You would think that at a company with the size and scope of AT&T, there would be some pockets of good news, along with the challenges. There never is though. What hell sort of dysfunctional operation is this place? Asked by a relatively happy, 20... — read more
Stock Price
We really need to get the stock price up to the high $30’s, at least. We all have a strong financial interest in this. Just remember, the company match portion of your 401K is awarded in the form of T stock shares.
So DirecTV, ATT TV Now, and Uverse being sold?
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/03/att-considers-selling-significant-minority-stake-in-pay-tv-business.html
AT&T cuts more than 8,700 workers in third quarter amid COVID-19
https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2020/10/24/att-third-quarter-cuts.html Haven't seen any coverage or mention of this.
I Was Wrong: AT&T Is Struggling Just to Give HBO Max Away
https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/10/31/i-was-wrong-att-is-struggling-just-to-give-hbo-max/
Starlink is coming
Anyone in the internet side of the business needs to be prepared for Starlink that could take a sizable chunk of this business. This could be another game changer from Elon Musk that could lead to more layoff for AT&T. They expect to be launching... — read more
Any chance this might slow down WM layoffs?
AT&T said Monday it completed the sale of its wireless and wireline operations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to Liberty Latin America, taking in $1.95... — read more
Jeff Mackerel Fish
Does anyone even listen to this clown’s town halls anymore? What a waste of time. I don’t think he even believes his own bs.
Does anybody WORK here?
May show up, but do you WORK? Do you merely show up to collect a paycheck? Responses please.
Best situation to handle layoffs
If you are laid off, your best hope is that the economy is in good shape which will automatically mean that there will be more job openings available for you to move on to. It also means that there will be a healthy number of recruiters and... — read more
Mex layoffs?
any layoffs coming to ATT Mexico? is T selling attmex?
pockets of low morale
At the McFreshy townhall, he claimed there were just pockets of low morale. Must be a pretty big pocket. Also put a couple of other exec types on the spot asking if there were morale problems in their orgs. Both danced around the question.
Finance
they have me blocked because I tell the truth.
Another Exec jumps ship
These guys are seeing the writing on the wall! https://www.mobileworldlive.com/featured-content/top-three/att-iot-exec-penrose-heads-for-door
When You Have Money to Spend...
You can hire Chris Rock to tout your 5g network and upsell iPhone 12...that is, if you are Verizon and have the money. If you are in debt, you bring back Natasha from the Rocky and Bullwinkle show and have her push foam 5G props around a fake... — read more
More significant layoffs coming Q1 2021
While all seems quite going into the winter , it seems the business community is already expecting reductions come Q1 2021 . After the election and during Q4 earnings call we'll have a clear idea how this are going to be broken out.
Finance
Any rumors? 3rd and 4th levels leaving and radio silence with it.
wholesale
There is no information, same old people keeping their jobs and doing nothing. Wholesale.
A lack of comment traffic lately Whats up???
What's up - nobody has any new posts or replies to existing posts. Is it that dead regarding the various organizations or no new inside news? Are there any new layoffs currently happening? No recent executive departures - either voluntary or... — read more
T Stock at a Five Year Low...
Over and out.
Fox Business speculating on sale of CNN
Interesting segment this afternoon from Charlie Gasparino on Fox Business where he was stating there is a lot of banker speculation around a sale of CNN to Bezos (Amazon). At the end of the day though, just his usual schtick where he does not seem to... — read more
Cutting jobs does not cut expenses?
As I assumed, ATT job cuts won’t lead to significantly lower costs. I just read an analysis about job cuts in a company that didn’t yield any significant results in overall cost cutting. Here is an article if someone is interested:... — read more
More job cuts before year end...?
Does anybody know if there will be anymore technician jobs cut from the Chow organization in this last quarter before year end? Curious and uneasy minds want to know!
Removing The CEO (OCT 26, 2020)
In almost thirty five years of working on boards, the hardest decisions I have had to make involve removing the CEO. It is an important decision and one that must be made from time to time. I am not a fan of removing the CEO until and unless it is... — read more
Fair or grounds for grievance?
Out here in Cali, certain areas, were told that some IP techs are being dismissed from doing DTV jobs now and told to remove dtv supplies out their vans. On Friday 10/23 emails were sent out to techs who were chosen not to do it anymore but a few... — read more
How you manage losing 3M subs every year, and keep lying about the business?
"We are rounding the corner" said Stinki, AT&T premium television losses mount, The company has lost nearly six million premium television subscribers in the last two years. That includes DIRECTV, U-verse and AT&T TV subscribers.
On diversity
Postings on how diversity quotas are being used as corruption down in ATTMex are being removed. Yeah, come see how this rats' nest is all about incompetent people promoting incompetent people. Corruption and cronyism all over this place with... — read more
Wow sam’s club mobile phone sales
Man they are just about tackling customers to buy mobile phone service only with att. Getting very aggressive. Must be getting pressure from he stank. Nice to tell them I will never buy anything from att again. Better stop their aggressiveness... — read more
I could think of more than three, but it's a good start...
I've defended AT&T plenty of times, but it's becoming impossible to ignore some of its bigger problems. Let's review three major issues with AT&T, and why they're shaking my faith in this Dividend... — read more
Cultural obstacles and language barriers
It could very well be that I am just an obsolete dinosaur, but my experience here, over the last 10 years, is that dealing with technical details is very difficult in this environment where there are multiple cultures and native languages in play. Oh... — read more
Who will buy this
Q1=1M Q2=286K Q3=670K Q4=? DirecTV loses video 2M subscribers in 3 Quarters
9000 Jobs Vanished. Worth reading!!!
https://www.lightreading.com/aiautomation/atandt-ratchets-up-pace-of-cuts-as-9k-jobs-vanish/d/d-id/764879?_mc=RSS_LR_EDT
Be Strategic
After going through multiple surplus and large scale outsource deals with AT&T for the last 10 years (some were not known outside of our business unit), I personally got into the mindset to save more and live on less. It also doesn’t hurt to get a... — read more
AT&T announced that the financial results for the third quarter were Stellar results
In some alternate universe investors should be incredibly pleased. https://seekingalpha.com/article/4380992-ts-stellar-developments
Very Confused
So aTT has HBO Max......Do people know HBO owns Cinamx and there is Cinemax Go? Is over there in the corner totally ignored....a wasted opportunity for aTT. Maybe if they blended it under the HBO Max umbrella the 15 a month would be then at the... — read more
Forget live 'T' - V
During the debate last night, U-verse lost signal 4 times. Don't watch much live TV, because this keeps happening, but this I really wanted to see. And what happens that one time it matters? The service does not work right. And this after being... — read more
Why would anybody buy DirecTV?
I understand we want to get rid of it, but why would anybody buy it? What kind of motive could somebody have to plop down a major amount for something that has consistently been losing users in hundreds of thousands each month, 600,000 being the... — read more
IHX
What is the future of In Home Experts if they get rid of techs for streaming and close company owned stores?
the future is not ours to see. New York City and Los Angeles still seem to be the stumbling blocks. There is no cinema without movie theatres.
Just like Why Moses not allowed to enter the Promised Land, Stankey will not see A sucezfil AT&T in this life. Therefore, he will see the land only from a distance; he will not enter the land I am giving to the people of warner Media " God said... — read more