Anyone noticed more retirees than normal these passed few days? Seems like they waited to ensure they got their bonus and got outta here.
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That's what I did.
Staying till March also gets you a new batch of vacation days to take while earning a few more paychecks.
@dc They'll also get 6 months severance at their NEW salary if they waited until March.
I left 5-1/2 years ago and never regretted being cut loose by this chicken s*** outfit. Yes I got 6 month's severance to leave after over a dozen years of the downsizing/layoff/who's-it-gonna-be rounds? Plus I got the company subsidized insurance.
One has to be honest with one's-self. You can out run the hangman for a while - but you can't outrun him forever. They let me go and kept others who (as the sub-section results show) ran the subs into the ground (and blamed everyone/anyone else). It confirmed what I already knew - I didn't need anyone to confirm it. Keep the favorite employees - so die with them. Because they weren't the best at their jobs - they were the best at kissing a**.
Left T at 56yo, never had to work again (due to my 401k decisions and pension rollover), and living better now 5.5 years later than I did when I was on the clock. I wish I could reach out to my few close friends/co-workers but that's not reality.
The cycle of AT&T repeats over and over - buy a company, skin it out, use the savings to carry the bottom line a few years - then over and over. But there are fewer prospects out there to repeat and every time T buys a company they sell it years later for less.
For any still with T, find an off-ramp. Get out at a time-place-path of your choosing. Care for your families. Although I left a time-not-of-my-choosing, I not only survived, I thrived. It all depends where you are in life. God bless you all doing the best for your families.
Too bad… get over it or quit
If they worked through 2025, they get the full bonus. They did not need to stay into 2026 at all.
They didn't have to wait to collect the full 2026 bonus.
Anyone on payroll 12/31/25 received the same bonus as if they worked until 3/7/26. The only difference is they'll get about 2/12's of the 2026 bonus in March 2027.
@ak I've noticed the decline in writing skills regularly in our emails at work.
They were forced “retirements”. We lost three directors…
Many directors and avp who were impacted by RTO decided to nope out or they got surplussed from an earlier no decision
“Past” few days.
Not “passed” few days.
That's just being smart. Nothing wrong with that.