Does anyone remember the Workforce 2020 initiative? Looking for real explanation of what it was.
Is this the endgame to that?
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"Stop looking on the rear view mirror. Keep moving forward!"
Yeah, the Stankster has more disastrous ideas up his sleeve. Let's focus on not learning from the past. 😆
Yup. I was new to the company. I fell for it. Never again will I believe their BS.
A wiseman from I believe from Ohio once said “ When AT&T say you matter, it’s as sincere as flowers from a ra---t.” No truer words have ever been said.
It’s a copywriter infringement
Workforce 2020: Work and Workers in the 21st Century
Book by Carol D'Amico, Gary L. Geipel, and Richard Judy
Do you honestly believe anything AT&T does is original?
It was a total joke. I dotted all the i and t’s. Had great reviews and still got a management surplus.
I actually used all that training to launch my new career in a group called Tech Dev. They sold us to IBM. Guess it made the deal more valuable, but felt like I was waiting to be freed on Juneteenth if you know what I mean.
They’d make for top notch outhouse wallpaper for sure.
* "Wonder how all them folks with "nano degrees" are doing" *
I can answer this one. If they were printed on paper, I'd use them as toilet paper. Have a whole stack of them.
An MS degree. Thats all changed. Now JS thinks a BA/BS is a waste of money.
Speaking of things - whatever happened to the IOT initiative with putting our sensors in every Ford and GM? hmmm
Remember we had to do the training after hours? Ge-z I did it. I was so d-mb.
"got a MS degree"
Wonder how all them folks with "nano degrees" are doing
I fell for that cr@p also and put my perl programming projects on hold and learned python. I also went and got a MS degree and T didn't recognize a bit of it. They put no value on it at all -- didn't even mention when it came time for reviews and merit increase. Then my manager got p--sed when i applied for other positions internally.
It was a no win situation and I was d-mb enough to stay because I didn't want to have to pay back the tuition reimbursement.
Don't forget, EVERY job was going to require you to know how to code in python ...lol
Workplace 2020 was the plan to have all management work at the Dallas Cowboy’s stadium on laptops using the WiFi. Randall and Donavan would be out on the field with binoculars making sure everyone was typing away. Pandemic delayed it by 3 years. Gotta hit the snack bar before the run out of super pretzels…
search tSpace, the Workplace 2020 sharepoint site is still there
It was a layoff in disguise to push out workers in non hub locations and do more off shoring much like today’s RTO.
That reminds me, my tspace badges disappeared. ☠️💀🫠
Our director instructed us few years ago to present T as an entertainment company. Nowadays I have fully understood what that means.
Sure, I remember how PRIs would be gone by 2019. They are still here.
I remember how all of our locations would be modernized. While San Ramon, Dallas, and Atlanta got modernized workplaces, I was huffing it to my dump with 6 inches of dust and pollen on the registers, and paying money into the employee owned coffee fund.
Since that time, we went from being a mobilty only company (where the government denied AT&T the ability to buy T-Mo) to being "loud and proud about the cloud" in our hosted data centers (that we sold off), then a content delivery company (that we sold off), then an entertainment company (that we sold off)
So, as I look to the future, I see more promises made....which will lead to more promises broken, selling commoditized fiber and mobile plans that basically will provide for about a fifth of our current employee base......Exciting times!
Donovan's idea of virtual networks was thinking he could sprinkle fairy dust on a data center and magically have additional servers online with no human intervention or costs. That guy was a total fool. Good riddance!
It was nothing more than a dangling carrot that disappeared when 2020 came around.
I remember several town hall presentations with John Donovan regarding Workforce 2020 that basically stressed that everyone should be taking the initiative to take training in technical areas/skills if they wanted to be employable at AT&T in 2020. I believe these presentations were somewhere in the 2013-2015 timeframe.
Yes, very well. We were brainwashed since 2016 with the effort. Calls twice a week, open mics, newsletters, trainings, forms, Tspace forums, "discussions" with AVPs. We spent customer's money in excellent way - to nowhere.
Does anyone remember Y2K and all the special project teams set up to prepare?
I remember workplace 2000 :|
Pepperidge Farm remembers. There was a whole push for getting the majority of employees out by 2020 with SDN implementation. Who would have thought you need humans to run a network full of complexities? With no good leadership, this is what T has become. Wasteful spending. Acquisitions that make no sense.
Stop looking on the rear view mirror. Keep moving forward!