What is going on with AT&T benefits? First they messed up the monthly amount for the Medicare Advantage retirees. Now today I received a letter saying they were cancelling my plan effective 2/29. I called and was told it was a mistake. I said what is... — read more
El segundo campus
PSA to anyone who is in the area and didn’t get the notice: a transformer blew at the el segundo office and there is no power to the building. DO NOT go to the office until we are told otherwise. this is after the flooding, HVAC system breaking... — read more
Hiring offshore to save a buck is extremely foolish
Just another day with another outage caused by a change request performed in India. Can’t understand a single work they’re saying. What could possibly go wrong?
CSO Leadershiop Gutted
Two VPs within CSO announced either retirement or leaving the business on less than 3 days' notice. Something fishy is going on with the higher-ups for those making $350,000+ to walk with 3 days' notice.
The Culture Survey is Out
The culture survey is out today. I am wondering what ya'll going to say? Did you already respond?
101 Days of Cyber Dreaming
It's been just 101 days since AT&T pledged to give away their Cybersecurity unit in marriage to bachelor WillJam Ventures, announcing their intent to form a beautiful Joint Venture. In the days since, if you work in this BU, what things have they... — read more
Question for retirees o social security
I’m trying to decide if I want to take the lifetime annuity or lump sum. I’ve learned our pensions are classified as qualified vs non qualified. Qualified means taxable non qualified means not taxable. Does social security consider your pension as... — read more
Company Did Indeed Sc--w Up Severance Withholding
As I posted about a month ago, the company did sc--w up the federal withholding for severance when they took 32%. I received a letter today from AT&T saying they will send the additional funds that they withheld within two weeks. For those of you who... — read more
Those leaving AT&T
Here is the link to unlock your phone to port your number. You will need the phones IMEI located in your settings, IOS about all the way to the bottom. Click on this link https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/
Greed and incompetence are coming home to roost
There will be more systemic failures. System su-ks because it has been designed and managed by people who su-k.
The Outage was Inevitable
It finally happened. John Stankey spent years destroying moral by taking away benefits and laying people off every year. Then he enacted the Return to Office mandate and went about it in the most hateful way possible, pi----g off every employee in... — read more
After outage, yet another misstep
$5.00 credit. So, the communication with the customers have been necessary and good in the wake of the big outage. Mea Culpa. We sc--wed up, we're sorry, we need to do better. Had to be done. The decision to credit $5 is actually making most... — read more
ATT might want to think about getting into the garbage business...
it what you all seem to do anyway...what a terrible company
Working at AT&T can't be healthy
Does anybody else feel like they're in an abusive relationship with their job? Or is that just me?
Severance $ statement for direct deposit...
where can I find the statement with details? I received 2 direct deposits; I can't find it online benefit portal; benefit line has a LONG wait
Work Place 2020
Hey whatever happened with all the work place 2020 ridiculous training as it was mandatory? Instead of being laid off, my bosses and nearly every exec that pumped this rhetoric is now off the books. Any 2020 folks still around?
AT&T West proposes canceling worker pensions during contract negotiations
https://cwalocal9333.com/att-west-bargaining-update-2/ Nothing will get us old fogies do strike more than this nonsense.
AT&T credit
Really a lousy $5! There needs to be a class action lawsuit!!
Doom loop
The real reason companies are enforcing return to office policies. Not because of collaboration, but because of the tax revenue for the city and the tax breaks for the... — read more
If you see something say something
FTC enforces federal consumer protection laws that prevent fraud, deception and unfair business practices. Make the call~
AT&T finds out what happens when you run a skeleton crew
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/atts-botched-network-update-caused-yesterdays-major-wireless-outage/ This is what the media is running with. The sad part is, leadership will blame the guy who pushed the update. They don't have the... — read more
2023 surplus, prorated bonus
When should we be expecting it?
Surplused 2023, prorated bonus
When will we get it?
Outage: I'm not Carl, but could be
**As someone with extensive IT experience, I can almost guarantee the AT&T outage yesterday was over some certificate expiring somewhere and nobody knowing how to regenerate it because Carl got laid off seven years ago and the only machine with the... — read more
Still no YTR
Our group haven’t received our YTR and were told yesterday was the day. Anyone else? What is going on??
AT&T execs asked for game of thrones to be shot vertically so episodes could fit on phones
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/game-of-thrones-film-trilogy-plan-canceled-1235920358/ John "I-know-more-about-the-entertainment-industry-than-anyone" Stankey, everyone. I'm really surprised they couldn't make the Warner acquisition work with... — read more
So what was the ACTUAL cause of the outage?
Ok, so T marketing admitted a misconfigured update broke things, plausible but that's not detailed enough, something of this magnitude has to have more to the story...
"leadership" has you right were they want you.
You complain about the Union because you have not the benefits the Union employees have. The Union didn't take away your retirement benefits, Stankey did. You need to place blame where blame is due. Randell and Stankey have placed AT&T into more debt... — read more
Surplus calendar
Anyone know or can share the surplus calendar? I know they have certain notice dates and saw it on one thread before but cannot find it.
Direc tv prem tech layoffs coming
San diego going to lose 4 direc tv guys and cwa 120 prem techs. But $4.50 raise for the remaining
Middle and senior managers
Dealing with some of the middle and senior managers around here is like navigating a minefield of terribleness. It's sad that they don't even try to hide their disrespect and they dish out verbal abuse like candy. Fear seems to be their favorite... — read more
$1 raise for a year of work. Depressing
Knowing you worked this hard for what you receive is definitely depressing.
The Stink runs it into the ground
https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2024/02/23/att-service-outage-dallas-texas
Layoffs
By contrast, investors were applauding John Stankey, AT&T's grossly overpaid CEO (US$22.9 million last year in salary, bonuses and stock) for his management efforts, which include plans to reduce costs by another $2 billion over the next three years. — read more
Performance Rating
WHAT: EXCEEDS HOW: EXCELS OVERALL: OUTSTANDING AND THE WORST RAISE IVE EVER HAD IN MY LIFE. Why do I work here again?
Outages are scary
Great day to WFH. Wonder how many people died yesterday as a result of no service. Rajeet, Diptah, and Rushalli let the cows I to the server rooms and they tore some stuff up.
Ed Whitacre
These Fiasco’s didn’t happened under Big Ed!! Randall and Stankey have ruined the company. The service is bad the CEO wants to be on TV all the time and the morale is low!