I was reading this post on X and it seemed rather relevant to the corporate culture of AT&T. https://x.com/Simon_Ingari/status/2013983800103973160?s=20
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Same mentality as you get rewarded more for fixing your own created problems than not creating them in the first place.
15-20 years ago I made some comment that put me on the black list. Verizon was kicking out tail left and right. I said why don't executives and their families try Verizon for six months. We should be doing what they are doing. This was at a time when Glen Laurie called Verizon the evil empire. At that time and based on the feedback I got put the nail in the coffin of I worked for the Id--t Empire and that I wasn't going anywhere. So I did the bare minimum, milked it for all I could and used excess time to research investments. Paid off and had far greater returns than becoming some drone in a director or avp role.
@OP
“Conform, don’t challenge “- this is what I was told by a VP.
It all stems from the CEO making bad decisions and bad policy.