One of the SVA Contractors in the Midwest files Chapter 11! This Company receives all outside plant construction under $30,000. They have maybe 11 workers in an area that covers 1/4 of Ohio. They just got the Contract for this work 3 months ago and... — read more 

The big problem with this company in my opinion, is that they make ALL decisions/changes 5 years after everyone doing the actual work brought the problem to their manager's attention. The company is a behemoth that slowly churns and grinds.No way on... — read more 

FYI, AT&T's social media was outsourced earlier this year to an agency in NY, which needs at least 24 hours to develop responses to an "urgent" situation. So much for moving at the speed of Twitter. AT&T is still in the dial-up era... — read more 

A toxic workplace: My Internal evidence, & looking for an exit ASAP. Check yourself for the following: You're not sure what you should be doing, or for whom, I often find myself stiflin unprofessional reactions, You can't be yourself, or often have... — read more 

https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/10/25/att-hit-a-brick-wall-when-it-raised-tv-prices.aspx

It doesn't take a scientist to conclude that spending like crazy, especially on things that don’t have anything to do with your core business, in a panic urge to get into the media business, can bring you nothing good. Here is an interesting article... — read more 

I heard layoffs already started.

Talk about a complete failure. A dept that just lies to everyone on the phone, can't speak fluent english, lies to people to get them off the phone, incompetent, a total waste of time - my god, what has this company come to ? We use to support fellow... — read more 

That is called FAILURE. Time to replace, preferably with an outsider. The last thing AT&T needs is another inbred Bell head running the show into the ground.

At&t will never be a leader in content media. They should have stuck to their core network delivery, building a world class network. We are one the way down. At&t is not nimble enough to compete with Netflix or Google or anyone else. This is a... — read more 

AT&T Spreads Thin, all over the place, Verizon Sticks to What it Knows In efforts to hedge against declining subscriber growth, AT&T has carried out an ambitious restructuring initiative to become a leader in the next-gen media space, beefing up its... — read more 

Thank you for the responses to my earlier post I should have been more clear in my first post. Anyone have any experience regarding how T treats Prem Techs who are injured on the job and will never be able to return to doing that work due to... — read more 

Poor Leadership Unmanageable debt due to over-leveraged and poorly planned expansion strategy Excessively compensated executives with no leadership ability Confusing and deceptive pricing and product strategy Less than best network performance... — read more 

Randall's spending spree.... alienvault, appnexus, otermedia, etc, etc, etc.... the entire board would have to already be on a performance improvement plan and some of them already shown the door..... but no, they are immortals and just the market... — read more 

Nonetheless, AT&T stock opened the trading day in freefall, and within an hour reached a point nearly 10 percent below where it had closed the night before. NONE of the 36 research houses that cover the stock have changed their opinions on the... — read more 

Anyone have any experience regarding how T treats Prem Techs who are injured on the job and not able to return to doing that work due to surgeon's orders?

ATT is the latest GE. Buy companies at top dollar then realize you did a dumb thing. Like Direct for nearly 50B. Money down the drain. Time Warner....who is gonna compete w Netflix, Amazon etc? Not ATT. Take a walk around any T site and all you see... — read more 

Our brilliant strategy of layoffs and more layoffs and yes, you guessed it, even more layoffs is not helping us keep up with Verizon. Who would have thought that gutting or outsourcing any type of customer support will lose us subscribers. Really... — read more 

$ 50 billion for DirecTV and we are losing subscribers left and right. One would argue that AT&T is in a transitional stage and that it’s all gonna work out once the media business is entirely in place, but I don’t agree. The media business is fast... — read more 

Our manager and his boss just recently told us at a morning meeting that our Installation and Repair (I&R) Technicians will be leaving the Northwest Arkansas area by the beginning of the 2019 new year. They both said that the people in these... — read more 

Arison employees had a deadline Of Oct 22 to apply for voluntary layoff. Rumors are significant interest from L3 and L4 but not enough overall to meet the target which has never been communicated. Expect 1Q2019 involuntary? Anyone have info on the... — read more 

WOW , 100 BILLIONS IN ACQUISITIONS In THE LAST 5 YEARS ...AND SAME Sh-- RESULTS, LOL... As reported its first wireless subscriber loss in five quarters, disappointing investors a day after archrival Verizon Communications Inc. posted stronger... — read more 

I would love to hear the rational for keeping the stock.

and we're at the lows, strategy thesis not panning out, no real plan. wow, just disappointing

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/at-t-slips-after-q3-earnings-miss-following-time-warner-takeover-14755468

Company got a huge, permanent tax cut from Trump, has been paying 0% on debt for a decade, and won trillion-dollar sweetheart boondoggle govt contracts like FIRSTNET. It's the EMPLOYEES that are screwed. CEO bonuses can never be high enough, so youze... — read more 

We all know the knee-jerk reaction to lower than expected profits and sliding shares are layoffs. So now it's only a question of when they will hit and how big they'll be. Hopefully I'm wrong, but judging by how things were handled in the past that... — read more 

remember what analysts say, you need to dive into the way randy and team report their metrics...it's not straightforward, never has been. great execution guys...and now commence the next round of surplus.

mo--ns around every corner making dumb decisions

Older workers (over 40) are obvious targets for layoffs because their salaries are higher. Plus if the company can lay them off before they are eligible for retirement benefits, it's a cost savings in the long run. Is there somebody who honestly... — read more 

AT&T seems to be on a war path with acquired companies... AT&T’s pruning of WarnerMedia continues: Turner announced that it is killing off Super Deluxe, its edgy digital and TV studio... — read more 

The stock is in the c-apper, so it looks like we will score the base of $150 before taxes...I'll take it but you would think that after the huge tax cuts T got, there would be something more for the employees..

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/technology/gearing-up-for-the-cloud-att-tells-its-workers-adapt-or-else.html Inside a glass-walled office where Mr. Stephenson meets presidential candidates and corporate titans, Mr. Thrun gave him a pitch on... — read more 

I know of two friends that have worked for AT&T for over 22 years, just shy of retiring from AT&T after all their expertise and devotion and incredible work ethics and such, are now laid off as of five o’clock today. No job, no benefits no caring... — read more 

Lets be patient and wait for the 3rd quarter results to come out. If we see another deep dive in core business (landline and choke, choke - broadband DSL) coupled with the usual 350K quarterly falloff of DTV subscribers, then yes, the likelihood of... — read more 

https://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/amid-video-investments-at-t-comes-last-mobile-video-quality-ratings

Is there any chance that the numbers driven culture of At&t will not bleed over into HBO? I cannot imagine quality content creation if it does. In my organization, you really do not have to produce anything of value or resolve any issues. You just... — read more 

Field operations craft: Have you seen an increase in meetings with management? We have in Dallas. Rumor is company is looking to surplus 30% in IEFS before the merger next quarter. The union appears to be going along with it. Just a heads up!

When presenting an idea to senior leaders, talk about ROI and the problem you’re solving.

Been very quiet on that front...