Many posts on here about people saying how they are working 60+ hours a week and working through relief periods. Do you not realize you are part of the problem because you are doing 1.5 persons jobs for the amount you have been salaried for? You don't need T to cut your wages, withhold/minimize bonus payouts etc. In essence you have given yourself a pay cut by working 0.5 times more hours than you are salaried for and therefore the company believes they can "do more with less". At a high level it is not known how many people are doing this and the magnitude of this "free work". Please know your worth and stop with the self inflicted pay cuts. For the vast majority of people it will not secure you a top rating or compensation for that matter because your manager probably knows that you will just sit in that chair and make things happen.
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WFH. Admit it, Costco, laundry, mow the lawn, Facebook, not working.
Not really the problem. Not at all. We are able to do that BECAUSE we WFH.
It’s not going to happen RTO. A hard lesson will be learned but not for the hard working employees. Nope.
If youre salaried and youre giving any company more than 40 hours of your life every week, I feel for you. I work late and on weekends if something is broken, but it shouldnt be the norm and if it is youre being taken advantage of. This is not new. There have been layoffs for years. My team is a shadow of what it once was a few years back. After every reduction, when they come to me to take over other peoples responsibilities I just ask "Ok, what of the existing work youve given me should be pushed lower in priority to handle these tasks"
Have boundaries, ffs. You dont get any awards on your deathbed because you put in more hours than the other poor schmucks.
Lot of people say they work 60 hour week. I don't see it though.
I don’t know anybody that works 60+ hours regularly at T. I know partner firms where this is true but most of my colleagues do the bare minimum.
i work 60 hours a week so i can take work away from others and send them to the top of the layoff list. It makes my metrics look good when my boss is discussing headcount reduction plans. I am stressing out doing RTO if i cannot work the extra hours in the evening since I will be commuting instead. I have communicated my 60 hour work week ethic at great lengths to my boss and the whole team during team meetings.
If you're hourly it's your decision to get the OT by working 60 hours. If you are exempt that is kind of stupid to do on a regular basis
Why would you work 60 hours if you are only getting paid for 40?
There are so many responses and so many up/down votes being made on this board during company time when people should be actually working, I think a lot of the problem is becoming clear ..........
There are way too many underperforming people at AT&T.
Well, the title "You're part of the problem" is correct but not for the reasons stated.
Yes, they might(?) be claiming 60 hours per week at work but those 60 hours break down like this:
30 hours "collaborating" (talking to other employees about garage sales, happy hours, the latest fad diet, upcoming weekend plans, vacation plans, how overworked you are, etc...)
10 hours sending and answering emails about :see collaborating
5 hours answering personal emails and making personal plans.
5 hours crying because they are so overworked while all the while (the entire 60 claimed hours) sitting in climate controlled environment, never getting bruised, sunburned, bug bitten, heat exhausted, possible frostbite, sweaty, sore, etc...
10 hours trying to get as much work done as possible but only getting about 25% of the work done that any normal "non-management" classified employee does in less than 40 hours per week.
YES, I heartily agree "YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM" !!
In other words, if the last time they laid someone off, and the time before, instead of picking up their work, we all said: "no, I already have plenty and can't just take a 50% increase in work load for the same money", maybe they would have though harder the next time they looked for someone to let go. But we didn't. We tried to be good, hard workers, and help up where needed, and many of us might soon end up unemployed because of it.
It's twisted.
I don't know if I can connect this to the RTO, but it's still a valid point. I'm sure my team is not the only one that lost people to lay-offs, and never got an approval to hire anyone new. So their responsibilities just rolled over to others on the team, who have been doing all the extra work, for the same money. This created an illusion that those people that got laid off, were likely useless anyway, since their work is now being handled by the rest of the team. If they were "useless", then how about others? Maybe Bob can go, or Mary, and if the team is still handling their stuff, how far can we push them? It's a double-edged sword too, because by doing this extra work, often working extra hours, you might create an illusion that you've been slacking for god knows how long before that. After all, if you can do 1.5 times the work now, why couldn't you in the past?
Exactly. Maintain frame and set your priorities. During costco shopping runs during the day, I send out meeting invites, approve requests, and remember to pick up a $1.50 hot dog before heading to my work desk at home.
Nailed it - people are working too hard... that's why AT&T is doing this. Great observation.