Long careers short lived at Tech companies

Or is job elimination the only thing this company is good for these days?

They bringing in guys and laying them off, it just hit San Diego and its not even affecting the Internet Prem Techs

I wonder if companies like Facebook, Google and Apple are better at tying compensation to individual contributions and corporate goals? I think I already know the answer...

Mad Max The Road Warrior Lord of The Flies Apocalypse Now The Purge Maze Runner AT&T 2019 AT&T The Collaboration Zone

https://medium.com/@kushnickbruce/5g-wireless-is-not-profitable-when-the-wired-state-based-utility-cross-subsidies-are-removed-f7888e343094

Anyone hear of any management layoffs (ATO) around Birmingham?

I'm really curious to get this info, given that I think that this number is much higher than any of us could imagine.

Makes Randal their little puppet on a string. Weak, Drifting, and Cowardly Leader. Employees don't hear anything from our CEO anymore.

Stankey Stevenson and Board led the company to the road of ruins and will get paid handsomely no matter what. Employees and Shareholder's have been ravaged.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is begging the Senate to pass Sen. Mike Lee’s green card giveaway plan to reward multinational tech corporations after years of them importing foreign visa workers to take American jobs. On Thursday, Lee failed for the fourth time... — read more 

Joined Prime through an acquisition of another authorized retailer. This is a terrible place to work.... I am no longer with them and have moved to another company. From my brief time with them it did seem like at&t had the vision of having Prime run... — read more 

https://www.seattlepi.com/cnet/article/T-Mobile-Sprint-deal-wins-Justice-Department-ok-14186310.php

Randy did it again, discussing changes at AT&T that could include a commitment to review assets for possible sale or spinoff of the wireline to a newly created subsidiary, who asked not to be identified the discussions aren’t public but AT&T could... — read more 

Here's just a short sample of the closings, shutdowns, and layoffs of the past few weeks. FEW WEEKS! Your evening news and Trump will tell you this is "The Greatest Economy EVER!" Does it seem to you to be the greatest economy ever? Time to... — read more 

Another 250 AT&T employees will be part of a shared Accenture operation, AT&T, of Bedminster, N.J., will retain control of business planning, credit policy and customer interaction, while Accenture will oversee the transition and ultimately handle... — read more 

My question is if I don’t take the offer, can I still get medical benefits as retiree (I’m within 2 years of Modified rule) they mentioned MTP rule... my whole group is now Accenture.

No respect for individuals in AT&T. My advice to younger employees - collect your paycheck, keep ALL knowledge and insight on how to do things to yourself. Do not train or help others do what you do! What is between your ears is what's valuable. The... — read more 

AT&T’s HBO Max faces more competition with AMC jumping into streaming as Disney, this illusion is a distortion of the senses at AT&T, which can reveal how Randall's brain organizes and interprets sensory stimulation, distorting reality. and he is... — read more 

El Segundo only to be let go 12-24 months later. Tot disasters for their families.

Wing to Stankey and Stevenson. No chart of stock price during their tenure will be displayed but lots of PowerPoints with the correct fonts and colors will be.

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2017/01/18/att-will-spend-100-million-rebuilding-its-downtown-dallas-campus/

Wireless customers voice mail outages going one month, and AT&T answer? "blame the vendor" LOL

Apple, Google YouTube, Netflix, NBC Hulu, Disney, and Warner Media. $100B to enter a saturated competitive space. Seems like the money could have been spent better becoming the best dumb pipe in the business and collect the traffic tolls. What... — read more 

CWA and their weekend strikes got nothing, look at UAW contract negociations, The art of a deal!!!!

If activist shareholder Elliott Management Corp. has its way, more than 30,000 AT&T Inc. workers could lose their jobs or face reductions in wages, according to a new estimate from the Communications Workers of America... — read more 

Surpluses, Rebadging, Offshoring of TechDev and other Groups. I’m all for tax breaks, but there hasn’t been any accountability for the BILLIONS that AT&T has and will receive. The tax cut money was intended to hire, retain & increase wages for... — read more 

At least 2 VP's under John S. have a call tomorrow morning for some important information. This could be the next group to be moved out .

Got invite for tomorrow morning surplus/rebadging call under Alapati org.

Wireless will continue it's aimless drift. They just keep reshuffling the portfolio of ATT hacks.

Elliott’s campaign at AT&T has parallels worth noting NEW YORK - The departure of eBay Chief Executive Devin Wenig is a bad omen for another c-suite occupant, Randall Stephenson. Both the $32 billion online marketplace and AT&T have been... — read more 

this is exhausting and certainly not challenging, but the paycheck keeps coming. i'm not sure if i should leave or just stick around this dump and collect. i'm torn because i really want to continue my career in a challenging setting

https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-10-13

50%premium over purchased price, since AT&T Acquired DirecTV In A Stock & Cash Deal Valued At $48.5 Billion In 2015, why 50%?

Yes, AT&T is a very toxic environment. The mass layoffs began in 2015 with mainly poor performers. Then they focused on the over 50 group with some under 40 thrown in along with occasional MVOs. Now we have moved to both domestic outsourcing where... — read more 

I used to be an employee at ATT in the L2 mobility group, until I was laid off earlier this year. The DTV sub was $10/mo. After the employee discount disappeared, I am being billed $150/mo with HBO $0. I would like to cancel the HBO channels if it... — read more 

It was announced we would hear more detail on the offshoring to Accenture before the end of October. Anyone heard the date? Will we get detail of functions and each individual will be told their future?

I have seen language in W/Os where if an At and T technician is not available at the time of dispatch, contact LMI or OneSource with their contact information embedded within the work-order. Does anyone know who these Contractors are? I have never... — read more 

Unless you are willing and able to move around for different jobs, you can't really look at it as somewhere for a long term career. The axe is always hanging above, making that type of outlook rare from what I've seen. How active this site is shows... — read more