Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

Ladies and gentlemen, the board is angry today, like a bunch of of sorry old schmucks who can’t deal with the fact that wasting time and money driving to a money-su-king office in order to sit on calls and send emails is as !diotic as a bunch of over-the-hill relics who still cling to Stankey’s fantasy land. Now go back to yelling at the TV.

Totally bummed having to RTO and work.

Too many of you all pushed it too far and changed your normal routine when forced to WFH during Covid and after. Sleeping in late. Canceled day care. Joined country clubs. Running errands between scheduled meetings on Teams when most everyone else RTOd. Making mid morning tee times and yoga classes.
It's human nature to adjust with conditions.
Senior management back in the office is on to you after hearing your family and pets in the background when you have to unmute your microphone.
See you at the water cooler. Welcome back to business as usual. Not extra expenses now. Just expenses you were able to save before you messed it up for everyone still at home.

@d0 used to? I still do all these things. I just drop off my laptop at the office for 8 hours and pick it up at the end of the day.

@cz I know, right!

WFH: I could run errands on company time. I could do chores around the house. I could spend time with the neighbors wife. I could catch up on my Netflix. I could perfect my golf swing.

Now, with RTO, I just have to work. Bummer!

RTO has no benefits only detractors.

@cr

I live close to work so it doesn't bother me that much.

I do miss grocery shopping and playing tennis while I WFH, though.

Some of you dummies bought houses way outside the City/state during Covid. Now you're surprised when WFH ended?

D-mbasses.

“If you’re trying to say to people, ‘Oh, you got to work in an office,’ you’ll just get the bottom quartile of people who have no choice,” O’Leary said in a recent interview on Kevin O’Leary TV. “I don’t want those people. I want my competitors to hire those people.”

This is exactly why we lag behind Verizon and T Mobile in every metric. Because it’s not an industry standard it’s the loser standard

You can mandate presence. You can’t mandate engagement, loyalty, or results. Those are earned and they’re being actively destroyed. Shown in the stock price

Every unnecessary commute is a tax on productivity. Leadership chose control over efficiency and is surprised the company keeps underperforming.

This policy survives on denial alone. Higher costs, worse retention, weaker performance and leadership still insists it’s “working.” That’s not confidence. That’s disconnect.

@cn don’t you work here? What does it say about you?

@cp Look man, I don't want to work, either. But, gotta pay the bills.

See you at the office!

If RTO created value, leadership wouldn’t need badge tracking, threats, or spin. The stock, morale, and execution would speak for themselves. They don’t.

@cm

At&t management roles don't attract high performers.

We're at the cutting edge of complacency.

These chumps can't even find a real WFH job cause their resume is lacking.

Five-day RTO doesn’t attract high performers. It selects for people with the fewest options. That’s not culture. That’s talent dilution.

@ch

Manager is WFH. He said he doesn't care what I do. He said he's gotta run errands in the morning, go to the doctor and then work on his golf game in the afternoon.

So, canceling all my jobs and watching Netflix today.

@cg get back to the truck, cuck. I have a ticket for you to work. Stay off this site and get those hands dirty for once. You lazy union fu----s do nothing all day.

@cf shouldn’t you be clearing out your ticket queue. Get in the truck and get to work, off this site. Clearly plenty of dead weight in the union. Good thing your work will be going away soon.

@ce

Move closer to work, dummy.

Rdealing with AT&T management...real geniuses here.

Kevin is referring to the folks that sit online and complain about RTO because they can't find a WFH job.

Your AT&T experience is a detractor and worthless in this job market. You have no real skills and can't compete for WFH jobs.

So, you stay. And complain. And yell into the void. Old man yelling at clouds and tilting at windmills.

Lowest common denominator, you are.

I’m still waiting for the memo that says commuting two hours and paying tolls and gas is somehow “adding value.” Newsflash: That’s cost, not collaboration. Most teams don’t even sit together they’re on Teams calls scattered across time zones.

You know RTO is out of touch when analysts downgrade the stock and leadership doubles down on having people sit in a building all week. The market isn’t stupid it’s pricing this underperformance in real time. Adios morale, motivation, and drive! It’s 8 and skate now!

RTO isn’t bringing anyone together it’s shrinking the talent pool and making it easier for competitors to poach the good people who actually could work from anywhere.

Imagine thinking forcing people in every day builds value in 2026. That just means you get the bottom quartile of talent who can’t work any other way. That’s literally what Kevin O’Leary said:

“If you’re trying to say to people, ‘Oh, you’ve got to work in an office,’ you’ll just get the bottom quartile of people who have no choice.”

@c8 I know management doesn't work during the week.

What are you doing, posting on here during the weekend?

Don't you have anything better to do other than complain about RTO?

...loser

Soft layoff, control, micromanagement, slavery, no freedom = RTO

@c5

....YAWN...

More of this RTO nonsense...?

You really are a clown.

See you on the commute!

@c3 dude 😂😂😂😂do you just sit on this site all day refreshing waiting to reply? Your life is even more sad than I thought. Now it’s confirmed that you are the one and only RTO troll. Blocked and ignored!… seriously though, touch grass, you clown.

Too late Kevin we already have the bottom quartile and they are old and don’t have great computer skills. In addition to this undeniable fact we took their retiree healthcare away. I will admit some of our systems are so old that no new hire could ever maintain them so you end up with a wfh variance or an NVW designation for a couple years. If you’re getting a good deal on reporting location they’ll use it as leverage to double your workload and you’ll do it or else.

@c1

Boo hoo hoo. Wah wah wah. But I don't wanna work!

Don't make me get up early and leave the house! I wanna sleep in, have warm milk and cookies and watch TV.

Why is life SO tough?!?!?!

See you on the commute, chump.

This guy really thinks he’s doing something by spamming “Pro RTO” comments… buddy, you don’t have the right audience. Why don’t you go stand outside stankeys door and yell to him. He’s the only one on your side 🤡

This is a sad singular man with no life who replies multiple times in a row within minutes on every post. Here’s the fact. You’re all alone. It’s pathetic you have time to do this, and no matter how many times you do it and upvote your own posts… NOBODY agrees with you. Everyone hates RTO. This isn’t the right place to for your Stankey Support group of 1.

Kindly return to the office as has been done for over 100 years. If you are not in the office, you are replacable. If not another person looking for work that will gladly WFO, someone in Bangalore or Manila. You are all replaceable no matter how great you think you are folks. Home is for errands and playing with toddlers that should be in daycare

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@ae

Wah wah wah.

Coz I don't wanna work. Boo hoo.

Wah wah wah.

@a9 office is for lonely people who wander around drinking coffee and interrupting people to chit chat about their boring a-s life.

Yeah....these constant crybaby RTO posts are really going to be the catalyst for change in the company.

I get it. It su-ks. I can't run my errands, spend time with the neighbors wife and work on my golf game at the country club on company time anymore.

You're just old man yelling at the void on here at this point. WFH is dead. We're back to normal. Deal with it like an adult.

This is a layoff board for layoff chatter. Not general complaints about sleeping in and missing your Netflix shows during the day.

See you on the commute!

Maybe Kevin O'Leary will buy AT&T and let everyone goof off at the house.

Everyone knows field technicians do all of the work, are the face of the company and hold this company afloat.

No wonder you pesky WFH managers are so scared about RTO. Cause you actually have to go back to work for once.

Welcome back!