A few years ago during a merger a VP stopped by and asked if we had seen an employee recently. The manager had not heard from him in a few weeks. Finally word got out this employee was drawing a paycheck but no longer doing any work and would not return calls, emails, etc. In fact, a few months later another employee saw him and he had taken a job with a new company but never resigned but wouldn't comment on his settlement on pay with us so we assumed he got a few weeks pay until they realized what happened. Does anyone know how AT&T deals with an employee doing this today or know details of a similar case?
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At this company if you abandon your job and do absolutely nothing, they promote you to management. If you do less than nothing and blow all of the stockholder’s money, they make you the CEO.
"We fixed the glitch"-Office Space
Blaming telecommuting is classic, incompetent manager is the root cause. I can show up to the office everyday of the week and never meet anyone that I actually work with/for. Good luck finding a babysitter to watch me get my work done.
should of done it before I left.
I've seen a handful of employees hide, not return calls, and not return emails for a YEAR before anyone had to stones to report the employee to HR who then took months more of sending registered letters etc etc. I may or may not have pulled this stunt
The process is a joke
There are a few employees in my department very similar to Milton in ‘Office Space’. One even looks just like him.
There has been documented stories about a few employees of large corporations that slipped through the cracks. They just kept a low profile and stayed 35-40 years without interaction with anyone at the company. Sounds very intriging, I wonder how many AT&T has?
We have someone on my remote team that is never on team calls, and no one can ever get a hold of this person. To where stakeholders that are trying to get a hold of the person end up calling us (other team members) exasperated, and asking how to get a hold of this person regarding work they are assigned. This has been going on for a couple years.
Why are you asking? Are you looking at trying to get away with the same thing?
This is why full-time telecommuting is never an ideal work option.
Some employees rarely see or talk with their manager. Most likely there are some employees that are not accountable for their time or accomplishments. Just receiving a paycheck every two weeks. Some may have other employment, how would anyone know?
I am sure Comp Team will send a letter requesting a payback. Which in most cases, that letter will just be disregarded. Comp will try to take money back if there is any pending commission if they were is sales, or in state that pays out unused vacations.
AT&T will do nothing to garish or attempt to retrieve pay that is less than $5K. The supervisor asleep at the wheel will be terminated.