Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

when you say "tech" I thought you meant bargained for.
unfortunately the union makes sure the company has so many monkeys with zero skills but lots of seniority so they can't be fired!!
As management they can do you three ways from sunday whenever they want to so good luck on that one. sorry

Or you pick something to specialize in, and the product is so poorly executed that it gets ki-led.

Skills are subjective and mostly smoke and mirrors unless you have a large public portfolio of work you can share. What matters is how fast you learn and adapt to new challenges. That is what the job market SHOULD be concerned about. Unfortunately being able to persuade others you have “skills” is all that matters to HR hiring people. What you end up with is a bunch of salesmen trying to write code.

Common sense. The more you know the more valuable you are in the market place. Never listen to anyone who tells you to specialize in anything. They are low IQ

@a3

Good points. The courses from the T training portal are just to tick boxes (and by that I mean a corporate/HR box, just to say they comply with employee growth and training and another task for HR to "have a reason to live instead of nothing to do").

Like you, I find time and time again that these courses don't count when they should ro could.

Training is in our hands (and comes from our wallets these days).

Just one question for you, do you think it's just about older workers these days or also lack of opportunity for younger? Oh, and one of my friends is in his 40's and he said he's already feeling the ageism (no reason, he's doing the same job in the same way).

It is an honest question. I got caught in the SAME trap. The tech that my group was supporting and selling, product house quit selling. The customers dwindled down to nothing, and I seen the writing on the wall. I turned my focus on helping out for a different service, and supporting a manager of that service to re-skill. I was also one of the first to re skill in AI, and was trying to plug help the group plug into the T curated AI. Then they laid me off while they kept the work from home guy who lived at Costco, always at the golf course while on a disability claim from the military, always complaining about the Indian guys and number of Teslas they seem to afford . The point, there is no rhyme or reason to their BS. They want to get rid of anyone they can to replace as many older skilled workers with H1B's . I seen it with my own eyes. When they tell you to get trained in this or that in amplify , your best bet is to spend a little bit of money to keep core certifications up to date outside the company because the training you get in the T training portal is WORTHLESS in your next job. It wont even be considered.