Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

OP is correct about performance reviews. Definitely who you know not what you know.

The OP is definitely correct, getting laid is a gift for sure, any time you can get it!

The OP is correct -- getting released from T is a gift. But it's a gift kind of like being released from prison is a gift. Yes, you are free of the nonsense, the bullspit, the incompetence, the arrogance, the constant lies, and the nerve-wracking constant stress, but being released into the wild can be tough.

The good news is that eventually - whether that's one week or six months - you will land somewhere else and find that it's better. Maybe just a bit better, like like how a room in a halfway house is a bit better than a prison cell. Or a lot better, how a new house is a lot better than a prison cell.

It's no fun to go through the layoff, and it can really strain your budget, but when you come out the other side, it's like being reborn in a better world.

Fly Eagles, fly. Next year will be our year.

When I was let go after almost 30 years I was afraid of being unemployed. I got over it within 6 months because I received my pension, sold all my T stock at $36 a share, sold my house made a fantastic profit, moved all my Fidelity 401K to Schwab IRA. Between my dividends and pension currently I make more money than what my T paycheck was plus made over 1 million dollars in profit on the stock market and traveled around the world visiting many different countries as a budget traveler. I am not saying this to brag but I am saying this because when I was let go from T I thought my life was over and it made me I went to the emergency room due to the stress my blood pressure was dangerously high and I had a tight chest. Because I pictured the worse for my family living on the streets. It is very scary to lose a good paying job. The company never reports all the suicides that T caused for thinking people are expendable. One of my peers lost T job and hung themselves within 2 weeks. Another family man received a call in the morning about being let go and died of a heart attack at night. Funny thing is the person being fired there life is destroyed, but the top executives get a bonus for laying off so many people.

But it’s so rewarding if you’ve got an in law here in upper management and part of the friends and family plan

All I can say is go work some place else and you’ll see what bad really looks like. We get layoffs maybe once a year. I’ve worked places where Friday afternoon you leave early because a call into the directors office at the end of the day meant you were fired. I’ve worked other places where you walk in one morning and they grab you at the door and tell you to go to a conference room and you all get let go. No warning, no severance, just gone. I’ve worked plenty of place where 2 years of service you were an old timer. These were all internet or digital companies. We really don’t have it that bad here. Which is why I wanted to go work for a big company. Sure we have problems and inept managers and executives, it could be way way worse is all I’m saying.

Not true, it's not ALWAYS YOU! I've had a stellar career going with AT&T in its entirety! Then, I got injured on the job and for no apparent reason to me, my supervisor came after me. He started to treat me like garbage and decided to phuck me over any way he could. It was him all the way as I would find out later on. He was an a$$-hole to the core and everyone around him began to hate him. So, moral of the story is, it's not always you, sometimes, it's management!

So many brave and courageous former employees who tell you “it’s great on the outside, wouldn’t change a thing”.

Probably the same employees who said they were super important and everyone else was lazy or incompetent.

YOU are a “former employee “ and yet here you are still living day to day commenting on your old company. It’s time to move on. You are that psycho girlfriend that just can’t take the hint.

It’s over! Move on from the company it’s moved on from you!

Glad to be out of this cesspool of mo--nic leadership and greedy union thugs. I'll gladly sit elsewhere and watch the value decrease to nothing from a safe distance.

Always "political" when things don't go your way. It's never you.

Leaving was one of the best decisions of my life

Oh boy, if you think this is bad, try working at Amazon.

Everything at Amazon is custom built, and nobody is willing to mentor you because they'd be hurting their own rank if it turns out you're a better performer than them come review time.

This creates a very toxic environment where coworkers are constantly trying to slit each other's throats, which really only hurts the company in the long run.

I personally dislike the management of this company and think there is a ton of room for improvement, but I will say their performance reviews are a walk in the park. If you are getting bad reviews, try actually getting to know your manager. You don't have to best buds with them, but at least take 30 minutes per month communicating what you are doing. It's really not that hard.

"Working at AT&T is high risk since performance reviews are political and not based on performance. "

Boy ain't that the truth.

Nah. I’m gonna wait for my severance.