What will Stankey acquire this year to try and simulate growth through acquisitions? Which company will be the next unlucky victim to be destroyed by the man who loves to buy companies and then sell them for a fraction of the price? I have no doubts... — read more 

Go check the famous LinkedIn website to find so many att employees saying they been promoted to a new role when it was all just a title change due to company simplicity of the business. Lol I love to see these ASSociates Directors getting promoted... — read more 

As in… Do we have to RTO twice or three times this week?

Get that d-mb, pandering commericial off my TV screen. Don't tell us how much you care while sending people to the unemployment line. Fraudulent.

A recent post indicated employment declined from 203,000 in 2021 to 160,700 in 2022, a decline of 20.8%. That is quite extraordinary for a large mature company, and something not mentioned very often in the press - even in the WSJ. But who is... — read more 

AT&T lost focus when it started to micromanage everything. Every piece of a process is broken down to such small steps that no one has a clue how to complete anything. But gove me a dashboard so I can report how well my group is performing

Stankey stunk in 2023. S&P 500 up 24%, NASDAQ up 43%, AT&T down 10.5%, Stankey needs to go....by any objective measure he has failed his customers, his shareholders and certainly his employees. Yet he gets paid $30 Million for this train wreck... — read more 

TMobile and Verizon are way out in front with their road map in providing incremental value to the wireless customers versus ATT. Enhanced 5G Ultra and Mid Band Spectrum usage and window for upside for TMobile and Verizon is dwarfing that of ATT... — read more 

Not sure why they lasted so long on an island out there. Q1 is the timeline.

Thoughts? Any AT&T layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?

And yet another system launched early and locked people out!!!! Not only that, most of the non exempt employees didn’t get paid on payday and have to now wait 5-7 days after a holiday weekend to get their $$$. Just another system that follows... — read more 

have not gotten laid off or quit have become totally apathetic towards work and the company. Unfortunately I have as well and I don't like the feeling but do have to continue to cash the paycheck and collect the benefits. What I don't understand is... — read more 

Folks here are so used to being used and stepped all over that they forget there are places that treat their employees with respect and like the assets they are. What some of us have to go through here every day is not normal and we shouldn't accept... — read more 

Anyone have any experience with what to expect when ATT hasn't renewed the lease at the building you work in? Lease expires in 4 weeks.

A 100k should be enough. As long as the right people are removed.

Chart from Macrotrends.net AT&T Annual Number of Employees 2022 160,700 2021 203,000 2020 230,000 2019 246,000 2018 268,000 2017 252,000 2016 268,000 2015 281,000 2014 253,000 2013 243,000 2012 242,000 2011 256,000 2010 265,410 2009 ... — read more 

Rolled out in San Diego last week - training gets an “F”. We have a 2 - 3 hour meeting ever shift to try and figure out our time…still don’t know what we are doing… end up spending 4-5 hours just getting 8 hours on the time sheet and everything else... — read more 

Workday is launching next Tuesday and with it new chaos. It won't be immediate, but overtime it'll become apparent how the ball was dropped. Good luck, all.

https://www.fiercetelecom.com/broadband/fbas-grassroots-approach-fixing-fiber-workforce-shortage?itm_source=parsely-api The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated - Mark Twain (paraphrasing) AT&T needs to get the upcoming core contracts... — read more 

In 2024 in some way or another you will be downgraded, surplussed, laid off or somehow required to do more work for less money while The Stench and his minions get more money for doing even less work. So ultimately you might as well simply do the... — read more 

Favorite Holiday - it’s time to relax and reflect. 1st is the traditional reading of the Christmas story, then the joy of watching the kids tearing open their presents! Praying for a successful new year for my family, friends, co-workers and the... — read more 

If you are 45+ working for this company, you should really te think your future. T is headed somewhere you can’t

Heard some folks talking about the Lisle facility closing soon (or is already?). Anyone know the story there? Lots of people assigned to that location. No idea where they will go. Most of these offices are overflowing now and some aren't even being... — read more 

I know our current 5 year CWA contract set us back with inflation of at least 7% every year. We need to insist on a COLA clause and hire GMs negotiating team. I’m sick and tired of jobs regularly being sent to India. And a heath care deductible... — read more 

I see where Lumen technologies is at and it looks like we are headed in the same direction!! Lumen has been selling itself off in pieces bit by bit and now they are almost only fiber in certain areas and select customers. believe they sold all the... — read more 

D3/SE - No layoffs for bargained 1st quarter 2024. Currently hiring outside techs, retail/sales and other varied management positions. Company will release full year - 2023 earnings results Jan. 24th Post news from other districts or areas of the... — read more 

Ten pounds of sheet in a five pound bag. Take your happy holidays and shove it fat cats, you are below mediocre in the business world!

It's rather funny how workers in Bloomington Minnesota workers get what's like six additional excused paid vacation days off in 2023 coded as Bloomington Safe & Sick Days (per local city law also adopted by the State of MN effective 1/1/24). Of... — read more 

I was part of Learning Services. They outsourced the course design to a third party vendor who uses cheap labor in India. So all of the course designers were told that their jobs were being eliminated effective Dec 1st. At first, after we got the... — read more 

While in it, you are always stressed and partially unhappy despite not being overworked. You suffer silently for years and decades but it pays decently so you make do and succumb to it’s toxicity. Then by force of hand, you are surplused and have... — read more 

I've never before been this excited for holidays specifically because they provide extra time away from this mess of a company.

Here it is, 5 days before Christmas! We haven’t recd NO inventory at all! No phones, no cases etc! Yet our quotas doubles for Dec but nothn to sell! That’s right , we keepn those google and cust surveys up! NOT!

I guess pajamas are the new business suit. He made Jeff the first ghost.... I guess Jeff had to suffer a little at John's compulsion for his previous statement. He made a good ghost though.

We are not nor have we ever been an entertainment company. Despite what other goons in the company may have led us to believe. It did not work, it still is not working - why continue to sell a failing product. Our stream service has a contract... — read more 

Told you all they would do a role up of paramount and Comcast. Att should be involved in that. A fine way to make back their money and an excuse for mass purges. With all those companies together they couldn't be truffled.

I would love someone to explain why I need to drive to the office just to speak to NO ONE as most people are now on vacation. I didn’t speak to a soul today. Obnoxious waste of gas and time.

Anyone know the current headcount or how to find it?

All Big Three carry and enormous amount of debt. But much of ATT's debt is simply losses on it's ill fated ventures with DTV and Time Warner. In other words Ten's of Billions of Dollars worth of Debt carried on the balance sheet are simply losses on... — read more 

It's been six months since I quit and it is still one of my better decisions. Working at T was a total disaster from start to finish. I can't even believe how bad it was. I still have nightmares about that place. It was just a never-ending stream of... — read more