Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

It’s called greed. Work harder, longer, faster. My bonus is depending on you. Who cares about your family, we will get ours and then leave with our golden egg. Haha!

Hopefully this micromanaged environment will make a change for the sake of all hard working employees still working. There has become are too many challenges and roadblocks to overcome now.

Customer facing employees are doing all they can to give the best service with the challenges they face. At the end of the day, the customers write my paycheck. All the burdensome policies, added task & long hours won’t change that dynamic.

If they don’t lower medical cost, it’s a no vote. CWA better get it done.

In the interest of worker safety as well as simply having humane working conditions, the union needs to be looking for ways to limit forced working hours.

Unfortunately, the time to do that would have been BEFORE bending over and agreeing to a new contract that improves nothing for its members.

I don’t believe double time is much of a deterrent as it used to be, we have worked many forced off days & 12 hrs forced OT in the core. I heard of one core tech that has worked several 13 days on with 1 off. I worked for several years on the late shift and had to catch late tickets until I hit the OT cap.

It’s still cheaper than adding people because of benefits. We are just as burnt out & exhausted as Wire Techs. Money isn’t everything when you can’t spend time with your family or have a life. Remember, we get the SLA tickets and have to work late too on top of our regular load that is bulked every day.

It is common knowledge and widely known by organizations (other than this one) that exhausted, burnt out workers are A) FAR less productive and B) get in a lot more accidents.

In the core contract, after 49 hours your pay goes to double time. The union fighting for that one change for Permtechs and Wiretechs would have done much to fix this situation.

I’ll still stick with the Union, even if some things need to be improved. Ask any manager right now how secure they feel in their collaboration zones? Long hours, long drives, small or no raises, told where their next “challenge” location will be at someone’s discretion. Dave, Sue, report 2 states over if you want to keep your job.

There are too many positives to list here that we have because of the Union Negotiations. Is everything perfect? No, but some of these work rules can have ongoing negotiations for a better resolution thru a memo. That’s why the Company/Union committee has an ongoing meetings to address issues as they arise and it is in the contract.

Remember when the Unions would claim they were responsible for a 40 hour work week? ........not anymore.... Union leadership failed again

No to the TA, pay isn’t everything. This bean has a vote. Work rules matter too!

Sometimes it’s small changes that can make big impacts in employees lives and it wouldn’t affect the company’s commitments or service. Let the lower managers manage the day to day business

It’s just getting thru the layers of management to have a change. We are top down managed & meetings in excess without any improvements. Analysis paralysis.

You would think the DOT would have something to say about techs working/driving so many hours and so many consecutive days.

Guess that’s why the safety incident numbers have increased. You would think the company/safety dept. would see the correlation. There have been a few accidents where techs have died the last couple of years. One recently in Georgia driving late at night between CO’s. Look it up, we never heard the reason, only it was being investigated

Advise: go out on stress... ... report the Company to the Labor Relations Board... ... pull the “I don’t feel safe” routine....

I agree, the “normal outside tech work day” on the job is 9 hrs, lunch Is the extra hour. Throw in drive time & any forced overtime my day is usually a minimum 13 hrs plus.

Also as OP stated, forced days off added to OT doesn’t leave a lot of time for home life. We also aren’t told about our daily force until after 2:30 pm every day. Kind of hard to plan anything.

So, probably a no vote on TA from me. In addition to raises going toward healthcare, ie.. premiums, deductibles, out of pocket, d–g scripts, etc...

Yea I agree. I’m exhausted and can’t get anything accomplished outside of work.