It's interesting that top three have the most busy layoff pages on this site: AT&T: 366x (yes, Stephenson makes an average yearly salary EVERY SINGLE DAY, including weekends) IBM: 341x Intel: 211x Netflix: 133x Amazon: 59x Facebook: 37x @ElonMusk... — read more 

LMFAO! Everyone going crazy about retail and NOTHING happens.

Received this morning. Up to 24 month severence depending on level and seniority. I qualified for 16. Will be considering it. Unbelievable offer.

Official Numbers for CWA 3805 - Source Below Job Title: Network Assistant Positions Eliminated: 1 Location: Jacksonville, FL Job Title: Network Assistant Work Function: Equipment inventory - database management Separation Date: 09/22/2018... — read more 

Does anyone have some concrete information to share?

Anyone in ATO actually receive the offer letter yet? Or likely by end of day?

Here is a link to the list for Southeast https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54a33278e4b040ef97ce7130/t/5b23eb876d2a73dc7ac632da/1529080712161/3QTR2018+Final+SE+Surplus+Declaration_CWA.pdf

Are the people who get the offers mostly the only ones being considered for termination? If enough don't volunteer, do the remaining people who had offers lose their jobs anyway, or is there a different 'cut list' if there are not enough volunteers?... — read more 

No numbers but yeah west DTV techs getting hit hard today.

Just received heads-up email from Melissa Arnoldi that "many of the ATO US based management team will receive offers today".

Small business would be taken over by BAT!!! Layoff begins for small business team. #Go4Growth doesn’t mean Layoff people!!! Smh!

Brage organization. Nothing to do and can't wait to get package.

Please enter location and how many tech have been surpluses in the comments below. Let’s utilize this as a tool to see what is happening to the field we work in. Thanks all and God’s speed to those effected.

Layoffs are going to be common place for the next few years. Anyone who's been paying attention to the transition from a TDM based network to an IP based network knew this day of reckoning was inevitable, particularly when the end game is 5G wireless... — read more 

Numbers and location

If at$t did not buy Time Warner Cable (it was bought by Charter Communications) then why are we seeing Charter Spectrum. employees installing at out Call centers? puzzling

So much speculation, but do we actually know something concrete about today? What can we expect?

Was in a meeting discussing news from upper management and it was said there will be an offer, meaning managers will be offered a year severance package. This is not an early buy-out. It was stated that this offer is wide open and that if an entire... — read more 

Gotta pay for it somehow!

All we see here is this is gonna happen or this is gonna happen and nobody ever backs up what they speak. No evidence or proof!

So it’s been said the Phoenix call center is closing their last day 8/17 and 30 surplused in Austin Texas by now a lot have been told who else out there has info

The field has some many unethical secrets that should come to light. It goes way beyond jamming up msoc numbers . It's constant harassment and intimidation towards employees which caused techs and managers to commit suicide. We turned a blind eye on... — read more 

It appears to be an increased monitoring and targeting of people to attempt to lay folks off. Just don't get out of character because they are looking for any reason to lay people off

So now there is NO NEWS. This has been in the works for years. The time is right. This SITE S---S. No one really knows a damn thing but they put 💩 on here.

Promote positive thinking. No layoff announcement. We here at att do not like that language. It is so negative and we are trying to promote a happy hip young culture. We prefer to refer to them as a force balancing surplus situation. The surplus... — read more 

https://twitter.com/TheLayoff/status/1007335088953098240

Does someone know if Cricket employees will be affected by the surplus. If yes, what kind of impact are you expecting and how wide/deep is this cut going to be. I know that we are all guessing at this point, I know many Cricket employees who are very... — read more 

I'd like to promote this board, can someone help me and let me know what metro areas will be affected so I can target the promo more accurately.

I just received word from my leadership that surplus announcements WILL be announced tomorrow. All business units will be impacted but the impact will be different. Also confirmed is an increase in the offer to management from 6 months of pay to 12... — read more 

I decided that I will to retire in 2 years, I have 220k in company stock since 1997, should I trade or stick with AT& T? , My plan is retiring in 2 years

In case somebody was thinking that was it for the week... A federal magistrate judge in Texas has recommended that a lawsuit brought by the Communication Workers of America AFL-CIO against AT&T seeking to halt the layoffs of 713 workers be tossed... — read more 

Force reduction management and non-management will be anywhere from 15-20% per team. You know where you stand on your team. If you’re the bottom 20% of whatever they’re looking at when making the decision start looking for a new job now.

Let's discuss what's going on in this thread. The rumor is we'll be hit hard on Friday. That's what I heard in the field, not here. I know people here are also speculating about it but I can tell you that there is MUCH MORE NOISE in the field people... — read more 

I was called today about a informal surplus being offered to me today. I haven’t called and gotten any info I was just wondering what that entails