Heard from a very good source high up in V that they are very much aware of T’s comparison and references to their leaner workforce and flatter reporting structure. What was shocking to hear from my source was that most of the industry regards T as the king of sheep mentality and that the other corporations feed them bad information on purpose to guide them down the wrong path all the time. While we all know that T is a follower because we all joke about it enough here, what we didn’t know was that our leaders are running out ahead in their direction based on lousy intel. Apparently this has been going on for a while!
One example is DTV. We may have been tricked into buying DTV because another company put out the rumor using backdoor channels and fake leaks that they were going to purchase DTV and blow AT&T out of the water. Next thing you know, somebody here thinks they are going to get the upper hand and swoop in and make the deal when the other company already knew it would be a disaster.
The real big one though is the misleading about layoffs and RTO. Some big corporate Telecom is publishing plans and planting falsehoods about more and more layoffs daring T to get into a layoff pi----g match with them. What does T do? T starts recklessly gutting their workforce because they think their competitor is on to something. But it’s all a plant to get T to do a face plant. RTO is the same. They are all laughing and can’t believe T took the bait and are forcing everyone back 5 days a week. They are reaping huge rewards by fleecing T of their best talent without the need for poaching. They are laughing at us BIG TIME and cannot believe it was all so easy.
This is one for the books boys. I knew we were followers but this is next level Dilbert.