ATT has received a lot of criticism here and elsewhere due to bad decisions by senior management and they deserve it. However its the employees who will make or break the company. they are the ones who customers see. the dont see stankey.
Twice I tried porting my phone to ATT to take advantage of retiree discounts, twice it failed. I had NO issues porting from VZ to Tmob (I went to VZ after T, then VZ "riffed" me. Trying to do it on line is a joke, the failure message told me to call a number. i went to a store. there was 1 customer there being taken care of by an employee. there was a trainee employee there. he could not help me, he said there is another employee in the back. I waited, no one came to help me. The other employee who was helping the customer never said "my colleague is at break he will be here soon to help, sorry for the wait" he did not give a damn. I walked out. I will stay with tmob.