Stop spending so much energy in the negative. If you didnt get the shank it doesnt mean you won't. We are at different positions in our lives and you work in an environme t when you never know when you are going to get the Stankey shank. This has been going on for over 20 yrs. Come on craft or management we all have lived it despite our tenure. What I can tell you despite your severance you can still collect unemployment in most states.Also be mindful your severance is a bonus provided by the company. They can change those provisions at any time. Let that sink in. Despite your devotion and alliance to this company you are just a number. That wont save you. If you didnt get the shank a contingency plan is in order. In a year or a week once you figure it all out you may come back to this board to talk others off the ledge or just wash your hands and move on.
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Get back in that office or leave. Don't think you are so valuable to this company that they owe it to you. People saying they will have to pay for daycare again and all sorts of other BS. SMH. BOO HOO HOO.
With a PhD in underwater basketweaving, my impeccable skills and qualifications will easily make myself impervious to surplus.
I hear you on the severance. I’ve got almost 40 years, 1.4 million in savings plan, pension and a very generous inheritance from my parents. No mortgage and no debt. I still want a severance package. If John’s worth his millions so are we. Fu-k ‘em. I’m looking out for me. Y’all do the same.
Sadly Stankey and top leadership team have mis-led and mis-managed this company. Stankey should have been let go for the massive destruction of shareholder value the past 10 years. If any other AT&T employee had similar results, they would have been fired for poor and unacceptable results years ago.
As many others have stated, RTO is being used to dramatically reduce HDCT. Many loyal employees have invested 20+ years with this company and helped build it into what was one of the most respected brands and companies in the World. That is longer the case. Employees are ashamed how far this company has fallen. Competitors are cleaning our clock. We have been reduced to a Fiber and Mobility company - which are 2 commodity businesses...With huge debt that John and others have wrapped around AT&T's neck, the options are few....John will continue to reduce costs at any price....a monkey could do that...AT&T needs leadership that can grow this company and out-compete the Verizons, T-Mobiles, etc...
Get your resume in order, leverage and build out your network and you will land somewhere where you are not looking over your shoulder for the next layoff. Stankey, HR and others have created this culture "we'll continue to lay people off to make our numbers while simultaneously telling employees "they are our most important asset"...
I hope and pray you will all land well...
No thanks, I’ll wait for my severance, the company would love for us to just quit, not happening here. Unemployment income is below poverty level in most states with the exception of the large and tax burdened ones. If or when they change the severance policy I may rethink it but until then, I’m prepared for whatever.
Appreciate the unnecessary lecture.
Do you really think people that remain are not aware that we too may gone soon?
Some of us are just hanging on for that severance. And yes, we have covered to death that severance, while a current policy here, is not legally obligated (most everywhere except NJ apparently). So no need for your amazing insight on that either.
I have been here 25+ years, and that severance is too much to leave on the table with kids college costs and what not. You know, my “station of life”.
So I wait to be told hopefully in next week or 2 where my job will be here in the short term at least. Actually am hoping for that severance. I’ve got a job interview this week.
I agree, you can tighten the ship but the proper way is to cut where cuts are needed by group, they could do voluntary and even a surplus where needed…offer voluntaries like they have done, this just ki-ls everything… it’s not good for people leaving or people staying or the company itself
No one is worried…those of us not willing to move just want our severance..but they are playing stupid cat and mouse games …they don’t have enough people to do the work…but want to cut down the workforce..no plan…just a bunch of mo--ns digging the company in a deeper in a pile of sh-t