This is hypocrisy at it's finest...company has never spent a cent of their money for "collaboration" as in travel to even meet the folks that work for you (I've had employees for 10 years I've never even met) but want us to get into the offices they... — read more 

Heard they are having ARPU issues

When will we learn? Oh wait, we know better, we read and sign off on the annual COBC certification. Leadership is too busy tilting windmills to read the fine print. Two years ago, the well defined structure of the Authorized Retail sales channel had... — read more 

I was let go this time last year. Why would a year later would you send me a job offer if I can’t be rehired? Would this be a change in my file that prompted the job offer of IHX? Kinda intrigued what your responses are. Great company.

Seems as if they have all gone into hiding lately. They don't understand the marketplace, are too slow, overpay for assets, and can't even take the temperature of the room they are in. They have further isolated themselves from the employee base and... — read more 

Any update on surpluses in Finance Shared Service in Payroll and AP? Thanks

Informed this morning garage in downtown Orlando, FL closing Dec 27th 2019. Told there is a long list of other garages closing as well before end of year. Our garage has about 70 employees between Buried, WT, ST, and office staff. This is only... — read more 

We had a long discussion on AT&T Pension Fund Updates last year - the thread is here @WloEqGc or https://www.thelayoff.com/t/WloEqGc -- I am not sure if there are any new rumors regarding potential changes, it seems that things may take another turn... — read more 

Oh where to begin... leadership up to vpgm these days seem to be all Cricket people with their own little group. No one wants to take responsibility for anything, it's all about delegation. It's a joke. We are told to do events, so they send us to... — read more 

Anyone hear anything yet?

Ok, call me a "conspiracy theorist" but given the below report, why would "forcing" employees to go to the office 1) when study after study shows people are more productive when there is flexibility on where they work 2) remote work can result in... — read more 

Anyone know the details on the upcoming layoffs for Retail?

Anyone know when the next layoffs will be and who will be affected?

Wow oh WOW WHAT A JoKE THEY ARE!! Out sourced, language barriers for sure! When u call in for help and they talk so fast and you cant understand them N you ask for there ID, they hangup! Great customer experience for customers while sitting in front... — read more 

Why aren't central office techs ever targeted? All they do is run jumpers and change filters.

Surely they would have to have know at least some degree in advance of their direct reports? Do you think McElfrish would make the comment he made yesterday about believing the majority of ATO management surplus being "behind us" if a major one was... — read more 

Look it up, we are going from having 4 video platforms to 2. Uverse sales stop real soon people. I know we will have the funny people on here that say it’s not happening, but everything I have posted in here has happened.

Were you surplused in GA and did you get denied unemployment benefits because of your severance lump sum payment? I know of managers in TN & MI that are getting unemployment benefits.

Ibew 21 just got all Dtv work includes 5g home wireless some pt to be Dtv only and some going to core still unknown on the how this will be decided

Does anyone know if Wisconsin was hit with the surplus yesterday ?

I'm not on the ATO side so I'm just curious about others' take on the NewsNow email we got last week. It says the new strategy is "public cloud first." It projects that by 2024, all computing resources that are not literally network elements will be... — read more 

Found out today one level one manager got surplus we down to just 2 for 65 techs

Per Jeff McElfresh -President ATO during 2Q ATO Open Mic just now

Legacy landline needs to be reduced drastically, especially upper management. The residential landline is dead and unprofitable. The quicker it is k--led off the better. Donovan is choking wireless with his incompetents.

Has anyone heard anything about this possibility from a reliable source?

Someone I know in Wisconsin had internet + U-verse TV on the "offseason" plan and when went to reactivate called and was given a substantial price increase. Called and was told they could reduce bill with a internet + direct tv package. Made it clear... — read more 

Good informative read. The overall article take is that the HBO app is competitively overpriced, and lowering it could potentially cause peer animosity and financial loss. More and more, it seems like AT&T is in over their head and doomed, something... — read more 

the new direction. non-company applications (read CUSTOMERS) will be ported over to other cloud providers. WTF?

Over the weekend received form where AT&T was trying to identify retirees with a potential disabilities such that they could dump them from the AT&T retiree medical program into Medicaid Disability. Since AT&T is self insured (they only use health... — read more 

As the morning rises and front line managers get told of their futures as well as the 2nd and 3rd levels good luck! Those that swam upstream, stood up for their techs, and challenged the status quo should be the one that continue this journey. God... — read more 

Arsm down to rsm it’s toxic good moral and ethical sales people are being pushed out, management wants sales at all cost and don’t care how you get them. They need entertainment numbers and ppv to cover the disconnects month after month of customers... — read more 

No company is too big to fail, and no company is too small to raise. What we need to worry about more is the amount of change that AT&T and the whole business, for that matter, is going through. Teleco is a dying business and T is moving into areas... — read more 

The Rule of 75 has been around in the SE for many ...many years; however, yesterday I learned that the Rule of 75 only applies IF you have a minimum of 20 years of Service. In other words, You MUST have a minimum of 20 years of Service before your... — read more 

I love Big Companies. ROLF.

Were any of you on a call last Tuesday announcibg the "Interest in Leaving" Survey? And if you were, did you receive the survey email? This would be my third call/email. How worried should I be? Should I survey Y or N?

Same concept as our contract with IBM development. If work slows down, IBM fires the programmers that worked on the project for years. All the knowledge walks out the door. When more work comes in, they hire off the street and its back to square one... — read more