Received email saying att is extending hours by 2. So now we close 2 hours later. Has anyone else received this email?

As someone who was recently surplussed, I have not received my surplus check. I have given at&t the benefit of the doubt, thinking that they'd get it out by the 21st (like they do with team bonuses), but that date has come and gone. Has anyone else... — read more 

Most working here know, there is no worker, or skills or talent shortage , The real problem is AT&T's HR policies. They complaint about skill shortages, the fact that our employer can't get candidates to accept jobs at the wages offered. That's an... — read more 

Not surplus related but I wonder what the company is going to do to conform to the new law requiring an employee make a minimum of $47,476 base salary to be classified exempt? Especially those of us in retail who are vital to stores' success, such as... — read more 

Don't look unless your sitting down. Employees having the ATT Shares Fund in their 401k will see a big drop. The market see ATT has a problem based on Google offering to do fiber distribution for internet access. This will cause less use of the... — read more 

Stephenson, the AT&T CEO who took over as BSA president in May 2016, doesn’t think the Boy Scouts of America needs to change its core mission or its core values. (BSA = Boy Scouts of America) Article:... — read more 

AT&T is concerned that Google Fiber is successful in Tennessee and other states, to streamline the make ready process to string its fiber on local utility poles, the FTTH provider could compromise the telco's union workforce relationship. Google... — read more 

Let's face it, would be possible for AT&T to get bigger and greedily? Absolutely yes, all the excessively, inordinately desirous of wealth, and profit, is the foundation that drives this company. would you be able to foresee a career here? very... — read more 

Anyone have solid info on the next shakeup in mobility? Seems like indirect will be severely downsized again or even phased out. ATTR seems like it's headed to whitespacing and store under level three or SOTF.

These will mostly be focused in the Stine and Ludgood organizations.

Our group had a meeting with our 5th level today who openly admitted to us that the Company is intentionally sacrificing the quality of existing POTS services to "force" customers to switch to "newer" services. I knew the Company was doing this but... — read more 

I saw an AT&T truck with the message AT&T authorized contractor in my neighborhood. That says it all!!

A wake up call to ALL the people concerned about layoffs, we have not witness any of the implementations promised by senior management in order to keep the current employees jobs, the elusive, innovative, and creative 2020 initiatives are plan to be... — read more 

I'm curious if you believe your team, department, and/or orgianization is on track to bringing the "2020 vision" to reality.

Interestingly, I just noticed an article in my local Montana paper that AT&T is hiring 100 new workers in it's Missoula call center. After making the environment so toxic so that people would leave and terminating people to deny unemployment, this is... — read more 

Maybe it's "time" to layoff all of the LA folks. They don't want to work. We never had an issue with our fine Mobility team members in Seattle. Never! They are excellent team players. Good employees and worked with us in Atlanta. They come in early... — read more 

The cable industry's majority share of US broadband subscribers rose again last quarter, as Comcast and Charter gained nearly 500,000 subscribers, combined, while phone companies AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink, and Frontier all lost Internet customers... — read more 

[1] Bad Cash Management - [2] Poor Staffing - Hire 100 people saying you're 'growing' explosively then fire those 100 people within the time span of 6 months. [3] Laughable 2- Level management [4] No degree needed [5] Create 'Offices' - Move HQ to an... — read more 

Does anyone else in indirect feel we are training ourselves out of a job? Deposit waivers going away in September, *AID receiving further enhancements, IMO management moving to being handled by dealer, bill credits handled by dealer, NR is just a... — read more 

There was a lot of activity early this morning at Dallas HQ supposedly between our leadership team and Frontier regarding the sale of California wireline assets. Not sure which areas are being looked at. Will post more if I hear specifics.

IEFS (Internet and Entertainment Field Services) and TFS (Technical Field Services) will see layoffs in the first part of 2017. Based on what I've heard it will effect 1-1.5 employees per 10 for center side-IEFS may see more as a result of combining... — read more 

To start with Cheers is the worst possible company. The working climate is pathetic, have you seen these robots ? Yes I am talking about robots; people here work like mechanical robots without even batting at eyelid fron their computer screens. If... — read more 

More cuts will be announced next month. AT&T Consolidates Massive Account With Omnicom , their Business Affairs \ Development and Content Acquisition units across the company will be reduced, contracting entire segments will be the new normal moving... — read more 

At 4:30 yesterday all received notice of a townhall called by Randall for today at 4:30. What's coming?

Each time the survey rolls around, everyone up to the VP grovels for their people to fill it out. What is the consequence for them of their people not doing the survey? Is this just a face saving thing or is there bonus money tied to it? It almost... — read more 

So what does it mean if a company called Davaco does a survey of a COR location? The lady told us that we are being remodeled however, we were just remodeled a year ago. Does that mean we are turning dealer?

I am part of the Entertainment Group. Yesterday at about 5pm my VP delivered the news that I would need to relocate to Dallas or risk being in a future layoff. My kids school starts here in just a few weeks and I have two and one is in HS. It's rough... — read more 

Anyone heard anything more layoffs in OCTOBER for ATT/DIRECTV or both?

By 2020, one worker in fifty will be 55 or older. Not a welcoming workplace for older workers, in a work environment that does not fosters collaboration and teamwork, while allowing personal flexibility, will help us attract new college workers, and... — read more 

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Why are they hiring if they are letting folks go? In all my years (since ma bell) I have never seen this happen. Complete departments closed yet they hire represenatuves. Will these new folks be losing their jobs in a few months?? I sure hope not. I... — read more 

To those older employees who can't (or don't want to) keep up with current technology please take your golden handshakes, leave the company, and enjoy your well earned retirement. Staying employed with AT&T is only damaging the younger generation of... — read more 

Last night a local recruiter reaches out on LinkedIn. I responded and the recruiter sends me a Cricket job posting for a contract slot with a juicy job title. We talked this morning and the recruiter begs and pleads to submit me for the slot. I tell... — read more 

Just received an email from HR that the officer team is finalizing numbers for a required layoff by the end of this year. This will be a company-wide initiative to reduce redundant positions as well as merge the responsibilities of two positions in... — read more 

It appears AT&T made agreements with DTV to favor some of their employees over legacy AT&T employees even if they have little to no knowledge of AT&T products or processes. I've been seeing in the past few weeks executives on down be given the golden... — read more 

The rumors of a 3/3/1 package are running rampid. That is three years added to service, three to age, and a years pay for those that qualify for the rule of 75. Has anyone heard about a time frame for this offer?

Let the wailing and gnashing of teeth commence.

One that has no idea what we do. The former supervisor was just moved into a Level 3 position because that's basically where he was with AT&T. He's a micro-managing jerk who talks out of both sides of his mouth. Guess that's why he was welcomed by... — read more 

...You're fired!