Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

fock off. I am doing the job of 3 to 4 people because T kept laying off people with no requisitions in return, no new hire whatsoever. I make do. I am beat, I am tired, I am overstimulated + I have to waste 2hrs a day driving to RTO I am assigned at where I would not even consider applying at even outside T. When I first got hired I considered living near work - but T kept closing buildings over the years and the zipcode where I am RTO'ed at, the cheapest rent for 600 sq is at $1600. I WAS a good employee - now I am a bare minimum employee. I am looking for a job. T does not care, why should I?

It’s all about GREED and hubris at the top in most of corporate America.

I like working at home as much as the next guy (person), but whenever during my career I've been called back in to the office I make it my business to be there as required.

It all boils down to meeting the employers requirements for the job in order to continue to hold it and be paid.

OP here. I am a little discouraged that 37 people downvoted a post on integrity and turned it into a post on RTO- which it was not intended to be. I’m really worried about the message we are sending future generations. This same malaise is what leads to a path of Soviet style communism. If truly 3/4 of you responding to this post feel that way, it is likely time for me, not only to leave this place, but the workforce in general. I’ll go find something I can do myself.

OP must either be a shift worker or a leader who isn’t working a full day in the office and also covering another 5-9 hours at home and returning again the next morning for 5 or more days a week. And who probably doesn’t have to worry about where to sit or if they will be surplussed because they were hired into a role that WAS a remote position when they applied or was at least flexible. Oh yeah, and who probably gets to funnel all the tasks down to others so they aren’t stressed… Out of touch Dolt.

You want happy? You want reasonable? Make it fair. Go back to assigned desks, desktops, old fashioned desk phones, and office cafeterias. Go back to the days when you left at 5 and didn’t have a care in the world until tomorrow. Go back to awards and recognition that actually motivated and encouraged people.

I hate to break it to you but… Stankey Has Always HATED telecommuters.
Period.
Going all the way back to his San Ramon days.
Always.
He referred to telecommuters as “the fuzzy slippers” people wearing their comfortable Pajamas at home.
So, yeah, this is more about destroying WFH than anything.
“For those saying the WFH people are lazy, cheating the system, not doing the work. That might be the case in certain cases but not all. I have been WFH for 23 years, every year my EOY is exceeds or far exceeds. This is nothing but getting the old folks to leave and hire new younger people. If you believe anything else you’re fooling yourself.”

Everyone complaining there’s no comrodery yet they want to work from home in all different states. Bosses that have never even met there team. Teamates that have never met each other. I can see why! We used to work together in the same room. We used to have lunch together even dinner or hang out. The team is no longer a team it’s just a web meeting.

Apply for other jobs. If you have a college degree get out don’t be scared.

“For those saying the WFH people are lazy, cheating the system, not doing the work. That might be the case in certain cases but not all. I have been WFH for 23 years, every year my EOY is exceeds or far exceeds. This is nothing but getting the old folks to leave and hire new younger people. If you believe anything else your fooling yourself.”

It’s not about you. Study after study says your wrong. It’s the entire country going back to work. Downtown USA is getting busier and busier every week.

For those saying the WFH people are lazy, cheating the system, not doing the work. That might be the case in certain cases but not all. I have been WFH for 23 years, every year my EOY is exceeds or far exceeds. This is nothing but getting the old folks to leave and hire new younger people. If you believe anything else your fooling yourself.

UAW......winning!
I totally agree with their demands. Why should the Stankey's of the world continue in their greedy ways? Compensate the people doing the work. I just hope CWA is taking notes!

I love the pay at T but hate to do the job I’m paid to do.

Quit your bellyaching, don’t like it leave already. Entitled babies. RTO malcontents can leave too. WFH abuse the flexibility, anyone that disagrees are the most disgraceful offenders. Business changes, no more 3 hour lunches, cutting out at 3:59 and rolling in at 9:15…..waaahhhhhh.

I used to do my best. Not anymore. You don't care about me as an individual who did AT&T's best work, I no longer care about what happens to the company now and after I'm surpluses. #sorrynotsorry #youreapwhatyousow

Things will be better in a couple years when everyone is together in Atlanta or Dallas.

Would you invest your time into a company that has a American customer base and chooses to ship American jobs overseas, impacts American Families in over 300 cities and giving them a move yourself if you want the job(btw that is moving overseas)? All the while being reminded you are not in the executive club and you have no future!!! Lastly the business plan is if you dont like it hear go somewhere else? Thats a business plan? Come on people - wake up. Hey here is an idea. If this is your company's plan maybe you should be forced to sell your stuff in only those 9 cities. It's called a boycott - Wow shocker. Bring back American Jobs you greedy people so our American youth have a future.

WFH employees are lazy and regularly work other jobs on T time.

I'm there everyday and don't see this

I think I read this in a Hallmark Card in 1982

It’s not just ATT, though that doesn’t help. It’s the entire country that is in a funk.

Idk, I kind of chalk it up to so many people out there busting their butts and never getting ahead. If you just do this, if you just try more, if you just take these courses, get that extra degree, come in earlier, stay later. Those goal post just keep moving and moving. It’s happened so much to so many that people have just given up and are like what’s the point. So most are just trying to maintain what they’ve got. People are tired. They are sick of working so hard to go nowhere.

For us at ATT, I think the whole RTO has just been the bosses peeing on our heads and telling us it’s raining. We all know what it is. The coercive environment is just sickening.

It’s called MORALE and it’s in the dumps! We are still delighting our customers but we didn’t like each other before covid so now that we are back to seeing one another daily we can’t contain that we’re less than thrilled

Oh my, anarchy at the telephone company! This is exactly what Stankey envisioned for at&t employees. Fighting among themselves, creating an environment of each dog for himself. Sc--w your co-worker. Stankey is as wicked as they come people.

Thank you, PR firm hired by corporate to challenge the narrative. I am sure this will make everyone forget the ugly truth…..

Thank you Stanky can you RTO another? Thank you Stanky can you RTO another?
Thank you Stanky can you RTO another?
Thank you Stanky can you RTO another?
Thank you Stanky can you RTO another?

No one on my “team” would P on anyone else on the “ “team”, were they on fire.

No one cares.

It’s not to say people aren’t doing their job, and in most cases doing it well, because they are.

It just that any “esprit de corps“ (google it) has long since flown the coop.

You can hear crickets on most calls. No light hearted banter at all. No questions. No comments. No feedback.

Very well stated. When we interviewed for our jobs several years ago there was not even a conversation about remote working. Now, post COVID, we have entitled coddled employees coming out of the woodwork.