Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

The “market” isn’t buying it

Since the notorious August 1st email, the “market” has delivered a clear verdict on T. While the S&P 500 has climbed roughly 10 %, AT&T stock has fallen almost 20 % since that day, wiping out billions in value. Whatever leadership thought this “market-based” posture would signal to investors, it failed. The market rejected it. Facts not feelings.

Culture cannot be spoken into existence. It is not created through emails, town halls, slogans, and archaic RTO mandates. Culture is the feeling employees have when they walk in every day. Right now that feeling is animosity, distrust, and exhaustion. Five-day RTO did not strengthen culture. It exposed how disconnected leadership is from the workforce.

When employee reality is ignored, culture erodes. When culture erodes, execution suffers. When execution suffers, investors respond. That chain reaction is visible, measurable, and ongoing.


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Post ID: @OP+1kex3b3db

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How. low. can. T go, how low can T go. Next stop $19.. ALL ABOARD

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Post ID: @eb+1kex3b3db

@ad “making sure I move 401k matching dollars out of the AT&T shares fund”

Stank, is that you? Sound advice John…Even you know the stock is a dog, and not to held beyond the bare minimum.

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Post ID: @de+1kex3b3db

@cm not to mention these decisions were made on flawed data, which they admitted and acknowledged was flawed

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Post ID: @cs+1kex3b3db

@cm exactly! This mindset is like saying your cousin is a convicted criminal and is going to prison, so just to be safe, you must go to prison too because you share the same surname. These company sycophants have a guilty til proven innocent mindset, except nothing changes when proven innocent.

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Post ID: @cp+1kex3b3db

@cb maybe for you, but not for the vast majority of employees. If that’s the case you should be put on a PIP. You don’t make sweeping RTO policies that punish the 99% who do the right thing because of the faults of the 1%.

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Post ID: @cm+1kex3b3db

“None of this 5-day RTO requirement, tracking badge swipes and hours.”

Minimal work and running errands throughout the day.

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Post ID: @cb+1kex3b3db

It’s actually down 22% from the September high, and dropping. Many analysts have downgraded the stock to “sell” with a price target of $20. That’s a fact. This will continue to get worse until there’s real change at the top and the executives start listening to employees.

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Post ID: @c5+1kex3b3db

This place is making me hate my life. Can’t we just go back to the way things were before Covid? None of this 5-day RTO requirement, tracking badge swipes and hours. We aren’t your prisoners, John. You f-ing sicko. How about listening to your employees for a change you POS.

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Post ID: @bn+1kex3b3db

Every two weeks like clockwork I log in and sell the shares, my policy has been “hold no T stock under any circumstances” since they started the RTO and layoff talk.
Used the funds to invest in NVDA, APLD, APP, and other movers over the past few years.
Turned garbage into tens of thousands.

Never hold T.

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Post ID: @ah+1kex3b3db

We are now # 610 on the top 600 Forbes culture list, LOL.

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Post ID: @ag+1kex3b3db

They destroyed employee morale with RTO, threats and layoffs. Guess who was responsible for getting customers to buy our products? Yep, the same employees who now hate their company. I have never in 20 years seen sales as absolutely dead as they are right now. Stinkey has ki-led the goose that laid the golden eggs just so he could walk around and lord over his sweatshop employees in person. A real man would have laid off however many we needed to be competitive in 2022, and then worked hard to keep the remaining troops happy. But he just could not resist the age discrimination bigotry because he needs fresh young girls fawning over him.

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Post ID: @ab+1kex3b3db

Wow, $40 billion wiped out. That’s real money gone while leadership doubles down on RTO and random real estate splurges. Investors aren’t buying the mandates, they reward results. Right now, this “strategy” is burning through tens of billions of shareholder value. When will it end?

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Post ID: @a5+1kex3b3db

@a1 and that’s before you even account for broader market movement, buybacks, debt levels, or operational drag that would have supported a stronger valuation. The decline is real lost shareholder value.

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Post ID: @a4+1kex3b3db

That’s a drop of $40 billion in market value lol

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