I’m genuinely curious to know how long you have to be in this company to get that “balance” that shows up on your retirement savings, because dear lord.
ORG name change
Org name changed yesterday from Business Customer Sales and Service to Business Care and Sales. Anybody guess what's up? I imagine it can't be good for us employees. It can only mean further cost cutting consolidations, closings and layoffs.
Got my severance package today
Sales, in Public Sector, and glad to have received this today. Company was good to me over the years but can’t take the everlasting BS from some of our so called Managers aka AVP. Socially awkward, brought zero value to our meeting and believes... — read more
Leaked Layoff eMail
announcing YOU will be notified later today that YOU have been declared surplus so YOU are being laid off. Hah! Happy Friday! Let the $chitt $how begin.
Layoff Gulf Retail
So what about Alabama Louisiana and Mississippi markets as far as ARSM and DOS jobs? Any stores closing? Merging or more!
CWA D9 Bulletin 18
https://cwad9.org/news/att-bargaining-bulletin-18-april-23-2024
An article regarding pensions.
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/25/2024/private-equitys-latest-trade-corporate-pensions (Here is a snip from the article ...) "A brisk new trade in the financial futures of millions of retirees is unnerving some US workers, regulators, and... — read more
Layoff today
The boss just told us 20% of his staff got lay off notices today. All older white guys. FirstNet / Public Sector (not Sales)
No honest feedback
AT&T is filled with simpletons whose only skills are butt-kissing and yes-mening. That's it. That's why we've made so many bad moves over the last ten years. When the only feedback Stankey and those around him receive is an echo of their own words... — read more
"The company would be doing a lot better if a potato was the CEO". - J. Stankey 4/24/24
AT&T is a utility. Telecom is a utility. Utilities make money if customers get what they pay for most of the time. Our RSCs are crooks. Our CSRs are confused. Our techs are geezers. Our leadership are clueless. And yet, we make billions. So save a... — read more
"The company would be doing a lot better if we didnt have to pay benefits or boneses". - J. Stankey 4/24/24
What CEO tells their company that it would be doing better if it didn't have to pay benefits and bonuses? Stankey, news flash: Without incentives to work at this company, there would be no employees to do the actual work.
Can't believe sk----g Stankey said......
"Oh, you're all still here?" mocking the layoffs and RTO folks....what a great guy....
Earnings questions
Is no one going to ask about mass layoffs and what the goal is as far as headcount!?
New motivational message: "We're worth $17 !!!"
They're just kind of taking it now. LOL
Stanley ATG Live
Let the fun begin….Show us results of the culture survey, surely it will show a need for new BOD and C suite…
T vs VZ 20 year stock compare from MarketWatch about 5 min ago
T stock down 14% and VZ up 14% over last 20 years. You gotta work pretty hard at su-king to be down 14% over 20 years. Still, the 1998 VRIP was very very good to me. ha
It's funny
I'm about to leave and I'm going to do so being grateful to T and its management. Things ended up being so bad that it pushed me to look for a new job for the first time in years. Usually, I'm happy with the status quo, but things worsened so much... — read more
Big Retail Cuts
Hearing big retail cuts coming, store closures and sell offs, directors/AVPs cut, ADs cut - I've heard calls will be happening with those impacted in the retail org on this Friday 4/26 and 5/15. I've also heard 4/26 is notice date with 5/15 being the... — read more
Game: In 2 words, describe C Suite talking points.
Comfortless Platitudes
Leg T workers to be downgraded
Rumors flying around that the company has plans to come after Leg T workers next - to move that work to the orange contract.
Retiree health insurance
Per my contact ATT will provide health insurance until May 2025. April 10 I get confirmation my payment was made. April 22 my doctor says they are being told I don’t have coverage. Ticket created and in 5 to 7 days I can call back to see if my... — read more
JBV
It’s no coincidence that JVB was brought when the cost reductions started. She was sued because she hates old people (which she is old now) you can look it up she and ATT were sued and lost. She is destroying Mid Markets which su-ked to begin with... — read more
San Antonio union meeting
What a bunch of waste of time. Half of the answers were still not answered and of course they gave us all the stuff we wanted to hear. If you are going to continue the work then I would strongly suggest that you not pay union dues. Again they made... — read more
Move or leave the company.
So the company are getting rid of managers by telling them to move to a hub or get surplussed. Now they are telling union employees to move to a new contract or get surplussed. They know a fair amount will leave the company like the managers did. ... — read more
Presence Report
If you are interested in knowing how a presence report is generated, what details are in there, and how your presence is calculated, then search SharePoint for this: "ATS Supervisor Presence Report Demo".
Are some roles within ATT untouchable?
Can Members of Technical Staff (MTS) be laid off? We know leadership (vps and directors) can be forced to leave or retire but what about them? It's an impressive title.
Southwest union contract to Mobility contract question
Are the type of calls/work changing to mobility or is it just a mobility contract but still doing the same work you are doing today? I know they can change it at any time but did they actually say when you switch over to the new contract your type... — read more
SCOTUS makes it easier to sue based on discrimination
If a company uses favored or I favored group status to decide hiring, promotion, and firing practices, it is now much easier to sue for damages. Maybe DEI can finally die.
Southwest bargained reps being converted to horrible Purple contract
AT&T back at it again with their “tricks” and our so called CWA decided to make this agreement behind our backs. For those that don’t know the story, AT&T is forcing reps on the Southwest contract to convert to the horrible Purple contract or take a... — read more
Dropbox RTO
https://fortune.com/2024/04/17/dropbox-ceo-drew-houston-managers-mandating-rto-return-to-office-mashing-go-back-to-2019-button-toxic-relationships-staff/
CWA really failed us on RTO.
Vote new leadership in!
AT&T has no accountability.
The hacking debacle that made the news of 70+ million people should not be swept under the carpet. They list all the things compromised… Social Security numbers, passcodes, full names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, dates of... — read more
William, it is best to not forget
It's not your personal piggy bank, it's the shareholders money.
Retirement in Retail
Retail environment is really toxic, so it's becoming clear it's time to go. Who can shed some light on retirement process? Can I just keep my mouth shut until a couple of weeks ahead and chose the date? Don't want to start process too early for... — read more
Employee Dis-Engagement Survey
I’m think this should be a thing.
Short term disability offsets in southwest
So I'm going to be getting surgery and will be off on short term disability and was wondering if va disability payment are a offset any vets here experience this and no surgery has nothing to do with va disabilities
D9 Bargaining update and recent outage in the news
The latest news is that the company continues to bargain in bad faith with regressive proposals or resubmitting the same proposals like, pension rates but shuffling around the order for each year, one is 0%. They also act as if MLK day was a... — read more
Anyone get a letter today?
April 19th.. we're supposed to be getting lay off letters today. Anyone receive one yet?