There’s some solid information that’s come to my desk about mass layoffs for San Antonio coming within the next 6 months. They will be consolidating to a “super center” and will be laying off people that are getting paid a higher salary than what new... — read more 

Has there been any discussion on how long this designation will last and if all people outside hubs need to move or just where offices are closed? This puts people with that status in limbo prolonging the decision.

Did anyone else get a random employee survey a few days ago. Essentially all questions asked a few months ago via third party survey but this survey came out via Microsoft forms and it isn’t anonymous. I thought that was weird.

https://www.businessinsider.com/att-system-for-tracking-employees-rto-compliance-2025-9

“I AT&T is looking at office space in the suburbs, two people with knowledge of the situation have told The Dallas Morning News, even as its CEO remained silent Friday regarding speculation about the Dallas-based telecommunications company reducing... — read more 

There are rules to follow when joining home dispatch program. Following the rules helps save gas and time and wear and tear on a vehicle used to drive to work and to home. But MSTs abuse this program from driving to the garage every day and... — read more 

Surplus announcement date is September 15th for Leg T/CWA union workers per labor contract.

AT&T is dialing down its use of a controversial attendance tracking system for enforcing its RTO policy. The so-called presence report uses a combination of inputs to log employees' time in the office. The company's CMO says its goal of finding... — read more 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/t-joins-forces-gigs-launch-135804177.html

Anyone heard anything on the lumen fiber buyout? Will we being doing the installs.

Hi y’all. An 8 minute, highly edited clip from the disastrous one hour webcast is now available. No mention of Yugo. No mention of Applesauce. No jokes from HR lady. No mention of work-life balance. Highly edited to look more professional

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/at-t-tracked-employee-attendance-to-find-freeloaders-now-it-admits-the-system-is-driving-workers-to-the-brink-of-frustration/ar-AA1MpqJJ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=68c417d6a14d47a3b21a021170d7ea46&ei=15 or... — read more 

From Business Insider article; “ AT&T tracked employee attendance to find 'freeloaders.' Now, it admits the system is driving workers to the 'brink of frustration.’ “ Relief may be on the way for all that are beyond frustrated.

Stankey stands to make a lot of money from this deal from his stock holdings. However, employees were forced to sell their stocks that they received via 401 match at a huge loss. How is this legal?

4th quarter Vsipp and 1st Quarter 2026. Also im hearing September 15th could be ugly. Just spreading info I heard. Might be nothing.

I know its not a layoff post but I'm genuinely curious anyone here work in the Charlotte area for a corporate function? Looking at risk roles and understand the 5 day office thing but also hear no seats and new hub is coming in 2026. Is Charlotte... — read more 

So I have a couple of senior folks who work for Wall St. firms , and they have given me a heads up that Q1 is going to be a major hemorrhaging of white collar jobs,sectors mostly affected are big pharma, telecomm ( including at T. , VZ and CISCO) ... — read more 

‘We will do better.’ Microsoft CEO Nadella admits company has to rebuild trust with employees https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/microsoft-ceo-nadella-says-company-must-rebuild-trust-with-employees.html

Imagine coming to this site and whining that people are “complaining.” This is literally a place for layoff news, venting, and sharing grievances. What did you expect to find here, a cheerleading squad? If the culture was positive, if leadership... — read more 

The company and John Stankey have made it clear that the direction is for employees to be colocated in Dallas. It doesn’t make sense for us to operate and keep open hubs or offices across the U.S. for a distributed workforce. Either relocate to... — read more 

Why are they so bad? They don’t know what they are doing, schedule too many useless calls, and don’t know how to actual lead or manage a team.

AT&T wants to be like Amazon, where is the increased salary, bonus, RTU to match?

This should be done long time ago!

This one was woefully incorrect. Thankfully, there were only 4 days to report on because of the Labor Day holiday. I lost more than 4 hours over the 4 days due to the incorrect report.

Well, the RTO purge has pretty much run its course. Anyone who couldn’t relocate, wouldn’t commute, or flat out refused to play the badge swipe game is already gone or has one foot out the door. That was the whole point, force attrition without... — read more 

I am loving AT&T’s new company culture under John Stankey. I roll into the Dallas office after 10AM, and collect my badge swipe. Stay until a little bit after lunch. Get to grab something tasty for lunch. As for actual work? I do as little of it... — read more 

Any news for Sept 15th buyout offer for business service representative in d9 Fresno CA?

What are the justifications for entire orgs like Torretta to be set to NVW? Wtf? Someone’s gotta bring this injustice to light man! This ain’t fair! We all know none of us actually need to be in an office, why did they get an exception?

So what do you do? Move to Dallas or Not ? Its really that simple

Are you still required to coach employees on the presence report by HR? Or things have slowly fallen off the radar?

Any T out there regarding layoff announcement Sept 15th ?

Meeting between Dallas and Atlanta regarding aggressive cost cutting showed Minnesota on top of list.

Oracle’s stock just exploded 40% in one day, the biggest move by any company this size in over 30 years. Why? Because they’re winning massive AI and cloud deals, building the future, and actually innovating. They’re projecting half a trillion in... — read more 

I wonder if this is a brainstorming session to figure out how to meet the expense targets for 2025 & 2026.

John, we’re begging you, end this RTO madness. It’s crushing the very people who keep this company running. The commutes are ki-ling us, the hubs are overcrowded, and nothing has improved. We’re still sitting on Teams calls all day, only now we’re... — read more 

CEO WORD V0MITS ABOUT RTO (AT&T) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq10jrnO2SM&t=6s This guy's stuff has been posted before, but the comments are pretty funny. Keep signal-boosting this kind of bad press.

I guess they think it will fix Stankey’s memo.

I mean if you truly want to be on safe turf just relocate and follow all the rules to the T. Actual work? - do as little of it as possible until you reach the exit sign.

My goodness our leaders are awful!