Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

"Strictly talking about business here, DEI is a progression of affirmative action. In approximately 15-20 years according to US censuses the Caucasian population will no longer be the majority. What then?"

Please direct your attention to South Africa and Zimbabwe, or, best case scenario, Brazil.

I’m orange and like to lick snail shells, it makes me a special and people dislike me. Does that mean I get preferential treatment over the common green and purple people? Asking for a friend who loves to smell fl-tulence.

Strictly talking about business here, DEI is a progression of affirmative action. In approximately 15-20 years according to US censuses the Caucasian population will no longer be the majority. What then? Will these discriminatory practices continue? Will the tables turn?

I want the best, most competent and trainable employee for my company. Meritocracy allows you to be evaluated based on many levels and not your identify which has nothing to do with being a good employee. All then have a seat at the table which is the successful and fair way to hire, promote and layoff. Of course there always has been and will be nepotism, favoritism and company politics, human nature no matter what race.

The company has been top heavy in nonessential management positions for way too long. They need to flatten the structure and increase span of control. I’ve been seeing news stories about it repeatedly since Judge Green broke up the monopoly in the 80’s. It didn’t matter for decades due to the huge revenues rolling in but competition happened. They finally are having to make drastic adjustments due to the many poor decisions that has resulted in an enormous debt load and revenue drying up. The music has stopped and they can’t continue to rearrange chairs much longer.

Hate to see anyone lose the job but there is definitely a bias against age and race (mostly older caucasian males) in their selective layoffs. They spread the peanut butter around the country to disguise it. In conjunction with announced layoffs, RTO is the new layoff initiative, anyone thinks otherwise are just fooling themselves. It rates right up there with leadership telling Wall Street they didn’t make free cash flow because customers weren’t paying their bills on time, dubious and laughable.

What’s happened the Legal Department reveals employee loyalty, work ethic, and excellence means nothing at AT&T. In 2 recent layoffs (one a year ago impacting Law Dept leadership and last Tuesday’s bloodbath of worker bees, both had nothing to do with the quality of those impacted.

What determined firing? Age and race. Nothing else. Zero.

I'm a minority, and an immigrant. Didn't save my a-s. Surplussed on Thursday. Out of this bi--h in less than 2 weeks.

"Did someone strike a nerve with facts, appears someone went crazy with downvoting. How dare facts interrupt a narrative which is also being upvoted like crazy."

I can't always figure out why people downvote what they do. Do they dislike the actual post (like when it's an obvious troll)? Is the post itself okay (like if it's presenting reported data) and they dislike the facts?

The one below, for example: I actually agree with the points made. They are probably pretty accurate. But I don't like what those facts represent i.e. the actions of c-suite, the weird demographic skew, etc. So would I upvote for the validity of the post or downvote for the general suckery of T it highlights. Either way, that a heck of a lot of reactions within a short timeframe.

Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Did someone strike a nerve with facts, appears someone went crazy with downvoting. How dare facts interrupt a narrative which is also being upvoted like crazy.

The minority (by total employee %) mostly white incompetent C-suite have been an abject failure. Nobody is giving them a pass but discriminatory identity policies and practices won’t solve incompetence, only consequences. That’s what’s wrong with todays corporate boardrooms, no consequences for poor performance. Fire them! On the other hand DEI will be a catastrophic failure for the company because they won’t to be able to hire and retain the the best competent talent based on using a DEI model. Meritocracy matters for a business to have success and sustainability, it’s a proven business practice.

The last couple of yearly AT&T, DEI reports if going by US demographics shows that the employee base is unbalanced according to the racial makeup of the country. The white majority is underrepresented with the exception of the small C-suite level. That needs to be corrected, the company needs to be fair if they are going by identity policies, otherwise it’s hypocritical and discriminatory.

"the discriminatory DEI initiatives"

I think it's ironic how you presume that DEI initiatives somehow led to the downfall of some meritocracy at AT&T, given that the ONLY failures that have cost the company hundreds of billions of dollars were at the hands of white men. Under what DEI initiative were they hired?

You are right about the sycophants, their next move is to throw up a bunch,3-4 new bogus topics to bury these kind of truthful pieces on the site. I’ve seen it happen repeatedly over the last few years. Watch and see if I’m not right.

The sycophants are here, they keep down voting post of others comments and opinions. It doesn’t change reality, they are wasting their time. It’s been in the news for a while and Wall Street is well aware what’s been happening.

AT&T is like the carcass of a fallen elephant that becomes diminished daily by the fattened carnivores and vultures feeding off of it. Eventually only the bones will be left.

Great piece on the current situation - but very very sad-and to think RS is on the BOD of Walmart.

It's time for you to move on. Get on with your life!

Randall is mostly to blame but let’s not give Stankey, C-suite or the board a pass either, they were thick as thieves with Randall during all of these blunders.

The source of nearly all the companies present day problems is Randall Stephenson. For the myriad of ill-advised and overpriced acquisitions and simultaneous neglect of the core business his legacy will forever be the man who destroyed AT&T. He imagined himself a true visionary; of course the proof is in the pudding. His ego may be the only thing larger than his debt load.

Great summation! Unfortunately it’s true.

Nailed it

Accurate, where do they go from here?