Three to four thousand outside technicians will be forced out over the next three years. Top officials from company and union know this and it will start next year. AI is going to take a lot of jobs away!! Even if AI doesn’t replace your duties specifically, it will still reduce the workforce needed by ramping up productivity and lowering inefficiencies.
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Always remember, most posts on here are speculation and what's really going to happen is a highly regarded secret until launched.
In some area osp just paint the road and refuse to do anything else. It’s the biggest scam of all time
Pete Davidson has signed a contract with at&t. His likeness will be used as the new synthtech model 1.0 that will be used to remove bridge tap and make pair changes. The first 2000 are currently being assembled. They are fully upgradable and later models will have built in OTDRs and fusion splicers. In line with DEI, non white and non male celebrities will serve as a templates for future models.
Managers will be required to remove bridge tap in aerial splices at the limit of their 28’ ladder, climb in crawl spaces and summer attics, dig pits to rebuild splices for pair recovery, drill holes in houses, trailers, buildings and hope they don’t contact an electrical wire. Pull fiber through multi story conduits and not get help from craft union dreg employees. Hope you pick the right conduit for conduit window opening or else “bang”. Maybe you would be better off quitting before this.
Al couldn’t do worst than the engineers we have in my area😀……I mean I don’t think Al would do away with a Xbox ( splice some not all pairs then bury in the ground)and then wonder why we have troubles
Complicated field work for technicians doesn't exist either. I can train a monkey to do my job in 3 days! Let's face it, the work isn't that technical or difficult anymore! This can be supported just by the types of technicians being hired because they're coming in with little or no knowledge and managing to get the jobs done!
Prem techs (a dime a dozen) are a little bit different than I&R techs that know the outside plant, and know the documentation is nothing more than a suggestion that has been corrupted over the last 40 years.
Complicated field work for technicians doesn't exist either. I can train a monkey to do my job in 3 days! Let's face it, the work isn't that technical or difficult anymore! This can be supported just by the types of technicians being hired because they're coming in with little or no knowledge and managing to get the jobs done!
Sounds good. The contingency training for potential strike duty should go ever so smoothly then. I cannot wait the until RTO'd non bargained geniuses (Learn Craft Jobs in 3 Days online) has to put up or shut up. Those ladders are tall and heavy too, and when you fall, well you have about 1.49 seconds to reflect upon your life. Was AT&T worth it?
The outside plant documents you will be given are wrong as well. They have been wrong for decades. The Union employees (Dregs) know the outside plant. You do not.
Luckily the company will coddle you, but not for very long. AT&T doesn't want to pay per diem for an ineffective workforce.
Think you are special? How has your benefits, days off, healthcare going these days?
New tools to troubleshoot? You have more web based and handheld tools now to troubleshoot broadband service than ever before in At&t history.
I have nothing but respect for techs as I’ve been through copper and fiber splicing several times but no longer do it. Don’t see AI impacting field or customer prem work but it would be nice to have newer and better tools to troubleshoot.
Wish they would do that!!!
Come on Dist9
Give me my severance!!$$$
Well if in D3 and you leave AT&T don't think about going to MasTec. Former director Robert Suarez is now there as a senior VP or something.
The guy disappeared from the payroll after an investigation and now pops up years later at MasTec. Total piece of cr-p
Fine. Pay me to leave. I’m ready.
A1 will use algorithms to manage tech work load. Mostly retail and call center folks in the beginning.
AI won't get rid of outside jobs but contractors like AFL and MasTec to name a few could displace some workers.
Yawn
Complicated field work for technicians doesn't exist either. I can train a monkey to do my job in 3 days! Let's face it, the work isn't that technical or difficult anymore! This can be supported just by the types of technicians being hired because they're coming in with little or no knowledge and managing to get the jobs done!
Customer self install…..
Explain how AI will replace techs in the field? ATT isn’t buying robots who can drive to customer sites and perform physical work. The technology to have robots do complicated technology field work doesn’t exist.
AI will get rid of desk jobs, not outside tech jobs. That will require robots.