Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

AT&T no longer has a “product” to sell

AT&T no longer has a “product” to sell. They’re not supporting their dial tone business, just as well since that business is slowly dying. However, they are ignoring their wireless side, losing customers at a frightening pace. Thay are outsourcing their cloud operations, they have cut their technical folks to the point that long haul circuits are suffering, affecting the Verizon’s, Southwest Airlines, etc. There will come a time when those major companies will go with someone else that will support them. Admittedly, right now their choices are limited, but Google is laying fiber all over the country, and there will always be microwave. The only thing T seems to be offering is big data. Not sure that alone will keep the stockholders interested in the long haul. I honestly think that T’s obsession with trying to out Google Google will be their ultimate downfall.

Agreed completely, @PHOTuvA-uhn. Don't expect things to change, either.

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Google stopped deploying fiber maybe a year or so ago? It is too expensive. Notice there aren't any new Google fiber cities.

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As someone who used to work at AT&T and has since worked at Google and gotten all the Amazon Web Services certs, this is really true. Google is so far ahead of everyone but Amazon it would be pointless to try catching up now. Google's Borg/Kubernetes stuff is the future. AT&T tried the cloud, but wouldn't listen to those of us who were trying to tell them how they had to build it, so we were shown the door.

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Agree this is a "Perfect Snapshot". Randy in so many words said out with the old employees and in with the new generation of creative employees that will bring AT&T into the future (just like google). Does he really think this is going to make AT&T successful. You can't change a culture by hiring educated creative people if you do not allow them to be creative. If these wonderful A-1 candidates actually accept a position with AT&T they will also be smart enough to bail once they see how this company treats their employees. One of our guiding principles: "Make it Fun". One of many difference betweeen AT&T and Google is Google respects, challenges and appreciates their employees. AT&T definition of making it a fun environment is to have the managers buy bright paint and paint the break room.....oh and have incentive games in which the managers need to personally foot the bill for that too. Give me a break! Change the upper management leadership with one of those bright upcoming leaders and then maybe AT&T would have a chance.

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This is a perfect snapshot of this company. Someone, sooner or later is going to look behind the curtain, and things are going to tumble. But little randy boy doesn’t have to worry, he has his golden parachute to sleep with at night. Stockholders and employees, not so much. If I owned stock in this company, I would definitely be looking at dumping it. This cannot possibly sustain for any length of time.

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