Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

I started with an SBC wireless company back in 94. Times were good. SBC started buying all of the Baby Bells. No problem., They left wireless alone. Each market had leadership that was accountable for their markets. It felt like working for a small company in many ways. Morale was good and it was a great place to work. Next was a joint venture between Bell South wireless and SBC wireless, aka Cingular. Some changes in leadership but not many significant changes. Still a fun place to work. Cingular buys AT culture changes...overall still not too bad. Then SBC decides to buy an all but dead company by the name of AT&T, and take their name. 20 + year senior and executive management from this sinking ship start pushing their way in and begin restructuring, building silos, slowly turning what was once a fun company into a heaping pile of excrement. And here we are.

this post is just like your pay check, you dont realize how much the government takes until you dive deep into the numbers.

In T's case how many jobs from the gold days of telecom titan to the current struggling conglomerate that is now, have gone to dust?

Cingular too ; took it over, ran the viable intellectual employees into the ground. Destroyed the infrastructure and brought over the " blue" way of doing things - a.k.a. - archaic

Looks like Antitrust to me.... IsnT?

Great post and great reminder that the T brand of management incompetence is not contained only within T- the contagion spreads b/c of boneheaded M&As that never pan out well...

More like an implosion. It is comin from within

It feels like T is going to either blow this attempt or they are going to win big. It does not feel like there is much middle ground.

Exact Same case with yahoo gutting 100's of small COMPANIES, left and right, and we already know what happened to B--ch Marrissa myers, and yahoo legacy ..lol

That is AT&T future

But you are thinking AT&T. AT&T today is what was Southwestern Bell. One of the 7 b--tards spun off in 84 divesture. They just became good enough to buy AT&T the long distance company that meddeled in cable tv, wireless service, and computing. Some of us remember when we were a company that cares and employees were an asset, not just some number in a spreadsheet. Zane Barnes and Ed Whitticare truly believed in growing the organic company. We were a telecommunications company providing the connection, not the content.

What's more important than what's on this list is what isn't. In 1991ATT tried to reinvent itself as a tech company and enter the computer market by buying NCR. That was a disaster. In 1997 ATT started buying cable TV systems (and was talking even way back then about grand plans for targeted advertising). So much was invested in the effort that for a time ATT was actually the ;argest cable provider in the world. That too ended disastrously, and ATT's cable properties ultimately ended up with Comcast. The bottom line is ATT has tried to reinvent itself before, and these efforts were spectacularly unsuccessful. Those close to the DTV part of the business can aleady see signs of how ATT's attempt to transform itself into an "entertainmen company" will end up. In the world of ATT.it appears history does repeat.

How many jobs lost?, 2 many to count,comglomerates such ax this one shouuld be outlawed

Jnu i had the same question. They just want to b--ch and moan. Lol

What is your point?

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