Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

Was anyone disciplined/fired for lack of productivity while WFH?

Genuine question. I have not heard any examples within T of people being put on any sort of PIP or plan while WFH but surely there must have been issues since the company decided to rather keep expensive office realestate.

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“ Presence or LAN reporting in past was wrong. Some guy that was surplussed in NJ sued and his phone GPS info conflicted with Corp data, his lawyer got him a nice big settlement.”

Back to coffee badging. Sounds good to me!

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Post ID: @mz+1jhc1c551

Presence or LAN reporting in past was wrong. Some guy that was surplussed in NJ sued and his phone GPS info conflicted with Corp data, his lawyer got him a nice big settlement.

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Post ID: @ew+1jhc1c551

I know a couple employees not moving whose final month is March.

But when did they give answers? Cause that's the point. These jokers said no in September and basically stopped doing anything productive. I think they finally gave them an off payroll date in either late February or March, but they still aren't doing a damn thing. Should have had them off payroll by EOY in my opinion.

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Post ID: @eq+1jhc1c551

The only folks happy about RTO are the people that have to physically be somewhere to perform their job. They were jealous they couldn’t do wfh due to the nature of their jobs. Those are all the negative posts on here about people that got to wfh.

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Post ID: @cj+1jhc1c551

Is not showing up for work cause for termination?

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Post ID: @ch+1jhc1c551

“I wish they'd get rid of the people that said they aren't following the job. Most of them haven't done sh-t since giving their response months ago.”

I know a couple employees not moving whose final month is March.

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Post ID: @cc+1jhc1c551

"I wish they'd get rid of the people that said they aren't following the job."

I know several who are now off the books because they chose not to move from ATL to DAL.

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Post ID: @c9+1jhc1c551

" Easy way to fire people without a lot of legal ramifications."

If they use presence reporting to fire people then the reports had better be infallible. It is one thing to let people go without cause, it is an entirely different scenario to fire someone for cause.

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Post ID: @c8+1jhc1c551

I wasn't fired but reprimanded for accidently standing up with my tighty-whities on during a staff meeting

I could have gone the rest of my life without reading that

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Post ID: @c4+1jhc1c551

I wish they'd get rid of the people that said they aren't following the job. Most of them haven't done sh-t since giving their response months ago.

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Post ID: @ar+1jhc1c551

You have to see it is coming. They have been going after sales folks for COBC violation terminations and now they are going to expand it to everyone else with COBC violations based on RTO metrics. Easy way to fire people without a lot of legal ramifications.

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Post ID: @ag+1jhc1c551

They do not care. It's not about productivity. It's all about making the job so onerous people will quit. That's it. They are reducing real estate, that's why 50,000 employees are being crammed into the Akard Building in Dallas. LOL.

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Post ID: @a7+1jhc1c551

Several members in a couple departments I was in were never available after lunch when reached out to using online tools or calling but nothing was ever done even though many complaints were made to the manager, even from customers.

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Post ID: @a5+1jhc1c551

Nope. In fact we had our most successful years from a product development standpoint during those years. They even praised us for it. People would be on top of their game because they appreciated the respect and flexibility.

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Post ID: @a4+1jhc1c551

No one hardly ever gets fired and if you do you certainly earned it at this place.

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