There has never been such a big gap between those who are really overworked and those who work just a few hours a day.
Almost every day I ask myself how it is possible that the distribution of work has become such that some people are so overwhelmed while others do almost nothing?
Seriously, what is to hold on to at AT&T? Corrupt, incompetent leaders, and zero culture. The leadership just nuked any culture that was left. To compliment AT&T would be to say they are a joke and the laughing stock of the technology industry.
You picked the wrong area of the business to get in! I went to school for my degrees and got into IT, loving it ever since, low stress, minimal work flow, easy peasy!
Because you have "incompetent" management that's why. I took over a job where the gal told the boss she needs 2 full weeks to do the slides that contains monthly data to be presented by the director to the VP - during their monthly calls.
I took over the job and automated the process - it took me a while...but it is now a mere "10 min" to get it done.
Case in point, you have employees like this "former" person who inflate their value. She left to go to Expedia. And you have workers on the other hand that worked for the greater good of efficiency and effectiveness.
What did I get for it? Nothing. Because manager didn't know Excel. We got into a fight over my review and was told by the director to "leave" the group. Well, I did...and the director last I checked was probably fired - but managed to get his buddy to give him a 2nd line independent contributor role. And as for my former manager? I don't know what happened. As I have left the company as well, about 3 years after that incident of unfairness and horrible treatment.
If I didn't have a direct line to the upper echelon of the company to know about what was said to me and such...truth would never have been revealed. But there's not enough oversight as they too (the upper echelon...and I don't mean your VP, AVP, or SVP)...but the highest tier (no name shall be named)...they tried...they do/did.
But as you all know...ATT's middle management is the gloated belly that sank the ship.
😭 WAAAAAH! I work so hard so that my boss will like me and notice me but he never do. Me very sad.
Oh man, we are going to find people who are not living in or near any of the hubs listed as their work location in webphone, some thousands of miles away in retirement places like FL, Hawaii, AZ, Atlantic/Pacific coasts. It is going to be interesting times in the next few months.
There’s a lot of trolling on this website too. Can’t believe 90% of it
"Reminds me of the almost annual furloughing of contractors each year. They ask what won't get done if you don't have the contractors for a couple of weeks and most teams don't push back and say x,y,z will fall on the floor - instead they say their team will get it done. ... well great you just proved you didn't need the contractors, and now the team is overloaded permanently as they don't let you bring them back or reduce the #"
This is very on point - Totally agree, impacted by the relo or not, the best thing anyone can do is not to do extra. Let things get escalated sometimes that is the only thing your boss or your bosses boss understand. Yeah, I guess they could PIP you, but something tells me that HR is going to have their hands full with exit tasks the rest of the year - so that is unlikely.
It's been a historic gap, but no doubt that it has widened. Unfortunately, many of the folks impacted by the forced relocation fall into the overworked category. The do nothings probably are impacted too, but are likely the ones that will agree to move if they aren't there already. Even managers in Dallas are scared of the outcome of this because over 50% of their team members are impacted by forced relo.
Arbitrary surplus rounds have always cut folks regardless of impact or performance, and this won't be any different except in scale if they completely follow through with it. It could be that after a phase or 2, they don't follow through depending on what falls on the floor. But, I don't think anyone should count on that and prepare accordingly.
You just need to learn to let it go. Great work ethic or not, at the end of the day the Company doesn't care about you, so at the end of the workday you go home, live your life and forget about what didn't get done because you have more work than 1 person can do in a day.
The next day, do a days worth of work, lather rinse repeat.
don't log in after hours or weekends either. Live your life.
eventually the work will get redistributed, but as long as you keep doing the work, they'll keep exploiting you.
Reminds me of the almost annual furloughing of contractors each year. They ask what won't get done if you don't have the contractors for a couple of weeks and most teams don't push back and say x,y,z will fall on the floor - instead they say their team will get it done. ... well great you just proved you didn't need the contractors, and now the team is overloaded permanently as they don't let you bring them back or reduce the #