Just how low can it go?
This is mind-boggling
The quality of the new hires at AT&T is beyond belief! They make not just small but serious mistakes every single day, and to top it off, they don't seem to know a thing about what they're doing. How could any company in its right mind let this... — read more
AT&T lacks any positive identity in the marketplace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojK02KEtoks T-Mobile - Value and The Uncarrier Verizon - The Supreme Network AT&T - ? Old, Monopoly, Co--y, Fees, remember pre data era when the geniuses of SBC and Cingular came up with "Self Expression" for a voice... — read more
ABC process
By the looks of AT&T stocks, someone not doing the process before makn decision! Maybe we should buy Bed Bath & Beyond
Verify, is RTO this summer for Hub Locations Only?
I’m hearing that RTO of 4 days per week is coming but only at the Hub locations, can anyone lend credence to this? TPE and CE personnel at those locations will be required to return 4 days a week while local market offices etc will remain as FOW... — read more
Craft Surplus Date
June 15th is the next surplus announcement date per our Leg T/ CWA contract. Do you want to be surplused?
It's just Hubris at the top with no concern for
Customers, Shareholders, or Employees. If Stankey could do another mega deal to roll the dice at his legacy he would. TMobile Market Cap $179B, ATT Market Cap $123B. Arguably the worst decision of Stankey and Stephenson was the most innocuous at the... — read more
T can just ruin you.
https://www.ft.com/content/8b233ad0-e9df-40c9-8c11-8b9db120512f
Where is Waldo?
Oops, I mean where is McElfresh? He is really keeping a low profile these days. Has Stankey finally extended the "olive branch" to him? What will it take to get back into good graces with Stankey and overcome Legg for CEO succession?
HUB City
Any insight to the HUB City plans?
July Layoffs
Top guy in our group said there will be layoffs in July. That means we should be getting notices in May, correct? Is there any one organization that will be targeted?
Cutting the Dividend
Hearing some chatter that leadership is evaluating another possible Dividend cut this year since the quarterly commitment is stressing free cash flow. Hold on to your hat's boys and girls, this year is about to get interesting.
Sales Force....lol
whoever decided sales force was a good idea, needs a lobotomy. So now the focus in cor is getting these sales leads and putting them in sales force. Forget about the actual sales - the revenue generating aspect for the company. They do not care about... — read more
Stinky says the key to employee morale is communication
During his employee earnings meeting, he was asked how do you balance employee morale with the needs of the business. His response was that the key to being a good leader is "communicating, communicating, communicating". It appears that the... — read more
Typical ATT
Fixed Wireless product less value and more expensive than Verizon or T-Mobile. Verizon has a character, TMobile has a character, and ATT is the bloated monopolistic dying dinosaur. Remember upper management have no strategy in this marketplace. Watch... — read more
Return of Office…June
However ya feel about returning to the office, for or against is irrelevant. It’s coming. Filtered down this morning announcement is coming by June 1. All employees with exceptions only for health or extreme hardship will come back to the office and... — read more
Mid-Markets
JVB Sales Org are coming in 30 days. BAT, Fiber and Platinum will be hit the hardest. If you are in doubt, look at your goals vs your teams quota. Hiring freeze took into place last week. Per planning calls, their performance management reduction... — read more
Gotta love Orca the micromanaging time reporting software
What a joke, as someone said it’s a Rube Goldberg contraption. It doesn’t even have a logical flow, has too many pages and one has to keep jumping back and forth just to put in a simple schedule and time report. Should be able to have a normal... — read more
HR complaint -> layoff
I made an HR complaint about a year ago. Would that increase my odds of being laid off?
Kertz townhall -ply send her help!!
JK is out of touch with her team, total political rhetoric and nothing of value added. Her monotone voice and answers she provides proves she was given the role to help with diversity, not because of her skills and knowledge.
It’s the culture stupid
T is in a time wrap bubble stuck in 19th century org culture.
Hiring temp splicers in texas
Had a meeting with our third line even though everyone is talking about layoffs looks like the company wants to go with hiring temp splicers again! We lost at least 5 splicers in last 2 years and they haven't replaced any of them! Third level said... — read more
TCPs approved?
Does anyone happen to know when TCPs (if any) will be approved and implemented this year?
AT&T is dying a slow and deliberate death.
Most employees hate this company, they stay for the money. Not sure how much longer at&t can hang on, maybe three years? I think Stankey is deliberately leading at&t into eventual bankruptcy. He despises the employees and our customers. There just... — read more
left years ago
worked at T for a long time, but saw the writing on the wall. communications is dead $, no growth, and isnt innovative. you can earn a wage in a T job -specific job title and a made up job -probably doing nothing, you dont have to work hard here, but... — read more
Per Lightreading AT$T shed "45,360 jobs in the last year"
https://www.lightreading.com/aiautomation/atandt-job-cuts-continue-as-headcount-drops-by-5100-since-january/a/d-id/784488
Enterprise Value
Incompetent management lost $14 Billion in market value yesterday. One analyst on CNBC called AT&T a “dumpster fire”!!
All they had to do was invest in the Network and Pay Down Debt
Instead Ignored the Network, Increased Debt, and now playing catch up. ATT Decades of always skating to where the puck is. Hey you HBO Time Warner You need to be more like Netflix. Less quality and more quantity. Great call once again by another... — read more
work sucks
Many of us just don't want to work anymore so we're simply putting in the least amount effort, energy, focus and time as possible without getting fired. We all know it doesn't really matter whether or not we strive to be a golden boy or girl because... — read more
Clueless Leadership
So out of touch with the marketplace and it's employees.
Falling behind rapidly the big 2
TMobile and Verizon are moving ahead while ATT languishes. They don't have the warchest inflow to keep up. If TMus or VZ scoop up TDS/USM they can corner the Fixed Wireless 5G internet market. ATT is years behind while Tmus and VZ are cleaning up and... — read more
Management $4,200 Retiree Health Care Stipend
Below is an AI generated response to the question of whether or not the annual $4,200 stipend would be continued after 2023 (not likely in my opinion or by AI response). My question is has there been a formal announcement yet? The probability that... — read more
McSelfish brags about cutting 30k heads as the fat cats in c-suite grow fatter
https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/att-enterprise-focus-is-on-connectivity-not-technology/2023/03/
Disastrous
Falling behind Verizon and TMUS. Stankey unscathed.
Accelerated workforce reduction
Accelerated workforce reduction. Listen at 33 minutes and 37 minutes https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/hvxxuwfy Straight from the horses mouth, after the most profitable / lucrative quarter in history!!!!!!!
Those pesky customers!
Yep they are doing it again. Stankey and Desroaches called out our customers for not paying their cell phone bills on time. Our company failed to meet free cash flow metrics in Q12023. Sometimes I wonder if we would meet our cash flow metrics if we... — read more
Earnings Announcement - Free Cash Flow
Whoa, that miss on free cash flow this morning stings. Stock tanking in early trading. What now?
Survey feedback results from your leadership just released
Employee Notice: Due to the majority’s lack of enthusiasm and poor participation, purposely the layoffs, micromanaging and beatings will continue until morale improves. Management ranks; promotions and title changes will come with more... — read more
They don't care to bring out the best in people
It is not at all rare for an ex colleague, who was almost invisible and very undervalued in this company, to make a huge progress in another company. Is it because we work under the radar if we don't want to be characterized as troublemakers and... — read more
New projects
Retired in 2020 as craft, now working as a Project Manager for a SVA for ATT. They have now started coming out with “rent” projects. They go into a town completely disconnect the copper and replace it with fiber! Copper is definitely on its last leg! — read more