Anyone heard anything on the lumen fiber buyout? Will we being doing the installs.

Hi y’all. An 8 minute, highly edited clip from the disastrous one hour webcast is now available. No mention of Yugo. No mention of Applesauce. No jokes from HR lady. No mention of work-life balance. Highly edited to look more professional

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/at-t-tracked-employee-attendance-to-find-freeloaders-now-it-admits-the-system-is-driving-workers-to-the-brink-of-frustration/ar-AA1MpqJJ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=68c417d6a14d47a3b21a021170d7ea46&ei=15 or... — read more 

From Business Insider article; “ AT&T tracked employee attendance to find 'freeloaders.' Now, it admits the system is driving workers to the 'brink of frustration.’ “ Relief may be on the way for all that are beyond frustrated.

Stankey stands to make a lot of money from this deal from his stock holdings. However, employees were forced to sell their stocks that they received via 401 match at a huge loss. How is this legal?

4th quarter Vsipp and 1st Quarter 2026. Also im hearing September 15th could be ugly. Just spreading info I heard. Might be nothing.

I know its not a layoff post but I'm genuinely curious anyone here work in the Charlotte area for a corporate function? Looking at risk roles and understand the 5 day office thing but also hear no seats and new hub is coming in 2026. Is Charlotte... — read more 

So I have a couple of senior folks who work for Wall St. firms , and they have given me a heads up that Q1 is going to be a major hemorrhaging of white collar jobs,sectors mostly affected are big pharma, telecomm ( including at T. , VZ and CISCO) ... — read more 

‘We will do better.’ Microsoft CEO Nadella admits company has to rebuild trust with employees https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/microsoft-ceo-nadella-says-company-must-rebuild-trust-with-employees.html

Imagine coming to this site and whining that people are “complaining.” This is literally a place for layoff news, venting, and sharing grievances. What did you expect to find here, a cheerleading squad? If the culture was positive, if leadership... — read more 

The company and John Stankey have made it clear that the direction is for employees to be colocated in Dallas. It doesn’t make sense for us to operate and keep open hubs or offices across the U.S. for a distributed workforce. Either relocate to... — read more 

Why are they so bad? They don’t know what they are doing, schedule too many useless calls, and don’t know how to actual lead or manage a team.

AT&T wants to be like Amazon, where is the increased salary, bonus, RTU to match?

This should be done long time ago!

This one was woefully incorrect. Thankfully, there were only 4 days to report on because of the Labor Day holiday. I lost more than 4 hours over the 4 days due to the incorrect report.

Well, the RTO purge has pretty much run its course. Anyone who couldn’t relocate, wouldn’t commute, or flat out refused to play the badge swipe game is already gone or has one foot out the door. That was the whole point, force attrition without... — read more 

I am loving AT&T’s new company culture under John Stankey. I roll into the Dallas office after 10AM, and collect my badge swipe. Stay until a little bit after lunch. Get to grab something tasty for lunch. As for actual work? I do as little of it... — read more 

Any news for Sept 15th buyout offer for business service representative in d9 Fresno CA?

What are the justifications for entire orgs like Torretta to be set to NVW? Wtf? Someone’s gotta bring this injustice to light man! This ain’t fair! We all know none of us actually need to be in an office, why did they get an exception?

So what do you do? Move to Dallas or Not ? Its really that simple

Are you still required to coach employees on the presence report by HR? Or things have slowly fallen off the radar?

Any T out there regarding layoff announcement Sept 15th ?

Meeting between Dallas and Atlanta regarding aggressive cost cutting showed Minnesota on top of list.

Oracle’s stock just exploded 40% in one day, the biggest move by any company this size in over 30 years. Why? Because they’re winning massive AI and cloud deals, building the future, and actually innovating. They’re projecting half a trillion in... — read more 

I wonder if this is a brainstorming session to figure out how to meet the expense targets for 2025 & 2026.

John, we’re begging you, end this RTO madness. It’s crushing the very people who keep this company running. The commutes are ki-ling us, the hubs are overcrowded, and nothing has improved. We’re still sitting on Teams calls all day, only now we’re... — read more 

CEO WORD V0MITS ABOUT RTO (AT&T) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq10jrnO2SM&t=6s This guy's stuff has been posted before, but the comments are pretty funny. Keep signal-boosting this kind of bad press.

I guess they think it will fix Stankey’s memo.

I mean if you truly want to be on safe turf just relocate and follow all the rules to the T. Actual work? - do as little of it as possible until you reach the exit sign.

My goodness our leaders are awful!

I haven’t seen the results or heard anything from my leadership. It’s almost as if it never happened. Anyone else? Not sure how they expect anyone to Ever participate again after these last two have been totally ignored… Insane.

We need to finish this headcount reduction that Stankey wants quicker rather than dragging it out. It’s like peeling a bandage quickly vs peeling it slowly and feeling the pain of arm hairs getting pulled. Once the headcount is where it needs to be... — read more 

https://cordcuttersnews.com/the-end-of-dsl-traditional-home-phone-att-gains-fcc-approval-shut-down-its-copper-dsl-phone-service-in-more-areas/

You can perform your job remotely to the same extent you'd perform it at the office You're spending $30 on parking and walking miles, paying tolls, etc to sit on teams and do the same thing you'd do at home. I still haven't, to this day, met in... — read more 

Thank you, Davy, for counting our clicks, Seventy-three percent fell for your tricks. You say “engaged,” we say “tired,” Of culture shifts that got us fired. “Not family, not loyalty, forget the past, Market-based merit will save us at... — read more 

https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/tmobile-att-verizon-fall-after-echostar-announces-spectrum-sale-to-spacex-93CH-4228969

SOOOOO sick of explaining this so please try to follow along … it isn’t the commitment to sit at a desk 5x8 (even though the guarantee of an actual desk would be a reasonable expectation in that case) it is the forced moves and policing under the... — read more 

Wow, everyone, stop the presses! Apparently the entire future of AT&T hinges on whether you can beep your badge at a turnstile. Forget customers, forget results, forget innovation… it’s all about that sweet, sweet swipe. Truly world-class leadership... — read more 

I am sick of all the whining about RTO. Either return to the office 5 days a week and do the work or leave as Stankey has stated. They are paying good salary and benefits for in-person collaboration. Working from home is a privilege, and is dictated... — read more 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq10jrnO2SM This is great commentary on the CEO of T