How long can the board justify keeping him around? 2019 has to be his year of karma. In May 2007 T stock was around 41. After a decade of his leadership its struggling to hit 30. A whole quarter of shareholder value evaporated. In 2011 he wanted to... — read more 

I got chopped a year ago. I was top performer in my team but did not live near collaboration zone. Funny thing, a much younger guy on my team with an Ivy Degree, and a minority too, told me how upset he was about the way I was treated. He quit the... — read more 

Check out this article from Breibart on the AT&T Layoffs. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/03/att-continues-laying-off-americans-after-profiting-billions-from-tax-cut/

Has anyone been able to stall getting laid off by being on long term disability? Wondering if anyone has successfully used this tactic?

I realized things had changed when I looked at town halls and they no longer talked about the part of the business I was involved with, when the only people with a home phone is my 80 year old mother, when there was limited OT in areas fiber had been... — read more 

I see it everyday at AT&T. The good people with integrity leave because they can not and will not produce the numbers those without scruples do. Fraud is secretly promoted and now those managers with no integrity hire the people they most see... — read more 

“The Peter Principal is a concept in management theory developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their Level of Incompetence. In other words, employees are promoted based on their success in previous... — read more 

Some people are saying that the motive for these layoffs and the ones that are coming is to realize fund to reduce the company debt. I certainly hope those people are wrong, because if this is true this is the ultimate proof that AT&T reached a new... — read more 

How will States like this that the first responder network planning and engineering will be outsourced.

This may be old news or posted before, but I missed it. After "regionalization" is completed, what states will be left?

I know that while under the TDP umbrella, that I’m protected from being surplused. However, with that being said, I dont want to be in the position that as soon as I “graduate” the program, I’m shown the door. With how upper management has handled... — read more 

Hi, anyone know if selecting Opgion 2 to take the money and run will keep us from being able to collect Unemployment?

"AT&T signs a multi-year, Multi-Million dollar contract with GCorp International Inc. for RAN Support Services Nationwide for RF Design, Performance and Optimization. These contracts include 5G, Small Cells Deployments for existing network and future... — read more 

Ok guys, so when are we going to hear something from the senior level mgmt on this CZ stuff? The rumors and speculation is killing me. Why won’t thwy just spell out the plan? Tell me I need to move, tell me I better start looking elsewhere, tell me... — read more 

AT&T's 2019 challenge: Reversing a shrinking TV audience and paying down billions in debt https://www.dallasnews.com/business/att/2019/01/30/atts-2019-challenge-reversing-shrinking-tv-audience-paying-billions-debt At the time, Stephenson said tax... — read more 

What is the best an old 'blue' employee can hope for in a severance package? Rule of 75 doesn't apply. He is 63 and has 17 years with the company. Has been a telecommuter and just barely 50 miles from a hub. Is he simply screwed after all this time?

Please build this thread to track all the unfortunate surpluses to those in C&E, TFS or IEFS.

Everyone waive hello to the 1-2 prolific upper management trolls/hr mouthpieces on this board who feel the need to downvote every truthful post! And remember trolls- lady karma- she’s a real B--ch!

Machinima Ceases Operations, Lays Off Virtually Entire Staff After Merging With AT&T’s Otter Media (EXCLUSIVE) Todd Spangler February 1, 2019 2:25PM PST

I left back in September under the TOLA agreement. The company is bridging me over to my 20 year anniversary date, which is December 13, 2019. Under this agreement, the company pays half of my health insurance for six months, and at that time, I have... — read more 

Let's see: 10,000 AT&T employees layed off @ $200,000 annual salary/cost per person = 2 billion dollars. Current debt is 185 billion - 2 billion = 183 billion in debt.

Moffett doubts if even this will be enough to right the AT&T ship. He believes that while AT&T might make its 2019 financial targets, it could be “at the cost of an even uglier 2020.” “Interestingly, most of the most aggressive strategies, like... — read more 

People are getting laid off left and right with no logic or pattern, we are not informed in what direction the major projects at the company are heading, no info on the way we’ll be doing business,or even about how long do we get to keep our jobs, an... — read more 

Gee bet we never see these come out right now.

From a retail stand point, how do we stop the bleeding and become successful? DirecTV requirements are causing wireless sales to go to other carriers. DTV is obviously not successful. The mass exodus is due to people that were required to get DTV a... — read more 

What is everyone hearing about Q2 project colab layoffs. I hear job title colab locations will be stated in March and you have to be reporting to colab location by EOM June or face COBC

I was released this round. I've got 22 years, worked my butt off the last 3 years to comply with a lot of efforts. When I heard the rumors just before Thanksgiving I updated my resume and started applying. No hits yet, but I'm keeping that positive... — read more 

At Verizon, 10, 000 workers took the voluntary leave package. They were not laid off(at least not forced),, some people got 60 months of salary, I know it all depends on how many year you have been with the company but still even if you got 12 months... — read more 

I know there are plenty of people here who should either read this now or who will have to read it sometime soon (unfortunately.) Just got laid off? Do these 5 things before you leave... — read more 

I heard that AT&T is in talks to hiring HR consultants with TriNet, a Bay Area firm that serves as a de facto human resources department for some 1,500 companies, very efficient at firing people.

Any company that would require these kind of cuts where positions and the skill of the employee do not factor into the equation is a company with some MASSIVE leadership issues. Cutting under-performers and hiring younger talent is a typical natural... — read more 

Okay, realistically, AT&T is not doing well right now. Something had to be done about it. Out of all the available options, they chose restructuring with major cuts. So my question is, does anybody actually think this will help? That this will stop... — read more 

Now that it’s been proven that this demand for the workers to report to collaboration zones has been put in place to make the decision of cutting WFH employees seem more logical I Would really like to know will this rule stay in place after the... — read more 

Although the fact that January finished doesn't provide us with any comfort, given that it seems that these layoffs will continue, I was just wondering does anyone have a clue what is the final number of people that were laid off in January?

So, will the next round of ATO layoffs be based solely on location like the most recent one? Is that the only decision maker again? Sux!

So which news channel do those surplused watch? I have been concerned the company will use data on families viewing habit on the discounted tv services to make employment decisions. Not viewing CNN for your news then not the type of person AT&T wants... — read more 

Surplus has to be announced 3-15-19, does anyone have any true knowledge of what to expect? With this sh--hole of a company they feed us just enough to keep.us hanging on. Can't wait to be gone from this sorry company

So today on 1/31/19 there was a surplus for cad techs (150+) , we are union and support constructing and engineering wire line. In today's phone call it was said due to the new engineering software "aramis" there will be no need for the cad tech... — read more 

The tax break that this company received, they used to buy back their stock to inflate numbers for the stock holders. The is purely a case of the rich getting richer.