Topics regarding layoffs at AT&T

Topics regarding layoffs at AT&T

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 

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| 1970 views | | 7 replies (last November 14, 2019)
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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 

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 

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| 1310 views | | 6 replies (last November 11, 2019)
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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 

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| 1310 views | | 5 replies (last November 12, 2019)
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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

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| 1510 views | | 6 replies (last November 14, 2019)
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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 

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| 1730 views | | 8 replies (last November 11, 2021)
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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 

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| 2193 views | | 2 replies (last November 12, 2019)
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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!

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| 940 views | | 3 replies (last November 8, 2019)
Post ID: @OP+11UdEXiW

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 

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| 2170 views | | 7 replies (last November 11, 2019)
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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 

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| 870 views | | 4 replies (last November 7, 2019)
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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?

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| 1233 views | | 4 replies (last November 8, 2019)
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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 

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| 4460 views | | 9 replies (last November 12, 2019)
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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 

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/

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| 765 views | | 1 reply (November 5, 2019)
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Retail

What changes for retail with all the new orgs?

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| 1630 views | | 5 replies (last November 6, 2019)
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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 

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| 2570 views | | 6 replies (last November 20, 2019)
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