I love how the leadership expects employees to be loyal to AT&T, but have no problems with not reciprocating that loyalty. I'm so tired of the whole "be a good team player, it's good for the company" attitude when something needs to be done which switches into "it's nothing personal" as soon as layoffs hit. The worst kind of hypocrisy right there.
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Corporations have always been ethics and morality free zones but since the 80s with all the free market rhetoric and deregulation fervor they have become un-moored from any responsibilities to society, employees, or even stockholders. And when they have a CEO who runs the company off the rails with loopy schemes then you have what we have now.
It’s far worse than “just” hypocrisy; it’s mendacious, underhanded treachery.
The hypocrisy is preaching collaboration at the town halls while IT centers are being built outside the US to replace US employees.
The current T cancer culture is a direct result of CEOs Mr Ed, favorite son in law Randy, and Uncle Fester “leadership”. Leaders without moral compass leaders that instill fear and intimidation. Backstopped by a BOD of fools and morally bankrupt losers.
The ask what you can do for the company not what the company can do for you is failing in deaf ears in light of the fact employees have lost vacation time, retirement benefits, forced RTO with people being force relocated, big brother watching swipes and LAN time, complete lack of advancement opportunities, no accountability for leadership despite horrific business decisions. Leadership takes in a very heavy handed way and shows little regard for employees while demanding undying loyalty…uh…not happening.
I will know the culture has changed when upper mgmt (3-8 levels) are scambling, stressed and overworked. At that point, the culture has changed and maybe “real” changes can happen to make the place better.
They are a team/family (literally for some) at the top because there aren’t any consequences and they aren’t having their coworkers being laid off en masse. There are still too many levels (4 VP) of managers between the bottom and top. So it’s like the game of people being in a circle, a sentence is whispered to the first person and repeated to the next until it gets back to the start. The end result is nothing like it started, ergo 7-8 levels between the top and bottom has the same effect, filtered up then, filtered back down.
Yep first lines and second lines have no backbone . Just a bunch of scared little yes men . Team , family! What a joke .
Second line told us we need to change the culture. Well that should start at the top .
The same attitude goes for breaks, lunches, badge swipes, login and safety visits. If all he-l breaks loose then policies and rules are void otherwise, the manager imputes the employee no matter what the circumstances.
Truth