The thing is, I love my job very much. When I came here, I was very enthusiastic and wanted to give my best. Now I regretted all the ideas I had ever put forward, with the best of intentions, so that the work would be done better. What did I get in return? I didn't get a promotion, only criticism. So why do the managers keep on saying that they expect greater engagement from us, if in fact no one here wants that? This company does not deserve any employee engagement at all.
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OP speaks truth. had the same cr-p happen to me and is why I left when I see other people who are friends and family being totally incompetent and doing whatever the he-l they want and smelling like a rose all the time. I have seen people look at pxrno at work and get promoted to director. it is a disgusting place and a terrible company.
“ Only then did the di----t check his emails and find I did finish every project on time and under budget“
None of the claims in this post really make any sense.
There are many reports and other indications of projects completing on time / budget or not. Your boss would be well aware of this.
Has nothing to do with emails being read or not.
I submitted a powerpoint to upper management showing how they should give me more money and larger bonus.
I get a feeling they liked my idea.
They will get back to me soon. Hopefully they'll implement my plan to take over T.
I'll keep you all posted.
I presented idea of replacing our toilets with bidets to save on toilet paper. Got laughed at. Management just don't get it.
I presented the idea of not cleaning the restrooms and buildings but once every 6 months and never clean the floors. I also suggested they quit supplying hand soap and toilet paper because the employees would supply their own when it ran out. So far it’s working and has saved many jobs.
I got a ten dollar gift card, felt well compensated and appreciated. Thank you Lords of the realm.
definitely not the place for ideas, unless you are somehow able to make them a reality. I stopped doing this a few years back when I realized there is no benefit for it, somebody else will just claim it. Instead use that creativity and focus your energy where you want your life to be in a few years ahead doubling your salary. Setup a plan of action and follow that path even if it means moving on from t or expanding outside of your career
eNPS is sadly, like some others on here mentioned, a waste of time at this company, because the executive branch is not interested in real employee feedback at any level. Good scores, yes; an abundance of detractor feedback, no. The detractor feedback is treated with disdain and produces a ridiculous amount of reactive work for L1, L2 and L3 managers who are then tasked with “turning the scores around”. The people in these positions are not usually authorized to make any real changes and instead, invest a tremendous amount of time cloaking and discrediting the detractor feedback so they can bucketize it as “no action needed” or “no problem exists for us to do anything about”. These are smart people that are usually overwhelmed with other action items so the bias to investigate and discredit the detractor feedback is high, despite much of the feedback being truthful. Much of the negative feedback cannot be categorized as “global”, so those teams responsible for reviewing it, tend to single it out as “local” and it never moves up the chain of command to see the light of day from an unbiased view.
Bottom line, eNPS is just as crooked and screwed up as the rest of the company.
I too submitted ideas to my loser of a boss only to have them shot down in flames because, I was told, "we don't have time for that". Then the POS continued to ignore my emails and started blaming me for incomplete projects, etc. Every single time the guy blamed me for projects being late I had to point out that I DID finish every project on time and budget and he would see my communications IF HE ONLY TOOK TIME TO CHECK HIS EMAILS. He told several people behind closed doors I wasn't finishing assigned projects or finishing late. A female coworker finally had to explain to our boss that I did finish on time and budget because she HAD copies of every single email I sent to him. Only then did the di----t check his emails and find I did finish every project on time and under budget. The thing he said to her was "oh ya, I guess he did." He never did apologize to me directly.
This is the pi-s poor "management" we have at T.
I've had ideas in the past. Sometimes they are accepted and sometimes they are not. For ideas involving savings, they are all theoretical. Typically the company has to invest money in order to save hypothetical money. If the investment doesn't work out in practice management looks bad. And we've all seen plenty of internal investments that don't work out. So am I surprised or bitter when one of my ideas is not accepted? Not really. I'll try again with something else another day.
I was in the same position. I and others in our group tried to provide solutions and ideas to the group only to be criticized by the boss's pets and the boss himself. It eventually left most of the group silent during our meetings. Led to a very toxic work environment with no new solutions brought to the table just the same ole stale ones. The main reason this occurred cause the pets wanted to make sure they were the only ones getting the extra bonuses and I honestly felt my boss wanted that as well and didn't care about bringing fresh perspectives. This mostly occurred with the 30-40 year boss's locked into the old way of doing things.
I once showed the company how they were losing out on $13.5million a year. Once they realized it was legitimate, a lot of upper mgmt became very interested. I explained the issue over and over for 6 months until it was resolved. Never once did I get a “thank you”, or anything else. Upper mgmt took the glory themselves and I’m sure received extra bonus money that year.
This is how att works and shows appreciation to their employees.
That was in 2007 and since that time I will never again look to help the company with their many mistakes. Cruising along until that pension rolls in.
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Five years added to your age and service plus $5k per year of service. The offer that is coming in March 2023. If you are young…get out now. ATT sucks,and will destroy your life.
Nobody at Att gives a sh!t about you or ur your feelings. Hit the road, a-h0le.
Yeah baby! Protect yourself. Protect your family. Get vaccinated.
I had submitted an idea that could save over $24 million/year by reducing the effort needed by IT employees. It made it a fair amount up the food chain. But leadership claimed they didn't want expense-saving efforts. They wanted only those that would generate more revenue/profit. 'Course we know how pathetic that choice has been based upon T's financial performance.
The problems at AT&T for twenty years have not been a lack of ideas from employees, but instead massive financial disasters created by John Stankey. Yes, even under Randall, it was John who ran the biggest loser projects and acquisitions. Then the a-ho-e told all of us that we had to get the jab or lose our jobs. He directly threatened the livelihood of me and my family and I won't forget it.
It's the AT&T way. Extinguish any love for and excitement of the job. Your ideas were probably good, they just weren't THEIR ideas.
If it was their idea, you better believe they would be promoting it 150% and have town halls dedicated to patting themselves on the back for such good ideas.
14 year guy here, this company is made of 2 extremes. On one hand, you have Stankey and executives who are willing to gamble on billions on M&A adventures. When they failed, just call it reposition, BS to keeping their jobs and huge compensation. On the other hand, all levels of management are total risk adverse, adapting to good ideas are not part of their DNA. Unless there is 110% guaranteed success, no one is willing to stick their neck out.
If you speak out about good ideas, you are a trouble maker rocking the boat. Take your talents else where.
How about this? The company annually sends out employee surveys asking for honest and canid feedback. Besides sending daily emails showing groups for high organizations percentages participating, and the ones not, our leadership than spent the entire year and next year criticizing groups that weren’t as thrilled as they wanted to read about themselves. This “kool laid” leadership drinks nowadays must have more than I use to think mixed in. So much for action plans and improvements which made a difference years prior.
If you are desperate for a job this company should just be used as a stepping stone until you find another better job.
I started as outside plant tech and retired as a 2nd level manager. Becoming a 1st level manager requires that your manager likes you and is willing to assist you with getting a promotion by doing all HR paperwork and getting an approval by his 3rd level manager and has very little to do with how you are ranked high among your peers. The truth is for a promotion from 1st level to 2nd you need someone that will recommend you to HR from a 3rd level manager or above. Getting hired off the street to 1st or 2nd level manager by HR is all about your education and prior management experience. Unless a 4th level manager or higher up recommends you to HR because you are a close friend or a family member.
How do you know your ideas were that great? You talk as if you are entitled to a promotion. Well, everyone else feels the same. As one of the commenters has said, it may be best to keep on focusing on your work. It may end up reflecting in a better attitude.
Get your priorities straight and keep doing what you are doing with a good heart. Instead of trying to come across like you need your all high and mighty A$$ kissed. Then you might be promoted for coming across as genuine. If not time to move on to where you are appreciated.
This company still operates under the same old Bell mentality which was a monopolistic utility at one time! It has never deviated from that and continues to think they're the only player in town and that everyone wants their services! They couldn't be more wrong and needs to adapt to the competitive market that T is in. Management never cared about employee input and rarely if ever will!
They don’t want your input, they only care about their own ideas and their silly bonuses they worry about all year long, half of which goes to the IRS.