It's too late to get bargained people off the payroll by end of year. Enjoy this Thanksgiving and Christmas season!
Why AT&T Stock Rallied 10.6% in September
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-t-stock-rallied-10-141600267.html
Work smarter, not harder
If you’re really good at your job, you might be perceived as a threat to the person who is in charge of promoting you. If that happens, you're sh-t out of luck. Instead of busting your butt, try working smart. Make sure you are still getting things... — read more
Starlink and T-Mobile
Starlink and T-Mobile have stolen the spotlight from FIRSTNET!!!
Legality of office presence tracking?
Hey everyone, with the recent talk of RTO tracking, I’ve been wondering how they’re tracking this and if it’s legal. I just have some questions, and was wondering if anyone knew the answers to them and could specifically reference resources in HR one... — read more
Mass Market Layoffs
Mass Market layoffs seem to be less than other areas of the org. Any idea if a big one is on its way?
District 3 vote
When will District 3 vote for the new contract ratification?
Why did the stink really come to St Louis?
Why did the stink really come to St Louis? Was it really for the sole purpose of a town hall? LMAO!!! Or was it to “participate” in a real estate transaction for the building? (Last time a T corporate building in St Louis was sold it went to... — read more
MGOs Big New Process Thing
Sooo….anyone here listen to the Big New Process Thing rolled out on Friday? Any thoughts on this? Seems like the main outcome will be adding a sh-t ton of bureaucracy and deck bloat but who knows. And how much money and time is spent with all the... — read more
Bonus 2025 (Mar)
What type of Bonus do you think management employees will get for 2024? No cash awards have been given out all of 2024.
Every meeting feels like a confrontation
Did anybody else notice this? These days when I'm preparing for a meeting, it's like I'm preparing for a fight. I'm not sure when exactly this started, but it's been happening for a while.
Pension Averages
What type of monthly annuity Pension would someone around 60 with 30 yrs get per month if making approx. 160- 175K?
T Leaders are worst than Cockcroaches
L3, L4, L5’s
Use your caregiver leave
I've only recently started using my caregivers leave. Normally I'd take a vacation day if something important came up. Now I'm banking all my vacation time and just using caregivers leave. I spoke with my peers in the office everyone is doing this. — read more
AI is spying and recording on your Zoom calls
https://apple.news/AcD3cDmFNSFqI3lEVVH5m3Q
Change of Leadership?
It appears Mister Peanut Butter (McElfresh) will be taking over for Mister Jammies (Stankey) soon, maybe next year? Don’t see a lot of change in management style from mister, let’s spread the peanut butter evenly. There is hope, he did mention once... — read more
This seems familiar...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/howard-schultz-violated-labor-law-210950019.html Howard Schultz violated labor law by telling employee ‘if you’re not happy at Starbucks, you can go work for another company’
The worst decision in history
AT&T paid $67 billion for DirecTV and said this when the purchase was completed. “Combining DirecTV with AT&T is all about giving customers more choices for great video entertainment integrated with mobile and high-speed Internet service,” said... — read more
Sales managers do better
For SMB & MM sales: managers do better your people are tired unmotivated and sick of it. you’ve been put in the manager position to help them succeed and every sales person I speak (including myself) with is so unhappy. The fact that managers have... — read more
RTO Deniers
Do they pose a danger for the rest of us in the workplace?
Boomers
The people who run these companies are old out of touch boomers. We’ve seen disaster after disaster after disaster lately if we look at other cases…Dell, Ubisoft, Boeing (big one there), they’re losing the plot and all trying to adapt to a new work... — read more
Next-to-nothing results
You'd think constantly posting next-to-nothing results would cause some kind of change at the top. I mean, they've tried laying off employees over and over again and things don't change for the better. Isn't it time to try something new? Like getting... — read more
Company is sinking fast
They’re giving jobs to people who have been there for years because their job is about to be done with. News flash they couldn’t do their previous one right. Don’t get me started on the. Sales and Mid Market territory. Their a-s is under fire... — read more
Chris Sambar
When a man of this stature leaves a company you know something is going bad. Chris, If you are reading this, you will know who I am because we have spoken before in the past about FirstNet, You know How I advised you through my past experience and... — read more
I’ve been with T for a while now
I witnessed the transformation from a solid company with a sound business model, where people could actually make a career, somewhat progress in their skills, and have a sense of accomplishment, to what we have today: a company with no identity and... — read more
None of the reason I chose T still exist.
I just realized that all of the reasons why I chose to work here are gone. I’d never look to work at a place like this if I was looking for a job now. No innovation, a dying business model, no job security. Thats all I ever wanted was job... — read more
This company is sinking so fast it’s unsavable. I’m planning on pulling a Sambar ASAP
Time to move on to a growing company. I’ve had enough of working at a dying one.
Stop the nonsense about bonus impacting RTO
I keep seeing comments about impacts to annual bonus for coffee badgers. Please elaborate. Since the annual bonus is an Organizational bonus, not an Individual bonus, how would some people get less than others?
Mobility + Fiber Sales = Trash
Morale is low and managers/leaders are unprofessional… I need to get out. Is anyone else thinking the same?
Almost That Time!
The Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 and Merry Christmas 🎄Layoffs with a pajama party is coming up!! Then Auld Lang Syne resolutions to find a new job 🎆 First need to get through the Scary Halloween 🎃 wave xx of zip code relocation and RTO. Life at the T is... — read more
Layoffs
Anyone know when the next round of layoffs are going to be?
A.I. so far has not whined about anything...
Just think, A.I. will never whine or complain about being in the office... A.I. will never spend its entire life cycle 'collaborating' without producing... A.I. will never purposely trash the workplace just so it can complain about how trashy it... — read more
Sambar leaving
Wow, didn’t see this coming.
I believe the whole RTO mandate will fall apart soon
There is no increased collaboration and socialization, but there will be marked decline in productivity and results. We all know the true reason behind the RTO has always been the attrition, as well as some minor considerations such as locally... — read more
I started an AT&T call center job & they told us to watch our Bathroom Breaks?
This is my first 2 weeks in training at a Call Center for Att. I left Tmobile retail, today was the 3rd time the Manager/Coach told the training reps that “use the restroom only on your 15 minute breaks or lunch”. I asked for them to put this in... — read more
AT&T to Host Analyst & Investor Day on December 3
DALLAS, Oct. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- We will host our 2024 AT&T Analyst & Investor Day in-person in Dallas on Tuesday, December 3. Key Takeaways: AT&T to host Analyst & Investor Day on December 3 AT&T will simultaneously webcast the event... — read more
Did we lose our work ethic along the way?
We were told the need for in-person collaboration was a factor driving the RTO mandate. Almost immediately it seemed that work took a back seat to socializing. Productivity was less important than what they were calling collaboration. Actual work... — read more
One of the worst transactions in American history
AT&T bought DirecTV for more than $67 billion, including debt, in 2015. MoffettNathanson Research analyst Craig Moffett wrote in a report Monday that the completion of the DirecTV sale would “close the books on one of the worst transactions in... — read more