So Jeremy was sleazy. In his two day town-hall he talked about a $265M budget shortfall on one budget slide. Part of shortfall will be paid for by not allowing back fills for all those folks that retired last year(because of pre-medicare loss of subsidy). So if those folks left in December (which most did), he is not letting us back fill them this year.
He was asked specific question about this during Q&A, and he danced all around it by saying if you made an offer last year he allows those people who accepted offer to move forward with it(assuming their start date is in Jan). But if you opened req last year and did not make offer, or opened req this year for all those folks that retired in December, you are out of luck.
He then talked about how he wants to reduce contractors yet... How can we do that if they don't let us hire for even back fills. Lots of nonsense. I lost a lot of respect for him. Just be honest and say we have a hiring freeze.
But hey, we hire very highly paid product specialists from Amazon no problem. I am sure they can come up with the next echo and make AT&T billions of $. Shades of John Donovans past. Right???