How many execs at AT&T can you name who ever built anything? How many used to work tickets and resolve problems? How many invented an important technology or system? Virtually none for all three. AT&T execs are almost exclusively people who never make waves, so promoting them is easier than someone who is smart enough to have a solution and caring enough to try an implement it. No brains, no solutions. No solutions, nothing to say. Nothing to say, no waves. No waves, promotion. If you don't see it, you just haven't been around long enough.
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It ain't nepotism or some 'others' fault . It's your lack of skills, education, correct attitude or whatever the business needs. So get over yourself.
Waah, I didn't get promoted. Try putting some effort in your job and less on bellyaching.
"Gotta fall back on that nepotism whenever you get passed over. Cuz it can't be you, right? Sitting in your basement, whining anonymously, life going nowhere. Yeah, it's nepotism."
Guess you can't get a job on your own merit and must rely on family connections? It's nice if you have it, but it's but people like you who complain about employees who moan and gripe about truly getting screwed over by their bosses in favor of minority or LGBTQ+ employees who aren't qualified in the first place, yet quickly rise thru the ranks, not because they are good, but because they have family connections or are minority or members of the alternative community and fit the new woke agenda.
If you're a middle-aged white male forget all about promotions, regardless if you're the most qualified. It's all minority, woke based.
Gotta fall back on that nepotism whenever you get passed over. Cuz it can't be you, right? Sitting in your basement, whining anonymously, life going nowhere. Yeah, it's nepotism.
I'll say it again for those sitting in the back, AT&T is ruled by Nepotism and favoritism. Period. And look where we are. In the toilet.
You might as well have some inbred son of a bi--h running things. You'd get the same result we have now without all the expense of executive compensation.
You sound like a smart person that has been around for a long time. Now get back to work.
We need more executives that can climb telephone poles.
I don't need to know all the specific tasks to manage a team. Peter Principle. I need to look at what needs to be accomplished to make the team successful, whether it be training gaps, more resources, better work flow etc. You need to help me understand the issues to make positive change.
Are you still bitter that they make so much more money than you even though you are so much smarter and much more accomplished?
What is a level 3+? Isn't that above a director...possibly VP level? If your back ground has been field work in the past, but now you 'design, develop and implement software' and you're a 3+ leader (you claim), that suggests you've been promoted multiple times through the ranks. Your 'story' sounds fishy. And unbelievable. Negates the whole premise for your post.
I notice that no one actually answered the question, they just tried to change the subject and throw it back at the author. Here's an answer. I can't think of a single one.
In response to the question about what I do, first, I am not a top executive. I am a level 3+. I actually design software, develop it and put it into production. I have worked in the field doing installations and worked on network outage recovery teams. Unlike most of our execs, I, like so many of my peers have been hands-on for a long time and actually know what to do. Perhaps more importantly, I know what not to do. Nuff said.
Reading posts like this begs one to ask the question--what is your contribution to the corporation? Do you lead, create innovative technologies, uncover opportunities to grow revenue to ensure the continued success of the business? What do you do?
Can’t help to think about Bell labs back in the day like Murray Hill making state of the art inventions like the transistor among other things, then Network systems was spun off In the mid nineties, became Lucent and the rest is history along with most of the remaining labs. The only thing you hear about the one remaking Lab in Middletown is when will it be closing. R&D with AT&T is nill or next to nothing. Very sad
There are no real leaders here. There are placeholders. Leaders drive change and improvements, for both customers and employees, this hasn’t happened in over a decade. The business isn’t sustainable and the fallout every 60 days happens to be layoffs. Layoffs won’t fix the problem, it only temporarily dulls the symptoms of a terminally sick company. I never thought I would see the end of T as we know it, but it’s coming sooner then later.