Thread regarding AT&T Inc. layoffs

The new AT&T

AT&T future in the hands of inept leadership, It refers to checking that something is right. Sometimes when people use this phrase, they're just repeating what someone else said, only in simpler terms to clear any confusion or make something more straightforward, no substance without any doubt, The company told CIO Journal that about 120,000 employees out of its 281,000 workers have completed 1.7 million online courses so far, and they are ready to face the challenges presented by new technology, really!!!!!?, The scale of the effort is unusual as many companies today tend to lay off employees when their technology skills become obsolete and hire new employees with the new skills. AT&T is an example of a company that’s trying something different in an effort to close the U.S. digital skills gap, where demand for highly-skilled tech jobs outstrips the supply of qualified workers.

To be sure, AT&T will likely face challenges including workers who may not be motivated to make the switch and layoffs as it transitions to new technology,

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Take your vitamins, drink your milk and spend at least 10 hours a week with online courses.

Success will follow.

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Post ID: @2vbw+GPtbvdB

I have a Computer Engineering degree, a Comp Sci masters, and over 15 years experience programming. AT&T laid me off. Their programming classes are pathetic. Learning to code takes experience, not a few on-line courses. The other AT&T courses I took also seemed to be really light on networking fundamentals and seemed pretty worthless.

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Post ID: @2rgs+GPtbvdB

Some of the skillport courses are not too bad and will be worth something if followed by a recognized certification. For programming it is just a cursory introduction. To be a developer takes years of hard work.

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Post ID: @1hqt+GPtbvdB

I have taken quite a few of these online courses for my 'new 2020' job and I can't see how this is going to help me. I will be 62 in 2021 so I plan on retiring anyway, but I don't work with anyone that thinks these courses will help us at all. But then again, no one knows what our job title means anyway. It would be nice if they made a video on what our job titles are and what we will do. I really have no clue whatsoever what AT&T will have me doing per my job title. But I really like my job and hope I can last as long as possible.

I agree with the above post....I took some computer programming courses in college in the very early 80's and I don't see how people will be 'writing code' by just watching these video's.

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Post ID: @bzj+GPtbvdB

The report said tha People are learning the technology of the future with online courses? rather silly, as a programmer I can tell you that a logic mind can't be created, code is intuitive and creative, for example Python. Its a solid language, available cross platforms, is dynamic , you can run it interactively which is great for lashing stuff together and it has a fairly large selection of libraries so its a general purpose language so can be applied to most problems, in the other hand you can't make a programmers watching videos.

That's the beauty of a logic mind and can't replicated watching videos, when I am Thinking of "scripting" and "programming" languages as totally different animals is pretty much obsolete when there's Python...gets my vote as the best all around multi purpose scripting language. And works on most if not all platforms and is really the better "scripting" language for hacking some code together, people in charge of technology dev at AT&T should hire competent and able professionals to train the workforce of the future, not the current dinosaurs that run this training itch LSO's

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