Looks to be some voodoo going on here. The only reason it looks like it is growing is because it spent most of their cash on acquiring useless businesses like directtv... — read more 

Per this website, http://www.dailyjobcuts.com/. Customer service center near Houston. Possibly 500 layoffs.

Just heard that Randy Rigs organization is being hit. People are being asked to take early retirements and transfer to Accenture. Groups that thought are safe are not safe at all.

Google's car crashed, a new redesigned its algorithms to account for this, but the incident raises the key question, Driverless car technologies come with a warning that they are not insulated from software or design faults. But manufacturers and... — read more 

AT&T Inc. has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit for allegedly failing to accommodate a visually impaired employee in Puerto Rico, the agency said. Miguel Meléndez began working as a switch... — read more 

Gary (formerly SVP-Global Foundational Services) has been named SVP-Service Delivery & Assurance. This is a different title than Randy had as SVP-U-verse Field Operations.

Will those of us eliminated from staff across 2015 receive our bonus? Some worked the 1-2-3rd quarters of 2015 and should receive a partial payout. Correct? Telecom has bottomed out and on the street pressing onto a year now.

No matter how smart you are, no matter how big you have grown your business, every business owner needs to have the occasional objective, third-party review of their business. AT&T executives were incredibly smart to have built and manage a... — read more 

Has officially exited the company. Any inside details?

I have a friend that is rejoicing about the big increase she received this year and thinks AT&T is the best most caring company to work for. I received a 10% increase and then was surplussed a few months later. Just sayin....

OCATS is next to be hit but so far who is being kept quiet. latest is the field support groups under 2 directors will be moved to wireline in states being considered for sale to Frontier. Pressure on the AM's to push training and other... — read more 

Was this really worth $48B not counting indirect cost which altogether will amount to $100B. ATT is trying to salvage their Directv purchase by creating this service to appeal to cord cutters... — read more 

Does anyone have any info on centers in the S.E. closing? I am very concerned about the center I work at as they are improving and repairing so much plus the calls have really declined.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/att-communications-workers-of-america-reach-tentative-agreement-in-mobility-southwest-contract-negotiations-300227419.html

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/att-gave-62k-to-lawmakers-months-before-vote-to-limit-muni-broadband/

Very ambitious plan, but knowing AT&T they will waste billions in order to achieve it. http://markets.financialcontent.com/stocks/news/read?GUID=31617567

3 retail channels are company owned retail - authorized retail - and national retail. Bunch of National retail management jobs mostly already merged into authorized retail channel. Remaining National Retail will turn to third party management... — read more 

This is an old post but is right on the money. Great read http://michaelrhearants.blogspot.com/2015/09/at-ceo-randall-stephenson-should.html

I've been hearing suggestions that Randall will be departing the company shortly before 2020 or at the conclusion of the "2020" plan and Ralph will be the new CEO?

One more manager gone from Orlando this week.

Anything being heard from Texas? I'm craft and I see constant emails about work being very slow and to catch up on company training

Looks like the government does not do anything in regard to companies who use H1B to replace US workers. Is DOJ also on various companies payroll... — read more 

So one of the surplus groups, as of December 15, 2016, found out on February 18th, drug testing would begin the next day, Friday and must be completed by Monday. May be deliberate or just another example of the chaos and mismanagement we experience... — read more 

I am not sure how AT&T even got on this list. Who did AT&T pay off? http://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/16/02/n6421059/at-t-ranks-1-in-telecom-globally-in-fortunes-most-admired-companies-for

http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2016/01/att-is-read-to-unveil-its-own-video-service-that-could-top-netflix.html/

Looks like we are following the same path as Verizon in regard to cloud. Is AT&T ready to be a prime contender against Amazon and Microsoft? Is this going to be another disaster similar to what happened to Verizon?... — read more 

I already have one and was surplused. I can program in any language you can name and fought with my manager constantly. She kept insisting we were a data entry team and would kill any automation program anyone would make. Anything the C-level execs... — read more 

Where was CWA when AT&T wanted to buy DTV? Acting as a mouthpiece for Stephenson from this statement in May 2015 "The Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, represents more than 700,000 men and women around the US, Canada and Puerto Rico. CWA’s... — read more 

AT&T wants to squeeze $2.5 billion in "annual cost savings" from DTV purchase. Has $22 billion in capital spending - estimated $10.6 billion cost for new airwaves - about $6.5 billion in debt maturities - $11billion dividend this year alone....all... — read more 

We were all told a few days ago in a mass email that ALL Directv/Asurion at home call center/tech workers will be let go by the end of this year starting in July - December. I work for them for many years and am not happy. ATT you stink

http://deadline.com/2016/02/is-att-preparing-to-put-its-u-verse-video-service-into-reverse-1201703310/

Management levels ones thru threes from all Texas regions met last week. Don't know why. One manager didn't go because they are close to retirement Sign of big changes coming soon?

Something big is up. Anyone know what?

In short, ATT is cutting several hundreds of employees from Directv positions - most of them american. They are citing possible security risks because we're a work at home division... but it was ATT's FOREIGN CALL CENTERS that caused them to be fined... — read more 

Smart and capable people are in huge demand, at Google the term “talent shortage” does not exist, this is one of the new AT&T initiatives to cleanup payroll, Life is too short to work for cretins and reptiles. If You are qualified and responsible... — read more