How many AVM, VM's or positions relating to vendors were surplussed last Friday? What sites did they oversee?

Can anyone explain to me why we reps are not allowed to transfer calls? We are being told to take care the customer even tech calls or to just give the customer the number to call the department. Why can't we transfer?? If we have too many transfer... — read more 

federal government soon hit AT&T with an antitrust suit

The Federal Communications Commission has given a helping hand to Louisville, Kentucky, in the city's attempt to enforce local rules that would make it easier for Google Fiber to compete against AT&T. AT&T sued the local government in Louisville and... — read more 

Last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders urged the Justice Department to block the AT&T-Time Warner deal and said it “would almost certainly lead to price hikes and reduced choice.” As evidence, he pointed to AT&T’s purchase of DirecTV, completed last year... — read more 

You know stuff is going down when they announce the sudden retirement of four VPGMs and a Region President all on the same day.

Two days after an unspecified number of ATO developers and business analysts were laid off, an email came out with listings for 80 new PM positions. The writing is on the wall. T wants onshore PMs managing cheap offshore teams, probably to help... — read more 

Any introductory economics class will teach you that the bedrock of capitalism is the idea of supply and demand, which relies on the assumption of competition within an economy. A lack of competition in the economy leads to monopolies, which are... — read more 

Webphone in Global Sales has what seem to be contractor replacement workers in Philippines moving alongside surplus US employees.

It's pretty telling that AT$T has decided to disable comments on the articles related to the Time Warner merger.

Both AT&T and Verizon have been convinced that wireless will save them however they don't even know what that means or what it will take for this magic bullet to become a reality. They have both been buying up content providers etc in an attempt to... — read more 

Randall, I know you read these boards lol, and I'm sure by the time you've read this latest entry, you've seen Tesla's latest announcement. This is how vertical innovation and risk taking (in partnership with 3M) and development works. The solar... — read more 

We lost 4 Managers and 9 Team Leaders yesterday. It did seem to be more based on tenure than rankings. At this time, CSR's are non-bargained employees since AT&T won't come to the table to start contract negotiations with a union representation. Many... — read more 

Any update on cst in Houston. Was surplus fulfilled by vsp's? Rumor on next surplus on dec15 true?

I heard that T CEO will need to borrow 20 billion in addition to the 80 billion offered to TW, I don't think the company has repaid the 68 billion for DTV, if this deal goes through the company will have a debt in excess of 220 billion in their... — read more 

I only heard of 1 surprise through all the workgroups I've heard impacted. My group the 3 people I know who were selected everyone had them and one of their top choices to go.

It's over for now. Move on. Work, play and enjoy life and stop the ridiculous rumors that are about as factual as politics are... And, some really need some spelling help...oh that would be trolls lol.

Think for a minute, about the following stats: T Mobile, DTV, Time Warner..... Do you see a trend?

I got my surplus notice today, so, 94,391,000 + me , Not In Labor Force; Labor Force Participation Stuck at 63%

So as the 2nd round of cuts concludes I am wondering if anyone knows the criteria looked at the determine who gets cut? Last round seemed to be managers with lower metrics, but this time it seems like it was geared more towards tenure. That's the... — read more 

Why AT&T Is Making a Huge Mistake by Acquiring Time Warner Mr. Stephenson may well be right about the promise of the Time Warner deal. But judging by the 5 percent loss in AT&T shares since the deal was announced, it seems that quite a few of his... — read more 

Mitch Zacks is the president of Zacks Investment Management, which manages $5 billion on behalf of high net-worth individuals. The company owns approximately $60 million worth of AT&T stock T -0.03% . Zacks tells Fortune that he is skeptical of many... — read more 

I asked the reasons. One was not enough work. I know for a fact based on a meeting 2 weeks ago that's a lie. The other was performance, but my evaluations were good. So there is the other lie. What is not a lie is I'm a teleworker. What is not a lie... — read more 

I am opening this thread for any random discussion Please keep it clean as they are blocking IPs if bad language, bullying or personal names are used.

Let's discuss what we expect as it relates to severance decreases for 2017

Anyone in Dallas received anything yet????

I dodged the bullet this time (my director specifically said "we're done for this year". Code - more are coming and if the numbers work out as rumored, it will be significant. I fully expect this to get ugly in 1Q and 4Q each year leading to 2020. 5... — read more 

Good luck to all those in impacted workgroups!

Many investors love AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T)'s stock, not because of its business model or no growth strategy, but rather because it offers an attractive 5 percent dividend yield, a history of increasing its dividends and little volatility in its stock... — read more 

Has DirecTV Now Become a Loss Leader to Help Sell the AT&T-Time Warner But how will AT&T be able to offer so many channels at such a low price? MoffettNathanson broke the numbers down in another note to investors Wednesday morning and came to the... — read more 

Let's start a thread on the topic - this is a random 'thoughts' thread - the topic is Mgmt Surplus