Once upon a time, people considered getting employed by AT&T an equivalent of hitting a job jackpot. Now, people see this as a place to pad their resumes for a couple of years, if that long. When did this start? It can't be just the last couple of years, can it?
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Speaking just on the manager side I don’t recommend anybody even start at att. I tell them to avoid the company completely.
At my shop, over half the younger Techs that left in the last 2 years did so of their own accord. All report better jobs, better pay and actually have a life now.
I'm old enough to keep milking this goat until I can early retire next fall.
$80,000 more at a Fortune 500 company? Look up the meaning of fabulist and see if it rings a bell.
It's like this at most Fortune 100 corporations, they are so large and in most divisions you're just a cog and easily replaceable, it's not just at T go look at IBM or GE and see what their saying over there.. pretty much same complaints, leadership in most large companies is about enriching itself, activist investors and other wealthly benefactors.
IMHO really are a place like T is good for middle age folks to hang their hat and wait it out till retirement. Any of the talented youngsters you see at these places, have a game plan and don't intend to stick around and just using it to pad their resume and get some corporate street cred to make an easier Transition to their next job.
Someone was at AT&T for a only few years then realized he was only at 40% of market and changed jobs for an 80K raise? Are people that upvoted that story interested in a bridge that I have for sale?
T was always a good company until it was mismanaged. It started when the resale of the network became a reality and 300,000 landline customers were switching each month to new companies that leased our network and underpriced the company. After that, the mergers with the Ameritech REBOC being acquired by SBC and then SBC merging with T and changing the name to T, and then the acquisition of PACBELL and Cingular and the remnants of Bell South. All the IT systems needed to be merged. There were 3,000 at one point and they wanted to get to 2,000. We even had to interview for our own jobs and were asked to take a cut in pay. But for IT, our pay was good and so we stayed.
When they started doing annual layoffs and offering no career growth (at least in my group). When your bosses changed 1-2 times per year and your new boss is dumber than your last and knows nothing (seriously how do these people get promoted?). I’ve been at att for 8 years now. This will be my last year. My first 3-4 years were great. It has been a steady slide down since then.
Leaving AT&T last year on my own accord was the best thing that could have happened. I had become complacent after a few years at AT&T and suddenly realized that my pay was at least 40% market value. I'm doing nearly the same job at nearly $80K more a year at another fortune 50 company. Be sure to shop your skills against the market. You may be surprised at what's out there!