Any rumors? 3rd and 4th levels leaving and radio silence with it.
wholesale
There is no information, same old people keeping their jobs and doing nothing. Wholesale.
A lack of comment traffic lately Whats up???
What's up - nobody has any new posts or replies to existing posts. Is it that dead regarding the various organizations or no new inside news? Are there any new layoffs currently happening? No recent executive departures - either voluntary or... — read more
T Stock at a Five Year Low...
Over and out.
Fox Business speculating on sale of CNN
Interesting segment this afternoon from Charlie Gasparino on Fox Business where he was stating there is a lot of banker speculation around a sale of CNN to Bezos (Amazon). At the end of the day though, just his usual schtick where he does not seem to... — read more
Cutting jobs does not cut expenses?
As I assumed, ATT job cuts won’t lead to significantly lower costs. I just read an analysis about job cuts in a company that didn’t yield any significant results in overall cost cutting. Here is an article if someone is interested:... — read more
More job cuts before year end...?
Does anybody know if there will be anymore technician jobs cut from the Chow organization in this last quarter before year end? Curious and uneasy minds want to know!
Removing The CEO (OCT 26, 2020)
In almost thirty five years of working on boards, the hardest decisions I have had to make involve removing the CEO. It is an important decision and one that must be made from time to time. I am not a fan of removing the CEO until and unless it is... — read more
Fair or grounds for grievance?
Out here in Cali, certain areas, were told that some IP techs are being dismissed from doing DTV jobs now and told to remove dtv supplies out their vans. On Friday 10/23 emails were sent out to techs who were chosen not to do it anymore but a few... — read more
How you manage losing 3M subs every year, and keep lying about the business?
"We are rounding the corner" said Stinki, AT&T premium television losses mount, The company has lost nearly six million premium television subscribers in the last two years. That includes DIRECTV, U-verse and AT&T TV subscribers.
On diversity
Postings on how diversity quotas are being used as corruption down in ATTMex are being removed. Yeah, come see how this rats' nest is all about incompetent people promoting incompetent people. Corruption and cronyism all over this place with... — read more
Wow sam’s club mobile phone sales
Man they are just about tackling customers to buy mobile phone service only with att. Getting very aggressive. Must be getting pressure from he stank. Nice to tell them I will never buy anything from att again. Better stop their aggressiveness... — read more
I could think of more than three, but it's a good start...
I've defended AT&T plenty of times, but it's becoming impossible to ignore some of its bigger problems. Let's review three major issues with AT&T, and why they're shaking my faith in this Dividend... — read more
Cultural obstacles and language barriers
It could very well be that I am just an obsolete dinosaur, but my experience here, over the last 10 years, is that dealing with technical details is very difficult in this environment where there are multiple cultures and native languages in play. Oh... — read more
Who will buy this
Q1=1M Q2=286K Q3=670K Q4=? DirecTV loses video 2M subscribers in 3 Quarters
9000 Jobs Vanished. Worth reading!!!
https://www.lightreading.com/aiautomation/atandt-ratchets-up-pace-of-cuts-as-9k-jobs-vanish/d/d-id/764879?_mc=RSS_LR_EDT
Be Strategic
After going through multiple surplus and large scale outsource deals with AT&T for the last 10 years (some were not known outside of our business unit), I personally got into the mindset to save more and live on less. It also doesn’t hurt to get a... — read more
AT&T announced that the financial results for the third quarter were Stellar results
In some alternate universe investors should be incredibly pleased. https://seekingalpha.com/article/4380992-ts-stellar-developments
Very Confused
So aTT has HBO Max......Do people know HBO owns Cinamx and there is Cinemax Go? Is over there in the corner totally ignored....a wasted opportunity for aTT. Maybe if they blended it under the HBO Max umbrella the 15 a month would be then at the... — read more
Forget live 'T' - V
During the debate last night, U-verse lost signal 4 times. Don't watch much live TV, because this keeps happening, but this I really wanted to see. And what happens that one time it matters? The service does not work right. And this after being... — read more
Why would anybody buy DirecTV?
I understand we want to get rid of it, but why would anybody buy it? What kind of motive could somebody have to plop down a major amount for something that has consistently been losing users in hundreds of thousands each month, 600,000 being the... — read more
IHX
What is the future of In Home Experts if they get rid of techs for streaming and close company owned stores?
the future is not ours to see. New York City and Los Angeles still seem to be the stumbling blocks. There is no cinema without movie theatres.
Just like Why Moses not allowed to enter the Promised Land, Stankey will not see A sucezfil AT&T in this life. Therefore, he will see the land only from a distance; he will not enter the land I am giving to the people of warner Media " God said... — read more
Realignments
Any word on market realignments
Q3 results Misleading
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4380627-t-surprisingly-strong-quarter-is-misleading
More thoughts on Diversity
Another Webcast today on diversity, hiring and promotion. On one hand, the goal is to get to a race/gender distribution pie chart inline with the country and STEM workforce. On other hand, promises about not filling a quota and hiring the best... — read more
McFresh is the Future
From the time he took the helm from that shorty prior communications CEO Donovan, I have been hopeful about future of the telecom side. He talked the wavelengths at ease and understands the technology. He is smooth as silk with people. And he is... — read more
Stankey indicated cost effeciency efforts ramping up!
I take that to mean management layoffs - at least in part. Are there any rumors about significant reductions before the end of the year?
Today’s earnings call
During the earnings call Benefit efficiencies came up quite a few times as a cost cutting measure. What exactly are those benefit efficiencies??
DOJ was right all along, $170Billion & 4 years later
HBO Recedes Into the Shadow of O.G. AT&T A strong showing at the company’s core wireless business begs the question: Was that $170 billion media bet worth it after... — read more
Collaboration Spaces
I lost my employment with T after 31 plus years because I worked from home and was not in Collaboration Zone. Well that's what they told everyone. They spent all kinds of money on these and now everyone is working from home like I was. As a side note... — read more
It's easy to beat expectation when they're so low to begin with
AT&T on Thursday reported the coronavirus pandemic had taken a heavy toll on its media business, but quarterly results were offset by stronger than expected gains in new phone subscribers lifted by offers for its HBO Max streaming service for free... — read more
Tomorrow is your opportunity to be Rich
As The Stock nosedive, but It will pay a handsome Dividend. in traditional investments Instead of investing the funds however, the con artist pays “dividends” to initial investors using the funds of subsequent investors, fueled by hedge fund... — read more
Stephens on the earning call tomorrow
So here is an assignment - when you listen to the earnings call tomorrow count the number of times Stephens says "Frankly". That's the minimum number of times he will be lying. Just an FYI
Sub $26 share price, No Problem, Stankey is giving us DaBaby, Saweetie, and K--ler Mike to make up for it!!!
What a hypocrite, he is on record, when asked what music he liked - his reply - anything but Rap!!!
What was the exact response date on this?
https://nypost.com/2020/09/18/senator-blumenthal-demands-att-drop-push-for-cell-plans-paid-for-by-ads/
Can someone clarify what happened in Mississippi with T?
What’s the big deal?
How do we pay a yield w these results?
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/at-t-stock-heads-for-worst-losing-streak-since-2010-amid-fears-of-iphone-subsidies-effects-on-earnings-11603222652