Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

"If you put yourself in a situation where there was no backup plan, that’s on you."

It was not about needing a backup plan. The backup plan was in place you dolt. The back up plan was to stay on the books until retirement goals were achieved, which is exactly what the Big Stank did not want to happen.
A few additional employees took the offer that could afford to, but many needed the additional years to get that extra expense into their savings account (the back up plan). Ultimately, Stank's idea to save the company money by forcing people to retire early backfired. He has paid full salary and benefits for thousands of folks that would have voluntarily retired over the last few years. Just think, Stank continued paying $150K per head count that remained because he wanted to save a few dollars on the medicare bridge. What a d-mb mass he is, and you just love licking his chocolate starfish.

@et AT&T is the only one in the industry doing 5 day RTO. What the he-l are you on, lol?

@g5 5x RTO is unique to financially distressed companies only. They use this as a “free” layoff tactic. That’s why only a handful are 5 days and any others who attempted it have rolled it back. It will end soon here, believe that.

@g5 I’ll never stop complaining until the bootlickers like you stop the bootlicking. Are you capable? Or is it too ingrained into your personality at this point?

“Took me 2 months to find another job.. back to full remote again.”
Do you prefer driving for Lyft in the mornings or evenings?

Who cares quit complaining about RTO. Show up or quit. Noone cares.

I was fired for RTO-noncompliance last year. Took me 2 months to find another job.. back to full remote again.

this BLS survey isn't about telework policy or RTO compliance. Its recording where people spent their time. "35% of employed peopled did some or all of their work at home"
so they could be replying to one email after dinner.
they could have a side job.
That could be workaholics who come home and vpn back into work for 4 hours.
but its not an article saying AT&T are outliers in enforcing RTO. And certainly not outliers in our industry.

“No choice but to stay.”
If you put yourself in a situation where there was no backup plan, that’s on you.

RTO is not the industry standard. It is not any standard. This is simply something 5-10 financially fu-ked companies are doing in order to cut headcount without severance. Healthy companies who value their employees do not do this. It’s a sign of a financially doomed company.

@cm When pre-Medicare health insurance was withdrawn in 2021 a person currently 55 was only 50, not ready to retire. And ones who were 55 at that time and were planning to retire at 60 with that benefit were blindsided. Even though employees had worked 30 years under that promise, our caring, thoughtful, CEO said we should have planned our finances better. An extra $24k a year for 5-10years is a lot of extra planning! No choice but to stay.

@OP You can be certain of 2 things. AT&T's plans will increase the pressure for a full-time office presence, and there will always be whiners lacking the fundamental skills and emotional maturity to leave.

RTO will end soon and all the bootlickers whose job actually requires them to be in the office will have a meltdown. The reality is 90%+ of jobs here do not require office presence. I give it 2 years before it’s fully repealed

@b0 he’s incompetent and under educated. He can only be a cry baby here and go no where.

What are you really doing at home?

“If he would just reinstate pre-Medicare health insurance, there would be a stampede of folks 55-64 headed for the door.”
All the elderly employees in this demo were informed about the policy change when it happened and made a choice to stay, Now they want to blame leadership for the poor choices they made.

If he would just reinstate pre-Medicare health insurance, there would be a stampede of folks 55-64 headed for the door. But no, he’s sacrificing 40-50yr olds with kids. Never admits mistakes; always doubles down.

Stank needs to get rid of so many more people he will not let up on this. He is desperately trying to get the employee number so low that Wall Street maybe ups the stock price before he leaves. His ego and pride and frantic to not have him leave when stock price still in tanking. Therefore the last thing he would ever do is make improvements for employees. He’s been on tv talking about recruiting programs for the young employees coming in. He was cheap cheap cheap and also plans to protect his multi million dollar directs until he (Stank) finally leaves.

He needs to be pushed out and called out for how he’s led this company to destruction and all the while kept receiving $20+M in comp.

Some outlet needs to tell the story. The next closest disaster to Enron.

Then why havarn’t you sought employment with a company that offers WFH? Don’t we already know the answer?

Going to beat the dead horse some more. Idk of anyone at any other company doing 5x in the office. Not a single company. We are one of the few still doing that. The few that said 5x initially have all rolled it back to hybrid.

Leadership has heard complaints anvout RTO and is very serious about making inprovements. On 7/2, AT&T has committed to a guarantee of providing more parking spaces to ensure it will be easier to access all corporate offices. #YouMatter

ATT couldn’t even manage RTO without damaging the company further. The SBC cancer is terminal!

Enough already. You're preaching to the choir and beating a dead horse simultaneously.

The company has decided to return to an in-office model. You are welcome to seek employment elsewhere, or join craft who works in the field; you don't ever have to go into the office then.

Gee mommy, the other guys get to WFH What about me? It's just not fair.
I am going to hold my breath until I get to WFH!!!

But it’s the AT&T standard, so we’ll see you on the commute!