DirecTV assets in Venezuela now valued at about $75 million, more layoffs to offset the great Randall achievement!! AT&T Inc., about three months after completing its $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV, is erasing $1.1 billion from its books -- or... — read more 

You want it to stop? Be a more discerning consumer.

Contractors Getting Hired If you get a contractor you can be assured that they know much more and were only hired due to their technical skills. We applied to the job via something like Craigslist, passed a phone interview and went into a Staffing... — read more 

Layoffs coming. in all areas after Indian and Chinese governments assured AT&T and 160 other companies India and china will be better places to do business after Prime Ministers visits to US 3 weeks ago.

https://www.thelayoff.com/verizon-communications

The IP Transition 'Con': Shut Off the Copper-- Force-March to Wireless. AT&T's plan is really simple - Using something called the "IP Transition", tell everyone that there's new technology that is the future, if only regulations and consumer... — read more 

Buyers under John Donovan and Susan Johnson in the ATO organization got their surplus notices. Purchasing is being outsourced to Indian contractors working for NB Ventures Inc.

ATT Job outsourcing has become so commoditized today, US workers supposed to be the 'future of the company', but now even that is being taken away by greed and avarice by those who have no foresight into the future beyond their next quarter profits.

ATT continues to reduce their workforce by 2020, which includes 40% of their employees will be laid-off. And most of their positions will be sent to off-shore. AT&T just had a major lay-off 7/31/15 and 5,000 employee nationwide were notified that... — read more 

Furthermore, if New Co consolidates and cuts its workforce without making the necessary improvements and changes to its work practices processes and technologies, then a smaller department is being asked to do the same amount of work. Unfortunately... — read more 

http://keepamericaatwork.com/give-me-a-map-for-2014-showing-all-h-1b-applications-in-america/

http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa91679.000/hfa91679_0.htm#107

There is a current surplus condition in the Chicago area. It is comprised of IBEW bargained for ATT employees. 100+ affected. Any other stealth surpluses out there?

I was a programmer and lead engineer on national projects. It was Hell. AT&T pays very little and if you're brought in through a different company, they will take all the perks away and keep you at the low salary. I would work 7 days a week every... — read more 

When they tell you to share your knowledge, you are giving your job away, ATT had an employee of a giant outsourcing company in India, studied and recorded my IT project manager's team, every keystroke, taking screen shots of her computer and... — read more 

On August 19, 2015 an email was sent to ALL CWA wireline employees and their managers in the Southwest Region. The letter was asking for employees to take a voluntary severance package. The same thing happened to AT&T Southeast earlier this year. If... — read more 

AT&T is going to sell off Florida wireline in 1st quarter 2016. Then Georgia and Tennessee 2nd quarter 2016. This is from internal documents acquired by CWA 3204. Frontier Communications is the buyer.

even though I worked from home, I was smarter than the managers. so I quit. They were FOOLS

Good luck to the The White Plains office affected 42 workers, and will be effective in November

Why So Much Attention To Wire Techs Those of us who have always worked under the core contract cannot imagine how badly the Wire Tech is treated. Walmart treats its people better, and the pay is not very different. We could never have imagined that... — read more 

A number of employees have been notified of possible surpluses coming mid October.

A missing layoff survival guide: Learn from us experts that have already gone through what AT&T putting you guys through as it gradually lays off each of you domestic counterparts with cheaper offshore workers. 1. Don't write any code comments, or if... — read more 

I know Some former ATT employees described their experience training foreigners to do their work so it could be moved to India. Others were re- hired on contract basis to teach, their replacements how to do the job. They would speak only on the... — read more 

I do not understand HR or the hiring managers not pulling from the surplus pool. Here you have individuals screened, experienced, with a lot of training dollars embedded in them and you disregard them and hire someone without any background... — read more 

13 AT&T workers were suspended without pay for reporting workplace injuries, which has prompted a lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Labor. The department filed the lawsuit against the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, which operates as AT&T, on behalf of... — read more 

I am not happy at all with AT&T. My cost of benefits went from $62 to $455 a month...was told it would stay at the lower cost for a year, so they lied. I have not been able to find a new job. I have applied for over 75 jobs and nothing yet. My... — read more 

Bad database softwear and no raises. You have to work with idiots

I was with the company for 7 years. I was in ATO. I'm not willing to identify more than that. But finding a new job paying twice as much wasn't very hard. And I get to work for smart people who actually understand technology! We had a long... — read more 

I asked a peer of mine to be a reference which he agreed to. When the reference company for the new job called my so called peer from AT&T said something about corporate policy in reference Checks and wouldn't do it. Fortunately I found other... — read more 

I think we all know AT&T is surplusing older employees. I was talking to a friend who is pretty far up at a large corporation over the weekend and she was saying health care costs for older employees are huge and her company is getting rid of older... — read more 

Horrible employees and managers in my opinions. complete clowns. idiots.

I understand the severance payout varies based on service time (13 years and above, 50% of years salary), but what about existing pension money? Does that sit there and wait for you to move to IRA, or do they cash out lump sum and basically provide... — read more 

Who thinks it was an Ex employee that cut the fiber that caused the west coast outage?

Sprint has found a novel way to lure away customers from a rival: give its service away for free. The nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier said on Thursday that as a way to "celebrate" rival AT&T's acquisition of DirecTV, it would offer any of... — read more 

The average center Area Manager is set to lose between 2-4 Load Balance Managers by June 2016. The Company is working aggressively to implement proactive applications to further automate the job.

So who is hearing when the next round will be announced? If I had to guess last day on payroll, November 6.

What are your thoughts?

It has become very apparent that the workforce 2020 program and others are all designed to condition us and 'brainwash' us into accepting losing your current job. The constant bombardment over changing your skills and making the pivot, obviously are... — read more 

“Call it an awakening,” said Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of AT&T Mobility, “but I felt it was time to really stir things up and put the customer first for a change. And by “customer” I’m referring to our former customers who switch to... — read more 

The management paradox at AT&T is that many managers hate their jobs, but they are considerably more miserable doing nothing, yet that exactly what they do,... nothing. Your arguments is compelling, congratulations!!, Success always follow your path... — read more