Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

@es

There is no middle ground between Stank and us. Pointless to even consider it.

What a garbage article

"Stankey is putting AT&T back on the right growth track in recent years. "

Based on? Hard numbers or more of a vibe?

"Can we find a workable middle ground between workers and the company?

Stankey sent a memo to all their managers and executives. It basically said that is is time to get back to business as usual. It said the executives are in charge. It said if workers do not like it, they can find a new job."

What part of that even hints at any sort of compromise?

"Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and others must take same path"

Must? Why? Another vibe?

"Workers need to come back to the office"

Or what, the sun will spin out of orbit and crash into earth? Or maybe the super rich would be ever so slightly less so? Certainly can't risk that outcome now.

Not real compelling.

Okay, boys and girls, what do we know about how Jeff Kagan earns his daily bread? Read the article and the bio at the end. He's flattering the Stankster to get more consulting gigs. Don't put any stock in what he says.

“Appears…”,

“Looks like”,

Might as well be “People are saying…”

Give it a rest. You may not like the article but it is not that unfair.

This article appears to be part of a vigorous PR campaign to limit the fallout of the Stankey memo. Notable bias: “Today, while many workers from many companies have all gotten back to normal, many others are simply not going back to work. That’s why we are seeing Stankey and other CEOs start to flex their leadership muscles.”
People were working. From home. The narrative that they were not shows bias.

@d3

Could be the case, but you all make sh1t up whenever something doesn’t 110% align with your view. The “meet in the middle” comments are prominent enough in the article.

Also, the article was equally about AT&T getting back to basics after the media company investment debacles (I would have really liked to see Stankey reference as a key decision maker for those deals though) and AI’s potential future role.

Seems to me that “meeting in the middle” is not something that either you or Stankey may be willing to do.

Looks like the author wrote the article to get more clicks (by agreeing with the CEO in a sort of a way and then say CEO has to meet in the middle) for ad revenue. Wonder how much at&t paid RCR to write this article. Probably saved the guys job.

@c2

Who are you? Some character in a 60’s or 70’s sitcom? Who even says “pinko” anymore.

Get a life.

WTF reads RCR Wireless?? Never heard of it.

@bh

Here we go again - the oppressed white man rant. Holy g0d, give it a rest already.

Signed,

Another white man.

I rather enjoyed the article. Thanks for posting.

“No mention of forcing people back into offices that don’t have capacity or parking. No mention of burying culture surveys. No mention of broken reporting measures being used to fire people. No mention of lamenting how his workforce is too old.”

No mention of whites being treated with the absolute most strictest adherence to rules and made up metrics while all non-whites have their monitoring data subjectively evaluated without transparency.

SHOW US ALL THE DATA

@an

Not sure what your “so wonderful experience” expectations are but seem on the far side of the spectrum based on your post. I’m just trying to be pragmatic and I think it’s totally reasonable to expect good facilities, dedicated space, and ability to have some professional flexibility. Same as I had pre-pandemic.

I’d prefer great facilities but I also don’t expect a utility company to deliver on that for the masses.

Yeah this just gives John a chubby.

Paints him as the big tough CEO.

Not the petulant baby that he is.

No mention of forcing people back into offices that don’t have capacity or parking. No mention of burying culture surveys. No mention of broken reporting measures being used to fire people. No mention of lamenting how his workforce is too old. No mention of executive strategy failures resulting in 100 billion dollars on the wrong side of the P and L.

Keep laying off people so we have a place to sit.

These fringe industry rags may as well be just publishing press releases for their advertisers. AT&T probably can make or break www.rcrwireless.com with the wave of a hand. They are just writing what they are told to write by Dallas.

@a4

There is no "middle" when it comes to RTO mandates. If I don't need to be there to do my work, I'm serving someone else's interests with my time and money.

Either make the in-office experience so wonderful that everyone wants to be there, or shoot the lock off your budget and compensate us for our costs.

We have gone from "employees sitting on the floor" to "employees sitting on stairway steps"
No one has ever listed a specific city or office where this is happening. This is an anonymous forum, stop trolling and give us one site where people are sitting on the floor.

That hack’s article is best fit to line the bottom of a cat litter box.

I don’t disagree with OP’s comment regarding office space, but the author did repeatedly state that Stanky and CEOs “need to meet in the middle”. What’s wrong with that sentiment?

I wouldn’t be surprised if this was planted by/paid by yours truly to get a counter view of the debacle