Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

Most companies with longevity like AT&T traditionaly need to hire new employees , a new generation every 10 or 20 years. 10 years ago they negotiated a new lower wage scale to install internet and tv , These outside employees (prem techs) are younger and some have good work ethic but the rest do not , to make matters worse they were not vetted or trained properly and consequently most have quit or been fired. . If T is going to replace the current workforce they might consider accommodating these new millennials with shorter work weeks and later start times , maybe throw in some gluten free pizza parties and cheese cake. Good luck with that, the need for long hours of hard and technical work is still there now more than ever. They re going to have to vet the new millennial worker very thoroughly.

This guy must be high as a kite, millennials? this guy doesn’t have kids , Gen X techs will save the company and suffer greatly for trying. they’ll be layed off too only after the company is an ash heap in the landfil of history.

This isn’t about millenials. It is about ability. It asks very little of its people and prefers to bring in temporary workers. They run the show and after a while they have cut employees out of the picture- hike up their rates and get kicked out by the bean counters. Employees step in to mop up and figure out the mess as best as they can. New vendors come in and the cycle repeats.

You work for a CEO that is an accountant and doesn't know a thing about how the systems work. All he cares about is a bottom line and his bonus. Has turned a good communication company into an entertainment business. Good luck to all the customers out there thatwill have to deal with high prices and poor services.

Att cares only about down sizing work force,and laying off or surplus

Most of the millennials I worked with at AT&T lacked basic communications and people skills. One of the 20-somethings I worked with who was hired to handle social media couldn't compose a 140-character tweet on his own, so the company hired an agency to do it for him. Then he insulted the agency and AT&T corporate communications so badly that both groups refused to work with him. Yet it took nearly two years for AT&T to get rid of him. I saw other millennials openly go against management's requests, then tell their supervisors they'd complain to HR if they were called out. They'd roll in at 10 and leave by 4. Deadlines were targets, and if they missed one, oh well. If AT&T is trying to build a staff of millennials, everyone over 35 should leave now and let them have the company. It won't last more than a year.

Millennials can't be trusted with AT&T Secrets?, LOL, for a SILO company, many of you have not idea whats going on in the real world, probably the only job you ever had.

I would not say much if I were you! lol

Remember it's not what you know, it's who you know. The millennials get this and walk on everyone's backs while they build their personal network.

yeah it is called automation and only 25 percent of the workforce will be needed....nice try.

Lol...The Millennials are the most productive? is that a joke! The ones I’ve worked with run from hard work, take shortcuts & take the easy way out! And never go above and beyond with customers

The problem is millennials don’t like hard work, so you’ll have to keep older folks around to keep the network running. Any work that can be done remotely on a keyboard can be done by millennials if they can pass the background checks.

bring in new employees to do what? the company doesn't have the capital to spend and if they did, what would these new initiatives be??? they are in sustainment mode period...., nothing else to do with wireline, wireless, or DTV...these business are DOA. time warner is being kept separate and for good reason. the company is still being managed as if its 1972...

Young people would be good except for the fact that AT&T is a very 'top down' company. The leadership needs to be changed first to get in "younger" thinkers. They put Stankey in charge of entertainment and he is an 'old phone company' person. He walks into a town hall meeting for HBO and tells them they need to come up with much more quality content. You just don't tell an "Eric Clapton" to have 5 top 10 songs on my desk by EOB today. Creative people think much different than the average phone company employee.

We also use many old systems that will be very costly to replace. I think AT&T will always make money but if they want to do and try to be a Silicon Valley .com company they need younger thinkers. When I say younger thinkers I do not mean young people. But leadership has been at the old-fashioned phone company, and started at the bottom, for over 30 years. I don't think they have what it takes to be like a Google or Apple. There are a lot of people who used be able to work at home and now they made them come back to our building and they sit at large desk with their laptops. They don't have a desk phone or any privacy like the small cubes we sit in. We would told that the upper management didn't trust them working outside the office. Young companies trust their people who can tele-commute. Just my opinion though.

Anyone supporting automation initiatives in the company will be safe.