Dead Man Walking, Dead Man Walking, We got a Dead Man Walking Here. The Employees, The Entity, Dead Man Walking, We got a Dead Man Walking Here. Had all the assets to make something happen in today's world but never had the management, competence, or... — read more
Low WFH rates across the U.S.
https://stocks.apple.com/A-gKu_duLQje0YPKsoZzsqQ
Do we think RTO will be enforced last couple weeks of the year?
I ask because I would love that extra 3 hours a day (commute) back with my family at least around the holidays that I had before RTO. My wife had a baby earlier in the year so unfortunately I’m out of PTO.
AT&T benefits
There are no as in ZERO benefits anymore working here. As a 2nd level AM I was promised: a. Free land line phone for life b. Free family Blue Cross medical for life - while working & retired c. Free cell service d. Free wiring protection e. Free... — read more
Loud mouth bald giant
Tu-d who nobody likes. Cost shareholders $175B and jobs of 100K+. Stankey and Randal should have their cahones in a vice, covered in honey, with fire ants at their feet.
2024 AT&T Group Medicare Advantage PPO Plan 3 separate mailings
AT&T sent out information on the 2024 ATT MAPD plan recently. The material sent to you was determined by which group you were in. Below are the three groups. After each group I captured a sentence or two from the Plan guide that group was sent. ... — read more
I wasted two years of my life at AT&T
I'm happy to say I will waste no more. I got a new job and I'll be happy to leave in two weeks without ever looking back. I don't think there's anything positive I will remember about this place, other than having great coworkers. Everything else was... — read more
Do the bare minimum, cash the checks, collect the benefits
Do not buy the company stock, dump it out of your 401-K match. Don't forget Stankey thinks Wall Street has it all wrong on the company and is mispricing ATT stock. If Stankey were relieved of his duties the stock would jump a few bucks immediately... — read more
Lawyer’d Up?
Ask your lawyer to request AT&T preserves HR People Analytics reporting about age, tenure, empathy maps for propensity to relocate amongst generations and limitations on job accommodations for older employees. Getting purged now.
New York Times - RTO Article
“And at the end of the day, despite all the noise some business executives made to the contrary, remote work saves companies money. It cuts overhead, boosts productivity and is profitable. And what is profitable in a capitalist economy sticks.” John... — read more
https://www.droid-life.com/2023/10/16/t-mobile-crushes-verizon-att-in-ooklas-q3-speed-report/
https://www.droid-life.com/2023/10/16/t-mobile-crushes-verizon-att-in-ooklas-q3-speed-report/
Laid Off - No request or instructions to return MacBook
I got canned a while ago and there has been no instructions, box, or requests to send my MacBook back. So I just have a $2k+ paperweight laying around until I ki-l off remote management or install Ubuntu? I'm sure as he-l not going to put in time... — read more
Employees are not the issue…
AT&T needs to put their real estate assets to work! Repurpose those few hundred thousand owned office buildings! Lease them out! NYC has been doing this for years…
Corporate Math at AT&T - I’ll go first!
Corporate math at AT&T is not having the funds to build a solution right the first time but having the funds to fix it! Corporate math at AT&T is having your CEO make the top list of most paid CEOs but not having the money to backfill due to RTO... — read more
3rd Quarter Results Announced Thursday.
More layoffs this week or euphoria for an average result? Now that they have quantified Free Cash Flow for investors, going forward will Stanky continue to try and cut his way to success to make the new number?
Board
Looking through the board there's no one likely to challenge anything. Talk about people who need to retire. They're mostly retired. This is where they need some youth, like under 65. The youngest are money managers but retired at that. At most they... — read more
Open Enrollment 2024 Medical Insurance Providers
For AT&T Open Enrollment, who are the 2024 Medical Insurance Providers by State? We are in Alabama and have Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois for 2023. Asking this question for any specific states since others may be interested in knowing this for... — read more
5 days in office?
How long until the mandate becomes 5 days in office? Or will the entire RTO mandate be dropped once AT&T gets enough people to leave?
How do I get hired as a non employee?
Does anyone know how many non employees groups we’re allowing non badge to hold us at there mercy when ,if , how they “support “ us?
AT&T 5G
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/tech/article/att-5g-speed-comparison-18419877.php
I wonder if Dropbox is hiring
What would Drew Houston, CEO of Silicon Valley software giant Dropbox, say to fellow CEOs—like Google’s Sundar Pichai or Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg—who seem to believe that three days a week in-person is crucial for company culture? “I’d say, ‘your... — read more
Just because you like 2 be the center of attention
Doesn’t mean you will make a good manager You like to be praised 2 much In the 20+ years I have been working for AT&T I thought I have seen it all You rear end kissing skills are mediocre at best. yet you have your team feeding your ego The name... — read more
Israel
AT&T has, or at least used to have, some support teams located in Israel. Anyone have any insights into whether or not those groups are currently functional, given the catastrophic events occurring in Israel?
2 and 2 for Midwest Craft coming EOY
Too many techs on the book in the Midwest. 2 and 2 will be on the books for Q 4. I imagine there will be a lot of takers
Am I missing something about our leader?
Was on a team call and there was discussion of Stankey’s speech today - couldn’t attend myself. Anyway our AVP and one of the L3s could not stop fawning over it and talking about how great he is and the L3 talked about how fired up about the company... — read more
0 work in Mobility.
So... Mobility in MI has barely any work left in the bucket, and it is only mid-October. I think this is the worst it has been in more than a decade, but then I say that every year. With work outsourced (and no support from the LOL joke of a CWA)... — read more
Stank ECG Takeaway: Tech is bad, Sum up people with eye twitch
You’d never think that the CEO of a Telecommunications giant (and Wannabe Tech Titan) would say that “successful teams succeed by building relationships in-person at water coolers and refrigerators” and that virtual, digital connections fail to... — read more
What I Learned from the Stankey ERG Talk
· John Stankey will 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗺𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 (thanks, your Wave 1 accomplishes that for me but not in the way you intended) · "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘆𝗲." Oh, like the time a President (of the United States) told us "𝗜 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻... — read more
ERG Groups
One of the worst use of company time and resources. I thought we had a cash flow problem.
My Hero
The woman who stood up in the meeting today and asked Stankey "Did you leave out the Boomers on purpose" is my hero. If we had more people that asked questions like that we'd have a much better culture.
John is addressing the ERG's
and, in his own arrogant and narcissistic way, I believe, is attempting to address his ageist comments from a couple months ago. Started by asking how many Gen X'ers in the crowd, how many Gen Z's, Millennials, etc. Informed them they are all the... — read more
We are all perennials
Per stinker we are periniels not Gen x or x or malicious. Plants that come back each year.
A day in the world of RTO
Report to office. See co-workers from lengthy career in all different groups now. Talk about how cr-ppy our company is. Talk about the stupid RTO tools they use to track, monitor, and demoralize us. Talk about JS and how he ruined us with failed... — read more
Wave 2
The purging is coming… In the hallowed halls of ye olde cubicle kingdom, there doth rumble a tale most foul! Hark! 'Tis whispered that a 'purge' is nigh, and many a colleague quivers in their ergonomic chairs. "To be purged, or not to be purged? That... — read more
Sc--w you to the very end !
Seems I am not getting my retirement gift and I was not offered money for a party. I really can’t understand why I worked at T so long as they clearly hate their employees. I am at a new employer and I cannot believe how valued I feel as well as... — read more
Sale Rumors
Any other orgs within AT&T rumored to be for sale to reduce headcount as we head into 2024?