Save your emails, especially any 'employment' related. You never know, they may come in handy many, many years down the road. For example, I was denied retirement benefits because HR messed up and did not have me on a list of employees brought (really bought) over from another company. I dug thru my personal archives and found multiple emails from over 20 years ago proving HR wrong!! Save your emails, take them with you! Save electronic documentation. Never, ever delete it! You never know!
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I would not worry one second about record retention policy. You are absolutely crazy naive if you do!! NO ONE, absolutely no one, in HR is looking out for your best interest... YOU, and you alone, have to do it YOURSELF. KEEP COPIES OF EVERYTHING ON PRIVATE (not corporate) media. What HR does not know, will not hurt them.
I wonder if this is something you could have caught while still employed? Checking your NCS date in Elink? Wondering why your service anniversary milestones don’t match? There should have been signs on the wall long before you retired.
Install server in basement. Forward all emails to server and HR daily. Never delete unless email stops responding due to full inbox.
I saved all of this from back in 2004 when our office was closed. I was rehired by AT&T a year later and it was like pulling teeth to get them to find my previous work history. I was only able to get my prior service bridged because I saved all of my paperwork and emails because Fidelity had conveniently lost everything.
Interesting comments about the NCS date. When my previous company was acquired by at&t in mid 2000’s, something similar happened. NCS dates were mixed up. Some people were with less credited years. Other with more. The issue was brought up to our managers from the old co. Them NCS dates were fixed. You should have to pay attention to all details with this transactions.
the " company " left out several years on my NCS date as well as several of my colleagues from the same era as I. No big deal, just left out 5 YEARS for me and others as well. lol
Saved all mine that referenced my TLOA. The company was totally clueless about how it was supposed to work. I still have my doubts. But I have it all in company emails. Dates, etc.
Re: records retention, AT&T policies are not the law, although AT&T acts as if it is the law; the actual law trumps AT&T policies, and employee benefits trump ATT’s record retention policy.
I heard of this happening to someone came that over from IBM around 20yrs ago. HR looked at the NCS date which matched up with that event and they made the change after he was able to get someone else that came over at the same time vouch for him.
Huh. I'm surprised they were viewed as valid because you violated the Records Retention Policy you sign off on annually.