Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

The company has hit a brick wall. Too late with the fiber build. All the buy high sell low acquisitions. It’s over. Do the bare minimum and ride it as long as you can stomach the bs. Always look for another opportunity cuz that pink slip can happen at anytime now a days especially for non union employees. Or do like the person to my right that has been doing real estate while on the clock. Now that’s the bare minimum. Emails have consequences when they say “Your opinions don’t matter here. Now get in line.” No problem I can join the rest of the pi-s€d off masses. Check please.

The haters in this thread saying “nothing has changed” can say what they want, but they’re Stankey “team players” and likely hold T stock given how sycophantic they are…and look at the stock.

So who is really winning & right?

I don’t care about the company, don’t believe in Stankey, and am collecting my paycheck, selling my stock every bi weekly period and putting it into actual well managed companies.

You’re a brokie watching your retirement and savings dwindle away day by day, likely down tens or hundreds of thousands, if not more.

So keep saying “see you on the commute” cause I’ll be seeing you in the breadline when I drive by it in my Mercedes.

AT&T = The New Radio Shack. There are remnants in the company still of value that will be sold off. There are case studies being written on mismanagement. The new Plano location will never be occupied by AT&T.

@a6 Actually, things have changed. Most of the employees no longer ca about the work they do. 8&Skate is not a prevalent attitude. That is not the change Stank wanted, but that is what he has created!

@a7 He did admit to regretting not starting his culture change implementation sooner. Of course, that just solidifies his narcissistic personality because he cannot bring himself to admit he erred.

agree with what you said but also his comment “we need younger people” and other comments that CEOs should know better than to state aloud. He’s incompetent — doesn’t know how to be a CEO and just writes and says what he wants like a rich spoiled brat — but worse — he’s negatively impacted so many lives.
Why won’t anyone get him gone????

@2 I agree with the majority of your statements. The only point that I take issue with is that Stank felt “regret”. That did not even enter into his mind. Full scale narcissists (which Stank is) are born without the inter prospective chip. Regret is something that he clearly did not feel and never will.

@a5 "It has been almost a year and nothing has changed, so was it really damaging?"

Interesting comment -- the entire message from Stank was that he has to CHANGE the culture, and as you just admitted, nothing has changed. So, not only has it been a complete failure of change, Stank has completely "lost the locker room" now. Yes, it really was damaging.

It has been almost a year and nothing has changed, so was it really damaging?

Considering where the email originated and who the intended audience was, it is, without doubt, the most damaging email in AT&T history. It might be the most damaging, intentional communication in corporate history. You could argue that there were other, more damaging communications, but those were normally errors and not meant to be sent

Whatever positive culture was left at AT&T was ki-led, like a dagger through the heart, when that email was released.

John drank half a bottle of bourbon and wrote that out thinking it was pure genius. After sending it out, the next morning he was met with 75 missed calls from legal, a hangover, and regret.

That notorious drunken 8/1/25 email has done more damage to this company and his legacy than he could have ever imagined. Nothing will ever be the same again.

And yet.

You know the rest.