I'm in the ATO org too. And get this. My group was left Friday with a lot of ambiguity. We were told that the official announcement had to be made on Monday for the cuts. Its just so inconsistent across the board. Why send people into the weekend NOT KNOWING. Morale is in the crapper. I think the biggest lesson though is to develop multiple streams of income. I have a small business that does pretty well esp in 4Q and getting a few other things started as well. Training obviously is important too. The udacity and agile/pm certs I think are important as well.
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By definition you can't exactly offer jobs to people who are laided off if the goal is payroll reduction.
AT ATO , LAYOFFS ALL OVER THE PLACE, NO JOB OFFERED TO NO ONE,
Not going to happen. Direct TV is all contractors also and soon most of the server and network mobility support will either be off-shore or contractor.
I think ATO is going to have a LOT of lay-offs the next few years. I was stuck in ATO and could not believe how much of it is data entry and how much of the work is still focused on 2G. Those jobs can't possibly last. On the other hand, the management at those jobs fights tooth and nail against giving other groups access to their servers or automating anything. So, who knows, maybe there are enough backwards thinkers higher up ATO will last. My recommendation to anyone in ATO is to start taking stuff like Udacity classes and learn JavaScript. You'll likely never use it at AT&T, but you'll make yourself much more employable if you get laid off.