Anyone know about more retail COR stores closing? Or when?

Seems 2020 is living up to its reputation of being a bloodbath. With that, lots of changes to coverages, benefits, and perks, and things like: leave before 1/1/21 and get some Medicare benefit. But what about other bigger potential changes, such... — read more 

We took our son to the Dr today, they told us our healthcare is inactive. I called Blue Cross, they say you cancelled it Aug 1. You told us as part of our severance we would have our healthcare benefits for 12 additional months. Did you change... — read more 

Stank and company figured that a 10 page power point and lots of yapping is going change culture. This will surely surpass Donovan's ATO Culture Series in the amount of talking involved. Yep, lots of talk, zero action. "Our old, bureaucratic... — read more 

Any of you started that work from home job as a customer service representative?? I’ve heard stories about them forcing more sales than ever before. Is this true?

How is it fair that people with senority get every saturday off that should be spred out evenly with the team. I can’t get a single saturday off after 9 months with company some of us have lives outside work this senority rule is not right and the... — read more 

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I wanted to see what the forum thinks about “shareholder capitalism” vs “stakeholder capitalism”. In this case, stakeholders are “workers, customers, suppliers, shareholder and the society: nation, state, county, city, neighborhood”. Stakeholder... — read more 

Consider the reasons why T might not want to sell DTV just yet: Directv makes up almost 90% of current T video subscribers (17 million out of about 19 million combined) ATTTV is essentially the same service as DTV, except it requires a fiber... — read more 

been 5 years of no work or rework.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bye-boomer-the-coming-cull-of-workers-over-50-2020-07-29?reflink=mw_share_linkedin

And I'm not asking about the leadership, we all know they don't deserve even a tenth of what they're getting (and don't get me started on their bonuses.) Just regular employees whose pay is much higher than their productivity. Another post here got... — read more 

Wow he likes fiber!! adding...... “I have an appetite to build fiber that serves a combination of our needs in the consumer space, what we need to do: Deploy 5G and what can help our business segment. Fiber deployment that I think others... — read more 

If we continue to lose subscribers at this pace - and I see no indication of it slowing down - by the end of 2022 DirecTV will become completely unsustainable. And that is a generous assessment, chances are it could happen even sooner, especially... — read more 

If you’re laid off switch providers.. i switched to Verizon & never have anything to do with the t again.

Health insurance is the only benefit of any significance under MTP. Is it worth subscribing to MTP and get AT&T health insurance or are we better off getting health insurance via ACA? Example: Severance Amount: $50,000 Tax:... — read more 

Did McElfrsh really state that no one who is part of this massive layoff/surplus will be allowed to work for AT&T ever again?

Lost a lot of friends from this round, some which I have known for the past 20 years. Did you lose anyone recently? It has been tough. But I will go on. Still have not been layed off, after a 25 year career. But the lose of these friends are... — read more 

Hi - I joined AT&T in 1997, and left AT&T in 2011. Somewhere around 2012 or later, I heard that AT&T would no longer allow me to re-join the pension - is this true, and what year did this policy happen?

They so hard up for money, now they have COR reps selling AARP memberships in Retail!!

During July AT&T Mexico carried out layoffs across all functions, no notice, no apparent reason, just a quick 10 min call conference with your boss to tell you that you no longer work for AT&T Mexico in the middle of the pandemic. AT&T has been... — read more 

Any news on the next MVO date?

When you are no longer in PHONE: You will miss seeing yourself lined up with a team. You will miss their voices. You will miss their passion for doing the right thing. You will miss being asked for guidance. You will miss their honesty. You... — read more 

I've heard grumblings, but nothing more.

I heard group O reward card oversight will transfer

My organization received a request from our leadership to do an informal survey (that someone on our team is coordinating) regarding the % of time would you choose to be in the office in a post-covid environment. If you received one, how did you... — read more 

it's a bond that continues to rack up debt. what a F"IN disaster

On September 3, 2019, Elliot sent their letter to AT&T's Board of Directors. They indicated they had a $3.2 billion investment in the company. At a price per share of $35.38 at that time that equated to about 90,446,600 shares. (Their purchase cost... — read more 

Does anyone have information or an educated guess as to how many managers were recently let go? I thought I read 800 somewhere but not sure. Also any guess regarding the number of layoffs by level and the M/F split? Do people think the... — read more 

I see on the severance package that there is a 50% “Severance allowance” deducted from the six month pay severance package. What is that? Can’t get a straight answer anywhere. Is it a tax, so we might get some back when we file income tax? I’m... — read more 

Do any of you know if they will create a part time position for the new CSR work from home position or no? Also, what are your thoughts on this position? Worth all the work or no?

Do you think locations will be shut down and have more positions in Dallas to support the new Discovery Zone? Maybe Dallas employees have a leg up in these layoffs?

It’s all whining and hardly any talk of layoff rumors. Been real quiet in the sw.

How’s that working out now?

Scheduled for an hour town-hall meeting tomorrow. I’m wondering what that us about. Covid? Layoffs? Shutdown?

I accepted the voluntary surplus and if it is granted I will be off payroll 8/13. Since I submitted my acknowledgement 2 weeks ago, I have not received any correspondence from the company regarding my departure. Can anyone tell me how long it usually... — read more 

Thoughts?

What jobs are you guys finding if any? I haven’t been able to find anything but contract work 3-6 months.

SIPP match from the MOA bumps existing techs within groups not previously deemed at risk into 4th quarter Surplus Status due to seniority of the incoming.