Unfortunately I stayed a few years too long and should have left about 10 years ago when I got a new boss who kept going ballistic everytime he was reminded I make more than him. He was petty about and a very incompetent employee to boot. The good old boy network kept him. Now I am hoping for a severance package and will leave. As an employer T has gone down hill the last few years. Pay, benefits and work environment were never top rate under T and significantly below where we were at McCaw or AWS, then they declined under Cingular and further under SBC/T. Today we are hassled with HVD which is unreliable, drop in work space in noisy and poorly equipped work areas, no desk phones and unreliable Skype, ever changing telecommute policy, loads of required worthless training classes including contingency training, never ending threat of layoffs with big brother monitoring when and where you log in and access buildings. It seems T is always behind in technology and pinching pennies to make you less productive. Hopefully I get a severance package near end of year now that I am retirement eligible. Luckily for me I am financially in great shape and have good investments which in 2017 were double my pay at T. The market slide in Dec hurt 2018 returns and I am adjusting from a growth oriented portfolio to an income and dividend portfolio so I can live off it and preserve capital. Looking forward to leaving and often hear from younger employees how they envy me being able to walk away from this mess. They can't because after 50 it is extremely hard to find work at comparable pay. Good luck to everyone at T in dealing with the horrible management. On Seeking Alpha there is a good article analyzing T vs VZ and management is our biggest problem.The poor management got us into this mess.
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