At risk employees are now being notified of potential loss of employment in September as preferencing continues in Midwest IBEW 21.

ATO Tech Dev employees supporting AT&T Business are being outsourced to IBM Done!

"AT&T Communications will use IBM's expertise to modernize AT&T Business Solutions' internal software applications, enabling migrations to the IBM Cloud..."

If a person is "invited" to join IBM, would all rights to your AT&T pension go away? Wondering how all of that would work.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/76f77a21-eb29-3003-a35e-d2d2088e7c66/at%26t’s-warnermedia-segment-to.html Guess it’s Warner’s turn to be destroyed.

Ever notice on any att billing when you add a service it immediately goes on your next bill. But when you remove a service it takes two to three billing cycles. So you are paying for something you are not using anymore but we will give you a credit... —  read more 

Retirees from years ago were just offered lump sum cash buyouts for pension. No secret. T wants people out of the pension plan. It’s been the one common theme for last 3 (or more?) years: All of the management offers have been pension based... —  read more 

It's relatively simple you all. If you aren't happy here and don't like all these policies and rules... Resign and find work elsewhere. Why gripe. Just go find another job that isn't making these kind of rules. Stop the crying, get out of here. It's... —  read more 

I’m was a WFH employee and I was laid off a couple of months ago, but before the cut me i was called to report to one of the so-called collaboration zones. I’ve spent about twenty days there, and my impressions are far from good. I guess I’m just... —  read more 

So this Titanic is on a headlong course toward the iceberg of Death and what does our Safety Department decide to do - make us put 3 CONES instead of 2 CONES. One cone in front of your rig, one cone behind the rig and NOW - a third cone next to... —  read more 

Anyone else have their ipad and iPhone taken away this week? Sent by management to asset protection. Lol whoops

How many would leave the company if they gave you an offer of a SIPP payout of a year to 15 months pay??

Resigned today. After 18 years I could not handle it any more, it's uncertain and things got nuts with a manager that was appointed (she graduated college 5 years ago and has very limited tech/people skills). I was in IT, will move on and work for a... —  read more 

So if you are retirement eligible and they announce that IBM, etc is taking over your group, then what happens with your T pension at that time ? Possible they would want you to move to IBM but not sure what pension payout options would be. Anyone... —  read more 

I left T on my own last year and got a job at a different company, with which I was satisfied. Now my wife landed a good job in a different state and, how things stand right now, we’ll be moving there by the end of summer. I checked out the job... —  read more 

Hearing a lot of talk about a really big announcement next Tuesday Aug 6th ... Anyone else ?

Presidents were supposed to be informed on Tuesday. Have they informed members yet of details of agreement ?

This is a reply from another thread, but this is some of the best advice I've read on this site: Get your CCNA certifications and start applying for IT positions with companies. You’d be surprised how many IT DEPTs will hire an ex at&t employee... —  read more 

Any surplus in Bham,Hoover coming up or recently?

CRE is drastically reducing our portfolio of buildings across the 21-state footprint. The few buildings not for sale or being leased back are being set up with drop in space. It’s obvious the company plans to continue reducing headcount otherwise... —  read more 

How much longer are we going to do all of the work and pay an SP to just order? Have we lost our minds completely? They are a very expensive channel that we pay and Most of the time they bring little to no value and we have to clean up their mess!... —  read more 

U-verse tv on fiber works great!.... they should improve that version and go forward with that offer it in 4K and future options would be the best move you can’t beat a hardwired fiber connection!!

I was just notified I will be losing my job in September. I am a lineman out of the Roscoe garage. 18 + years of service. Has anyone heard of companies hiring laid off AT&t employees with this much experience? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. —  read more 

Go to the company’s lay-off boards and check and see how active their forum is. Since I’m in the SE I look and Entergy’s from time to time and.. it’s quite sad how active Ts lay-off board is vs. theirs. This is not normal.

Maybe a question every one asked themselves recently, and I doubt that anyone has an answer. Just wanted to get some other views and opinions on the company future here.

and that's their bottom lines...

Today after 19 years i was text by my mngr that i am at risk of losing my job and its a waiting game on what the company and union decide to do . 112 people will lose there postions and there is only 16 openings available where does that leave... —  read more 

Was 10 bucks a month when I was an employee. Now $115 a month as a retiree. Called 3 months ago to see if they could reduce it. Nope. Call back. Just did... still nope. 17 year customer. I went from T 8M Uverse to 100M Spectrum for less $$$ a few... —  read more 

D4 is getting ripped apart. After the next prem tech surplus management will be reduce to 1 per 45 to 50 techs. Managers will now have a mix of Inr and prem techs. T is also planning to close several garages with fewer techs and either force them to... —  read more 

What are thoughts on call Monday? Seemed most on the call were construction management or staff? Any ideas on numbers and dates? Heard approximately 100 people. With 911 tech's math says ~50 NM, ~7 AM, ? Dir, ? Schedulers, ? Support staff...

District 4 , vote no and wait 3 weeks for district 3 to be out of contract. You’ll have a lot more leverage with D3 out of contract. They cover much more area and employees

I have paperless billing and received notification that my next bill is ready. T can only deliver 6Mbps UVERSE / INTERNET in my neighborhood. My bills were paid up to date at the middle of last month. I went off payroll at the end of March. When I... —  read more 

AT&T/DirectTV blacks out local TV stations in 97 markets across USA on July 4th after rejecting Nexstar offers to extend access for consumers to leading local content Local DIRECTV/AT&T once again holds its subscribers hostage instead of negotiating... —  read more 

Louisville Metro Council passed the One Touch Make Ready ordinance LAST YEAR in an attempt to make it easier for Google Fiber to come to Louisville. The ordinance allowed Google Fiber to use existing poles, which mainly belong to incumbent ISP... —  read more 

So far, I haven’t seen any positive effect of al the records that resulted in cuts and shifts of the workforce. Am I the only one wondering why are the cuts a purpose only to themselves. I understand corporate greed, but seems a little too much to... —  read more 

T is back at it again. Now they change the upgrade options so if you want to upgrade early you need to spend an extra $5 a month. You need to wait until 50% of the phone is paid before you can trade it in. What is actually going on is, the $5 is... —  read more 

Now if D4 would reject their tentative agreement , then in 3 weeks both D3 and D4 will have a lot more leverage over the company. District 4 members, Vote NO ! Let’s work together and show both the company and the cowardly CWA “leadership” how it’s... —  read more 

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