I have been an employee since 2000. 23 years. 23 years of wasted life. I can't take it anymore and have reached the point to where I just don't care anymore. I'm here to collect a check, do the bare minimum, while I just await my death sentence. Yes, I know, it's my fault for not pursuing something outside, but I really thought this was a place to retire. After all the mismanagement, illegal reporting of financials, and overall incompetence of leadership I have accepted my fate. Yes, I will stick around until the end, just waiting for the pink slip. I am not in a position to retire, unfortunately, and have many working years ahead of me. It's just not what I'm made for..........
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I retired at 56 last November. Mainly bc of the pension drop Jan. 1st. There is life after this sh.t place!
I worked 6 years as a manager and I made an extra 10% for coming in Sunday night, and another 10% for working nights - 100k+
For this I:
Retrieved and ate carry out.
Played video games.
Walked outside with every smoker, at different times.
Pretended to verify Technician’s Quality.
I stayed 44 years, craft then management up to District, then down to 2nd level due to FMP. Came back as a contractor, making almost as much s when I left..took my pension in cash along with my 401k..AT&T in the 70's ans 80's was a great place to work. But after the split it went all downhill..Hang in there and collect the checks and 401k match..
If you get a pay check stop crying and get to work.
OP - I'm with you. I stayed too many years too long. I saw the recruiter offers years ago but thought nah, i'm good here. I'll retire here like my bosses before me. Now i'm wrought with regret that I didn't take the interview offers seriously when the job market was still hot.
Now I feel stuck between a rock and a hard place because I want out immediately but now it's a year or less for that severance payout. Who can predict what the job market will be in a year. I'm seeing great opportunities now but am ignoring them again for the hope of the severance.
I still try to do a good job and get at least a base hit every week. It’s just how I’m wired; however, I have learned not to swing for the fences anymore as you never get the credit due. Do a good job, do the bare minimum, same result at the end of the year. A lot of that is tied to their comp plans and failure of it. I won’t even get into the utter lack of opportunities to advance. Only a select few move up and it is almost never the best or brightest. Which imho is why this company is ran so poorly.
Imagine being this pathetic that you sit and moan about wasting your life and “collecting a check” rather than doing something to change it. You’re a b-m with self accountability issues
Wow. What drama!
You work for 23 years with no pay, No benefits, No pension, No company match? Well that's your own fault.
A lot of the employees throughout AT&T have the same sentiment, they just don't give a D@mn anymore. They're not doing their best work, they're not going above and beyond and they're trying to get away with doing the bare minimum! I can't say I blame them for feeling used and abused over the last 3 years. T has come down really hard on its employees everything from taking away vacation time, reducing benefits and forcing people to move. There's a lot to deal with. Just keep taking your pay and do just enough to get by!
Sounds like the incompetence extends well beyond leadership.
We follow "leadership" even if that leads to failure.
No, there is nothing 10 thousand of us could do to rival Randy and John's failures.
Change my mind.
Come on, man, what kind of talk is this? As you said, you still have years ahead of you, you can and will find another job, a better one, in fact. Sure, it will su-k for a bit, no one wants to go back to applying and interviewing with 20 something year old chicks from SF asking d-mb generic "interview" questions, but we have to get through this. Just like thousands did before us.
So will you!
“ Where’s the investigative reporters when you need them? “
The media ignores the incompetence at T just like they ignore the same in the Whitehouse.
Sounds like the incompetence extends well beyond leadership
Ditto. I’ve only been working 30 hour weeks for months now. I’m giving them what they give me.
So many of us are simply waiting to get laid off for the long paid vacation to regroup for the next chapter.
So sad that bad decision after bad decision made by the elite equates to a horrible career and “waiting to be layed off”.
It is amazing how the unscrupulous reporting has gone unchallenged by the press/markets/auditors.
I thought it would be more obvious that something is drastically wrong here
& thought hair maybe some high levels would have to meet their justice but no. They are still employed and in C-level positions. Truly unbelievable. Where’s the investigative reporters when you need them? Someone tell this story. Greed that led to fraud that led to job losses.