It seems the employees at T have been living a sort of living he-l for the past five years. When will we, as a company, return to the days of old? I want to return to telecommuting, do my eight hours per day, not be spied upon, trusted to get my work done. It used to be a good place to work, I just want those days to return.
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The stress here is unreal. They cut to bone and we that are left behind holding the bag get to pick up all the slack. You cannot convince me that any higher ups care at all about a customer
I'm so sick of the assumption that people who telecommute are not working. I worked harder and longer hours than in the office. My productivity was way higher than it is now.
Are there abusers of the system? Absolutely! That's on their supervisor to monitor their accomplishments and discipline accordingly. You don't throw out the entire system because of the minority abusers. You FIX it.
It seems that most of the attention that h1-b gets has to do with wage suppression and replacing jobs with cheap labor. But nobody ever talks about how it enables the most draconian atmosphere and contributes to the most oppressive work environment.
Those of us old enough to remember the pre-h1-b days can attest to the decline in our treatment and what we are expected to swallow. You don’t like these policies? There are people living in squalor who will be more than happy to.
“ All companies are moving to RTO. Also, most governmental entities are moving to 100% RTO. It’s not ending. It is moving back to normal.”
Lol what a fu--ing lie 🤡🤡. Not every company is moving back to RTO. Elon and his doge a-s is definitely moving back to RTO and so are most of the government jobs, but plenty of companies are still hybrid/remote. Besides Amazon and some bank/Finance companies, all of big tech are hybrid and plenty of other tech startups are still remote/hybrid.
The best thing is to find a new situation when you’re unhappy with the current. Take control of your life and happiness. You can do it!
" All companies are moving to RTO"
1000 percent false statement, no matter how many times you repeat it.
Every year I get an Exceeds/Excels on my performance appraisal. I'm not sure why, I barely perform any work. It's difficult with RTO to look busy for eight hours every day. I just get very bored, all the while dreaming about all my time I used to spend on the golf course.
Don’t focus on what you think was lost. Look at what you have gained. You now have local coworkers to depend on for support. The number of your coworkers and work family has grown.
Telecommunicating from the golf course.
WAYYYYY too many people abused the system, and too many of those are .. hmm, how shall I say this... "protected by the boxes checked" (aka can't be fired).
If you want a return to the old ways then the values of the old employees must return..
Fight Canada or Mexico now that is silly...C'mon man get a grip
And yet you stay.
“ This place has made my life a living he-l.”
That’s their intent.
It’s really pretty sad. I’ve been with AT&T for about 7 years now, and I remember people used to say anything under 10 was “rookie numbers” playfully. I enjoyed ERGs, conferences, and would intentionally put everything into my work to contribute and make T better as well as myself through that development.
That’s all down the toilet down. I feel they don’t respect me anymore, so the feeling has become mutual. Very low morale now.
“Also cracking down hard on medical waivers.”
There has been so much abuse with medical waivers in the past.
Use the bird keyboard pe---r and RTO. You’ll make it. Thats the only thing required of email / conference call workers.. no work anymore. One day you arrive to a computer pink slip. Could be manana amigo.
This place has made my life a living he-l.
T has needed employees to focus mire on the work aspect of the work/life balance equation for a long time.
Jeremy is a tool. That is all.
The past is a foreign land. They’re so focused on RTO and zip codes that managers moving on are not being backfilled by knowledgeable and qualified team members unless they are in Dallas or Atlanta; as a result, people who know nothing about what the team does (but they live in the right zip code) are being brought in to manage. Also cracking down hard on medical waivers. WFH is a total pipe dream at this point with this company.
All companies are moving to RTO. Also, most governmental entities are moving to 100% RTO. It’s not ending. It is moving back to normal.
RTO may be the new standard but the way T is implementing it is certainly NOT
Look, telecommute never should have been allowed. A special tax on the wealth of people who telecommute before 2020 would be an appropriate measure to help out the rest of us that carried their lazy bones before the pandemic.
"You Can't Go Home Again is a novel by Thomas Wolfe published posthumously in 1940, extracted by his editor, Edward Aswell, from the contents of his vast unpublished manuscript The October Fair. It is a sequel to The Web and the Rock, which, along with the collection The Hills Beyond, was extracted from the same manuscript.
George Webber has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. When he returns to that town, he is shaken by the force of outrage and hatred that greets him. Family and lifelong friends feel na--d and exposed by what they have seen in his books, and their fury drives him from his home.
An outcast, George Webber begins a search for his own identity. It takes him to New York and a hectic social whirl; to Paris with an uninhibited group of expatriates; to Berlin, lying cold and sinister under H1tler's shadow. The journey comes full circle when Webber returns to America and rediscovers it with love, sorrow, and hope.
Wolfe took the title from a conversation with the writer Ella Winter, who remarked to Wolfe: "Don't you know you can't go home again?" Wolfe then asked Winter for permission to use the phrase as the title of his book.
The title is reinforced in the denouement of the novel in which Webber realizes: "You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood ... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ... back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting, but which are changing all the time – back home to the escapes of Time and Memory." "
You can never go back. It is over for this company. Hopefully whoever buys up my division in the private equity selloff will have more reasonable policies. If not, some company will.
It’s never coming back. Better find something else to do if you’re not checking in code once a day
I think we all want this.