dailyreckoning.com/att-out-of-business-2 So many mistakes not learned from

Anonymous non AT&T link to post questions for Thaddeus AT&T business town hall on Wed 8/21 (link is on surveymonkey because if we can do something on another person's cost, we will). Am sure he won't answer your question unless you ask a book... — read more 

Raising prices 15-25% despite making an agreement for bundling services, they are merely inciting the subs to leave. A drop of 3/4 million subs is a drop in 3/4 bill in revenue ... that is probably peanuts compared to the revenue of 160B ...

Almost one week after expiration of the contract extension, negotiations seem to be stalling. During nearly two months of bargaining, your bargaining team has attempted to negotiate with the company on many of their proposals, as retrogressive as... — read more 

Any word on what's going on? Last thing we heard was something was gonna be said end of this week /next week. Some areas are going to forced 6 at the end of August, asking for a friend....

Is it too late to get out of the union?

Jon Summer is having a meeting on 8/14 moved to 8/16 for L4+ (AVP and up only). What now? Any update?

Anyone know what the All Hands Call is about for Business on Monday? Re-.org?

Haven't seen or heard anyone getting official emails yet on this Friday. Anyone else?

If you aren't working in Cyber Security, IOT, Data Science, Cloud or Sofware Development, leave now..AT&T is wasting your career! Pivot and leave now! It was the best thing I did. Every trainting you do should be towards outside opportunities as... — read more 

Yes, the whole Time Warner deal might not work out as well as it was planned, but do you really think it can beat Verizon buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion and then having to sell it for $3 MILLION just a few years on? I'm almost sad the bar has been... — read more 

I don’t mean to sound soft, given that in today's economy a lot of people are fearing for their jobs, but having to come to work knowing that it could be my last day combined with the thought that even if I stayed, I would be staying at a failing... — read more 

https://www.pionline.com/pension-funds/att-warner-media-offer-lump-sum-payouts-59000-db-participants In short - they are offering Lump Sum Pay outs to people that are vested, but not working for the company any more? Interesting..... Excerpt:... — read more 

Word is that in district 3 company is pushing to combine two job titles (digital technicians aka special services and systems technicians aka cpe/past the demarc techs) so that they get one truck roll on business dispatches. I know district 9 (CA &... — read more 

A real estate auction company called Williams & Williams is set to offer 37 assets this fall for the Dallas telecommunications and media provider. The auction will feature real estate in nine states that include Florida, Illinois, Wisconsin and... — read more 

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/15/jeff-bewkes-vertical-integration-strategy-fairly-suspect.html

There is an obvious solution to your problems, why in the world would you stay when you have options? I really don't understand people sometime...

Rumors are the manager cuts are being announced from cutting 200 craft people. Reorganization already being announced!! Stay tuned!

Just wondering if the recent round of surplused managers got the standard 6 months Severance Pay? Been hearing rumors that T will be getting rid of that offer soon if they have not already done so.

With the move to IBM, we have to reexamine everything from medical benefits, tv, phone, etc. due to the large increase in cost starting next month. Anyone having luck with alternatives?

The contract is up but no one seems to care. Neither is the union urgent about anything. Our days as techs are numbered.

So I’m about a 3 hour drive from nearest official collaboration zone. What is your prediction/theory/knowledge of what is going to happen to employees in situations like this?

People being outsourced to IBM or those staying behind at AT&T? I personally think there is no winner to be found here...

So what happens to you 401k contribution and match once your officially an IBM employee? are you able to contribute the same amount on day 1? or is there a waiting period to contribute? do you get the same match 1st year? Thanks

Is it just me or does it feel as thou ATT is making the techs hate coming to work in an attempt to quit? The level of incompetence from management in regards to scheduling, work load is something to admire... Ashton, you can come out now. We are... — read more 

ghost town and re-orgs to align with no new project budgets or anything except sustainment activities. we all know it. 90% of ato could be canned and this place would operate just fine. unfortunately, they, leadership seem to have caught on

Anybody actually see the math how they came up with buyout number they offered to folks? Called fidelity and opened a ticket to see if the formula but would like to see the actual math.

AT&T TV Streaming Service: by getting rid of the DirecTV Now brand name, I think AT&T is in the early stages of dumping DTV for good (if they can find someone to buy it). When AT&T made the mistake of acquiring DTV, the genius leaders at AT&T... — read more 

With this giant 9K TechDev Outsource to IBM, did that only affect the L2, or did L3 and above get the a Surplus/severance package deal, and get to skate away not as shafted as the rest?

Our sales teams will be offering AT&T TV in these markets beginning 8/19. In these targeted pilot areas only, U-verse TV will no longer be available for new sales, but existing customers can remain on U-verse TV unless they move or have a voluntary... — read more 

I see a lot of people think if you work in one of the countries with cheap labor, you are safe. Well, you are wrong: I thought Slovakia was safe but they got hit with all the rest of us being shipped off to IBM on Sept 1st. We were all over... — read more 

Just a single week?

Gonna get hit hard again soon. Announcement coming next week.

Wasting more money on used items at the billion dollar goodwill store. Here comes more layoffs to pay for another worthless... — read more 

How does a PIP work. If you get Put on one what happens and what is the timeline

Looks like us Wiretechs will continue to have the Dolly Parton 9-5 theme song again!!!

It’s very telling that they haven’t discussed employee surveys this time. They must have been absolutely horrendous and embarrassing. I know I absolutely trashed the company and was brutally honest. I’ll bet most were as well. Not that Randy cares... — read more 

Pretty sure by now we all know that D3 still ended up without a contract, but we didn’t strike. Will we strike? Was the purpose of extending the contract to be more aesthetically pleasing for the backpay? Will we even get backpay? At this point, I... — read more 

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Is there a department or specific location or position or any single person (outside of the top management, of course) who can be considered safe? It's hard for me to believe that every employee in the company lives with the same stress I do each... — read more