You know when AT&T turned from a good company into what we have now? When it started prioritizing cost saving over winning customers. There have been so many reductions in people, services, and quality of remaining services that it’s no wonder we’re constantly losing business. Short-term gains now win over long-term income sources each time.
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Too many underperforming workers that are not doing their work."
Too many underperforming executives. There. Fixed it for you. The C suite is a deep bench of mediocrity, even incompetence. The workers serve at the pleasure of the executives. Blame should always be up where the power is.
- It's been 6 years since new hires were eligible for the pension. The most creative, innovative ideas come from the new hires that bring fresh perspectives to the company.
On top of this, AT&T claims ownership of any inventions you create while you are an employee – even if created on your own time. The lack of investment in newer employees means they are working for less compensation than their peers with earlier NCS date, and it gives them an incentive to start working elsewhere before filing a patent or disclosing a new business idea.
RE: "Too many underperforming workers that are not doing their work."
That's bogus. People work their hearts out for T hoping for the best. Management employees thrown into strike duty training and still having to do their regular jobs. Craft employees fixing everything in every kind of weather. Nope, employees are not the reason. I'm going with debt from poorly understood acquisitions that put so much pressure on the c–suite it hurts those working hard.
I noticed the change after the Cingular acquisition. The shackles were put on creativity and growth.
been around enough to remember this all started with Whitaker these are all his boys running things, he's probably thrilled at the way things are going.
Should have just stuck to plain old telephone lines and kept those reliable phone booths around.
It happened with the breakup in 1984. That's when everyone realized AT&T couldn't compete with the rest of the world and should have just stuck to what they were good at.
Need to get rid of those workers with bad attitude.
it started with
- T Mobile Botched buyout that cost us 4B and spectrum
- Overpaying for Direct TV
- Buying Warner Media
In a Debt h––e now that have to claw out of
Agree, Ed Whitaker designed and crafted the strategy. Then, as most slick hucksters do, he walked away with a $230M platinum parachute...including lifetime country club fees, $5.5M annual pension, $18M lump sum, free home security, lifetime use of corporate jet, plus he sold $42M in stock conveniently before he ‘retired’. This type of grift is one reason why American worker’s wages lag and layoffs loom.
ATT tried to innovate, but they couldn't. Cloud offerings, airgig, network automation, uverse, over the top tv, digital life – all failures.
@lcm –––––––– Spot on.
And Randy was a disciple of bad management and NO LEADERSHIP principles. Ed kept saying "gotta
get big" and bought dying technology like Land Lines while Randy squandered more money on Tmobile, DirecTV, Warner and Stankey thinks he's the smartest man in the room whether it's full of
Nobel laurettes, self made Billionaires or brain surgeons.
This company has never had true leadership since original AT&T owed it all.
T mob purchase 2011
It started with Ed Whitaker and the mergers. Strategy is merge and get rid of redundant positions. Consolidate roles, do more with less, and off-shore.
Too many underperforming workers that are not doing their work.