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 

I'm completing my first week at a new job after getting surplussed and my new job is such a breath of fresh air. It's crazy how bad AT they don't yell back, "You should know that already! It's not my fault you weren't trained in that!" Also, no... — read more 

As surplus notifications continue, ATT just invented an absurd $15 charge activation fee for new consumers, soon increase its activation fees for customers on regular postpaid contracts and those new to the carrier's Next upgrade plan. Droid Life... — read more 

My experience is that who gets surplused is high up in the chain of command. In the past when I was surplused even my level 3 manager was surplused. I specifically asked him how the decisions were made as to who goes and who stays. He said he didn't... — read more 

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 

Encouraging frequent supervisor-team dialogues may sound obvious, yet in reality, it's all too rare at AT&T, Most senior executive teams preach a gospel of engagement, but they abdicate responsibility to corporate staff, often HR. That delegation is... — read more 

I was a programmer at AT&T. My supervisor did not understand a word about programming and only valued data entry. Rather than employing scripts to find discrepancies in database tables, my supervisor would make people print out error logs and go... — read more 

Well, that didn't take long. A few days out of AT&T and I already found a programming job paying more than twice what I was making at AT&T. The 2020 stuff was such garbage. They talked endlessly about wanting programmers who could learn on the fly... — read more 

Will the stock prices dropping accelerate the layoffs?

Joshua Drake, the security researcher who discovered the flaw, told Forbes that the only thing a hacker would need to send out exploitations would be phone numbers. Attackers could then send messages to those numbers with bad code packaged in that... — read more 

Anyone else going through this? My last day is Friday. My boss has been giving me more and more work for the past few weeks and assigning me all sorts of tasks and wants daily e-mail summaries of what's been done. I'm not in a working mood because I... — read more 

I am a senior manager in mid-markets, and for some of the current cut employees, I do offer some input; The question is if someone with low tenure should stay at all, when layoffs will continue in the next 4 years. is very hard to keep up with... — read more 

Today in the news, AT&T installed surveillance equipment in at least 17 of its Internet hubs on American soil, the Times reported, far more than similarly sized competitor Verizon. AT&T engineers were the first to try out new surveillance... — read more 

There hasn't been a strike for years. Unions have lost their power, especially in "right to work" states like Florida. How can a union negotiate better job security when the company is hiring more and more contractors that they can terminate at any... — read more 

At AT&T Right now there is an epidemic of interest in revamping employee performance management processes, and it’s overdue. I just had several of my best friends (generally in senior positions) tell me how frustrated they are at their current jobs... — read more 

I am a college educated L1 supervising manager and have been with AT&T for about five years. I came in off the street at the time with my MBA and have been working in a growing department however my span of control did not meet the new requirements... — read more