TheLayoff AT&T community:
Let's get a few things straight, while you're here instead of contributing to the company that made you who you are and that has sacrificed so much for you.
You need to consider Corporate Vision as a gift. Very few people possess it, fewer than a tenth of a thousandth of one percent. Randall had it. John Stephens had it. I have it.
But you don't. And you didn't execute on the vision that was so clearly laid out for you.
Many of you are saying that this company bought DirecTV at its peak. But a peak is a man-made construct. None of us with Corporate Vision would have bought a company at its actual peak. We envisioned a much higher peak. The one that you failed to achieve.
Our execution of T-Mobile was flawless, until it ran into problems that you created. We can only pay so much money to lobbyists. We expected you to harness your constituent power to persuade the Justice Department to approve mergers. But you failed at that, too.
The pivot away from Warner Media was likewise a result of your failure to execute. Had you turned it into a powerhouse juggernaut cranking out high quality material at ten times the rate of HBO - which is precisely what I requested that you do - it would have been flawless. But again you failed. You did not give birth to the child from my sp*rm that I implanted in WM. A stillborn idea at the hands of a quack doctor - you.
As I told the analysts, if you think about the work that had to be done to normalize distribution agreements and get ourselves set up so that we can make the pivot from a linear foundation, which was HBO, to a forward-leaning SVOD capability, which was HBO Max, the parts should have fit together perfectly.
Just because you didn't understand that, and whiffed - hard - is not my fault. It's yours.
You would have thought that the message would be loud and clear after I took away vacation time as a form of grounding you. It obviously wasn't clear to you.
Now we are going to pivot our contribution model from one where an employee might correlate a modicum of remote work presence to an all-encompassing paradigm of thought, to one where we say: listen, in this world we have an environment where the proximal authenticity of your daily submissions to the corporate zeitgest is going to be a more relativistic notion of presence vs. non-presence, or rather a subjectively diffuse structure which carries some perambulatory requirement.
And if you don't get that, it's not my fault. I have Corporate Vision. And you don't.
John