job security, it turns out, targeted firings are far more palatable to ATO managers, than wide-swath layoffs. 2 SME's were targeted by the clueless Area manager-supervisor, while her buddy's got the free pass, the ones you never hear about even on team calls, "you know who you are", forever absent , the employee sentiment, among other things, that failure to get rid of non-performers damages morale, When I talk to other peers, one of the biggest complaints I get is how our company do a poor job of facing up to poor performers. It's always the most negative finding when you have the "sheep" type of team
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I have a friend who is in house counsel for a major Corp, off the record they told me that if you think your layoff was personal, it likely was. Also everything is negotiable including your severance package, so it's possible to use "the personal" as leverage, esp if you don't plan on returning. Ymmv.
ATT will never be number one...
OP, you sound like you work for my ex-manager. Sadly, the same can probably be said of all of ATO. Get rid of the knowledgable people because they're a threat.
I agree T Mobile CEO seems to get it. He has been an executive at AT&T for 20 years and apparently learned what not to do. AT&T is just cutting their own throat by acting this way and letting knowledgable people go. They will learn their leason the hard way by falling behind T Moble one day and loose all the prestige they once held. AT&T is on their way down I think. I am going to try to join T Mobile as well, anyone has any advice of how to get into a technical field as an architect.
Just moved over to T-Mobile too. CEO seems to "get" culture. and he seems generally interested in new ideas that buck convention, look at him. He presents as a real "outsider" that's part of what att needs. A fresh pair of eyes not mired down with history and fixing repeated bad decisions.
You know somethings wrong when a director (disconnected, unaffected and checked out) surpluses a guy whose been taking security classes and their professor used their innovative network design as part of the course material and has been teaching 100s with it in the last two semesters. That's when I knew something God awful was wrong with the layoff algorithm. You don't lay that sort of person off. But alas he spoke up about something...and the rest is history.
When surpluses become personal...this is the dirty dark secret of recent att layoffs. And Mgrs (privately pissed) with no power, afraid it could be them ...look the other way. And do what they can to help. But sometimes it's too late surpluses come with stigma.
Been with the company 20 years and have seen this more and more. I've now severed all my services with the company and hope others do the same to send s message
AT&T will pay for their stupidity but unfortunately at the expense of qualified workers. Once you ruin your reputation it will be very hard to get it back and AT&T is ruining their reputation. The more people learn about what is going on at AT&T, the less people will want to work there and customers will also start leaving.