http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/24/att-is-looney-tunes-to-try-to-buy-time-warner-commentary.html

Wireless and Uverse down. http://variety.com/2016/biz/news/att-q3-earnings-time-warner-deal-1201898124/?ref=yfp

Folks, its time to pivot again. I know I told you that you needed to pivot for the software company we are becoming. Well, I've changed my mind software is so 20 mins ago. You need to be pivoting for content. Content 2.0 is where the next 20 mins is... — read more 

Saw that version is closing San Cordova call center and offering their employees jobs in the SE. My question is. Does that imply that the SE the new tech area maybe because the taxes and pay are cheaper??

AT&T’s blockbuster $84.5 billion takeover of Time Warner means many things including rich fees for the bankers and lawyers who helped craft the deal & Wall Street deal,junkies, really bad news for workers company

I know she's cute and all, but it seems like all of us are getting the axe sooner or later.

This makes perfect sense. Atlanta is now destined to be the center of the AT&T universe, along with Dallas, Hyperbad, and Slovakia. Anywhere outside of those locations (and NY for HBO) has little use.

No way in hell is the FCC going to approve this deal but on the slim chance they do (I mean real slim) where is Randy going to go to finance it? We have a B+++ score and if we acquire this company that changes due to the amount of debt this would... — read more 

The company showed us how they really feel about AEs with this exempt to non-exempt b---s---. We have no DIRECT way to influence and drive our results. We can't hold anyone accountable and all we can do is train and cheer them on, yet we bust our... — read more 

Randall can now act in game of thrones as....................?

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/22/in-gettysburg-trump-opposes-att-deal-takes-hard-line-on-immigration-trade.html First time I've ever agreed with him

So Time Warner, which owns HBO, CNN, TNT, TBS, the Warner Brothers movie studio and more, presents an easy way for AT&T to scoop up a vast store of content. But consider the price. At $100 a share, or $105 billion, AT&T would pay an enterprise value... — read more 

When you work for a company for over 2 decades and pour your entire life into it and make it you life, then get told your job could be on the line because their are cuts. Then you find out the next week that AT&T is looking to purchase COX... — read more 

Per LA Times???

Any confirmation of this? A lot of areas have a ton of work. Could this be a way to force AT&T's hand in finally hammering out a contract?

Any info on the closing if the Jackson center? Number impacted? Was this a Mobility ATS center?

Keeping up with Verizon/Yahoo http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/20/att-time-warner-in-talks-for-potential-merger-report.html

I am appalled by the heartless, disgusting, and cutthroat comments made towards coworkers. People do this when they are desperate to believe that their skills, competence (I use that loosley), and credentials will somehow make them immune to the... — read more 

What are the latest updates on DFS and TFS - it has been a bit quiet over there?

This is basically the end of our organization as they continue to eliminate our responsibilities. With such a reduction in the amount of support we are providing our partners now and in the future the writing is on the wall. Made it out of the last... — read more 

CPADS Layoff - we were told surplus will based on Rating, Ranking, Skills, Experience Ranking - How does managers "Rank" their employyees ? What criteria? Rating - Performance rating at Amplify - How was years HR goes back to check Ratings? How does... — read more 

Anyone know what the mysterious comp update call is all about tomorrow?

Well aware of this surplus (DIRECTV Call center management) does anyone know the date we find out if we are the "chosen"?

Management is working on ranking and justifications, and some "important" group such as architecture (why this event exist in AT&T, do they build anything ??) may see large cut. I heard that some of the people in the worst group in engineering, BSE... — read more 

Does anyone have knowledge of any centers that will be closing by end of the year ? And if so, when would the employees be notified? Thank You

I hope the board sees what he's doing to the company before it's too late. Chasing content is a bad idea. We should be focusing on what we do best: connecting people. There are too many content providers and it'll result in a "war on drugs" situation... — read more 

When they tell you that they are laying you off, it is not because of a lack of work. Sure, automation is being fired up, but the hiring in Brnu, Czech Republic has been nonstop as well. Network surveillance jobs (Mobility ER/Packet Core) have been... — read more 

Over the past year, but more aggressively within the past few months, AT&T has been collecting what is being referred to as user stories detailing what Management and non-Management do on a daily basis. Whichever group you're in this activity should... — read more 

As AT&T operates as a pay-TV operator as well, investing in media and content programming will allow it to achieve backward integrated synergies, mostly reduction of cost to deliver content to subscribers. However, such a move will not be easy as the... — read more 

So our CEO can totally f--- up a merger between AT&T and Sprint and lose $4 billion dollars and spectrum and he still has a job. Mobility is run on skeleton crews makes money and they lay off some of their tech workforce because we are "low on work"... — read more 

Unlike other layoff incidents on this list, AT&T had cut close to 13% of its workforce in the past 5 years, hiring other thousands of low wage contactors, term and part time employees, almost all of the company's divisions were profitable and... — read more 

AT&T Mobility gave 30 day notice to over 20% of it's Wireless Technicians that maintain cell sites in Michigan today. Rumor was this is a national surplus.

We were notified of pending management surplus. I was just surplussed, here I go again.