Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

Oh the irony of a RTO presence report being given by an AVP who’s clearly working from home!

You can’t make this stuff up.

This meeting would make a great SNL sketch. Kate McKinnon was born to be Bonnie. All you need is Beavis and Bu-----d to show up and this stupidity writes itself.

If following RTO guidelines there is no need to analyze the report.

Has anyone with half a brain been consulted about the direction this is going? Probably not.

What a waste of time and resources. What a shame. Bunch of ........ .

Shocked! Not! All about getting rid of people, always has been. Haven’t seen productivity go up since RTO, it’s actually down as people are unavailable during commute times and often after hours. Before people would reply quickly and handle things late if needed, not any more. D-mbest move ever if the goal was productivity.

Gotta love the HR employees working from home, talking about in office presence and discipline for those that don’t come into the office. The irony

“This helps the stock price, customer service or any other metric how?”

By ensuring more consistent productivity. Metrics continue to confirm employees are more available during when in person at the office. It’s less common to not get a response from workers in the office for hours at a time like it is when they are WFH.

“The share point is like google. AT&T has absolutely lost control over everything”

These people are so stupid, they probably never even thought that people would watch this to try and avoid this nonsense.

It’s wild how excited these paper-pushers are about this pointless tracking software that only a hand-full of people in the company actually care about.

People who specialize in management are wild.

“Very interesting. And some of the rumors are apparently true, regarding Mac's, LANS, etc.”

Mac’s are going to be like gold until they sort this out.

All of these resources going into policing employees. What a waste. Glad I'm getting out of this dump in a few weeks. And no, this has nothing to do with going in 3 times a week. It's the principal of the thing. Never, ever in my professional life was I ever tracked liked a prison inmate.

Very interesting. And some of the rumors are apparently true, regarding Mac's, LANS, etc.

"It’s three days a week get over it."

Ok genius so let's break this down.

• This was a one hour call with a large number of senior leaders on it. That's a pretty damn expensive meeting to learn how to tell if people are calling into Teams meetings from home or some drab cube. Just add up the hourly rates of the attendees. Is that really the best possible use of that money?

• Not a word was said about quality of work, productivity, output or anything that actually matters. It was about location. Stock price is stuck in the mud and as Bonnie said, the focus is on 'living your designation'. She seems like she would be first in line to shove the Kool Aid down her kids' throats at Jonestown.

• This is a pretty slick looking report that is regularly updated and easy to use. Everyone on my team would KI-L to have reporting like this on programs that you know, actually contribute to the bottom line. Instead, getting usable data is like a visit to the Na-i dentist from Marathon Man. All this to monitor where people are sitting. How many meetings, dev hours, HR enforcers etc. are being used for this stupidity? Is this what shareholders want leadership to spend money on?

• The manager of this report seemed eager to find ways to track people's movements even closer. This is what you went to school to do? Really? This helps the stock price, customer service or any other metric how?

• Look, everyone who has worked for more than five minutes knows you are being monitored, but please don't ask these d-mb survey questions about trust when it is patently obvious that our leadership has no trust in the people who work for them.

It's not about the three days, I go in and do the time. it's about the massive waste of time, money and energy devoted to ensuring that the company can lay off thousands without taking the media hit and boosting execs egos.

wow these HR people are such losers 😂 cannot believe this is what they spend their time and resources doing. that was a good tip, thanks for the heads up!!

It’s three days a week get over it.

The share point is like google. AT&T has absolutely lost control over everything

Definitely worth watching but you should probably jump on it before it is taken down/restricted. How much time and money is wasted on this Big Brother BS

“Thanks! It worked. This explains how PTO factors into the employee rating.”

The only question that needs answering is WHY it factors into employee ratings-

How is irrelevant.

Thanks! It worked. This explains how PTO factors into the employee rating.