Given that the speculations about mid-May layoffs are, in fact true,I would like to know does anyone have any idea on how big of a wave of layoffs are we talking about and in what orgs will the layoffs be conducted? I imagine the folks that claim to know that layoffs will take place at that time have, at least some more info about them.
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Theys gonna surplus pert near all the dang manager types. Reckin most craft folks still have a job though. Managers are lazy for the most part anyways.
att is a waste. they have way too many people. surplus will a way of life for a long time. maybe after they get all the people with pensions gone they may stop but who knows.
To Mr. "how big? go back to work and stop blogging" @YWhtcMP-tse …..It is one thing to pop in looking for some information on layoffs or just camaraderie under a stressful situation but who has time to go to a layoff blog to scold people? Boy you really must have a lot of free time on your hands......
@ 1lzm
What organization??
In our org letter of intent goes out this Friday 10th informing employees of voluntary offer and once accepted they will be off the books in 30 days. Since it is voluntary no target is announced and if under target an involuntary in 3Q
w/o the sunday ticket there is no reason to have dtv, unless you an employee and get it for free basically. once amazon gets sunday ticket game over. att isn't going to fare well in the streaming wars. disney at 9 bucks just set the bar..
"dtv will be out of business once the nfl ticket goes."
Not really, but we could lose another 500K on top the normal half million we drop per quarter.
So you know, DTV never made money on the Sunday Ticket - we spend $1.5 Billion per season for the rights, but only 3 million customers ever signed up - we are down to about 2 million subscribers. At prices roughly between $300 for basic ticket to $400 for the Max version - it takes between 3.5 and 3.7 million customers to just break even.
NFL ST was always meant to be a "loss leader" - a big fat juicy worm to lure Billy Bob Bohunks and their families to DirecTV. The idea was Bohunks family would make us the money through premium programming upgrades and PPV fights and movies.
I don't doubt that the NFL ST is what holds most of the Bohunk subscribers to DTV. If we lose the exclusive rights (highly likely by 2021), then again, I would not be surprised if instead of losing 500,000 subscribers in a quarter - we at least double that loss per quarter over the following year.
The 2018 first quarter report of net income was $4.662 billion or annualized, $18.648 billion. The 2019 first quarter report was only $4.096 billion or annualized, $16.384 billion. So that annual lack of $2.264 billion has to have an affect on layoffs. and they knew it would be lower, and they want it to go up. Verizon was earning about $103,000 per employee with T only earning $70,000. You know they want to show T is more competitive.
nothing to see here!, back to work to stay employed mo--ns
Hey @YWhtcMP-rxw, My eyes aren't too good over here but are you Gordon Gekko?
they need and can offload probably 30% of 200000 employees over the next 2-4 years. they gave you the figures for 2020. there's barely any work outside sustainment and 5g happening. and 5g is a hardware deployment. wireless is a commodity. dtv will be out of business once the nfl ticket goes.
how big? go back to work and stop blogging .