Do you remember a town hall before the Warner acquisition when Randall was asked by a "lowly" employee about the wisdom of taking on so much debt to acquire a media company? He smirked and waved it off, saying, he "would never bet the farm" on an... — read more 

Finally, somebody to point out something that should be blatantly obvious to everybody. With its 7% dividend and its $209 billion market cap, AT&T (NYSE:T) is widely considered a blue-chip investment. However, General Electric (NYSE:GE) investors... — read more 

Thought I'd seen it all, then I was greeted with this. Branded face coverings Beginning next month, you'll be able to purchase AT&T branded face coverings. Our new company policy requires us to wear face coverings at work. And while standard face... — read more 

Does anyone know how many techs took the SIPP offer. I keep hearing they got more than the 176 they were looking for, not sure if it’s true

https://techstaffer.blog/2020/06/17/att-layoff-crystal-ball/ - good reading.

Thoughts?

We just wrapped up a call with our sales manager and director who both confirmed that the people impacted would receive an email Friday July 10th and be off Payroll within 14 days. They also informed us that our job title “could” change effective... — read more 

I get on this site about once a week. I read everything about the Surpluses within the company. I was Surplused myself last year. So, I figured I would leave my insight for anyone who wants to hear it. If you do not, then that is okay. But, hear was... — read more 

Anyone know?

Legg a Warner lackey basically started this conf call with slickly produced but cheesy intro segment, wonder how much that cost To produce? But the real substance was about 30min in when he basically confirmed lots of workforce reductions and... — read more 

and good riddance to you, you miserable pr1ckk. You steered this ship right into the iceberg with your overpriced buy of DirecTV. Soon the company will be dumping it for pennies on the dollar we paid for it. You should be paying $274k/month... — read more 

Let's see, I get about 6 emails a day from various officers and corporate email spammers touting T's support for the new social justice causes BLM. The millions of $ T has donated to their cause to prove that T is WOKE? Maybe T's mismanagement ... — read more 

The company should waive testing requirements for 6 months. Maybe would help with technician movement.

I see a lot of people panicking over being laid off right now, but I don't see where the problem is. There are currently plenty of available positions - and not just in my field, I looked around. If you are capable and can back up your knowledge... — read more 

Any thoughts on how this will affect all Warner employees? Something tells me once the relocation begins, there'll be more than one position that overlaps, of that I'm sure... — read more 

What's the scoop? Is it woke? Is it a joke? Or maybe both ?

AT&T has made two huge strategic mistakes: Not deploying FTTP more aggressively Ending the U-verse TV platform Change my view...

This has been going on got 10+ years– same story "more information to come". That never has happened. Nobody ever knows - even your Manager doesn't know until the last possible moment. Then it's a forbidden topic - you're told not to discuss it with... — read more 

We are screwed under this leadership!! Cant even execute a layoff in a proper manner. They want to ruin everybody's morale and then destroy some more!!! They want to give life time achievement award to HK but at the same time lay him off. Every... — read more 

That AT&T built the core fiber overlay infrastructure 10 years ago along side maintaining copper EVERYWHERE it already has copper. Imagine where we would be right now. AT&T’s growth plan was basically let’s build a garden of a variety of different... — read more 

With the 2018 Corporate Tax Cuts and the Fed now buying AT&T's bonds to save them from becoming junk, all while AT&T lays off tens of thousands, how can they lose? Does anyone not understand how we all (non-rich) are being hosed?... — read more 

Supposedly more fiber builds next year for business and 5G. Should keep engineers ,business Midwest. And outside forces busy. Many older techs applying for retirement in midwest.

Fuetsch "I don't want to sugar coat things here... it's coming up and will be significant" "we will have some force reductions across the org but I will not get into specific numbers" "we'll have more on this in the coming weeks" zero... — read more 

Anything new regarding the wiretechs? I’m hearing July 1st but no “seems to know anything”.......

Put the whole legacy satellite delivery into mothballs. AT&T ruined it to the point where all who work there are zombies who don't know they're dead. Stop The Madness!

Any idea when the AVP announcements will be made in Chow org?

Article: "The fall of Quibi: how did a starry $1.75bn Netflix rival crash so fast?" https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jun/28/quibi-netflix-jeffrey-katzenberg-crash Summary: Quibi joined the streaming wars about 2 months before HBO... — read more 

Rejoice! We are safe! We can relax! Until July, that is, and then we are screwed once again. Which gives us nearly 48 stress-free hours. AT&T is truly good to us... I don't understand why anybody would have a bad word to say about the company or its... — read more 

That since mid-May, the Fed began buying exchange-traded funds invested in AT&T corporate debt and ither publicly traded corporations? The Fed had amassed $8.71 billion of assets including ETFs and individual securities through the program, known as... — read more 

More signs that T is a sinking ship. "We're on a path to growth" say our 'leaders', and, meanwhile, our solvency needs to be subsidized by the .GOV :... — read more 

There is hope after leaving T, and can attest to LOOK NOW if you are still at T. I took a 25% pay increase in landing another IT job.

D-day everyone will know where they stand!

I’ve been working from home because of my immune system, my doctor submitted tons of paperwork for me and my job accommodation was approved (by the third party AT&T uses for disability claims) to continue working from home for several more... — read more 

Anyone else in the five state region receive a survey As to where you would like to transfer in next few weeks? Got it two weeks ago and it only showed: Combo tech Splicing Specials tech According to our local if enough vsp are recieved and i... — read more 

The failure and subsequent departure of a Randall was a costly misadventure. The most immediate and devastating impact on the company's market capitalization was the destruction quarterof market valuation that has taken a decade to... — read more 

you can't even make this up. that is how bad management aka RANDY was and still is. he of course is passing the baton to his partner in every crime. please remove entire top deck of this heap of junk

Know the laws, in California https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hr1AaIivLn4

Just to give you a heads up. Mira Mesa and Del Mar had reps with Coronavirus, nothing was done business as usual and they're keeping it secret. Im sure the Union will address this soon but we believe it was IHX people that gave it to our reps. Also... — read more 

How are we expanding the IHX department when there is already a decrease in jobs as it is ?

So, I've been seeing some statements around here that blame employees for getting surplussed under the assumption that they should have left long ago and then they would not be in this situation. Is this some kind of a joke? If there is blame to be... — read more