Everyone should tune into 2Q earnings on Wednesday and witness “leadership’s” spin on their reality vs ours and our customers. What’s the anticipated playbook? If like other earnings or townhalls it will go something like this:
1) Credit Hoarding and Blame Deflection: Stankey will take personal credit for all successes, but scapegoat realities or market factors for any poor metrics, failures, or missed targets.
2) Spinning Data: He’ll present metrics selectively to inflate achievements while minimizing or altogether hiding negative data/results.
3) Focusing on Optics Over Substance: He’ll prioritize vanity metrics like PR splashes or superficial growth instead of addressing structural issues or the long-term sustainability of the corporation.
4) Gaslighting Employees: He’ll publicly contradict internal realities; he will claim the company is thriving while employees experience understaffing, canceled projects, and record level layoffs and burnout.
5) Silencing Dissent: He’ll negligently ignore bad news, punish employees (no matter their level) who report operational failures or low morale, and exclude critical voices from high-level conversations.
6) Lack of Empathy for Stakeholders: He’ll dismiss the toll that poor organizational performance (e.g., RTO and targeted layoffs, restructuring) takes on the workforce and quarterly results.
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@d5 so you also think it will be bad?
I will keep an eye on the stock price. I am ready to complain.
Wait for it… for the street everything will be peaches and sunshine. Internally, it will be very different (and negative) message, with the blame being pushed down to the lower ranks. Can’t wait to see how the spin blame game goes.
I will be curious to see how the consumer wireless rate plan increases worked out for them. I have to imagine churn will be up significantly. I for one dropped AT&T and switched to Verizon. After all, loyalty is dead.
@ab really? The dividend ex date already happened. Only thing left is the payout which will likely cause a slight lift
So scripted. What an ongoing dumpster fire.
Just think if the company opts in what the stock would do:
Companies in the U.S. do not report semi-annually yet. The SEC formally proposed new rules on May 5, 2026, to allow public companies to optionally file semi-annual reports on Form 10-S instead of quarterly Form 10-Q reports.The rule is currently in the rulemaking phase, and the SEC expects it to be adopted in the first half of 2027. If officially enacted, the first semi-annual reports could become effective for public companies as early as 2028
And then after the dividend payout, comes the sell off… T is dog!
I’m sure he will but it’s not working anymore. The institutional investor knows better.