Thanks to the Johnny and Jeffrey sh-t show, our insurance tripled in cost. Same exact options at a worse provider. This is what Leadership and The Board thinks of us who gave them decades of our lives.
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@qd - really? T is the root cause of healthcare issues? No koolaid here just someone who is much more pragmatic than you.
Also, is T failing or is T rocking it. Can they afford what you suggest or not? Not clear from posts on this forum.
At a higher level, cost and quality of healthcare should be taken away from who you work for. That model is no longer working.
Wake up dou--enut.
@n2
Yes, a-hole. T could easily su-k up rising costs but refuses to.
Keep slurping the corporate koolaid. Are you bald and destroying the company? I see you, J Stink.
@kx
Yes. It is corporate greed! All one needs to do is look at the ridiculous increase in CEOs annual salaries beginning roughly 1980. Stankey would have been paid roughly $850k; last year he made over $20M!? WT-?! And as corporations earn more, and 'reduce operating expenses', they shave off more from employees. They pay us less, while paying their 'leader's' ridiculously bigger compensation packages, and give employees tiny increases which never keep up with inflation!
They've got citizens criticizing one another while they steal more and more. Watch what Stankey will earn this year!!
JFC everyone here is tone deaf.
T hates employees and retirees. Equally. Zero surprise they jacked up healthcare and you should’ve expected as much. Buy on marketplace or wait for Medicare. It suvjs but this company su-ks. You have one deranged a-hole to blame.
No generation is at fault. Yes some received pensions and it’s great. New workers get tons of family care time that the prior generation never had. Every decade has its pros and cons and you can place whatever value you want on it. Dump into your retirements to help. This is no one generation’s fault. It’s corporate greed.
@ja
What you have just said is one of the most insanely id--tic statements made on this topic, here.
This is the rambling nonsense of someone who knows very little about healthcare or the history of how this country evolved by educating our population before zealots pushing their religious views infiltrated schools.
@jg
But they won't because they've got zilch, zip, nothing. Not even a concept. And yet these people, especially the most underpaid, under insured are those who consistently vote against policies like healthcare supplements.
When those supplements permanently disappear next year, they will blame the party and people who fought to keep them insured.
@ja - then have your party show some real leadership on the matter to help ensure all Americans have adequate healthcare coverage. Rather than continually b1tching and moaning about it or using some lame tagline to disparage it.
Or have your party leadership get on their soap box and clearly articulate that they are perfectly fine with a significant portion of our citizens should not be offered. Let people vote on their real intent and not a bs version (now that’s the real waste, fraud, and abuse).
All the ACA did was turn healthcare into the public school system.
I don’t have kids in the local public school but I sure pay taxes towards it.
We all know what a disaster public schools are.
The government runs everything poorly.
@ez - it’s not just that. Most of the same folks just parrot what they heard on Fox or equivalent. No critical thinking at all.
Just like to blame someone else for their ills. It’s their tried and true playbook but doesn’t make it right. Then they spin it like they’re the good guys (or try to convince themselves of the same). It’s flaming BS and it’s pervasive on this forum when they’re not p1ssing on the C-Suite (some or most times earned).
@es
You always know who the ig'nants are when they blame and immediately point to a program that gives affordable health insurance to millions on the ACA! I bet someone in your
family has insurance because of the ACA, you know Obamacare!
@ae speaking from experience, the T benefits available to me (retired not long ago) are terrible and way overpriced - these are not the "good" benefits cause i started about 1 month after the retroactive sc--w you date adjustment. This is another profit center for t - They aint doing it out of kindness or respect for the retirees. i have been getting my insurance through healthcare.gov and that is really bad too. my last couple of years with t, the insurance was ok, but not great either. So, plan to get catastrophe insurance and deal with self funding anything that comes up. In essence, you are doing that anyway with T's insurance. also, since im rambling,.. i tried to call the health insurance line with questions.. o m g.. what a cluster. I finally gave up and requested a call back, no call back.... not surprised.
@es - keep saying things that get fed into your head. Don’t ever think for yourself. That would be a dangerous thing.
angry youngsters, not enough spankings
@ax another one that thinks it’s free🤦🏼♂️
@ed - just woke up from one helluva nap 😴 🥱.
Thanks for carrying the weight going forward especially as you pay for my SS and Medicare. Our boomer congress will solve the issues for us at your expense. Afterall, I was born in 1959 so I am entitled to this.
Sorry about the hot planet and stuff - if we ignore it, maybe it’ll go away. Or vote better next time.
Also, sorry about AI taking everyone’s job away - oh wait, your generation created that (remember, we were too old and d-mb) so that’s on you.
Also, sorry about turning our country into an autocracy where the crazy rich get even crazy richer and most all others fight for scraps and blame each other - oh wait, that’s on you too since you voted the schmuck in (or you didn’t vote at all which is the same).
Also, sorry about our country turning its back on health sciences. That’ll make America great again like in the 1800s so avoidable diseases make a biggly comeback - oh wait, again, that’s on you too since you voted the schmuck in (or you didn’t vote at all which is the same).
No shortage of blame to go around - I guess d-mb humans will just be d-mb humans.
Or, you own the future so do better than us.
“ As a retired AT&T employee this is not true“
Sure are a lot of retirees lying about this on the various FB groups then.
“ hey non boomer, one day you will grow up. Us boomers were told we would get certain benefits. Why? Because we were smart. You just feel entitled and don’t think you have to work for anything because you are lazy”
Think about what you just wrote. Boomers got pensions, everyone else did not because your generation cut them to save some money, get that win for your career, and pad your bonus, yet we are entitled? You weren’t smart, you just got the definition of entitlements. And yet most of you are still here because you wouldn’t take the medical benefit and retire 2 years ago before it ended. You are waiting on a package or severance or you won’t go. Your generation is the definition of entitled.
@OP
Employees should realize that employers can change or eliminate almost most 'benefits' at anytime. It does feel unfair. And in some cases it can be devastating, like losing your healthcare supplement meant to offset the cost of your premiums.
Corporations can hire you tomorrow, promise you amazing perks, while you plan your life around those 'promises'. But then the next thing you know, the rug is snatched and promises were just words. Never believe them and always have contingency plans!
And remember the wealthy billionaires have rigged the game!
"AT&T paid you and gave you a living for decades of your lives. Don't be so ungrateful."
And then Stank/ATT changed the rules when these folks are not in a position to do anything about it. How about you f-koff and understand the situation! What an a$$wipe you are.
This post is nothing but some half baked buffoonery jive talk. Bunch of boomers doing the depends shuffle.
@ay it’s all our future
AT&T paid you and gave you a living for decades of your lives. Don't be so ungrateful.
@az yes they want you spending it on them
@ap hey non boomer, one day you will grow up. Us boomers were told we would get certain benefits. Why? Because we were smart. You just feel entitled and don’t think you have to work for anything because you are lazy. Grow the f up and leave us that have made it this easy for you alone. You have a grandpa? I’m sure he’s embarrassed by you. Listen, read, know you don’t get paid for being lazy. Have some pride you lazy entitled little f
@bh oh yes it is
As a retired AT&T employee this is not true
@ay - young people absolutely want retirees spending more money on things other than healthcare.
Grow up idi0t.
Who cares it’s the young persons future
I get a better plan from medicare than what att negotiated for me and it is free.
@ap - poor baby’s gotta read something not about them.
STFU
@ad - hey m0r0n, big difference between$10/month and $2300/month.
Go sniff somewhere else 🤡 🖕
@a8 - it’s a whatever I want it to be page
Go post this in the retirees Facebook group and stay off this site. We know It’s all you boomers trolling on here all the time.
at least you have retiree benefits
Actually those non union who retired with benefits also got f@cked over when they forced them into a take it or leave it "advantage plan". Basically a network of doctors you wouldn't want to go to. Maybe did this to union retirees also?
And of course done after the fact. Even conned many to retire early to get medical benefits only to pull the switcharoo on them after they left thinking they were getting something else.
Can't trust att for anything.
Sad, but at least you have retiree benefits STILL available to you, the rest of us have NO retiree benefits if your management !!
Were you expecting to pay $10 a month like you did decades ago? World has changed for everyone out there not just AT&T
Layoff page.
Not a retiree page.