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
Mark Hurd, co-CEO of Oracle, dies at 62
Long careers short lived at Tech companies
Are we creating ANY new jobs?
Or is job elimination the only thing this company is good for these days?
DIRECTV LAYOFF
They bringing in guys and laying them off, it just hit San Diego and its not even affecting the Internet Prem Techs
Raise and Bonus structure severely broken for L1-L2
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...
Thunderdome!!!
Mad Max The Road Warrior Lord of The Flies Apocalypse Now The Purge Maze Runner AT&T 2019 AT&T The Collaboration Zone
For those of you who still think wireline is only POTS, grow up. For the rest of you enjoy this article on paying for wireless infrastrcuture
https://medium.com/@kushnickbruce/5g-wireless-is-not-profitable-when-the-wired-state-based-utility-cross-subsidies-are-removed-f7888e343094
Management ATO
Anyone hear of any management layoffs (ATO) around Birmingham?
What' s the number of positions that were outsourced this year?
I'm really curious to get this info, given that I think that this number is much higher than any of us could imagine.
Elliot buys sliver of company and
Makes Randal their little puppet on a string. Weak, Drifting, and Cowardly Leader. Employees don't hear anything from our CEO anymore.
Like 2008 Financial Crisis
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.
A message from Corporate America__ Tata, Accenture, Infosys, & Tech Mahindra
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
Worked for Prime Communications
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
Feds cleared it, now If T-Mob and Sprint make it past the last lawsuit, Dish will become Nations 4th wireless Carrier
https://www.seattlepi.com/cnet/article/T-Mobile-Sprint-deal-wins-Justice-Department-ok-14186310.php
Truce for survival, he Is an animal!!!
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
You Are Not Alone..
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
News from NJ Bus solutions
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
Just got rebadged to Accenture
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.
Share the bare minimum to get by
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
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
Plenty of people relocated to Dallas or
El Segundo only to be let go 12-24 months later. Tot disasters for their families.
Dallas HQ Remodel Features Tribute
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.
Rebuilding Dallas HQ while continuing to layoff
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2017/01/18/att-will-spend-100-million-rebuilding-its-downtown-dallas-campus/
SORRY AT&T CAN'T DO VOICE MAIL SERVICES
Wireless customers voice mail outages going one month, and AT&T answer? "blame the vendor" LOL
Content is Saturated and Competitive
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