The lack of transparency by design, makes it difficult to know what is going on in my organization, let alone the rest of the company. Feel free to post any information with as much specifics as you can for all who visit this site, I’m sure a lot of... — read more 

Is anyone going to start a new job while waiting for severance? Is it possible to manage the month or so of overlap?

Any significance to Lori Lee taking over HR? I’ve never had contact with Lee. Is she Stankey’s lap dog that will do whatever he wants?

Ok, I was a major skeptic of RTO. But I’ll admit it - there IS collaboration. But why do we have so many interns? In Dallas there are tons of people doing nothing other than taking interns to lunch, making presentations, taking up conference rooms... — read more 

This specific blog is owned, controlled, monitored and used as a tool by the company to gather data on employee thoughts and accusations for purposes applying disciplinary action up to and including dismissal. Thus far this year, 47 employees have... — read more 

We have a lot of fortune tellers.

RTO has resulted in damaging results to companies that made it a policy. AT&T will soon feel the results as well unless they back off: https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/now-finding-damaging-results-mandated-095555463.html

Has anyone heard how big the layoffs will be within the AT&T Public Sector group?

If you or anyone you know has an audio (or video) recording of the all employee town hall where JS commented on the “replacement” of older employees, please reach out anonymously to: Karin Price-Mueller Star-Ledger &... — read more 

The precedent has already been set. Finding that AT&T factored in an employee’s age in its decision to lay her off, a federal judge has awarded the former employee more than $2.25 million in damages in her age discrimination lawsuit against the... — read more 

It would be great if it was, but judging by what some former colleagues who left say, it's not ideal there either. Far from it.

How skewed are our books? How could we possibly be hitting our expected earnings when most people barely do their job here? Top sellers all do what their not supposed to. Customer service would rather play hot potato with a customer than actually... — read more 

So, the interesting thing is that when folks were asking where the replay of "John and other leaders answer your questions on our 2Q results" was last week (in comments on on the Insider article "A message from John Stankey on 2Q results") , those... — read more 

All the people received the RTO letter from San Ramon office are going to Dallas and Atlanta Is the office closing?

Stanley realized he shouldn't have sold warner. It's been downhill everywhere since. So he's buying Paramount now. It would barely add to the debt.

Just curious how others around the nation are being impacted directly within the SLED org. Specifically the mobility integration that goes into effect 09/01 which is adding 2-300% of unnecessary direct sellers in many markets. Many of the SLED... — read more 

Related to lead covered cables… Brace for impact y’all

Even though cash flow for the 2nd Qtr. was $4.2 billion, it borrowed an additional $6 billion.

Our board need to dump Stinky and bring on an outsider if we have any hope.

AT&T HR Chief Is Leaving as Company Cuts Thousands of Jobs Story by Scott Moritz • 1h ago (Bloomberg) -- AT&T Inc.’s human resources chief, Angela Santone, will leave the company at the end of September, just as the telecommunications giant is... — read more 

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but here reorganization efforts fail more often than not. I'm getting a little tired of it. I have friends in companies where reorgs do not fail and actually serve to improve the company. What is the purpose... — read more 

Three of my team members (all over rule 75, all TW long before covid) were assigned to offices states away from them, despite closer ones being available. They were given the choice of reporting to that office or surplus. All three of them got... — read more 

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/31/business/yellow-corp-closing/index.html

It is not RTO anylonger it is refered to how and where we work. I was informed of that today. Now I feel so much happier with the new way it is phrased. "2% more chocolate" George Orwell 1984

Was told today there’s no layoffs for Fiber sellers but it kinda sounds like a lie just to get sellers to perform their best

I'm thinking 0% chance, legal jumped in and probably had it deleted or locked

It seems that Stankey has one-upped Morgan Stanley’s CEO. Not only did Stankey call out the old folks but he made it clear that younger employees are needed. You can search the comment Gorman made and the impact it has on Ageism suits. We may... — read more 

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4621713-att-stock-capital-squanderer

To him, you're a dime a dozen. What he cares about is how to make as much money for himself as he can before he is inevitably pushed out. That's the only thing he's focused on. Not the future of the company and certainly not the well-being of... — read more 

This company is such a joke. I have no doubt they know who is going in 3 days/week for a full day each time, but so what? What are they gonna do about it? If they start formal threats and discipline action against even one person, they have to go... — read more 

Why are the posts about her departure to another company being deleted? This is pertinent information for this website. Rumor or truth, that is what this website is.

We have a mix of non vaccinated and vaccinated. We already have five positive cases and another who showed up very sick who was screamed at by peers until he left. In the past HR performed contact tracing and informed coworkers exposed. Now a days... — read more 

Why do we train for this Then a manager calls and ask to let their tech in CO?

people roaming the floors looking for an opening. Collaboration is funny.

Stinkey done stank up the joint. Do what we used to do, Mgr and most of team is/ was remote to me. Badge in, leave at lunch. No badge readers on way out. Make sure not to use VPN in the afternoon as they are looking for it. Though if you are... — read more 

AT&T has been in a death spiral and constant layoffs and benefit reductions are the result. If we could turn back the Time Machine and if the Jetson’s (Bellsouth) would have purchased the Flintstones (SBC) where would the company be now? Bellsouth... — read more 

So we have 8 tables in our store and we have 10 bar stools and 3 chairs. Mind you the 13 we have look nasty, cracks in them, downright dangerous. They fall off on a monthly basis, kinda like our TV sales. We keep asking for more chairs or tables or... — read more 

So many posts discussing not actually working while being paid or not giving full effort. That's disgraceful. I understand the frustration. I've cut back my hours too. Difference is I'm still giving 40+ hours of solid work in exchange for my... — read more