They don't even have the ba--s to say "Laid Off". "Surplus" kinda like inventory of left over wood when you build a house. People are not surplus unless you have lost all your humanity. This is as cold as you can get. AT&T's debacle with Time Warner/DirecTV has come home to roost. Cutting costs by sh-t canning your employees is a path to ruin.
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From a corporation whose CEO refers to employees as “human capital” what would you expect
Yup and they are throwing gobs of money at AI and ChatGPT. They don't really that LLM is a hype train and they are fully onboard. This will be the next DirecTV boondoggle Stankey's trophy case of incompetence
Agreed. Dispense with the fluff & call it what it truly is…dropping the axe on folks. Trying to chop their way out of billions in debt. A recipe for (continued) failure. Besides, if they really wanted to make substantial cost reductions, they’d eliminate 2-3 layers of overpaid, superfluous “VP’s”.
AT&T definitely scared. We workers run the company and they know they need us.
Yes surplus is the left over people needed to do the work. What else can we do with them when there isn't any more work?
What T-Mobile deal? Do we own any part of T-Mobile?
If you’ve been spared from a surplus and have committed to RTO and relocating, please play the lottery. If any manager is telling you that you are “OK” , don’t put too much stock in it. Most managers up to and including 2nd and 3rd level are purposely left out of surplus dates , numbers and location for the exact reason you might suspect, they leak to their friends. Other levels are required to sign NDAs to help curb the leaks described above. Take control of your own career, stay if you want, or plan your next step. Either way don’t keep your head in the sand with the belief that things will be just fine. They won’t. The complexion of the company in 12 months will be unrecognizable from the one you work at tomorrow…that’s the hard truth.
It used to mean you had 60 days to find a job, and in many cases, people did. You wouldn't have said "fired" or "laid off" because they weren't, yet.
Now with the 2 weeks, it has lost it's meaning.
Don’t forget about the botched TMobile deal that started the downfall of the company.
"Why anyone, who isn’t pension eligible, would choose to work here moving forward is beyond me.
If you’re young and working here, do yourself a favor and find an another employer."
i'm taking this advice to heart and looking now. It's a bad job market. many recruiters take forever to get back to you, if they get back at all. Some from FAANG have ghosted me after a 5 hour total interview process. Believe me, just getting the interview was difficult.
My advice to the younger employees, start NOW because finding a new job will take a lot longer than you think. And if you get it, TAKE IT. If severance is only a few months, you will use that entire time looking for a new job. Severance is capped at a certain amount, not actual number of months so long time employees are not actually getting 6 months.
"Surplus" is just short for "surplus to requirements."
Suppose to be a “softer” more PC word vs. fired/layoff.
I don't think it is. I personally always hated this term. Surplussed, like something they have too much of, and no use for. What better way to make your employees feel like garbage?
Layoff/fired/surplus/reduction…it’s all the same and every employee should have seen it coming, no surprise at least since 2008!
Why anyone, who isn’t pension eligible, would choose to work here moving forward is beyond me.
If you’re young and working here, do yourself a favor and find an another employer.
Would you prefer RIF (reduction in force)?
Suppose to be a “softer” more PC word vs. fired/layoff.
Just saying “fired” would be the most honest.
This place loves its linguistic gymnastics and weasel words. Surplus is Target trying to sell beach chairs in September. This is a layoff. Never heard of a layoff being called ‘surplus’ before I came here.
Other good ones: Rate plan optimization instead of a price hike, live your designation instead of slog to a cube farm and so on.
George Carlin could do entire HBO special with the material from AT&T.
just trans national corporation rule
just like the nwo that has no compassion or humanity.
Been surplused 5 times with this company so far. Still here but tired of moving all the damn time just to keep a job.
Yassir. Just got "surplussed" myself.
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