Dallas C Suite low level here overheard high level talk about the Bloomington Minnesota office closing in 3rd quarter this year. They talked about building lease being terminated by new building owner and unfriendly local politics and union. I just wanted to share this to hopefully help people plan who will be affected.
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Who did you hear talking? The CS&O SVP, VP, AVP…or someone else? A couple of CS&O centers and a bunch of other orgs there.
Knock it off!
I thought we had only 9 hubs and all other offices have already been asked to move to hubs. Confused!
I know right! Turns out leaderships says things all the time that they cannot or will not do.
It appears that they make announcements before they understand all the implications. In other words they don’t have a full understanding of our business. This is a pattern with JS it is not Legg or Mccelfresh making these decisions. For instance currently we’re pushing a guarantee on service while cutting generator and battery maintenance. Only the big offices get routine tests done. You cannot cut maintenance expense and improve service. Period.
Call centers are a hot topic and are being targeted for “virtual assistants”. The standard scripts are being loaded into large language models.
Fallout from the AI will still addressed by a human on a “skeleton crew” in Bangladesh.
I thought we had only 9 hubs and all other offices have already been asked to move to hubs. Confused!
CS&O has their own hubs which includes buildings that house Maintenance and Call Centers.
dallas c suite is testing to see if there is a mole around. You failed expect your termination package soon traitor.
Well to be fair, that building is full of incompetent people. Mostly the Mobility Implementation crowd. They don’t answer emails, answer phones or return calls. What a way to run a company.
They bought the building for $40 million last year in a foreclosure sale. They've spent money on cosmetic things since the purchase. I don't see a full tear down happening. Office space is so cheap around there that they'd have to turn it into a hotel or condos to make any money. Thousands of condos just north of the building site and more being built all the time.
Also the building is desperately seeking tenants.
New owner probably wants to terminate, then, so they can either tear down or redesign/repurpose the whole thing at once.
"Termination of an existing lease for funsies doesn’t sound legal."
Most of the leases I negotiate on behalf of the company has out clauses for both parties.
Call centers don’t have to be in a hub.
I thought we had only 9 hubs and all other offices have already been asked to move to hubs. Confused!
Termination of an existing lease for funsies doesn’t sound legal. Also the building is desperately seeking tenants.
Thank you. Hope more people at top are willing to share inside scoop. I hope you find a way out or if you stay part of way to improve company. Top lives in an echo chamber. The stuff that is put out on LI by Att is hurts rather than helps morale. You seem the comments and other posts looking down on the company.
Most of top is not situationally aware. And the ones who are would not risk saying bucking to save position and face.
3rd Quarter? What the he-l is T doing? Dragging their knuckles like a bunch of lazy do nothing bloated cavemen. Get the sh-t done already. Send out the letters and close the sh-t down ya mo--ns.