Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

Uverse Outage and State of Business

Uverse television has been experiencing a nationwide outage since last night. Company socials are blowing up, tech support call centers have a 5-8 hour wait, and there is no mention of an outage anywhere on official comms. The social media managers are asking all customers who report the issue on Twitter to send them a DM to avoid making any public responses. To make matters worse, it went out during prime viewing of NFL playoff games and the company is now closed for MLK day. It’s a well known fact that the company wants to rid itself of traditional television services - just as they do the classic telco side of the business - but this is a nationwide outage impacting nearly all customers.

It is also not a secret that the company has pre-arranged and planned outages of DSL service in the past to force customers to call in and move to a different platform. That is a fact. Could this be a planned outage of Uverse to force customers to migrate to a different platform? Deceptive and potentially illegal practices hidden from the general public as usual.

I shouldn’t have to be a conspiracy theorist. The fact that I am entertaining this idea speaks volumes about AT&T. Any other company would be scrambling to fix an issue of this magnitude and communicate with its customers. Here at AT&T, we choose to ignore it because we don’t give a fu-k about our customers anymore.

What happened with the company? It’s disgusting. Leaders are more concerned about a targeted and deliberate layoff disguised as an RTO effort than they are the customers who pay our salaries. No matter what part of the business we represent, we have all had family and friends make comments about how terrible AT&T is. How do we defend the company many of us have spent our lives building? We can’t anymore. It’s over - and the company must be exposed for its deceptive business practices and lies to both employees and customers. Enough is enough.

We can be silent no longer. The house of cards needs to fall. We are all better than this, and those who still stand behind the company need to be snapped out of their trance. No amount of loyalty or a-s kissing will spare you. Dallas or Atlanta - it doesn’t matter if you “live your designation”. Everyone knows that nothing they say can be trusted. NOTHING. It is all a lie and we ALL KNOW IT. Yet here we are.

We need to rise up and expose the leadership of this company for the frauds they are.

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UVerse is posting a message that they are giving one free On Demand movie at no charge to make up for the National Network outage…….you must rent a movie by the end of January to receive the credit. Glad to see the acknowledgment of the outage.

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Post ID: @3npm+1qABA9Hc

Uverse,DTV and AT&T TV went to TPG capital. I know T has a 70% stake in the joint venture which it can exit in 8/2024. Even with such a large stake in the joint venture why is T still the “lead” for things related to these products, wouldn’t it be the newly formed joint venture. What is going to happen to all employees working in these products after 8/2024 should T sell their stake? I though a bunch of them moved at the time of the spin-off, but still see the product names in Titles, etc.

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Post ID: @2ctq+1qABA9Hc

A boomer fell asleep on the Uverse router. He’s awake now. No harm no foul.
Funny.
A lot of "boomers" are going to retire soon with benefits.
You will not be able to retire from AT&T. It is unfortunate to be you.

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Post ID: @2fya+1qABA9Hc

They probably didn't pay the franchise fees.

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Post ID: @1txz+1qABA9Hc

Thought this great product was eliminated because favorite son in law Randy had a better idea - take out a $60 billion loan and buy POC DTV at a 30% stock premium and sell it in a few years for about $25 billion leaving the company mortally wounded. Wow now that leadership! Thanks Randy, maybe the BOD they'll name a tower in Dallas after you!

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Post ID: @1kqj+1qABA9Hc

RE: tech support call centers have a 5-8 hour
That’s because they go through the script for every call. You could tell them you see the box on the side of the road was hit by a truck and they still tell you to reboot!

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Post ID: @1obo+1qABA9Hc

My U-verse is back up and running.

Had to reset my Wireless Receivers, but currently all appears well.

It is 1:31pm Monday afternoon here in Oklahoma City, OK

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Post ID: @jts+1qABA9Hc

Not the first time.

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Post ID: @qph+1qABA9Hc

Remember when it was a good product?
The money invested in the center in KC
Multiple Gensets
Two antenna farms for backup
Could still be a good product
Not everyone wants to stream

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Post ID: @vyb+1qABA9Hc

As a former (retired employee), I seem to recall a significant portion of the Uverse / Video feed backbone network and platforms to be in Texas?

Could be due to power outage.

See WEB site below.

https://poweroutage.us/area/regions

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Post ID: @xgz+1qABA9Hc

Is there anyone left that works on it? or were they all let go?

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Post ID: @bwq+1qABA9Hc

Not any type of conspiracy. Just incompetence.

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Post ID: @tot+1qABA9Hc

I think you’re not giving them ENOUGH credit. Why would they care about fu--ing up the entire payroll system? They don’t care about the employees, especially when it comes to money going out. They don’t care about problems it has caused to W4s, severance payments, and underpayments to employees. Don’t even get me started on just how bad the issues with upcoming W2s and tax documents could get. However, issues with employees getting double and triple pay because of holidays or problems logging off make their heads spin. Their response to Workday/Infor proves the point.

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Post ID: @auk+1qABA9Hc

" Could this be a planned outage of Uverse to force customers to migrate to a different platform? "

No, it couldn't.

This is a company that can't pay it's employees properly. You're giving them WAY too much credit.

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