Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

@b2 if just simply swiping into an office is the best thing you do then you may not be cut out for any job. If you need to physically be in an office to do your job, you are the problem.

I mentored over 100 “college hires” who were then promoted to CSE corporate sales positions. About 80% of them have resigned, left the company. The culture, the environment is TOXIC, total hypocrisy and the “kids” see this.. and are LEAVING.
The other side, the tenured, experienced workers are disrespected, given unattainable quotas and micro managed out of the business or resign, retire. Yet.. the STINK-meisters and his minions all survive. Pathetic board, and the ship will eventually sink, the stock crash and the alternative companies (T-Mobile , Vz and others) will reap the rewards.

@a4 If reporting to an office is the toughest thing you've ever done, you may not be cut out for this life

RE; adapt or collapse. AT&T has made their choice. It is unlikely it can be halted now. Their plan is to use the shrinking hiring pool as their excuse to keep hiring in India, where there is no shortage of people. "Market-based" means they think they can replace you with barely literate 3rd world hires and suffer minimal loss in product and service quality. It is tragically misguided and will be written about in business school textbooks for decades to come as an example of how to destroy a company.

AT&T CEO John Stankey made waves this month when he told employees in a memo that the company is shifting to a "market-based culture" that requires employees work closer together.
Since then, Business Insider has learned that AT&T is consolidating 22 internal help-desk centers into six locations — and affected
managers get two weeks to decide whether to move or lose their jobs and get severance.
Unionized workers will be allowed to remain at their current office in a different customer-service support role.
The consolidation of so-called centralized support desk workers, who largely assist other AT&T employees, follows a playbook the company has used repeatedly since 2023 as it upgrades its tech and cuts legacy costs.

"I am in my 30s and I am waiting on my bonus next year and I am gone. "

If you're here 12/31/25 you'll get your full bonus next March even if you're not here 1/2/26.

I am in my 30s and I am waiting on my bonus next year and I am gone. I am not going to stand 2 to 5 years or so of this stoopid f--king 5 day rto. I have been hybrid for 8 years and i dont care for pizza, for extra vacation, i need flexibility. stankey can fock off once the boomers all retire in 2 to 3 years.

@a6 TDPers are the only young people who join this company… what do you mean?

TDP retention rates are embarrassingly low. Same can be said for anyone about 10 years older than them.

So we now want young people to stay but not TDPers. Got it.

Younger people are being hired here and there but they’re not staying.
Facts.
Our illustrious HR staff, along with the C suite, don’t get it.
They think that giving new hires MLK Day is all they need to stay a relevant company.
Unfortunately, younger people don’t care about that and would prefer flexibility over a Holiday

I’m 35 and I’m not waiting 3-5 years for 5x RTO to roll back. If they don’t change it next year I’m leaving. There’s no way I can do another year of this sh!t.

This needs more attention! But they don’t care

Spot on! 55 plus makes up probably 40 to 50% and they are within 3 to 5 years from retiring. Once they are gone they will not come back. We brought in 60 kids out of college and they were all gone within six months. Thats crazy seeing as it take 2 years to teach a person process and the job at ATT.

I hate to agree but you are so right