Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

I remember not long ago when we were going to BE the public cloud.

Every Stankey Town Hall included phases like “Data is the oil of the new century”, and Software as a Service was our savior. I think we even made truck drivers take classes about API and SAS.

Anyone else remember that?

Data center consolidation does make sense, there are lots of small data centers with marginal use.

No need for jobs to be lost unless of course you are upper management and want to use closure as an excuse to replace FTE with contractors...oh wait, that IS what they are doing.

I wonder if the loss of FTE positions is some kind of metric for upper management that affects their bonus?

Simple answer:

1. Datacenters have/are already being sold. This will lead to more datacenters being sold.

2. Tens of thousands of jobs will no longer be needed. These people will lose their jobs.

3. I'd say the writing was on the wall in pencil. It's now written in sharpie.

T management is only interested in short term profits, they create such a poor work environment that the young good people leave for greener pastures and the older, more experienced technical people leave to just get away from the frustrating and soul crushing environment.

Technical leadership is outsourced and there is no long term plan. They could not get AIC off the ground because upper management are incompetent clowns who make stupid decisions.

What was the big push one year becomes forgotten and outsourced the next, George Orwell would be proud.

After AT&T has laid off much of its American workforce and lost a lifetime of knowledge in the process, sold most of it's real estate and allowed its physical infrastructure to deteriorate beyond repair, all this company will have left will be it's brand name. And that won't be worth much as this company continues to lose customers due to inferior service offered at non competitive prices.

But Randy and the John's won't care- they're laughing all the way to the bank as they loot the carcass of this once proud institution.

It also targeted data centers in the most recent real estate shrinkage. We're supposed to move our partially-cloudified stuff to a whole different cloud environment now, so are scrambling to make the necessary changes to the specs of work already in progress.

We'll be dependent on other cloud providers, so when there are outages, expect yet one more set of fingers pointing back at us saying, "the problem's on your end" and forcing us to prove it's on theirs.

T sold 31 data centers last June.