got laid off. This is no different. Enjoy it, but you WFH folks are shooting yourselves in the foot, and fool no one.
You'll see.

it seems like @oli begrudges people that can work from home so much that they would rather talk to people in india when they call for help just so some non-management people in the USA would not be allowed to perform their exact same functions at home...

Se-ual Harassment and EEO complaints will shoot back up to pre-covid levels or higher.

OP - did you return to the office July 1? You have to report everyday? What group are you in?

Perhaps the group you are is one that chose to install the PC monitoring tool that T rolled out a couple of years ago and they did not like what they saw,

Given this is the last season of Judge Judy, is there really still a good reason to WFH?

Oh no!!!!
If your job can be done from your house, it can be done for 95% less in India.
You are just sclewing yourselves.
Why can't you WFH people understand that?

My predictions are that when everyone is forced back into the office:

1) Disability will shoot back up to pre-covid levels or higher.

2) FMLA will shoot back up to pre-covid levels or higher.

3) the low absentee rate for the past year will be done forever.

Way less work for the same pay, just like before covid work from home, maybe worse.