https://www.rcrwireless.com/20250814/business/att-ceo-memo Kagan: Thoughts on AT&T CEO memo on loyalty between workers and company Anyone read this B.S. Article from RCR wireless Jeff... He forgot to mention that AT&T pays it's workers peanuts... — read more
The executive suite is upset that Stankey's email was leaked to the press.
What did they expect, especially since it has been almost a year since the first story about AT&T forcing employees back into the office 5x a week.
El segundo
Anyone have the inside scoop of what will happen with El Seg now that the DirecTV sale is finalized ?
Bad Behavior thrives in Darkness:
How do we fight back as Employees? By Exposing AT&T at every opportunity. Document Everything: unattainable Sales goals? A culture of Falsifying metrics to make weekly, monthly, quarterly numbers? Fearmongering? Scare tactics? Threats, Intimidation... — read more
Frontier/Verizon Internet
Just implemented a nationwide price increase. Any opportunity for us to get some of their customers.
Insider Page "Our employee survey results are in" ...
... however, the post only regurgitates the "Stanky Ultimatum" and gives zero data/results/etc. Also, no comments allowed!!! This company has zero leadership and is run by a bunch of crybabies who can't take it when criticized, even though they asked... — read more
Post Employee Survey Brainwashing
Why do they think they can gaslight us and ignore the survey results… again. This is insanity. We’re being treated like prisoners under a dictatorship. For all the hard work we do for these bozos this is how we’re repaid?
Is in office 5 days a week mandatory?
I see a couple jobs in Atlanta/Alpharetta I’m interested in, however the rec stipulated 5 days in office. Is that a hard rule, or is that dependent on the organization/leadership? Thanks
AT&T cares more about butts in seats than people's lives
This place would rather see you chained to your desk than actually happy. Doesn't matter if you're ki-ling it. If they don't physically see you, it's like the work never happened. Meanwhile, everyone's burning out and management just keeps whistling... — read more
Another week, another late presence report . . .
Notification of the inaccurate presence report to follow when the updated presence report is released.
HUB or closing
OK, so I’ve been with AT&T for 14 years. right now, The building that we are in has been completely redone, new floors some new bathroom equipment, etc. we’re all wondering are we going to be a hub or are they going to close us? I’m in Florida. Does... — read more
Theft of American Jobs By India Is Coming To An End:
Theft of American Jobs By India Is Coming To An End: "Trump Unveils Multiple Policies to Stop India from Taking U.S. Tech Jobs and Suppressing Wages" India has been taking U.S. tech jobs through job relocation, telework, and special visas that... — read more
AT&T Settlemnet announced
Per USA Today:AT&T $177 million settlement: You could receive up to $7,500 from Data Breach
Upcoming Labor Contract
In a few months the collective bargaining will begin for for Leg T/CWA. It will be interesting to see what happens. While it seems best if both sides could logically knock out a win/win deal earlt and get it so everyone can focus on doing great work... — read more
What is the goal with the reorgs?
The way they’ve divided up some of these teams doesn’t seem to make much sense.
???
As I recall the survey results from two years ago were kept from us. Now they want to discuss why the results are worse than the 2023 results we never got to see?? How do we know they are worse than? We are just supposed to blindly believe a... — read more
Legg-Starve the legacy infrastructure
https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/att-cto-touts-millions-of-5g-sa-connections/
ATT bad neighbor
AT&T We Can't Sleep An open letter to Mr. John Stankey and the leadership of AT&T Contact: attwecantsleep@gmail.com March, 2021 To Mr. John Stankey, CEO AT&T AT&T Willow Tech Center in Redmond[1], Washington is in violation of the City of Redmond... — read more
I thought FTW was mandatory to keep your job?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that FTW was completed months ago! I pulled the WebPhone directory, in my off time, for each of the SVP teams and it appears that if you're an AVP or above and you don't currently live in the Dallas or Atlanta... — read more
70-80% of AVPs and above are stooges to the system
Zero creative thought or business acumen. Just Yes men and women and halfsies.
Workplace "Optics"
Boss wanted to talk about "workplace issues". Apparently I was in trouble for doing my job( professionally speaking and working with coworkers, techs, managers), although the upper management at the office apparently just can't stand that my job lets... — read more
I would rather bet on the success of TMobile and Verizon
I just don't see this ATT ship going anywhere with its total lack of leadership. I also see employee sabotage simply through malaise and not giving a rip about anything. Maybe the plan is to simply sell the entire thing to Private Equity and let them... — read more
What is market based strategy and how will it support hiring in non-hubs?
I am interested in ATS only in this strategy. How is market based going to work? Are they going to hire more people in non-hubs? How does it affect current virtuals?
Stankey's Performance Review by AI - 2025 Edition
I am having some fun with the very Tool CEO's Rave so much about. I asked AI based on information on the internet how would you rate Stankey's performance from 1-10. Does it sound accurate?... — read more
You could pay me 250k remote and I wouldn’t go back.
Years with AT&T, left in last year for greener pastures. Convos had with ex coworkers, many still in my life and friends. My heart goes out. Brought a couple over. Friends if ya leave ensure you bring some over to new gig if it’s working... — read more
The Stankey Way, $14.4B for $2B
Don't worry we are right sizing the business..... The company wants to exit the market after struggling to take market share from Carlos Slim's Telcel. AT&T entered the market back in 2014 after acquiring Grupo Iusacell SA for $2.5bn, before... — read more
Mandatory Meetings Over Employee Survey
Why are we forced to attend mandatory meeting about the survey? Now all of a sudden they are PRETENDING to care? Oh please, I have a bridge to sell you too. Stankey made it very clear in the email what they are all about. Nothing left to say.
The project is broken
I have confess. I does do the workings of project in undisclose role. We does play the ping pong with codings. We check the codes in and other checks the code out of the git. We are looking the busy all day but now we make on the demo soon. I make... — read more
The Irony of Stankey and “Market Competitive Culture”
He says we’re entering a “more competitive” culture, based on performance and metrics. If this is the case, shouldn’t Stankey be the first one let go? We’d save 30 million a year, and his “performance metrics” have been among the worst of all CEOs... — read more
Pension Withdrawal
I have been here almost 3 months now. When will I be able to take my pension and leave? Do I have to stay a year?
List all the attrition tactics that come to your mind
RTO is definitely the latest gem. But years of steadily dismantling any shred of company culture - that’s the real mastermind move. A sneaky way to make all of us want absolutely nothing to do with T anymore. To get us so fed up that we just... — read more
Corporate Job in Technology
I see a lot of negative feedback about AT&T. I have a decent offer for a job in Dallas HQ in Product/Technology management. 5 days a week in office doesn't bother me, all my roles have been that way. Is it really as bad as everyone makes it out to... — read more
SBC Culture on Steroids
When Cingular was formed and Bellsouth And SBC got together I can remember how obtuse, aggressive, bullying, and aggressive many of the SBC people were. All they could do was see a nail and hammer and just wack and pound away at things. Not much... — read more
Stankey email is another tool in the shed of getting you to leave
Just tactics and games. Not enough people left with RTO, now we get toxic emails from the top. What is next to get natural attribution?
AT&T Mexico for sale asking $2b purchased at $4.3b) ....
So it looks like the long expected sale Mexico T is starting.. https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/att-seeks-over-2-billion-for-mexico-unit-sale--bloomberg-93CH-4177554 In typical T fashing theyry are selling for a 50% loss from what... — read more
Stankey is a Corporate Plantation Master
Yes that will definitely attract young talent. The stink of the stank will linger long after he's gone. Hey we want you in your desk 5 days a week but you don't get an office or a desk to put up a picture, have a coffee mug, or some little chotzky to... — read more
Layoffs, 401k, pension or cash balance
Doing well in my 401k the avg. is approximately 15% over last ten yrs, 9.96% to date this year. The 401k is more than 2.5x of my pension which is a little less than 200k and growing slowly. The majority is in S&P 500, retirement date fund and... — read more
Sales Force
So OPUS worked perfectly fine and we purchase salesforce, cause some lemming in corporate is getting kickbacks for buying into it. Now when we " try " and work with a customer, we are forced to use salesforce, which takes 2-3 minutes to load on our... — read more
He was pleased by the rate of participation
Couldn’t be more proud of my coworkers who gave honest opinions on the employee satisfaction survey. You clearly hit a nerve and triggered a historic response. He fell for it and went viral. Next step. We no longer participate in your surveys.