“I was in the room. They reaffirmed the importance and history there is in NJ, and it will now be considered a “Main Hub” location going forward. Dallas #1, Atlanta #2, NJ #3. Anyone outside these 3 hubs come 2025”
Yup, was there too. Confirmed.
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Oh look, 8 jobs available in NJ. Guess we’re just hiring and have 100’s of college grads here because we’re shutting down.
Durp!
NJ has moved up to the one spot this week in the hub ranking as leadership is abandoning the heat in Dallas, buying up everything for sale in the Hamptons.
The new Bedminster location is a 7yr lease, signed in 2023.
As the poster below said, Bedminster is a temporary holding spot until the restack in Middletown is done. I suspect Bedminster will then close and any survivors will be consolidated into Bldg A Middletown. Besides in the meantime, they have time for more layoffs.
Here’s what you don’t get. Just because you don’t see as many job listing in Middletown as Dallas, doesn’t mean we aren’t hiring and bringing in the new talent.
We have hundreds of kids right out of college and they’re recruited directly from their schools.
Betcha didn’t know that did you?
Nope, bc you don’t know much of anything.
“More layoffs to impact all locations as more work is offshored to Mexico City. If you do a search in web phone you will also notice these are badged not contractors. Bottom line, NJ is not a growth area.“
Oh? So why do we have an entire floor of TDP kids fresh out of college with advanced STEM degrees then?
You’re speaking of things you have absolutely no knowledge on. Aka, you’re an I-d-i-o-t
More layoffs to impact all locations as more work is offshored to Mexico City. If you do a search in web phone you will also notice these are badged not contractors. Bottom line, NJ is not a growth area.
OP- or anyone who was in the meeting- was there any information regarding Bedminster vs Middletown as far as “New Jersey “ being an ATS hub?
(I believe the Bedminster building was only leased a for a few years)
OP is a troll so don't believe any response---they mentioned nothing about hub status of either Middletown or Bedminster at the meeting. The reality is that both were named hubs in the past as well as the subset of Legg hubs but as we've seen, that doesn't mean anything going forward. As for as Middletown, building A is owned, buildings B-C-D-E are leased and the lease is up in 2027. That's why the frantic push to cram everyone into building A by ripping out offices and making everything open space as much as possible. They also have to move lab space and that has it's own issues of power and weight and I've heard they're trying to concentrate them on the bottom two floors for those reasons. They've already gutted parts of buildings B-C-D-E down to the sheet rock throwing out all desks, etc for apparently tax reasons. They still have to pay the lease but can declare it unusable office space to reduce it.
As for as Bedminster, they moved out of the old office and to a couple of smaller buildings up the road not that long ago. That's now leased and maybe someone knows for how long, but I'm not exactly sure.
As for the long term status of either location, nobody really knows but am sure once the gutting of Middletown gets complete and they know how many more cockroaches they can cram in, they'll probably again turn their attention to Bedminster. Think about what happened in Washington state with Seattle which really were Bothell and Redmond...only one survived so it's not beyond thinking the same will be in NJ
This must mean golden boy moves back to New Jersey.
Op is a troll. No truth to it.
“I have also heard that he wants to close Atlanta, because its too unsafe.”
- That would be a hard DE&I hit due to the ethnic makeup of Midtown.
You have to be completely off your rocker if you believe ANYTHING that comes out of Stankey’s mouth.
Lest not forget, Stankey was the Chief Strategy Officer who helped drive us into billions $$ debt in the first place. Now he’s systematically running thousands of managers off the payroll under the guise of RTO and FTW.
I mean seriously, this guy is a joke and so is most of his entourage. If you think for one minute that Middletown is part of his long term strategy, your sadly mistaken.
OP- or anyone who was in the meeting- was there any information regarding Bedminster vs Middletown as far as “New Jersey “ being an ATS hub?
(I believe the Bedminster building was only leased a for a few years)
Another troll spewing BS
With all the hiring in India, if they did eliminate the H1B program and relocate those workers back to their India hub, there would be plenty of space in the Middletown building. Enough so that maybe they would shut it down.
Have to stay in NJ because that is where all their coyotes operate bringing in H1Bs.
So are the buildings closed today for toxic cleanup left by the Stink and his Ilk?
It doesn't take their presence to create a toxic area. It doesn't look like they've ever updated the bathrooms since they built the building in the 90s and they sure haven't increased the cleaning crews to take care of what happens when you cram people into space like cockroaches. Restrooms and kitchenettes are always disgusting. Even the "free coffee" machines are now breaking and spraying coffee outside the cup basins and they haven't even been there that long.
If they even did something to spruce up the buildings for the stank visit, it wasn't clear to anyone. Still piles of equipment sitting in the hallways in boxes. Even lab space is being reduced to cram them into the building so tons of scrap equipment. Then there's the sound of saws ripping through old offices taking out sheet rock to open up the space and cardboard floor coverings trying to protect the slate floors in the main floor hallways. Not sure why they even bother with that because they never really fix the tiles when they break--they simply patch the missing fragments with concrete.
In few years we will be on Mars. Who cares about Atlanta or NJ.
But att doesn’t care about history. Do you mean that Stankey said that New Jersey WAS history? Because that would make sense.
They never said that NJ would be a 3rd Hub. Wishful thinking.
someone asked the lame question about where do you intend to be in 5 years. Stink didn't answer it and not sure Fluffy really did either. So there's only hope both of them will be gone soon.
Legg said something to the effect that he'll be close to retirement and something about him not being near his kids living in Atlanta. So am sure what will stay open will be directly based on his personal desires.
I mean, if you are a spineless narcissist, you'd tell everyone surrounding you that they are historic and amazing and smart, so that they'd let you get to your personal jet without messing up either your ego or schedule.
I have also heard that he wants to close Atlanta, because its too unsafe. Said the same thing about St Louis and Chicago. Why is Legg so afraid of crime between the hours of 9-10:30am ct once every two months? Did he get roofied during breakfast in one or all of these places?
So are the buildings closed today for toxic cleanup left by the Stink and his Ilk?
When/where did they say this? It wasn't in the auditorium.
I didn't hear them say this either. And can't believe they would ever say any location is safe.
Shut NJ down, get rid of K Snyder, P. Doiwack - toxic leaders
New Jersey needs to go away - too expensive to employ people there! Just shut it down and stick with the plan.
Can confirm. Except rumor is that Legg wants to move to NJ and close Atlanta altogether.
When/where did they say this? It wasn't in the auditorium.