AT&T Pulls Plug On Pay-For-Privacy Pricing by Wendy Davis, Staff Writer @wendyndavis, 4 hours ago AT&T will no longer charge some U-Verse subscribers higher fees to avoid targeted advertising, the company confirmed today. Instead, AT&T says it will... — read more 

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Look at your current top pay cap and then compare it to the new job titles doing the same job. You'll notice there is difference of approximately $20-30,000 in top pay caps. Pay cuts and surpluses oh my!

Basic Points: Bye DTV along with their employees The new streaming service relies heavily on luck The Air Gig diversion, the new PR campaign Qualcon drone object PR campaign to layoff cell tower techs Their massive Phantom fiber footprint is starting... — read more 

PS reorg is underway and will be completed most likely this month. There is nothing new here. PS will be moving toward a more DevOps model where automation will become more important in the years to come. Not sure how many will be laid off if any but... — read more 

Report: DirecTV parent AT&T to phase out satellites by 2020, that means all DirectV employees will compete for T jobs, will be fun seeing this mess.

We went from an almost empty center to a full center of over 400 employees within 4 months; so no worries here.

Under this new line of employment, T erm employees are those engaged for a specific project or limited period with the definite understanding that their employment is to terminate upon completion of the project or at the end of the period. Employment... — read more 

Has anyone received their severance check from the 7/23 surplus? They said 45 days but I'm wondering if that is business days.

Leadership is meeting this week in Dallas to set the number to be surplus. 60 days to either find a new job or up to 6 months servance pay depending on years of service.

If this is your plan, AT&T, why spend $48B for useless hardware. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-22/at-t-said-to-plan-web-streaming-as-primary-tv-platform-by-2020

Nice going AT&T http://www.rcrwireless.com/20160926/carriers/att-dinged-450000-misuse-microwave-backhaul-spectrum-tag2

It is unfortunate that AT&T is stopping to new lows to block competition. http://www.multichannel.com/news/distribution/att-sues-nashville/407994

i am sure it is not AT&T's new strategy but I never saw it this close to home in our group. We have an indivduals that is way past his 75 year (service and age) mark. He is looking for early retirement package. Instead a couple of weeks ago his... — read more 

Narendra Modi speaks to Joint Session House Speaker Paul Ryan and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden greet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi before his address to a Joint Session of Congress on June 8, 2016. Indian PM Addresses Congress House Speaker... — read more 

Surplus declaration South East 480+ employees , I heard that employees will have the option to bump junior members, and no new assignments will be created for all the displaced roles, best luck to the affected

In AT&T world the "free" or "low cost" concept does not exist, and It really does not matter how AT&T bundles up their portfolio of services, up present, in reality the 13 largest pay-TV providers held for 94.2 million subscribers in 2015, losing... — read more 

Most of what Is posted on here I believe is made up . So many just want to stir the pot. My center in the SE is doing great. We have an abundance of new hires and new managers. Back 2 back calls and overtime. People just keep ears and eyes open and... — read more 

Anyone have info about what the company is going to do to us exempt "manager" employees with a base salary below $47,476 when the new overtime laws kick in on 12/1? We are about 60 days out from that and you would think that is an important... — read more 

I heard from a reliable source that T is in the final stages of merging (on paper) Internet & Entertainment Field Services (Prem Techs) and DirecTV Field Services (DTV Techs). The Company plans on keeping a majority of Prem Techs vs. DTV Techs (about... — read more 

Been informed of a conference call tomorrow. A "package" will be offered to occupational techs who weren't surplused on 9/15/16. Although positions opened up as a result of the surplus, will go unfilled to keep headcount low.

Heard a grapevine rumor from a reliable sources that I trust that heard it from another well connected individual that a larger possibly 5-7% overall work force reduction may be in play..no segment is safe. The signs are in place, as is normal for... — read more 

There's been some rumbling of some major shakeups in this group for the past several months. Is there any credibility to these rumors? They didn't go through the big stuff in May, so it seems likely to hit Q4 or Q1 2017. Any info would be... — read more 

All of Tier 2 DSL technical support has been outsourced as of 2/26/2016. Both Richardson TX and San Ramon CA have been closed. If you have a legacy DSL lan/wan, good luck getting help from these outsourced centers. Here is a site that shows last... — read more 

Okay another round of layoffs for the Service Managers. We have been told that if you want to volunteer to to be laid off you can fill out a survey. Wow that's such a great option! We wil be finding out during the week of Oct 3rd who stays and who... — read more 

Surplus in TEMS center, but since our last contract when the CWA decided to lump all Tel. Specs together, the TEMS folks can now bump C.O. techs out of their jobs. 11 surplussed in TEMS but 4 C.O. tech lose their jobs. Thanks AT&T and the CWA.

Yep forced to work every weekend and every holiday. Moved to 3 different depts learned new position and was held up to standereds and numbers or threatened with time off. Out of garage in 10mins ore all cust fix asap close from Prem ask cust anything... — read more 

AT&T will face more competion if Comcast is able to pull this off http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/20/12986872/comcast-mobile-network-verizon-mvno-2017

I have not been with the company long. I am in the Southwest. How are employees who are surplused notified?

Does anyone have any layoff news for Orlando mobility ?worried here 😞

How AT&T intends to tap dance around the DTV/uVerse dilemma isn't clear. Knowing AT&T fairly well, there's going to be more than a few creative caveats designed to force customers to more expensive options, What is clear is the company is throwing... — read more 

Let's try to predict what will happen in 2017. I'll start: Layoffs Q1 2017 - Check Layoffs Q2 2017 - Check, right Layoffs Q3 2017 - Check, I am being repetitious right now, way to go AT&T Layoffs Q4 2017 - Hmmm, should I say CHECK? EVERY Single year... — read more 

I hear rumors - anyone know about a voluntary separation plan for management employees at the end of the year?