Let's just say for a moment that HR actually cared about the employees (yeah, I know, ridiculous). What could they do to improve morale when it's the c-suite that's the cause of the problem? Mismanagement, arrogance, epic failure after epic... — read more 

How many people are still working from home?

Amazon just dropped 8B on The purchase of MGM. Did T make a mistake spinning off WB too early? What does Amazon know that T doesn't know? I realize T will still own 70% of WB, but I have a feeling Stankey just got hoodwinked.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/t-mobiles-5g-network-lead-gains-it-another-buy-rating-on-wall-street-51622137027

HR is useless, they sit around doing nothing in an attempt to improve morale at at&t. Maybe they would not be successful but why not try? Don't they realize how bad it is? Maybe they just don't care.

My organization has been outsourcing jobs for 30+ years and we are now 20/80 employees to contractors. I still have yet to see an actual cost reduction. On paper to appears the cost savings will be material but in reality the outsourcing ends up... — read more 

Everyone is calling for Stankey to resign (along with the BoD) but be careful what you wish for as his replacement could be worse and will probably be paid even more. Do we bring someone from the outside or promote from within? Let's see some... — read more 

Tmobile is a liberator of wireless for the consumer. Netflix is a liberator of cable television for the consumer. AT&T destroyed Direct TV. AT&T destroyed HBO. Remember that whole Apple Advertisement where the lady tosses the sledgehammer at the... — read more 

AT&T will not get above $32 and will settle at $25 when TW is unloaded and the new dividend takes effect. Stankey’s purchase of $1 million on stock pales in comparison to the $30 billion of market value lost!!

I have noticed that people start looking for work more actively only after rumors appear that layoffs are coming. As soon as they survive the round of cuts, they look for work much less actively. That is a probably in human psychology, I guess, but... — read more 

Performance takes many forms. The form of key performance indicators (KPIs) all too familiar at T as the tools used to reduce workforce management to a commodity measured in resources. Performance can also take the form of an art through theater or... — read more 

You know, I kind of thought we already were with that being our core business for how many years exactly? But I guess not? AT&T this week shared a groundbreaking new strategy: to focus on being a... — read more 

For every time I heard an AT&T employee say I want to work two more years (over and over again) I would have twice the millions I have today.

Hearing rumors of a 3 and 3 and enhanced sipp offer in midwest craft

Kara Swisher, Nonsense Utter Nonsense, John Stankey is the worst strategist of this century. Lou Manheim, Man looks into the Abyss, and there's nothin' staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character, and that's what keeps him out of... — read more 

Sure, this place is a Shiite-Show, but why do y’all care? Take the money, use the benefits, and prepare for when they can you, or when the place goes belly-up. Isn’t it time to accept the realities of working here?

So many people are leaving due to being overworked and burned out and nobody seems to care. Our turnover rate is getting higher and higher and I don't see any measures being taken to slow it down. If we had appropriate replacements I wouldn't mind... — read more 

How long before these things are diminished or halted? It seems a lot of energy and labor goes into these efforts. What else is labor and cost intensive that we can’t afford?

I mean, this can be okay only for those who have no healthy ambition. To work without any will only from paycheck to paycheck, that’s awful. Any person with healthy ambitions is always striving to be more and more successful, to work harder and... — read more 

All this nonsense about getting back into fiber should have been done when they spent the money on DirecTV which had no synergy with our networks. *They completely misread markets and forgot about the differences between DirecTV network and AT&T's... — read more 

https://nypost.com/2021/05/22/how-stank-steered-att-into-multibillion-dollar-disaster/?utm_campaign=nyp_postopinion&utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20210523&utm_term=NYP+-+Post+Opinion

AT&T Inc. (T - Free Report) — the dividend aristocrat that hiked its dividend for the past 35 consecutive years — took the investor community by surprise when it unveiled plans to reduce its dividend payout... — read more 

On the backs of shareholder and employees. Always great with Other Peoples Money and next to no skin in the game.

Carved up like a Thankgiving Day Turkey and doled out in Tupperware with the sides at the end of the day. I have never see such gross incompetence and lack of controls. Do Stephenson and Stankey have a substance abuse and gambling problem? They... — read more 

1 - Lose badly and easily outplayed in every major deal you get involved with. 2 - Ignore your existing lines of margin rich cash cow businesses to go after the things you lose very badly at time and time again. 3 - In all lines of business you... — read more 

We thought you were the smartest when it came to media and streaming? We thought nobody knew more than you do and anybody who said otherwise was just a hater? So what happened? Why would somebody with such enormous knowledge and insight let go of the... — read more 

Anyone else sick and tired from hearing from leadership day in and day out about what we are supposed do? Every single webinar is about their journey and what we need to do to be like them. When it really doesn’t matter what we have done when they... — read more 

Anyone taking the offer staying past 6/24?

From the NY Post -- hardly a leftie, anti-business rag. There are some very choice quotes such as: "... with the deal, Stankey all but admitted to corporate America that the last 10 years of his career — and Stephenson’s — was a significant... — read more 

From the retail side of the company, someone should be doing "mids" with Stankey! It does so well in Retail as far as sales!!!! NOT! What a joke the system is in retail. Dosent solve or mean one thing! Just makes the consumer even more so mad! ... — read more 

Cant wait, its gonna be good! Anxious to hear how he single handedly saved at&t. How it was never his idea to acquire DTV and WM, he was merely a soldier carrying out orders. How many jobs will be cut and when? Will he announce a 15-20% cut across... — read more 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/21/shareholders-fiasco-att-time-warner-discovery/

I think we can all agree this deal hardly did AT&T any favors. When the whole thing is done and over with, I'm thinking the leadership will realize some more cost cuts are necessary to make the numbers (artificially) look better. The best (and the... — read more 

Past week has been Just shuffling business units and numbers around. For AT&T the remaining employee base has been beaten up. All the failures of Randall Stephenson, John Stankey, and a flacid Board Room have been "We" and as a result the employees... — read more 

*"some analysts have made a persuasive case that the AT&T chief executive, John Stankey — who spearheaded the 2018 deal, as well as AT&T’s disastrous acquisition of DirecTV three years before that — is the worst media strategist in recent... — read more 

With the spin off of DTV and TW who are the customers T should be focused on? The place is a hot mess!!