Here's the thing about volunteering...

I have done, and continue to do plenty of it.

Supporting things in my community that matter to me.

That has NOTHING, zero, zip, nada to do with AT&T.

I'll not log my hours onto some AT&T tracker so that you can somehow claim "credit" or toot your corporate ho-n about how awesome you are as an employer because you have employees that volunteer on their own time.

Indeed, you have done ZERO to support your employees in those efforts; in fact, you have made it far more difficult by forcing them to sit in traffic for hours a day, every day, for no good reason. Someone that might have been able to previously volunteer as a coach or mentor of some sort is now probably unable to do so. And that's all well and good, that your prerogative.

But you don't get to reach out and ask me to log hours spent on my time on YOUR tracker, so you can somehow gain from my personal efforts.

And to those of you that will continue to cave and do so anyway, respectfully, wake TF up. No one cares about the meaningless certificate or whatever you may get from T. You can tout your own volunteerism on your own on resume, LI or wherever.

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Well you can take a full paid day off [coded in Infor] as a community service day. So for that day, it does pay to log your hours. All mgmt employees get 1 day a year to do this. Use it!

When you are laid off later this year, you will have a lot more time for volunteer work and can just start entering your hours then.

No way are you going to report my personal info on your report.

“ OP, go take your meds. TLDR. Nobody cares. Go get a life.”

GFY, you pathetic twot waffle.

Spot on OP! I’ve always felt this way…AT&T has absolutely nothing to do with my volunteerism. It’s none of their business and I’ll not let them take credit for me being a decent human being who just happens to work for this sh-t hole company!

@at is trying to argue a point, but doesn’t know the difference between your and you’re. What an id--t.

Some of you still don’t get it (OP here)—you can’t “code” these hours. They are asking you to track your night and weekend hours spent volunteering in your community to try and shine a favorable light on the company. This guy explained it well:

“ What the OP is talking about is a separate tracking system created by AT&T for the employees to enter their volunteer time that is completed outside the domain of AT&T (coaching soccer, running a chess program at a local school). These items are in no way affiliated with AT&T other than an AT&T employee is doing it. AT&T collects those hours and then publicizes how wonder AT&T is to the community because of all these volunteer hours. The OP is saying not to report those volunteer hours because the company has made it more difficult, if not impossible, for employees to volunteer.”

Yo! Go into INFOR and view your time off balances. You get a day for volunteer. All you have to do is report your time to the volunteer code.

"fairytale made up to control non-thinking people 2000 years ago"

I'm not saying that you're belief system is wrong (judge not least you be judged, right?) but you may want to give some reverence to a "fairytale" so powerful that it established a universal calendar.

“ Humanity has evolved.”

You mean humanity has retrogressed…straight into the gutter.

Yep, i stopped reporting my hours last year as soon as the copany changed the rules around 3x8.

"If I’m already doing it, and the paperwork doesn’t su-k too bad, why not have att give me 8 hours to do it rather than taking pto?"

Different issue. AT&T creates opportunities for employees to volunteer through the company, and typically with other AT&T employees. What the OP is talking about is a separate tracking system created by AT&T for the employees to enter their volunteer time that is completed outside the domain of AT&T (coaching soccer, running a chess program at a local school). These items are in no way affiliated with AT&T other than an AT&T employee is doing it. AT&T collects those hours and then publicizes how wonder AT&T is to the community because of all these volunteer hours. The OP is saying not to report those volunteer hours because the company has made it more difficult, if not impossible, for employees to volunteer.

They know the feeling of superiority you get is all the compensation you need. They correctly assume most volunteers will not be able to resist another opportunity to virtue signal by getting credit for it at work. No reason not to exploit that for the good of the stockholders.

The way I see it, while I don’t want AT&T taking credit for my charitable donations I might as well get the matching funds from AT&T to my designated charity and give the rest privately. Don’t throw away money.

I see the same deal for volunteering. If I’m already doing it, and the paperwork doesn’t su-k too bad, why not have att give me 8 hours to do it rather than taking pto?

Same here, my management has been trying to get me to report my independent community service for quite a while, but I don't want ATT adding my service to whatever they record and take credit for. In fact at one point I actually tried to report my Church based community service, which actually served the same charity, however ATT's reporting system had no way to enter Church based items.

Saw that email while ago and just chuckled and deleted it.

Ok.

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