Most of VPs, AVPs and Directors are su-king all the dollars away from the company. All they do is send and forward emails. Utter waste (Co-pilot is doing a better job) Fire them now and save the real workers before there is no one left in the company.
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Bring it on!
@a4 If you want to be objective, isolate ATT just to NA or Include Deutsche Telekom into the calculation. ATT is operating globally, so it needs more employees
There will be very few layoffs. They are planning to just not backfill as the aging workforce leaves.
“ I have tried copilot a few times. It adds inefficiencies. Take that 30 second email into a five minute production“
1000% . Sure you can use it to transcribe and summarize meetings. And it works “ok”. You still need to review and carefully edit all of it.
Thing is, you need to jump on board so your Directors on up can crow about how “hip” their teams are embracing the AI, and everyone is essentially being rated in their adoption of it,
We become fixated on this stuff instead of important actual deliverables.
We focus on “automating” things that take 5 seconds to do. And the “automation” ends up causing problems that take a whole lot more than the 5 seconds to fix. And then the people that did the “automation” are lauded on their reviews for their incredible accomplishments.
Make it make sense.
I have tried copilot a few times. It adds inefficiencies. Take that 30 second email into a five minute production.
That rumor gets passed around and revived every year- it's never happened like that. Sometimes, and rarely, they will 'reduce layers' but they're just shuffling people around and they're still employed, even at the same levels as before. SS;DD.
Been that way FOREVER!!! My manager Stephen Dillon was a total DOLT...completely USELESSS
Yeah. I heard 200 this year. Not bad.
Massive? What do you men by massive. I hear that for several years in a row now and not much action.
OP, I don't know how to break it to you but we never have "massive layoffs". Always talk a big game and underdeliver on the #'s. We start with 7K and end up with ~386. Every time.
Too many field techs doing nothing the whole day because there is no jobs and using the "no work" code very single day...the only ones having lots of jobs are the new prem techs.
Nice OP head line! Yes I also want to have another massive O because I love getting laid and coming.
I got laid last night!
Finance, corporate compliance, and social responsibility is just as bad
Marketing has directors with 1 person. There is not a chance that is going to be overlooked. I suspect they will be surpluses very soon. The bloat and lack of span and control director and up is insane.
L4+ all seem invincible from where I sit. Their little head count empires get cut in half and they seem to get rewarded for it.
Go look at marketing group. AVP with all contractors. Director with 2 people.
@OP As of late 2024–2025, AT&T has the highest employee count (~140K–150K) but a lower revenue per employee (~$838K) compared to competitors. Verizon has ~100K employees with higher efficiency, while T-Mobile operates with the smallest workforce (~67K), driving higher revenue efficiency per employee.
So target 50% ???