https://www.google.com/amp/s/finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/t-stock-doomed-become-next-142125101.html

It's not all that dark and dismal. Look at the range of benefits many employees get. Insurance, Health & Wellness Health Insurance Dental Insurance Flexible Spending Account FSA Vision Insurance Health Savings Account HAS ... — read more 

For those that do not know, glassdoor is a website where employees and even interviewees can leave anonymous reviews and even enter compensation info so people can see real numbers. Also it is a good place to look for job openings. WIth all the... — read more 

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190917/08025243008/something-has-spooked-att-enough-to-warrant-bringing-their-top-lobbyist-out-retirement.shtml things that make you go hmmmm

Why would anybody want that epic failure?

we are simply put just 90 day contractors now. Every 3 months moving forward we either continue employment by avoiding a surplus for the moment or move on for another 90 days until your department gets closed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19plyLkWNJw

Hearing from my manager that there are some crazy reorgs coming soon for outside orgs. More manger surpluses which will result in much bigger areas of responsibilities, larger crew size & combination crews of various titles for each manager... — read more 

When is the deal to Accenture going to be announced? Which orgs are impacted? Anyone has some more credible information on it?

According to the Wall Street Journal, the company is exploring a divestiture. It has looked at potentially spinning off DirecTV into a separate public company, or potentially selling the company’s assets to rival satellite distributor Dish... — read more 

There is an old saying, “your first loss is your cheapest” At this point I think the sooner we unload DTV the better regardless of how much money is initially lost. Every quarter we wait you’ll see millions of subscribers lost until eventually this... — read more 

What are telltale signs that you’re working at a “sinking ship” company? Answer by Michael Wolfe, five startups and counting. Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina principle states, “Happy families are all alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its... — read more 

Donovan FIRST... next in line is.....Randy the clown

With everyone forced to come in to collaboration zones everyday the office is way too crowded. No where to sit and good luck if you have to find a bathroom stall after lunch. I'm waiting for the tents and porta potties to be set up in the parking... — read more 

Did they say that DirectV made TOTAL sense? YEAR AFTER YEAR? all these Cheap analyst, the silence of the lambs..LOL

At least for bargained employees, surplusses only come around every quarter, but outsourcing can happen to anybody at any time. Keep that in mind the next time you feel safe after a quarterly surplus announcement.

Lawsuit: AT&T’s DirecTV Now is a flop and AT&T lied to investors about it AT&T failed to disclose DirecTV Now subscriber losses, class action claims. My Analysis at no charge to AT&T..... I see 4 unforced errors for The executive... — read more 

AT&T Facing Thousands of Consumer Complaints About Bait-and-Switch Overcharging A CBS News investigation has revealed over 4,200 customer complaints that have been filed with the federal government against AT&T and DirecTV relating to false... — read more 

Can't SUBMIT any sales, you know for a floundering business, and in an area that is 50% saturated with DTV and of the remainiij ng only about 10% MAY be able to get it, but don't want it because cable tv pricing s—s to them? Then pack your bags — read more 

All within 5 years. But no one saw Cord Cutting coming so it can't be Executives Fault. That's sarcasm for the Chief of Staff who follows this board. Watch over the next 10 years as the pieces of TWX chopped up are sold off and flourish under new... — read more 

one of the pillars of randys failure. overpaid by 50% even at the time. let alone the junk this technology and service provide today.

The competition still believes in customer service and their network. Imagine that. The new AT&T in their arrogance puts their efforts into out of date monopolistic process minutia and micromanagement while still riding the coattails of the old AT&T... — read more 

We hear all this news about lawsuits, high level re-orgs, Q3 financials, Elliot Management, DirecTV, etc., etc., but where is all of the good juicy stuff of major surpluses in the company's core organization that happen without warning and against... — read more 

Sorabh Saxena had said that they weren't going to do any more layoffs this year (after my org under him lost 25% and 12%, respectively on two separate 2019 "events"). Just got word that his org will be undergoing another layoff as early as... — read more 

Kicking our tails and dominating I attended a task force strategy meeting. I asked what are they doing that we are not doing and has anyone thought of having 50-100 employees use Verizon service for a period of time and go through the motions. What I... — read more 

Perspective and opinion from the lowest position of Management, what upper management says or directs to the masses is completely different than what middle management is directed to do by the same people. Honesty and truth is rewarded with... — read more 

Since some of the 900 total that were surplussed back in June for the 3rd Q surplus are being postponed, and won't be placed or even processed until after the 4th Q surplus announcement, which was on September 13th, does that mean that a SIPP... — read more 

And that leadership is fostered and found in all the wrong ways. They promote Leaders who are yes men and very nonmotivational. They don't promote people who know how to problem solve, minimize problems, keep things running, and bring new ideas to... — read more 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSQ7hzWASnI

I’m still employed and am several rungs below the ladder in the McElfresh org, but after months of deliberation I’m finally ready to leave AT&T. How do we go about doing it “gracefully”? Do I just tell my manager? Do I get two weeks and who... — read more 

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4292032-selling-and-t-great-run-elliot-fueled-hype-train-gets-derailed

The problem that hasn't been said is the bench is mostly empty and void of depth. Most of the people that are in senior management positions have been with the company forever. And those that are in upper middle management are former chiefs of staff... — read more 

If I'm still employed, and I decide to go ahead and dump all AT&T services under my employe discounts, getting prepared to be surplus'd/outsourced/MVO, so I'm not hit with a giant set of bills when I do go..., is there any rumor/knowledge about HR... — read more 

https://www.telecompetitor.com/att-ceo-we-hear-elliott-concerns-but-our-path-is-a-winning-strategy/ Randy actually thinks T$ is on a "winning" strategy ??

With 3Q results due out 3rd week in October and Stephens publicly stating equipment revenue is down, video subscriber losses and now the risk of lawsuit for subscriber falsification things do not look bright for profit. The easy offset is to reduce... — read more 

As the troubles pile up on AT&T Inc.’s DirecTV subsidiary, Wall Street bankers have been inundating the telecom giant with proposals to sell off the satellite TV operator with Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network as one potential suitor, the Fox Business... — read more 

Not hearing the usual end-of-quarter chatter about the next quarter's layoffs. Not for a minute do I think that layoffs have been forgotten by the powers that be. I'm wondering if the slings and arrows of lawsuits, activist investors and... — read more 

both destroyed companies that had so much promise. destroyed employees lives and their potential.... zeglis controlled the #1 wireless company in the world, innovative non bell and somehow managed to allow cingular to buy it after to mis-manging... — read more 

Time to gtfo. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/atandt-is-new-it-needs-a-new-type-of-ceo/2019/09/17/0aa1b05a-d95c-11e9-a1a5-162b8a9c9ca2_story.html