Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

@cp You clearly have no idea how wireless telecom works. Starlink won’t deliver high speed internet to any mobile devices much less large numbers of them at the same time while also servicing tens of millions of voice calls and low data rate users. Signal strength inside buildings is terrible. Signal strength from Starlink isn’t even good on the street. It is designed for low data rate communications to a small number of simultaneous users when other mobile service is unavailable.

@cn tesla is not telecom. Cant assemble cars remotely. Im 100% sure their engineers are remote or at least hybrid. And if elon were to keep rto at T, he'd at least provide us a desk. Elon isnt stupid and he can be flexible when needed. Hed look stupid to support rto on telecom when he knows the industry standard is at least hybrid.

@ep - how much of it legitimately?

So, you’re ok with the egregious grifting now?

@d4 It's probably because Trump has grown his net worth from millions to billions over the last 30 years.

@d4 because people like orange peels more than vegetables…

@cm - with that logic, how in the world did the orange peel get into the White House given all of his failed endeavors?? And he continues to fail big (with other people’s money of course) with the exception of his corruption.

@cn doesn’t matter the ppl that work for him know why they work for him. AT&T was a family company that stink ruined.

Satellites will disrupt traditional telecom giants like AT&T by bypassing their multi-billion dollar ground towers to beam high-speed 5G directly to standard smartphones everywhere, forcing carriers to become retail partners for space-based networks rather than owners of the primary infrastructure.

I hate to tell you, OP, but Elon is the one who started RTO with Tesla before any other company. You must not have been paying attention to the news when he said if they didn’t see a badge swipe, he would assume you had turned in your notice. If anything, sounds like we’re aligning our values with exactly his values.

@bs lol because he's proven his worth through a long track record of successful ventures, which is more than you can say for AT&T's board and C-suite. Your worth comes from delivering real value. AT&T leadership preaches that constantly, but the moment it's applied to them, they act confused about why everyone's talking about Elon.

@c9 is funny b/c I don’t think Elon musk and his company wastes his time thinking about us.

Our leadership spends our meetings bad mouthing starlink. At the very least Starlink will take some internet and wireless market share!

Satellite can’t do it all. Wireless can’t do it all. Fiber can’t do it all. The winner will be whoever is 1st to get all 3.

@bv - huh, that wasn’t helpful. Go open your next beer.

@bs first two letters checks out.

@az - and you all must have Elon H@rd-On Syndrome.

Funny how you all put your cult leaders on a pedestal but everyone else has the syndrome. Buy a mirror.

@bd Ingrate subordinate. Aren't you happy with the office social spirit we give you for free ?

Stankey should open his eyes and see that we can crush Elon Musk with WFH.

@ax They do not have to buy a telecom company. They just have to buy Crown Castle. Put their equipment on the towers. And the real kicker is AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile would then be paying Elon rent because they are on the towers he would be buying.

who are you going to bet on? StinkyStank or Elon? Elon will mop the floor with Stinky...

@ay he probably got Elon Derangement Syndrome.

@at why are you so triggered. You should get back to managing the effort to get rid of legacy equipment.

If spacex buys a telecom it probably wouldn’t be AT&T. T-mobile maybe

You all are so obsessed…..

If you’re so confident in Starlink, then you should invest all of your assets in Elon Musk right now.

You should also take cash advances from your credit cards, borrow from your friends and family, as well as, take out a second mortgage on your house and invest all of that too.

Otherwise, go back to pulling wire or making PowerPoints.

This is the same culture and attitude fostered by the executives we experienced at old AT&T right before selling to SBC. The debt is too much. The old Stank was projecting when he said the workforce was unable to keep up. He actually bought satellite and movie companies instead of investing in the network! He can’t keep up with a real innovative executive like Musk. RTO without desks, network that hasn’t been updated properly, layoff after layoff that is producing massive outages that last forever because they sent the people who built the network packing and the youngens don’t understand it yet because it takes a decade to get that level of knowledge. We’re done we can’t beat Musk let alone the other cell vendors and more than anyone it’s Stanley’s fault.

Hope Att gets brought out by spacex or another company in the next 5 yrs

@ab Exactly right. They’ll take the extra towers to bolster their service footprint before spinning off anyone over the age of 30- aka 99.5% of the company. The few younger people that aren’t nepos might get saved.

What's good left in AT&T ? All the value of those companies are in the frequencies they own and the towers. If there's a buyout from Starlink, 50% or more will be laidoff. You really want that ?

@a4 I’d like that. Union mobility here, and we would hopefully be cut early.

#ayys

The reason for the badge swipes and 5xRTO is to get rid of employees. AT&T is trying to get to 85K employees so they have roughly 40K employees left to go.

Starlink will acquire AT&T before Trump leaves office!! Musk has a two year window. Look for Trump to start loading his portfolio with T stock!!