Randall is the one they need to cut. Several bad decisions in a row going back to the 4 billion pay out for the failed T-Mobile merger, 45 billion for Dtv and 100 billion for time warner all in declining markets. How many bad decisions can the CEO... — read more
Industry Leading Cost Structure
I spent 15 years of my life with ATT and I couldn’t be happier that I made a decision about a year ago now to leave. I keep checking on this board and things seems to have only gotten worse. I couldn’t help but comment on the fact that the term... — read more
ATT thanks for nothing
wasted 20+ years here. c-ap hole
ARS Technica lay-off article
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/att-promised-7000-new-jobs-to-get-tax-break-it-cut-23000-jobs-instead/ A broken Quid pro Quo agreement that was lobbied for by the company . Notice how the execs have benefited, while the total number of... — read more
We are Missing $$$Billions! Layoffs we should be the nation's #1 employer.
Pipe(internet access) everything runs on it. I still find it hilariously funny that we are not investing in expanding fiber footprint. With all the wasted Billions we could have 3/4 of country paying monthly for the fiber network access $50+ monthly... — read more
FBO POLL
FBO POLL QUESTIONS: If you have been notified your position is going to Accenture, what date were you given that you will you receive your 60 day written notice? If you were told your position will not go to Accenture, what were you told... — read more
Debt no longer a problem
When you are buying back shares, you don’t have a debt problem, you just have debt. When thousands of level 3 on up still get that 35%-40% yearly bonus on 200k and up salary, you don’t have a debt problem, you just have debt. when you are adding... — read more
HBO max not expected to be profitable until May 2025, maybe. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-opinion-att-hbo-hollywood-plot/?srnd=premiu
Also, some other nice gems in the article. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-opinion-att-hbo-hollywood-plot/?srnd=premium Randall originally wanted a career playing with animal cum. Should have stuck to it. "The Oklahoma native... — read more
Randal’s rais!
His yearly pay when from 28.7 million to 29.1 million. At a 40 hour week(I know he works more but just to make a point) that comes out to $13990.38 per hour.
Event team
Any info on why the event team is gone? They were part of IHX/Ready2Go
AT&T’s poor business decision are causing layoffs
There’s undeniably a shift in the way consumers enjoy their media but the company is making decisions that drive customers away which results in the need to downsize the workforce. What are some decisions you’ve seen in your business unit that has... — read more
Voluntary offer coming to management next week
Voluntary offer coming to management next week, off payroll by December 31st. Not sure if it’s across the board but ATO will be impacted so I assume C&E is about to get hit considering the nonexistent expense budget and recently announced $3B cut to... — read more
FBO's Long Lead Time and Bill Morrow
https://www.fiercewireless.com/financial/marek-s-take-can-clearwire-s-former-ceo-save-at-t They are bringing Morrow in to do cost cuts, and Weaklend's implementation of the Accenture deal ought to be an easy target. I'm not sure I believe in... — read more
More layoffs to come or will it get calmer before the end of the year?
Will we see a continuation of layoffs in the next month or so or is it going to stop for a while? In any case I believe that, if not now, we are in for more layoffs in the first months of 2020. Thoughts?
Success is...
Complete the sentence...
Is DTV warehouse going to be replaced by Genesis or is it vice versa?
Any word on this move?
Churn
If at&t is so worried about churn why do they turn down partial payments with a PA to customers who have great history ? It’s as though they want us to fail!
its amazing working the night shift...
no conference calls. no bosses. no meetings. also, no information, no town halls, no one passes down anything anyone in any "leadership" position says... all I know about the company is what I read here and I am already MR75 qualified. It is a hell... — read more
AT&T gives refunds for blacked-out sports channel—but only if you complain
"AT&T kept charging DirecTV customers for a sports channel that was blacked out for two months and is only giving customers refunds when they complain to the company. AT&T's customer service in this case is falling short of the standard set by... — read more
U-Verse Sunsetting 2022
Interesting to hear that the UV TV product will sunset in 2022 on today’s Broadband and Video town hall when the McElfresh town hall said we were going to be trying to grow both TV products.
Better opportunities out there?
I have a pretty big list of people I know that left AT&T, that varies from close friends to acquaintances. Some left on their own, some were laid off, but none of those people ended up without getting a new job and non off them found themselves in... — read more
What's next?
Fake unlimited data is far from our only...let's call them indiscretions. Now that this one has been resolved in favor of our (I'm assuming former) customers, I wonder if this will cause an avalanche of more suits for both credible and not so... — read more
BBV Town Hall
Listening to Devin Merrill try and sound smart is a joke. This is the guy who led the DIRECTV Now product. How is this man still employed?
Finance Billing Operations (FBO) layoff numbers
I am hearing anywhere numbers between 1500 to 2500 employees notified last Friday. From what I hear none of those have been transferred Accenture. It seems nearly the whole of Billing Ops wipes out, only salvaging those management titles tied to... — read more
AT&T to Outsource Wireless Engineering?
Two major purchases in the T vendor (by Amdocs and MasTec) space leads to assumptions that they will outsource wireless network engineering and operations ala Sprint with Ericsson. MasTec CEO regarding purchase of Quadgen: “From the... — read more
Amplify due dates moved up
ATO manager, told Amplify due dates moved up. That means manager rankings & ratings will be input by next Monday. That’s about three weeks earlier than we’d originally been told. Company just announced a 3 Billion dollar reduction in Cap spending... — read more
AT&T Pays $60 Million To Settle Claims It Lied About Unlimited Data Plan
Looks like more layoffs on the horizon to cover that $60 million settlement. www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2019/11/05/att-pays-60-million-to-settle-claims-it-lied-about-unlimited-data-plan/amp/
Take a look at the career site. tech jobs ~200 and 70% are outside the US - LMAO
DOA. just imagine if you were young and wanted some opportunities down the road. yeah, not here
Layoff or lay off?
Which one is correct?
FBO EMPLOYEES: What are your thoughts on the following
Will Accenture be able to handle this and improve the operations Has your VP/AVPs planned and communicated this in a positive way and made rational decisions illustrating they are competent and understand the functions? Have they only kept... — read more
Sounds about right
lol att's billing or should we say randy's creative accounting. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/directv-kept-charging-regional-sports-fee-while-channel-was-blacked-out/
Retail
What changes for retail with all the new orgs?
any REAL negative posts aren't being posted
i've tried to share and no-go
Would you stay?
If AT&T was to offer a good severance package (and I mean a really good one) to everybody and gave us a choice between taking it and leaving or staying, is there a single person here who would actually choose to stay? Basically, is anybody here... — read more
FBO - What Levels Are Surplused
Only 1st and 2nd levels in my group were on the surplus prenotification calls. Some ADs were on safe calls. Does anyone know if directors and AVPs were given notice of future surplus? I'm wondering if they are keeping some supervisors to manage... — read more
Get as close to the top as you can before the ship goes down ..
The higher up you are the larger the parachute will be on the way down!
For the love of god ... make a better offer so we can ALL leave ...
Just make an enhanced offer or real severance payment, so MR75 eligible people can leave en masse .... I'm ready! With PPA rates causing pensions to go back up, you could probably get rid of half of craft voluntarily!
Looks like Morrow is definitely a fiber to the premises guy so that’s good
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-24/nbn-what-everyone-is-saying-about-it/9079332?pfmredir=sm