Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

Monkey see, monkey do keeps my paychecks coming.

leadership just throws out the last tech buzz and thinks they are genius then when it fails they buy a company with the tech that made it work and lay off the people they hired to do the job because of their failed leadership.

I remember micro services micro services micro service and the accountant spewing was all the sudden a genius.

My leadership has such a hard on for whatever the latest buzzword is. So of course they want AI. They have no idea where or why. But hey we’ll get some built that accomplishes nothing and they’ll get relief from that hard on.

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Well stated my friend!

TRUTH!

AT&T is busted a-s broke. All they can do to survive is rob Peter to pay Paul.
These high interest rates are the final nail in their coffin.

I know now who generates all that cust week emails crAIp.

You have been talking about AI for 10 to 15 years, but you should watch out for AGI. AGI is already here and it may replace your job in the future.

Here is a very simple equation for you. When performance results in very poor and somewhat disastrous results, do you retain the performer, or do you remove said performer, or do you give them 4 more chances cost the company Billions of dollars?

I want to hear from the downvoters.

Mobile phones are innovative. Amazing that voice just magically flows through the air with no wires. And texting. OMG. Type the words and the words get to the other person. Just wow.

“ Compare him to Musk or Zuckerberg. I don't particularly like either, but you have to admit: they know how to take risks and commit to a vision even when they are making a ton of mistakes along the way. Something our leadership knows nothing about.”

Apples and oranges - you can’t compare corporate sycophants to real entrepreneurs. Throw Steve Jobs in that column also, they all want to be those people and worship them, but all they know is how to be yes people and play a game of climb the ladder. People with actual vision and skills have a hard time climbing a corporate ladder - see Jobs, Gates, Bezos, etc. all were just run of the mill office people before doing their own thing. None of their managers thought much of them. The real talented people are the ones that get it done and their peers go to them for help, those are rarely the people that get promoted. I see tons of talented people at ATT that never even get a second look when it’s time to promote someone.

It used to be back in the 80s. Besides what innovation has AT&T brought to the internet or anything else in the last 30 years? Deploying someone else's innovation is not innovative.
Dennis Ritchie doesn't work here anymore, Claude Shannon doesn't work here anymore. We hire MBAs not scientists. And those MBAs shuffle numbers on a spreadsheet. The don't invent information theory, or the transistor or the C programming language or the Unix OS.

Stankey has invented creative financing. Does that count?

"You don't think the internet is innovative?"

It used to be back in the 80s. Besides what innovation has AT&T brought to the internet or anything else in the last 30 years? Deploying someone else's innovation is not innovative.
Dennis Ritchie doesn't work here anymore, Claude Shannon doesn't work here anymore. We hire MBAs not scientists. And those MBAs shuffle numbers on a spreadsheet. The don't invent information theory, or the transistor or the C programming language or the Unix OS.

The websites and apps may be innovative but the data pipes aren’t innovative. We don’t make the fiber cable or the equipment. We don’t install the equipment or lay the fiber. Contractors do that. Apparently a dividend paying company cannot build a network without capitol markets. We fell into the cheap money trap when rates were historically low and dividends were crazy high.

LOL at “You don't think the internet is innovative?”

Do you really think your electric company or fuel provider is innovative because it powers your car?

This is where ideas go to die.

Besides, we can’t afford it anyway we are broke!

Time to cut MORE personnel!

Whining for the sake of whining.

You don't think the internet is innovative?

Stankey AKA Gargamel thinks “Acting Boldly “ means choosing Caffeine drinks over Decaf drinks after 6PM against the advice of his maid.