Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

When will things turn around here? This has quickly become a sh!tstorm since 5x RTO and the 8/1/25 stinky manifesto

Bootlickers of Bangalore!

I’m surprised we’re even that high on the list. Should be lower. Maybe that’s something to celebrate! RTO is working!!!!

"There is literally no incentive to make the company better. Just survive from layoff to layoff."

MMMMM, I wonder who created that culture?

@ar It starts with leadership and works it’s way down. Face it, from AVP’s downward they are nothing but order takers. There is literally no incentive to make the company better. Just survive from layoff to layoff.

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McDonald’s
Walmart
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Uber

I’ve been trying to tell you all. 5x RTO only attracts the bottom quartile of talent. Nobody who values themselves is signing up to be Stinkys Prisoner. People want flexibility.

Post the link on viva engage so they know we all saw it

"less successful at developing and retaining the talent needed for future growth."

Well, Big Stank, the RTO chickens are coming home to roost. You are reaping what you are sowing. Stank and the executive team are always quick to regurgitate stats . . . I wonder how quickly they will reference this statistic.

@b0 Too many younger workers that could care less about creating a new pricing plan and calling it innovation. Nobody wants to work here. Fact.

“Too many old workers with outdated skills for future readiness.”

Fact.

You should sit in your car outside of whatever office you are assigned to around 3:30 PM and really start to honestly evaluate what the quality looks like as employees start to leave. Do people look energetic and trendy in professional clothing like they have good attitudes or are they overweight in disheveled clothes having difficulty making it to their cars in the parking lot? I’ve had family members picking me up comment on how people coming out of the building look like they are about to go on a Dollar Tree run or walk laps around the mall. Many do not give the vibe of having technical competency. They look like the dregs of humanity.

There's also the issue of all the talent that's left and none are saying positive things to family, friends, network about this place. Those that I've stayed in touch with are actively telling people to run away, not worth it, toxic, and so on. I'd hate to be a recruiter for us.

5 days a week doesn't help but what we all witness from most of our leaders is even worse. 390th is spot on.

Too many old workers with outdated skills for future readiness.

If AT&T is ranking near the bottom of its peer group in talent readiness while simultaneously pursuing one of the most rigid RTO policies in the industry, it’s fair to ask whether those decisions are helping or hurting its ability to attract and retain talent.

The most telling number on that list isn’t AT&T’s innovation rank. It’s the talent rank: 390th… But honestly, is anyone surprised?

For the last 2-3 years leadership has been sending a clear message to employees - flexibility doesn’t matter, feedback doesn’t matter, and if you don’t like it, there’s the door.

The company took one of the few things employees consistently valued and turned it into a five-day mandate. Then it doubled down when people objected. Since then, I’ve never seen so many experienced employees leave.

Future readiness isn’t just AI and technology. It’s whether you can attract and retain the people capable of building that future.

T-Mobile ranks #56 overall. AT&T ranks #375.

One company is viewed as a destination for talent. The other is forcing employees into offices to satisfy a presence report while wondering why engagement, retention, and morale keep declining.

A talent rank of 390 doesn’t happen by accident. It’s the result of years of decisions that made it harder to attract people, easier to lose them, and increasingly difficult to convince the best employees to stay.

This is what happens when you use RTO policies for layoffs without caring who you lose.