Another dime. The smartest thing to do is give me a Sipp. You are just handing me a check at this point. Your move.
Collaboration Project On Hold?
Rumor mill is churning with reports of a draw back or at least “hold” on the collaboration relocations in ATO. Any truth to this?
layoffs to increase after Q3 results
AT&T Has Reportedly Lost Over 1 Million TV Subscribers In Just 3 Months From DIRECTV, AT&T TV NOW, & U-verse TV Luke Bouma Luke Bouma 4 hours ago
FBO notifications being pushed out a month?
Is it true that FBO is delaying the notifications to employees by another month while the Accenture deal is re-evaluated?
Skate to where the puck is going
And not to where it is. ATT cannot even put the skates on the right foot. This is beyond embarrassing. DTV could not get 30 cents on the dollar in the open market and Time Warner assets are rapidly depreciating and no one sees a Stankey run division... — read more
Need some financial advice, abt to fall off payroll
I am a little shy of a month before I fall off payroll due to being put in surplus status. How do I maximise my pension and 401k? If I am currently in except status. If I stay that way when I fall off payroll and break both pension and 401k...will... — read more
AT&T will unveil its streaming service, HBO Max, next week — but it won’t be available to the general public until next year.
What? more waiting? how come others can do it, and we can't? We may never see anything, this company is run on hope, PR, and assumptions. sorry excuse for a content company. Have you eve been lost? AT&T's case... is a telco lost in Technology city. — read more
No deal, from the insider
AT&T Saga Has It All as a Cautionary Investment Tale AT&T has it all: inflated valuation, mismanaged growth, a personality cult and bad assumptions, a personality cult and bad history dealing in aquisitions It’s tempting to dismiss the latest... — read more
What's the point of mandatory 50hr on-line training, if little applies to your job?
What's the point of having all these 50hr mandatory online training courses, when your division may be outsourced tomorrow or your business unit downsized, plus most of the training has nothing to do or is applicable to the work you're doing. It's... — read more
Could we be wrong?
Could we be in a stealth bear market? On the face of it, the question is bizarre: a bear market is usually defined as a 20% fall from a peak, but the S&P 500 is just over 1% off its all-time high. If you hold the index, you’d laugh at the idea that... — read more
Castlight Diagnostic Screening
Given the number of times AT&T has required us to do health screening and jump through B S hoops just to keep from being fined just to receive the benefit we're due, I'm wondering about the new system, Castlight Diagnostic Screening. I've been... — read more
AT&T is DOA and has been for ~5 years
its a c-ap hole. but, i know people will stay as long as they can because they have no choice. your 2020 skills and sitting around for the last decade wont help you land a gig
Collaboration Zones
How are they working out for everyone? Has anyone taken MVO or quit yet due to some of the hardships involved? It appears to have been the company’s strategy to reduce headcount. I’m too stubborn to quit, I’ve dedicated years of loyalty & hard... — read more
NEWS Verizon Will Give One Year of Disney Plus for Free to All Unlimited Wireless Customers
Verizon Will Give One Year of Disney Plus for Free to All Unlimited Wireless Customers https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2019/digital/news/verizon-disney-plus-one-year-free-wireless-1203377660/amp/
5G Wireless Is Coming. But a Payoff for AT&T, Verizon, and Other Telcos Might Not Be
Moffett Nathanson telecom analyst Craig Moffett raises that question in a new report Thursday. The bottom line? He’s not sure where the carriers will find the revenues to support the 5G... — read more
How long could it take to bring back the customers that T lost?
I don’t get it. The company officials are talking about growth and development in a situation where they’re not even able to retain the current level of business. I imagine that even the leaders don’t even have the courage to look at the realistic... — read more
Layoffs & Company employees total
Anyone have the numbers from the beginning of the year till now on layoffs and company employees?
Elliott should be AT&T CEO
Priceless yo see Randall- Stink faces, for what I can see, Randall is doing everything he wants, poor Randall&Stink is going back to business school 101
Is T is shopping around Mexico properties to help sure up balance sheet?
I have a friend on Wall Street and he heard through the grapevine that T has started the process of shopping around for interested parties to take over their Mexico holdings. Sale would probably happen in late 2020 . Anyone corroborate?
letter to congressman
I sent this to my congressman. Any suggestions? I may send other copies to other government officials. Feel free to use if you like. This year, AT&T has had several partnerships with large outsourcing companies including Tech Mahindra, IBM, and... — read more
ATT Business MVO
I heard today that the company did not get enough volunteers for their generous MVO (You are now looking at my shocked face). So, job cuts are coming to ATT Business. For those who are in ATT Business, stay tuned.
D3 Raise? Has anyone gotten it?
To my knowledge we were supposed to receive a 3% raise upon contract ratification in D3, yet no one has received it.
Listen: H1B slavery visa & abuse
Sounds familar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CIXZljyQAo
AT&T Reputation
"If your company is having trouble attracting fabulous people, it is because your company s—s." Tom Peters, author
Even with all of the bleeding that has occurred with DirecTv
Randall's estimate of 1 million subscribers lost in Q3 seems quite high. He probably put that out there so that when it turns out that we only lost somewhere between 500,000 and 800,000 subscribers, the share price will jump on "better than expected"... — read more
What AT&T DOES BEST
https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/att-tv-now-is-experiencing-widespread-billing-issues-causing-confusion-with-subscribers/
Enough Already!
How many of you are running out of patience? The FBO announcement was made 9/11. The leadership knows what's going on. Why don't they share the news so people can get on with their lives?? This is so cruel and inhumane!!
Can someone put out an Apb for Ed Whitacre?’
I’m being serious here ... is there a way he could come back ? Love him or hate him That man RAN THE heck out of this company ! Ever since Randal took the reins , we have been a laughing stock , with absolutely no direction internally nor to the... — read more
Is AT&T Trying to K--l AT&T TV NOW? It Is Starting to Look That Way…
https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/affiliate-links/
Randall’s way
Lay off your employees with ongoing surpluses and drive off your customers with ongoing price increases for a non competitive service while loading your company up to its eyeballs with debt. I couldn't think of a better strategy to turn a very large... — read more
OPT jobs going away?
In Northern California, this term position went away end of July 2019 because the fiber build requirement from the DirecTV purchase was completed. There were a couple of OPT term job reqs for Southern California recently, but no longer... — read more
Know your rights
AT&T, a designated "utility," wrongly billed its customers for the Portland Clean Energy charges, An organized a class action lawsuit against AT&T over a billing surcharge. AT&T charged its Portland customers in their monthly bills for the... — read more
Suing AT&T Accenture outsourcing
Can AT&T be sued for the way they are sending the employees to Accenture. The way AT&T set this deal up, is if you don’t take the Accenture offer, you loose your prorated bonus, severance package and receiving unemployment. This, you have to take... — read more
High Performing and Low Performing Organizations
According to Elliot there are not high performers in the organization anymore, starting at the top 1 - Everything that brings value had been effectively outsourced 2 -High perfomers surround themseves with like individuals. The reasons are... — read more
Accenture meet and greet
I was at one of the Accenture presentations for the TechDev employees being transitioned. Looking around the room, everyone looked 45+. It looks like AT&T is using this apparent loophole as a way to get rid of older employees. Does anyone have... — read more
The Randall & Elliot Collaboration Zone Layoff Scheme
How the 1% at the top can collaborate with the 1% activist stockholder of the company to affect the other 98% while enriching themselves. Genius, good cop, bad cop while squeezing the middle 98% ie.. layoffs, rebadging and offshoring to other... — read more
News from the insider
many of you may already know that company has pushed back its earnings release from Oct. 23 to Oct 28, a day before it is scheduled to reveal more details about its streaming service HBO Max. But All this smells a little funky given the fact that... — read more
AT&T hits online TV customers with second big price increase this year
"The AT&T TV Now "Plus" package that contains 45 channels and costs $50 a month will rise to $65, AT&T told Ars. Customers on some other plans will get a $10 increase, AT&T said... — read more