Nothing New, Give it your all

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/technology/gearing-up-for-the-cloud-att-tells-its-workers-adapt-or-else.html

Inside a glass-walled office where Mr. Stephenson meets presidential candidates and corporate titans, Mr. Thrun gave him a pitch on funding an online master’s degree in engineering that Udacity proposed to teach in conjunction with the Georgia Institute of Technology. Within five minutes, the two men were cross-legged on the floor, Mr. Stephenson eager to try a physics course.

His first online learning began with an unexpected challenge: getting online. AT&T’s own Wi-Fi was too clunky, Mr. Thrun recalled. Eventually they used Mr. Thrun’s smartphone, which ran on the network of T-Mobile, a rival carrier.

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The nanodegrees are probably worthless outside of T. If you are interested in doing something get a certification that is transferable.

I actually knew of several people on their second and third nano-degree that were trying hard to be relevant and they still got shown the door in the Q1/3 surplus events. These were people with terrific telecommute performance, strong work ethics, and all around great employees. This was in mobility, the division actively being out-sourced to the Czech republic and elsewhere.

I seriously do not think the push to train yourself internally in area completely different than the one you are is to make you better or more appealing to keep, but to afford the outward project of this is what AT&T does for its employees just before showing them the door. AT&T" "We are no longer a telecommunications company" is correct considering Verizon and T-Mobile has beaten us hans down.

People keep posting old news, this is from 2016.

5 hours ago by Anonymous | Post ID: @VJJEk4T-2tht

Yes it is "old" news. That is why the title of the post is "Nothing New" Do you think that those in the C-suite have upgraded their skills outside of maximizing the next quarters profits? AT&T is being run by "B" class of technical savvy individuals. Tip and Ring gurus...

they do not want to pay the pension. end of story.

The part about keeping your skills up to transformation and not being laid off, is false. I was let go early, and I considered early retirement, but I had many certificates completed. The videos were basically useless and do not teach any skills. They may give people who are extremely low Tech some very, very, basic knowledge but that is all. I earned the technology design engineer certificate or accreditation but they never explained what a technology design engineer is or what one does. But I was an engineer for 23 years at AT&T and I still don't know exactly what a technology design engineer does. There were just very, very, basic theoretical videos that everyone at ATT should already know.

People keep posting old news, this is from 2016.

The skills transformation was an effort to empower employees to maintain their value to to the company. No, it did it fit everyone's ideal style of learning, but it was a lot more than other companies did for their workforce before their businesses were disrupted.

I wonder how many shares of Udacity stock Mr. Randall owns.

Udacity is horrible.

That's an old article. They started laying off people last year if they didn't have any progress in the transformation.

So Randall has been with the company since he was 22 and knows nothing but AT&T and he's telling workers they have to become tech superstar world-beaters? You have got to be kidding.

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