Has anyone heard that there will be a management surplus notification on September 18th?

AI PROMPT: Please create layoff plan for ATT to make it profitable. Trim out unnecessary management levels and identify areas of C-level management that needs replacement to boost employee morale.

I know some people whose husbands and wives have to quit their existing jobs and follow the other to Dallas to rebuild their dreams, only to know the other person has lost their job in 1 year of move. I understand families have emergency fund for... — read more 

There are people that install, provision and maintain the telephone network and then there are 7 levels of people that measure the pace of that work being done and talk about it on conference calls all day. Each level getting a bigger bonus than the... — read more 

I know no one cares, but this utter nonsense of hub consolidation, has costed my family $180K per year with my husband letting go of his job to follow me to hub, as he has similar colocation issues too from his company if he moves out of state... — read more 

Right now I am so drained that even when I am off, I have nothing left for myself. Yes, my pay and benefits are better but at what cost? Not to mention, now I have a higher chance of being laid off instead of it being the other way around. This place... — read more 

I normally like to keep up with the latest phone because I like technology but hesitant to upgrade because I don’t want to be locked into a contract with an employer who wants me to quit or wants to fire me. My plan is already ridiculously priced... — read more 

How do I find out if I’m eligible for a pension boost at MR75? Where do I look?? Legacy Cingular here.

Got 36 hours in before disconnecting today . . . Only 4 more hours before the weekend. I will be home for lunch tomorrow.

I'm at three now. Each one felt like the end of the world at the time. And each one taught me the same lesson, that you're just a number to them. No matter how hard you work, no matter how much you give, they'll cut you if it fits the spreadsheet... — read more 

What exactly are the benefits of retiring if I don’t plan on drawing from my 401(k) and I don’t need healthcare through the company? Am I basically just giving up my employee discount? I’m trying to understand what other perks I’d actually be... — read more 

Thank god I retired a couple of years ago. I milked the company for everything I could. The benefits have now been gutted by a greedy CEO. Now you are processed by AI when trying to do your job. Stankey looks at employees like a data stream. He sees... — read more 

What are the details of the packages being offered to techs in southeast? What are the #’s the company is trying to get?

We know another round is coming. The only question is when.

Still exists?

We just had the marketing town hall where Kellyn blathered on and on about how great everything was, how much everyone told her they loved the latest market based BS and how we should do those surveys ASAP. Then she “interviewed” the new VP of... — read more 

The lack of participation is what ki-ls them. You could tell them everything is wrong and they will tell you- “We heard you! You want less chairs because it promotes more physical fitness at work” But when there is a lack of participation, that’s a... — read more 

I show up at the office. I sit there for 8 hours to the exact minute. All I do is hang out, talk to people around the office, scroll on my phone and watch Netflix on my iPad. The best part is with this new 8&skate culture there’s really no pressure... — read more 

Who n the he@@ made this cr-p! Can’t take cash payments, can’t do reciepts, pulls wrong customers info and more! Man oh man and u do all this before iphone launch! Smart!!!

Already being pushed to do it so let’s do a survey of our own. Will you do it? Yes/no If yes, will you give happy talk BS to placate them, tear them a new one or something in between?

AT&T’s future headquarters is being built in Plano, and the message is obvious because companies do not move leadership, investment, talent, and major decision making into one place just to preserve the importance of everyone who chooses to remain... — read more 

Another study just came out showing exactly what AT&T leadership apparently refuses to acknowledge - - Fully remote employees reported the highest well-being. Fully onsite employees reported the lowest. 8,000 employees studied and the study found no... — read more 

Fill me in!! Thanks.

H1b's need to be slashed first, than contractors, than if still left over citizens.

Within the next two weeks. It will be a blood bath!

Cooked

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/business-has-lost-the-trust-of-a-generation-i-hear-about-it-at-my-dinner-table/ar-AA2bgHZp?ocid=BingNewsSerp Pretty straightforward chronicle of how Stankey and his fellow RTOstans are creating the very Gen Z... — read more 

I will deduct it from my 40 hours on Friday. By lunch on Friday I will have my 40 hours and head home. Gotta love the culture Stank created!

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/h-1b-holders-spouses-would-lose-work-permits-in-new-trump-plan

Whatever sh-t vendor product they are using to do their screen recording surveillance work, su-ks hard, my Windows laptop last few weeks, has had major pauses and sluggishness when using web forms (any page) , button clicks , or typing, it just ... — read more 

It should come as no surprise but at the employee group conference Stankey admitted to using AI to query things like how many power points had a version of x or more, how many meetings include x or more people. This is what he's admitting to. Just a... — read more 

AT&T sent me an email that I will be receiving a $0.33 credit for multi-hour internet outage earlier this week. AT&T, in the kindness of their heart, rounded up to make sure I was fully compensated for the outage. And to make it even better, I only... — read more 

Nothing like replacing an ordering system that worked fine - opus, and then replacing it with salesforce. But hey, it's ok, everyone is using salesforce now, as so should we. Watching the 17 screens of salesforce flash, redirect, load, bouncing ba--s... — read more 

Tim Cook steps down as Apple, $AAPL, CEO on August 31 after taking the company from ~$350 billion to over $4 trillion. John Stankey steps down as AT&T, $T, CEO after taking the company from ~$215 billion to ~$178 billion. Apple increased its market... — read more 

Get ready, managers sending email asking to see who is interested In a VSP, which in other words if no one takes it will have a surplus! Before any of you clowns start saying that it isn't true, I am in C and E district 6 and this happened today... — read more 

My so call manager spend so much time on presents report. Why can't we see their presents report? How about Stankey, pretty sure he works from home at least some of the time.