Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

OP go back to your main job as a Walmart greeter and S_FU B1tch! Oh yah, Pivot on the |

I am a Gen X person. Why do we need Millennials or Gen Z when we can just use Ask ATT to make the pivot tables for us. Everything is automated.

Whenever I need a pivot table I just turn it over to some wh-z kid then I take the credit for the work !

Ha. And this arrogant youngster thinks that pivot tables and formulas are "new" technology. I have news for you, kid. They've been around for ages. Try learning something really new. But you can start with some stuff that has been around a few years to get your feet wet. If your a software developer, I'd gladly teach you Rust, container technology, and Kubernetes, block chain and AI. I'm well over the age of what you would consider "old" and I bet I could run circles around you.

Age is not a barrier, and in fact will happen to everyone lucky enough to be able to experience it. Stupidity and arrogance is a barrier. Quit being so stupid and arrogant.

Its cute that the person who wrote this either as a troll or if real believes Excel spreadsheets are complex and that they somehow sound intelligent. The technical work done by the individual contributors of this company would make this person curl into the fetal position and cry for a safe space. For those who dont know what pivot tables are, just do a quick Google search and realize this person can and will absolutely be replaced by low level AI

I’m 48 and I would like to kindly ask this young buck to kiss my a--hole.

Just wait until these new hires and TDP's realise they have no concept of the Legacy network, systems, and processes and are reliant on these '50 somethings" to explain basic Telco standards and workflow dependencies. These inexperienced new hires don't realize that much of what allows the company to continue day to day operations cannot be tought in textbooks.
On the contrary, this "collaboration" justification by leadership is the force us "old timers" to teach the new hires the basic concept of the Telco environment. Don't act so high and mighty you elitist children. You need us seasoned vets.
Or, get thrown in the deep end and drown. Makes me no difference.

That's cute. The funny thing about aging is that it happens to all of us. Good luck with saving enough to buy a house, raise kids, pay for their educations, and oh then have also enough in liquid savings to retire early (aka under 65) without a tax penalty. I hope you're also doubling down on that HSA and investing it well, since you'll have no medical coverage from this company when you retire at the dinosaur age of 50. GFY.

" I’m 51 and would love to retire. But you can’t start withdrawing from a 401K until you’re at least age 59-1/2"

Not entirely correct, look up the IRS Rule of 55. You can start penalty free withdrawals if you turn 55 or are older when you leave your job (voluntarily or involuntarily).

In honor of SNL's milestone...

I've got chunks of guys like you in my stool.

You sn0t noses don’t know $h1t from sh----a! Not only can I work circles around you (with ease), I can rebuild an engine, frame a house, raise my own food & many other things that grown men can do.

I’m 51 and would love to retire. But you can’t start withdrawing from a 401K until you’re at least age 59-1/2.

Thanks for the advice, but I decline. Nearly 60. I've never earned more and never produced less. They will have to pry me out with a crowbar.

So sorry that this isn't going to go your way. Find another employer more suited to your special needs.

lol, youre f'ing around with gen x'ers, younger boomers and fixing to find out. you know, the ones that created all this.

AOC, Bernie Bros coming up with this DEI leftist Communist rhetoric on layoff.com

Someone call them and get this yanked.

Millennials and Gen Z’s are the ones crying the most about RTO. If someone called them from the field to ask a question they would freeze or hang up.

LOL, I am 60 and think excel, PowerPoint and MS technologies were very low tech when we used them before you were born. If you are a gen y, z or alpha stay away from Microsoft technologies, they still su-k.

"Ah the Stankey culture. Where we all blame one another for the actions of a single man."

I think this is one of the best comments I've seen here. Craft/Union bashing managers. Managers bashing craft. GenZ bashing boomers and GenX and vice versa.

There are lazy and wasteful among every group, and hard working and innovative too. Honestly, if your on here bashing a group for "causing the problem", then you, my friend, are the problem. Your brain, regardless of job or generation, is to small to be worth anything to this company, or any other.

There are lazy people everywhere in the company. They exist in every job and generation. It's not a WFH or RTO problem, or job or generation problem. That's a management problem, and there is one person at this company set the "tone" for management. That's who you should be bashing.

LOL, these folks think knowing how to use excel makes them tech workers..

yeah, all the network protocols are built with excel pivot tables.... ay ay ay

I'm over 50 and work with pivot tables, power BI and Power Automate more than you probably ever will. You don't have to share your "generation" since it's obvious by your comment. Grow up.

Ah the Stankey culture. Where we all blame one another for the actions of a single man.

Hey @bz+1jme4kee0

TDP stands for…
Totally
Delusional
People

They exist primarily in the VP+ population

I’m 50 and could run circles around you, both mentally and physically. You wanna go, let’s f’ing go. I’m Gen X. We’re built differently.

Who or what is TDP?

BWAHHHAA!!!!
The 20-30 crowd thinking they can burn a candle longer than me. You’re not even worthy of washing my dirty underwear. I’ve met with and worked with some really bright techies, but their drive and motivation had nothing to do with age. When you got it you got it. If you don’t, then age, race, misguided racism rules (dei), and virtue signaling c-suite won’t make a difference. Have a profitable career at the meat grinder biff.

Exciting to see the collaboration on this board from the different generations of employees.
I would suggest to the younger crowd that maybe they could learn something from the more seasoned employees. Reading the remarks on this board tells me the younger employees are very close minded. That will not get you far in life. Be a learner from everyone and everywhere.

Never met a younger gen person who could do any of that, and they were taught it in school. Call us when you had to teach it to yourself on the fly.

Adolescents. This is why companies will fail by pushing out older employees. A company will only succeed with confidence AND caring. Our youth clearly lacks the caring part. And from what I’ve personally witnessed, also the competence.

The 50 and older employees are not responsible for your future, you are! If you decided to work for AT&T and you haven't made it out of the mail room after 5 years, then it's on you, not the older employees! You'll figure it out one day and perhaps, you'll find a job that requires you to be present everyday and not work from home in your pajamas!

One day, if you’re lucky enough, you’ll be be in the 50+ crowd. How glorious it will be when the tables turn.

I’ve watched entire call centers, IT, and Engineering be relocated elsewhere, at the flip of a switch. And the OP is bothered by the 50 and over crowd. You might want to step out side of your delusional echo chamber of stupid OP. But then again, you must have that special awesome sauce the no else has heard of. Lol.

AI can not and does not do anything it’s actually pathetic the results you get for the investment. It’s a glorified search engine.

You are right ai can do that. We dont need you gen z or millenials.

Don't hate on the OP. The basis for their opinion was learned from the corporate culture of discrimination against older workers.

Millennials and Gen Z’s don’t have time to show you guys how to create pivot tables or help you understand simple formulas in excel.

Sure we do. You personally not having the time just means that's all your skill level can accommodate.

Sit down and listen junior maybe you will learn something from the Boomer and Gen-X generations that invented and improved the PC, laptops, super computers, software, internet, browsers, webpages, gui, cell phones, WiFi, Bluetooth, LANs, IC microchips, wireless phones, game systems, etc.

Your Gen is just users of the tech that we built. You doom scroll all day on your phone and have the attention span of a blow fly. We will leave when we are ready and attitudes like yours makes us want to stick around just that much longer. Last time I checked, 66-67 is full social security retirement for most of us

I see the Cache-Clearer has outed himself as GenZ.

Can someone show me how to plug in the internet?

Yawn…another day, another bashing of the 50+ crowd… wash, rinse, repeat. You bore me

This is the truth