Tens of thousands of AT&T customers lost service, mobility, Uverse and other services, in south Texas. Over twenty company towers went down. AT&T's explanation: Someone cut a power cable. Another example of the company cutting costs and staff to... — read more
Buy What You Can't Fix
Consumers are slowly waking up to what AT&T is all about. This article is just one piece of what the company does every day. Can't fix it? Buy your way out!... — read more
AT&T Reaps What It Sows
So this article comes from the heartland of AT field techs are "encouraged" to "refer customers"; support getting outsourced to companies that don't care; promises made that aren't honored. But gotta make the almighty dollar... — read more
Construction
Tell me about the AT&T construction offices. (Interested in knowing what they do)
AT&T Wireline Next?
May be old news but FCC approved Frontier purchasing Verizon's wireline business in California, Florida and Texas. Since AT&T has expressed their desire to get rid of the wireline business, wondering if we are next?
"Calling Out AT&T Managment"
http://seekingalpha.com/article/3840366-calling-and-t-management
The King Has No Clothes
This one investment strategist provides an analysis, although a personal one, of AT revenues fell short of analyst's expectations; 2.5Bn predicted by the company for DirectTV acquisition in 2015 now modified to 1.5Bn instead; the company still has to... — read more
AT&T
reshuffled top management six months after acquiring satellite TV broadcaster DirecTV, putting John Stankey in charge of consumer wireless for the first time, as well as broadband and video businesses, while Mexico reporting only 7% market share... — read more
Somethin' up in S. FL/Broward?
Did anyone hear anything happening in S. FL/Broward area? man, we've 3 kids and being the outside tech, we are the last to know.
Somethin' up in S. FL/Broward?
Did anyone hear anything happening in S. FL/Broward area? we've 3 kids and being the outside tech, we are the last to know.
AT&T sells your employment data to an outside agency called TheWorkNumber.com for employment verification.
Now that you are layed off after 20-30 years with AT&T, any potential new employer must pay to verify your employment through this scam company Theworknumber.com. I lost a job opportunity because my employment was too difficult to verify with AT&T — read more
Gut Feeling?
Talking to various people out in the field reveals a common consensus that something is coming down the pipe in March. Call it a gut feeling or premonition....told everyday that work is slow......put in for some training and told that it will take... — read more
URGENT- CALLING US citizens who were replaced by H1b recently. Please look at this.
If you are a citizen and have been replaced by a H1b in the last 6 months. This is your opportunity to stop these practices for ever. Please follow the instructions in there. There are people willing to fight for your rights. But the displaced worker... — read more
Intern's view
What is like working for AT&t?,- Lack of communication at all levels, Having nearly all your input discounted because it's not how things are done there... Then sitting in on meetings where your supervisor regurgitates almost verbatim the input you... — read more
Too Much Debt?
So even Moody's is worried about AT&Ts debt outlook. Stephenson's response is to get debt back to more comfortable levels. Sounds like more doublespeak for more layoffs and outsourcing... — read more
Ubuntu
AT&T did it ... Again, An odd addition to the conclusion, AT&T will be using Ubuntu Canonical recently made a deal with Oracle to provide enterprises with greater flexibility in deploying large-scale workloads with the help of Oracle Cloud. Certified... — read more
AT&T to drop legacy services (pardon if this is a repost)
So AT&T plans to layoff more people with the justification that their services are irrelevant. So when does the management leadership become irrevelant? "AT&T intends to drop its operator assisted services like collect calling, person-to-person... — read more
AT&T Should Become #1 Cell Phone Provider
AT&T should take steps to become the #1 cell phone provider by building more cell towers across the country. Provide excellent customer service. Become bigger and better than Verizon!!!! This alone will bring your sales up tremendously!!!! AT&T, you... — read more
More money out the window
So Yahoo is "restructuring" (meaning layoffs). Result...other companies looking at buying it (AT&T being one of them). So if true where does AT&T plan on getting the extra cash?... — read more
Previous Announced layoffs
Sprint – Reducing expenses by $2.5 billion that should not impact its network; cutting severance to one week for each year served. Those with an elephant-like memory will recall that Sprint announced a $1 billion cost-reduction plan back in 2003... — read more
Something up repost
So this article describes AT&T 4th quarter and paragraph 4 stood in that AT&T's accounting and financial reporting is getting harder to follow. Randall Stephenson has been on many media outlets stressing how it will eventually come together. Shell... — read more
Something Up?
Excerpt from article: "4. Complex Accounting AT wireless service revenue pressure should be met by strength in DirecTV and international.” Full article at:... — read more
I was laid off in September 2015 from AT&T
. I was offered a drop and compete to move to NJ and work in the GNOC which i declined. I still got 6 interviews for AT&T jobs. I also had one interview for an outside company and got that job. I never heard back from AT&T on any of the six... — read more
Former employee discrimination
I was recently surplussed and have applied for numerous jobs that mirror my most recent position held at AT&T. I have received a rejection email on every single one stating they went with a more qualified applicant. How can that be when I have over... — read more
Something Fishy?
This paragraph stood out in this article in that "AT wireless service revenue pressure should be met by strength in DirecTV and international.” Read it at:... — read more
Something Fishy?
The paragraph in this article stood out in that "AT wireless service revenue pressure should be met by strength in DirecTV and international.” Read it at:... — read more
Lawsuit against AT&T. More discrimination in retail stores.
http://www.law360.com/articles/739057/at-t-hit-with-discrimination-suit-by-muslim-ex-employee
AT&T fought racial discrimination case...and lost
http://www.theskanner.com/news/northwest/22251-former-at-t-employee-wins-discrimination-suit
AT&T's motto....Deny....Deny....Deny
http://www.click2houston.com/news/caught-on-video-att-tech-damages-fence
The article calls it like it is......
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160121/15573733400/att-ceo-thinks-youre-forgetful-idiot-hilariously-gives-apple-encryption-advice.shtml
AT&T revenue below forecasts, shares fall
So AT&T is banking on the DTV acquisition to bring up it's price.... http://www.reuters.com/article/us-at-t-results-idUSKCN0V42NS Previously warned that some revenue estimates would be off... — read more
More Coming from AT&T?
http://www.zdnet.com/article/att-q4-2015-earnings-revenue-internet-things-cloud-networking/
T-Mobile taunts AT&T regarding their earnings report
Very funny and accurate http://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2016/01/26/t-mobile-taunts-att-with-an-earnings-call-drinking-game/#7afbc21b28de
Class action suit similar to Disney's possible for telecommunication industry - calling all the IT workers replaced by H1b workers.
http://protectusworkers.org/ Please go to the above link, watch the video. read the blog, lot of useful information. There is some information about AT & T also in the blog. Contact with all of us at the address specified there. No need to be afraid... — read more
AT&T posted a 2.2 Billion gain against pension
Looks like laying of people who are about to retire has a positive effect. http://www.wsj.com/articles/at-t-to-book-2-2-billion-gain-from-revised-pension-accounting-1453503816
Why would they announce layoffs?
AT&T management is suffering from cable woes of another kind: Consumers are giving up landline telephones faster than you can say "iPhone.", and the recent forced reaction to T-mobile data offering, AT&T will have to offset such continuous revenues... — read more
Legal Action ?
If you were let go legal action will be an uphill battle. Why? You were offered the option to "stay" and find work within a 50mi radius of your current office You waived your right to sue....in accepting your severance package. The language states if... — read more
AT&T Quietly reducing the workforce again
Two issues: how AT&T reduced the workforce without public layoff notices and the implication for other Former and current employees tell the same story about how AT&T avoided having to issue layoff notices as required by the 1988 WARN Act. From one... — read more
AT&T Layoffs News Coverage
I don't know why the media didn't report on the 1/21/16 layoffs within TP&E. How does AT&T keep it out of the press?? That's how I stumbled on this site, I was looking to see if the layoffs made the news. I thought the 22% cut of level 1 and 2's not... — read more