Even if it’s attrition, it still doesn’t make sense. It’s such a mess.
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Someones got their little fewings hurt…
“ What about civil rights violations if they occurred? Does your sn-t nose pompous a-s comprehend that? It’s not RTO, it’s moving your job to an office out of state and THEN RTO. An across state lines carrot that gets pulled away if you say yes. It makes some difference. Or are just straight up too stupid?”
You can see there are so many cry babies here that’t the reason.
- They want you to quit so they dont have to pay.
^^^^
That's the real reason. Remember, some people have been remote or hybrid for decade already including myself. Nothing to do with the covid pandemic, its just the nature of our work.
“At this point, what difference does it make? You either RTO or leave. Is it that difficult for you people to comprehend?”
What about civil rights violations if they occurred? Does your sn-t nose pompous a-s comprehend that? It’s not RTO, it’s moving your job to an office out of state and THEN RTO. An across state lines carrot that gets pulled away if you say yes. It makes some difference. Or are just straight up too stupid?
“ Distrust in the workforce.”
There’s ten fold distrust in “leadership”…& rightfully so!
“No winder this company is in the toilet. Full of employees that can’t be adults and spend all their time acting like entitled 3 year olds. Life is hard. Step up or step away.”
High quality post.
At this point, what difference does it make? You either RTO or leave. Is it that difficult for you people to comprehend? No winder this company is in the toilet. Full of employees that can’t be adults and spend all their time acting like entitled 3 year olds. Life is hard. Step up or step away.
“Didn't realize it at the time but getting the pension, severance and retiring has really worked out great for me.”
It was great for me as well except I did realize it at the time. I took a few vacations, recharged, brushed up on some skills that I didn’t have time for during an overbooked work schedule. Nurtured my investments, collected unemployment for the first time in my life. I’ve never smiled and laughed so much in the last couple of months. For those that will say “And yet here you are” I come here for the amusing reads and occasional post to defend a righteous opinion. Aside from that I’m grateful for the handsome salary and lifestyle AT&T has afforded me in the past. This version of AT&T though? Pure trash. Unredeemable.
Distrust in the workforce.
The reason is, they want you gone and they want to spend as little as they can to make that happen. To achieve this, they will make working conditions uncomfortable and difficult for everyone. They will eventually start turning good employees into bad employees when you fail to fulfill RTO mandates. You will then become eligible to be fired or lose your yearly bonus or raise. This might make you want to quit, which of course, is what they really want. - Eric Cartman
“If you voluntarily quit/refuse to relocate, they don't have to pay a severance. If they lay you off, they do.”
When they sent out our letters stating that our jobs were being relocated to Atlanta, I was eligible for severance if I chose not to follow the job. The reason is because they didn’t actually want me to follow the job.
Control, ego, reducing head count, tax breaks, because their daddy Blackrock said so. It sure as heck ain’t about increasing revenue, productivity or collaboration.
Control.
Didn't realize it at the time but getting the pension, severance and retiring has really worked out great for me. Granted the market has been kind but being able to watch my investments and work on retiring I have actually grown my holdings by quite a bit since leaving.,.even with the expenses of not working. Being just a year away from SS benefits now...he-l i may not ever go back to work lol.
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as BlackRock focuses on DEI, ESG, carbon emissions and other socially driven agendas at a corporate and governmental level, China is making significant strides across multiple technological fronts
"T hasn’t been making revenue for a LONG time."
I don't think that r word means what you think it means.
EGO
Expense/Overhead/Cost cutting.
T hasn’t been making revenue for a LONG time.
Repeated BAD business decisions (DEBT) by the C-Suite and BoD we ALL know what those decisions were.
This was NEVER about collaboration.
Getting employees back to full time work to streamline operations and greatly reduce personnel and costs.
@aa+1jgq948a0… do you not have a second gear? Your repetitive posts are mind numbing.
The real reason is to get workers back into the office and actually work for their pay. AT&T no longer wants to pay for workers to sleep in and avoid working.
You guys are over complicating this question. It’s about money plain and simple. This company is not trying to innovate or create some revolutionary new product. They have the NATIONAL CELL PHONE NETWORK already. Will it still work without half of you? I think it will so there’s your answer. They will still have all the revenue and a lot less expense. They know it and blackrock knows it. That is the only reason a company like blackrock would ever invest in a bloated indebted broken company like AT&T. We have the revenue all that needs to be done is drastically cut the expenses and the cash machine will continue to feed the shareholder. The reduction in workforce will never end. We will continue to shut down the old network that requires the most attention. I’ve almost talked myself into keeping my T shares again.
consolidation
Why are you trying to bait people for replies on a topic that we employees have already discussed ad nauseam? You sound like one of those d-mb AT&T attorneys. Slick as sh-t until you release that someone set a bear trap and you stepped right in it.
Why don’t you have Jeremy explain under oath why the IT workforce in ATS were required RTO out of state and move to Atlanta else lose their job. Many that did decide to move were let go anyway. Once you’re done propping him up on the stand I’ll ask a few questions of my own:
- What specifically was the compelling business reason why ATS was required to move to Atlanta when everyone else was relocating to Dallas?
- What was the average age of an ATS employee that did not or could not relocate?
- How many of the 40+ age employees that chose to relocate were subsequently laid off?
- At the time the invitation was sent for the 40+ age employees, was their reasonable accommodations and capacity to welcome them to their new location?
- Of the 40+ age employees that were laid off, including those that chose not to move and those that chose to move but were let go anyway, what percentage were ultimately replaced by a similar age and race?
- What percentage was replaced by younger or a person of color?
- Approximately what number of ATS employees are employed in India, Israel and elsewhere?
- Do they work on the same projects as the employees you found it vital to relocate to Atlanta?
- So then co-location was not the real reason to move older employees to Atlanta then was it?
Starting to see more clearly OP? Oh, but you already knew before you asked.
Been gone over multiple times.
- Get rid of people either with the pack your bags or get out policy or by pi----g them off so much they leave on their own.
- Boost egos of execs. Never underestimate how much they like to feel like they have control over people and hate when employees have any shred of power or autonomy.
- Please corporate real estate interests.
Does anyone remember when we were “forced” to have DEI training with our supervisors? F’ing Blackrock. Always Blackrock.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/blackrock-ceo-slammed-force-behaviors-dei-initiatives
$MONEY$
The company is hoping you will not RTO, whether it's still to an office that is far away (more than 50 miles), or, even better, to the Dallas or Atlanta, etc., offices where you would need to move all on your own time and money. If you voluntarily quit/refuse to relocate, they don't have to pay a severance. If they lay you off, they do.