Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

AT&T is doomed to fail in the wake of free market internet environment. T stills has the mentality of the protected utility. They have been allowed by law to make a profit and charge whatever the FCC allowed them to. Over the decades there is no telling how much money they ripped off the paying customers with fees and charges no one understood. I can understand thats what it took to get POTS to every single person who wanted it. However, they went too far with that mentality and I don't think the executives or managers ever cared so long as they played the game and made thier money and got thier pensions funded along with the benefits that you hardly saw anywhere else. The craft workforce was of course protected by the Union, so long as the threat of a strike was real. They really did have some power at one time. But those days are long gone. It's time for this company to sell off everything once again. This time they need to retire the brand once and for all. Let the smaller more agile companies pick up the pieces and give the customer a real service again. If these smaller companies would simply create a work environment that is based on truth and respect for thier employees and give them a real piece of the company, they might help management understand and the work that is done is productive and worth doing.