I'm surprised T hasn't announced his departure yet. Whats the over/under on his departure as CEO? Will he remain through COVID-19?

see you at $20/share. dividend is going to get cut. end of story.

But he is still in charge of T. He is just too busy playing Golf to run everything! So they hired a new exec to handle the media arm. Ratty needs to go. Stinky needs to go. The Board of Misdirectors needs to go. But they all remain... — read more 

So to boost an economic recovery from the coronavirus, it looks like Washington wants to pump $2 trillion into spending on "infrastructure", and that includes telecommunications networks. Article: ... — read more 

wait until the dividend gets cut. this company is in real trouble

Verizon (VZ -0.7%) is offering "significantly enhanced" compensation for its front-line workers who are still performing essential tasks, it says. More than 100,000 employees are working from home, and 70% of corporate stores have temporarily... — read more 

growing 10-15 a day

Hey guys! Need some help here. My manager hit me with a counseling entry as soon as I walked in the door this morning. No priors, but I called in sick last Monday and didn’t come back until today. I’m not married and I wasn’t really sick. I’m... — read more 

How about the all caring CWA union pony up and get these items for those courageous techs in harms way . ?

To bad AT&T left coax for piss poor Cat5 homeruns to the RG. If we didnt we could of been selling hands off installation CSI internet service all day long (all techs would have to do is get service to the NID and connect the Coax HR)

I left AT&T on my own 2 years ago. The grass is 100% greener. As someone who took control of my own destiny, all I can say is that this site has devolved into a bunch of whiny crybabies who wish they worked in a utopia. Folks, get serious. Take... — read more 

Will they ever align job titles in groups? We have a group of 15 doing similar work. 14 of them have same title and 1 has different title that has lower pay scale. Does anyone know if HR looks at this stuff? When surplus comes around the person... — read more 

How long until AT&T starts laying people off or furloughing people?

And then there’s a new COVID-19 effort for AT&T with a service it expanded to over 50 cities last year that lets customers get help with a new phone at their homes. The option, called “Ready to Go,” will bring the retail experience to its users now... — read more 

We need to do like the automanufacturers and management level jobs need there pay deferred to pay the frontlines in homes hazzard pay I would love to see my managers face when he had to work no pay maybe then he would appreciate we are risking our... — read more 

To show leadership, boost morale of the frontline employees and good PR with our Customers. Managers 3rd level to CEO should job shadow frontline employees for a few days on all essential installs under current rules. It’s very safe and I’ll... — read more 

What are folks doing out there with their Fidelity 401k's , I was looking into CASH options like (SHV ETf ) but nothing like that exists. I'm tired of seeing my 401K evaporate.. What allocation strategies are you guys using to STEM the bleeding... — read more 

Is it true that CWA is going to waive union dues to assist in boosting the economy?

https://www.pe.com/status-update-att-union-deal-includes-raises-for-4-years

Has anyone received any directives to code your time when you work from home? Any knowledgeable reason why? (Please no speculation)

AT&T is just one of many companies destroyed by greed and venal executives. The NYTIMES tells us how the profit fetish is why we don't have enough ventilators... — read more 

I am working in area where the cases of Covid-19 are doubling every day and a half. The death rate is running at about 15% for my age group. Yeah - I'm a geezer - get over it. I do DTV installs, upgrades and repairs where I go into 3 to 4 houses... — read more 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/29/tech/amazon-workers-walkout-coronavirus/index.html

Who is still going inside homes??? I thought the CWA put a stop to it because techs and their families are getting sick. We haven’t had any installs or upgrades bulked to us in almost a week! It’s been repairs only to help prevent the spread of the... — read more 

I’m thankful the company has deferred layoffs during this crisis and is offering hazard pay for frontline employees. I don’t care who gets the credit (government or company) for these decisions. It will help bridge people to another opportunity when... — read more 

The Fed has cut interest rates effectively to zero. But that won’t solve the problem. If you are out of a job or your company is heavily indebted and running in the red, the bank won’t give you a loan. In a depression, economics terms interest rate... — read more 

It's obvious that certain views are being censored around here. You can't just sit here and sanitize (no pun intended) reality and simply "discuss layoffs" when everything that we see around us is driven by political and economic structure. What... — read more 

capt. obvious

Close all the stores. Stop funneling people in.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/pandemic/ffcra-employer-paid-leave

Seriously, what kind of sh*thole company is this? I'm having to deal with a whole lot of management types above me who don't know their a$$ from a hole in the ground. Even the basics they're clueless on! Craft seems to have it together and know... — read more 

Unemployment is paying an extra $600 per week on top of what you would normally get. In most states that equals almost $1000 a week for the next 4 months! Plenty of time to stay home safe and look for a job somewhere else while still getting paid.

Sometimes pandemics arrive on their own, like the deadly flu pandemic of 1918. Yet for years now scientists have warned that rising temperatures caused by man-made climate change are causing shifts in animal populations, putting them in closer... — read more 

Tech tested positive yesterday. Was in contact with other Techs at the garage. Mgnt is doing nothing. BAU is their response. Unreal

Just announced by the Easter bunny: CWA will be collecting full union dues during the National Emergency and padding the bank accounts

ATO timelines: First they fired all of the IT people and outsourced everything to India, then they decided to move to Dallas, TX. It had been stable company with no employee less than five years of experience. Between IT and the move they lost 1,000... — read more 

Is everybody considered essential or are there areas that are seeing cuts?

Get ready to have your spouse prove they were working as well. Paystub & schedule. Otherwise cobc has gotcha.

https://mailchi.mp/94c08a3890aa/know-your-rights-coronavirus-covid-19-and-the-workplace?e=717ab59900

Now is win the Unions nationwide need to fight! Great job to the UAW! Now CWA were are you let’s get rolling now!