It's funny when your boss tries to convince you that quotas are not unattainable, but that we employees are lazy and do not try hard enough. Whom are they kidding? I've finally submitted my resignation and can't wait to find out if my... — read more
Will they close all the call centers?
Will the company be run from homes?
It's disgusting what mediocrity is doing to this company
This has become a company of mediocrity. The greater the mediocrity, the more respect it gets. What is a competent employee to do in such an environment? Competent employees are wasting their time here.
Being laid off is the good option!
The number of people still afraid of being laid off is astounding when all of you should be praying to find your name on that list. A layoff is the perfect way out of this craphole. You are paid to leave, you can get unemployment as a little extra... — read more
Why do you work so hard if you know it’s not valued?
I’m not saying I was the best employee, but I did the best I could and I worked a lot. When I realized that the most important thing here is whom you know, not how hard and well you work, I changed my philosophy. It's not worth the headache. — read more
Layoffs on Friday
AT&T is cutting thousands of technician jobs in the Southeast Friday… What are the chances this is true?
Connection Awards
Has anyone received a connection award in 2022 yet?
Does a management employee moving to a different position working same wage scale get a raise?
Is this considered a promotion?
Help me figure this out
So, a highly productive employee of ten years who did several jobs at once (they've had to hire two people so far to replace him and they're still not doing everything he did on his own) was laid off a few months ago. Meanwhile, last week, one of the... — read more
The leadership structure creates the employees that do the bare minimum.
Not that I defend the truly lazy and irresponsible employees, but with all the unnecessary and complicated procedures, and management that only knows how to make work more complicated and slower for us, I can safely say that the company has created... — read more
NB Red July
Get ready National Business. July has been dubbed Red July and the Stankey budget reducers are in the water. Biggest hit will be mobility and fiber. They are going to a dual seller under JVB. This will be announced next week in Dallas with all AVP’s. — read more
Hiring freeze in place of layoffs
I've just read that there's a hiring freeze in effect when we're desperate for more people. Our team was decimated in the last six months through both cuts and attrition and we've gotten nobody so far to help and handle the work they were doing... — read more
CP training
Why does company waste soooo much time and money on CP Training?
Area managers att retail
They are pushing this new gimmick (tile)where if your a bottom performer in the store the rsc gets 3 coachings a week and multiple which can lead to termination. We are sick and tired of area or retail managers trying to scare reps out of a job... — read more
Pension Lump Sum
I anticipate seeing my lump sum drop 20% when segment rates reset in November. I’ve already hit “modified rule of 75” and was planning on leaving in next 3-4 years. Just curious if many will leave this year in order to lock-in the high lump sum. ... — read more
Call me a boomer
Had to repost this…. It can be a Rap song, or Country. Try to rap it… ++++ Here it goes: Retired from AT&T for 6 years. 37 years in. Retired at 55. Tomorrow AT&T is going to reimburse me $427 for my health insurance. I've ATVS. An 18' Crestliner... — read more
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this site must be ran by att .......... beware your post will get deleted....... if you leak information.
Legg skips town hall asked questions
The question submission tool for this meeting forced you to put your name in the form and a couple of people were brave enough to still do it. Two of the top 3 questions were about taking away benefits except for executives and rewarding executives... — read more
No one could have foreseen the collapse of DIRECTV or WarnerMedia, RIGHT???
Well, except maybe every middle class parent since 2015. Me: “Hey kids! I got us $10 DIRECTV and FREE HBO Max.” Kids: “Hey Boomer, YouTube, TikTok, Vine, Instagram are ALL FREE! Plus, I watch them on my phone and have no need for your silly... — read more
Hard Times
With rising fuel prices and tech work very limited, you can bet some technicians will be losing or giving up their jobs for the cause! A Transit Mini used to cost around $38 to fill and now it's at $58-60. The difference of $20 times 50,000 vehicles... — read more
Retiree health insurance going up
Hearing that current retirees that have health insurance coverage are going to get hit hard with higher premium increases in 2023. Started looking at Healthcare.gov. Nothing looks comparable to what we have now.
There are 11.5 million available jobs in the US right now
Don't tell me you're staying because you have to even if you hate it here. If you can't find anybody to give you a job even with 11.5 million available positions across all industries, then that's more of a 'you' problem than anything else. Anybody... — read more
Stankey would whack a dozen employees
At the drop of a hat if he could get away with it and get the share price up a few bucks. Don't kid yourselves.
Hiring Freeze until 6/30
Just heard today that a hiring freeze is in-effect until 6/30. No official announcement yet and don’t know which organizations are impacted. Probably attributed to the re-org stuff Stankey communicated last week. They are already moving entire... — read more
Progress towards goals
Someone mentioned company's goals earlier. Here are some of the goals: https://about.att.com/ecms/dam/csr/2019/library/corporate-responsibility/ATT-ESG-Goals-Progress-March-2022.pdf What is questionable is whether ATT will be able to achieve... — read more
People who try so hard make me laugh
As if working hard and always being available will do them any good. It's like they only started working at T yesterday. Hard work only brings more misery - more work, more responsibilities, more expectations of availability... Why would anybody do... — read more
Conversations with Corey
Corey thinks people still come to AT&T for a lifetime career and can move up from front line to executive. Those days are long gone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LPiFpAlJSQ Near the end, the other guy talks about behaviors that lead to leaders... — read more
Has anyone been fired for refusing to RTO?
I’m just afraid of being fired because I refused to go back to the office. I've noticed that the manager is not happy, but I still haven't been told anything specific about it. I wouldn’t want to get fired before I find another job and so I wonder... — read more
Comedy Post, What will be ATTs next blunder, disaster, or head scratching moment?
Acquisition? Policy? Marketplace? They always chase the next thing whether it is streaming, content, se-ual prefenrece identity, or cause that people change their facebook image to. So whats your guess? Battling Misinformation with partnership with... — read more
AT&T Debt
Despite unloading TW AT&T continues to issue debt! What happened to the $43 billion reduction from TW. AT&T will never get out from under the debt created by Stephenson and Stankey fiascos. One acquired the companies and the other turns around... — read more
What are the chances of layoffs this week?
There was some talk about the start of May a while go, if I'm not mistaken.
$64 million for Randy
Alaska Daily news Letter: We want a fair deal By Su Man Pang Updated: April 29, 2022 Published: April 29, 2022 In July 2020, Randall Stephenson, then-CEO of AT&T, retired with a $64 million package, an additional $27.6 million in deferred earnings... — read more
IT Contractors
The last day for many DXC/IT contractors was yesterday (4/30). They handled much of the internal PC support side of the house (SCCM, Back Office, Packaging, etc.). They were let go due to performance issues and missed SLA's. Much of the work is... — read more
Prem Techs new scope of work
Any truth to the rumor that the prem techs new scope of work will be to only run drops and setup slack nids and then hand off to contractors that will do all the inside work?
Everybody is always so angry and serious
It's the weekend, let's bring some levity to this forum. Explain poorly what you do for a living.
Those who are still working from home
It was nice while it lasted, working from home, where I had a better chair and a better monitor. I wonder what percentage are those who have returned to the office vs. those who are still working from home?