Google Fiber is about to start connecting homes and businesses in the North Carolina , along with Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; Kansas City in Kansas and Missouri; Nashville, Tennessee; Provo, Utah; and Salt Lake City... — read more
The kind of company I will never work for
AT&T CEO Thinks You're A Forgetful Idiot, Hilariously Gives Apple Encryption Advice from the glass-skyscrapers dept You really can't find a pair of cozier bosom buddies than AT&T and the NSA. AT&T was duplicating fiber streams, effectively providing... — read more
OKC layoffs
I know a few techs that lost their jobs in OKC. Is there more to come in OKC or it that it?
AT&T South East
AT&T South East and the ancient DSL technology, so many area offering to -date offering DSL 768k, what a joke, don't tell that you will need a crystal ball to see what is in store for this region
Here we go again
AT&T is laying off around 80 employees in Charlotte, Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article102277767.html#storylink=cpy
More layoffs to come in November
Does anyone know of how many more will get surplused in the Southwest come November ?
Profits withour prosperity, Harvard Business Review
This CEO wants adquire a media company? who are we kidding, iwe have not seen any of the promised results from past acquisitions, just layoffs, anfpd small pay increases fir some, this is starting to look like the wave of hostile takeovers that swept... — read more
TU Ops
Anyone hear about surplus for the legacy DTV training corps? There seem to be a lot of design and some delivery position openings but based out of TX, GA. I know DTV has call centers with dedicated training staff in Montana, Idaho, West Virginia... — read more
Head in the Sand
If you look around you will see many with their head in the sand. No one likes to admit the direction ATT is moving to is contractor and remote support for various systems including Mobility overseas. The numbers given are not all in the USA. Go to... — read more
District 6
District 6 is losing 138 TFS Cst positions announced today....
RAE & NAE
RAE's are supposed to be reduced and NAE's eliminated. I think both will go but that's just my thought since this all began. Welcome to the new world of 2020
Pay Cut - DIRECTV
They just cut all of the Directv techs pay a couple of months ago. They Cut mine by about 35-45% depending on how much OT they let me get. Things are not going in the right direction at ATT OR DIRECTV - employees are disgruntled
AT&T Call Center in Columbus, Ohio - layoffs 2016 and 2017
This was announced to empliyees yesterday, the call center in Columbus will be closing - good luck to all
Prim Techs endangered in losing their jobs?
I've been a tech now for AT&T for about 6 months now and everyone is saying that we are next too go. Is it worth applying to Frontier or just stick it out and ignore everyone
HOUSTON BEEN SURPLUS?
Which offices has been surplus because we are in Houston and haven't heard anything. Managements are not talking and they keep saying we are ok. Is this affecting all Houston centers? Anyone knows? Can someone speak up. and put the offices names been... — read more
Re-routing
It seems they are re-routing calls to the SE. I am guessing from the closing stages and layoffs.
ATT AOC (Birmingham, AL)
We all know that the building has been sold. I found out today from a reliable source that only management positions will be moved to the Data Center in Hoover. Any non-management jobs will be relocated to Dallas. Expect this to occur by the end of... — read more
Indirect Axe
Anyone have info around how much longer RAEs will have a job?
District 4 CWA Sleeps with At&t
Cleveland 10 TFS Techs, 1 Specials Tech, 10 Facility Specialists (mlac/gnac) and 60some service reps. Great job D4.... Well At least you represent the contractors too
Anyone heard anything else?
Is there any more news regarding job cuts? -Are Pkgs being offered? Are there options for relocating? Can anyone shed more light considering all posts are anonymous ? What's the difference between direct and indirect surplus?
Work environment is awful; does it ever get better?
To all the AT&T veterans that have survived round after round of layoffs, does the awful work environment ever get better? For reference, I am a DIRECTV employee that sees a lot of good in AT&T's brand, network, global reach and SDN future, but the... — read more
Is the next Indirect Surplus this week?
We are waiting to see if we are next on this long list.
Surplus meeting?
Speculation is running rampant for southwest region. Mandatory meeting for Thursday morning. Managers won't answer why or what meeting is about. Surplus? Reorganization?
Closing of call center
It's very frustrating as a long term management person that the Company closes your center and no one in upper management seems to care? I have been a reliable, loyal and dedicated employee for over 20 years and no one seems to want to give you... — read more
Att sold our wireline and u verse to Frontier Communications in Connecticut
We were sold off because att doesn't want to offer wireline and we weren't having that in CT and our union owned them. It has been the biggest blessing ever. Frontier has brought so many of the jobs Att stole out of our state back and is totally... — read more
3rd day or "power related outages"
Anyone have an Idea of what is actually happening? So far it's been 3 days of supposed "power outage" related outages affecting most states, supposedly power issues in Texas. I have a feeling the "power outage" excuse is just bs.
Atlanta and Dallas
I wish those of you who have no idea what you're talking about would stop posting as if you do. Cuts are coming. Will it be Monday? I don't know, but I do know it's not across "all segments." I also know there is no such thing as a "3+3+1". Also, 90%... — read more
AT&T Layoffs, 2016 and 2017
The new AT&T have been doing this for years by moving jobs around to different states and have lost a lot of knowledge and experience in the process.
Surplus SE
With Sep 24th surplus declaration for the SouthEast region the, union new communication to members:" We have a group of employees with an unusualy high number of non members. We are trying to reach out to them and find out why. One of them told us he... — read more
WOW, just wasted 48B, with DTV
DirecTV Free Streaming On AT&T Mobile Network Will Face Regulatory Hurdles, by claiming that its new Data Free TV offer does not violate net neutrality rules, really? Let's see how they can spin this one, but I wonder if that’s really the case, Data... — read more
BAU,
AT&T has been charging some of its poorest customers top dollar for its slowest internet service. Federal regulators require AT&T to provide discounted high-speed internet service to families who are eligible for food stamps. But AT&T has been... — read more
New layoff rumors
A lot of chatter about layoffs to be expected in SE, 1A and 1B, operations and administrative this month. Not sure any truth in it, but best of luck, everyone.