Thread regarding AT&T Inc. layoffs

The report released on Wednesday highlighted the growing income divide in this country, as the U.S. moves towards becoming a country dominated by upper income earners and the very poor after the middle class—including upper income earners--struggled through years of recession, wage stagnation and mounting housing and education costs. Democratic and Republican presidential candidates alike have made the plight of the middle class a major campaign theme this year – and for good reason.

The middle class was once the backbone of the U.S. economy: a majority of Americans living in households earning between two-thirds to two times the nation’s median income. Last year, being middle class meant having an income that ranged from $41,900 to $125,600 for a three-person household, according to governme

I say take your paycheck, stay under their radar ,"be invisible" they do like that,,and most important stay active looking for pportunities elsewhere,at the end you will conquer , and your previous work life at his company will seem just ..like a bad dream,

One very adverse side effect of working for this company is the trend that is increasingly paying lower salaries that ever before to employees with a college Degree or higher, most are unable to leverage their credentials to get a better paying job here. Thinking about a transfer, or perhaps a fresh start? what make you think that watching some videos on line, and completing some online tests will have any bearing on your future with this company? Do you Keep you head down and collect your paycheck as long as you can, or you prepare yourself for what is most important to and your career?

Reality is that college educated co workers productivity is continuing its descent to all time lows, our work volume os 50 % and that is after the company issued the surplus declaration for half of the workers in our unit, we noticed that the higher the salary the faster AT&T's response of laying off a proportional number of workers, simply targeting specifically those in their higher wage /tenure, the net result overall group compensation gains are lost, this trend will not change, good luck to all

Oh it's entirely possible and it's happening today. I support a production system that was built by and is expanded by offshore contractors. They get hired to perform a specific project piece and then at the end of 6 months their contract is up and they are gone. None of the replacements seem to know how to support what's in place or how the system interacts with others. Docs never get updated and are terribly inaccurate. Working an outage is a nightmare marathon of "All hands on board! We don't know what piece is broken yet!" Having come from better times in the company's history, I'm more saddened by what we've become than angry.

"Extremely complicated" you are funny!

This is not possible. The systems that we are working on with in ATO for instance are extremely complicated and very customized. To create a work force that is disposable would require up to date documentations with easy duplicatable processes that anyone could follow as well as good DevOps. I do not see how this can be accomplished with the current environment.

True

People in my group were offered jobs in another state. CWA agreement allowed ATT to move jobs. Guess what? ATT knew almost none would move with no future of employment guarantee beyond 12 months.

who is stupid enough to think HR did not have this in the plan all along.

ATT is hiring many employees in 206 and 2017 unfortunately none are in the US. Outsourcing and using contractors gives them big savings on medical and other employee costs. My entire group was outsourced to India for IT support. Only 4 of us found jobs in other departments but wonder when it will hit here. so 72 people gone and not even a bit of concern by either ATT or the CWA who had 12 of the people doing administrative work. The union people thought they would be safe. The big surprise was the company could offer them jobs in any region they worked. all were offered jobs from Chicago to lower Indiana and Ohio. when they complained to the union all they got was ignored.

so all in all it s---s to be here.