Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

Stack ranking is already occurring and reporting is happening weekly. You will be fed into an algorithm and you will be terminated for poor performance as well. This is a "take no prisoners" proposal. There will be people who will "move with their job" to a hub, buy a new house, sell their old one, move away from friends and family, and break longstanding relationships. Then in the weeks or months to follow, they will be laid off. Take that very much into careful consideration before you move to a hub site. AT&T is showing you the door without showing you the door. They may keep you. They may not keep you.

“This is simple - because of incredibly stupid and arrogant decisions T cannot pay down its debt without becoming a zombie shell of a company. Revenues are not growing so the only lever to pull is cost reduction. Both Stankey and the BOD know this is the only option now. A terrible, unfair, and totally unnecessary situation but this is where we are at.”

Truth and let’s not forget that business is slow and we have too many buildings and too many employees.

“ How hard is this to understand about RTO and HUB cities?
If you are a manager or area manager of a splicer, I/R tech, prem tech…etc, you will not need to relocate to do your work.

If you are a manager of any level who sits at a PC all day you will probably need to relocate.”

This is not an accurate statement. We have construction and engineering personnel, project manages, vendor mgmt, RAN engineers and others who are market/local based who spend 3/4 of their time in the office and perhaps 1/4 of their time in the field. They will remain in their existing local offices as they have done before and report 3 days per week. Their managers are often located in another office 1-3 hours away with the same market. They too will remain in their current locations. Their will be minimal disruption to these local operational teams and personnel

How hard is this to understand about RTO and HUB cities?

If you are a manager or area manager of a splicer, I/R tech, prem tech…etc, you will not need to relocate to do your work.

If you are a manager of any level who sits at a PC all day you will probably need to relocate.

The company cannot operate with customer facing and operational employees not located in local markets. The regional model essentially took sprint out of business and has resulted in TMO struggling to actually catch up to VZW and T in terms of network quality and reliability. Both T and VZW know local
Market presence is vital to success which is why the he email and FAQ clearly state customer facing and local market operations will remain in place. Please stop with the rumor and information otherwise.

The core hubs are “administrative” locations for management employees.

The announcement is not clear, but the one we received from Sambar said

“Employees who support our network infrastructure in local markets should remain in their field/markets and will likely not have any changes…”. To me this suggests a lot of people will stay right where they are even if outside one of the core locations.

Having seen the email from Sambar, the one fromThe Stank is severely lacking details. Just like everything rolled like this by our CEO there will be apologies stating we could have done better.

It seems very few leaders in the chain of command were briefed this was going to happen. How does the Stank survive. Some suggested a partition be created on move on.org to get him and / or the BOD ousted.

Do you really think T wants or needs L2 staff from the non-hub locations you mentioned and really wants to relocate them to either coast?

Conversely, do you think any L2 staff in say KC or Indy or Milwaukee will be willing to relocate from those locations to New Jersey or California? Do you have any idea what the housing differentials are on the coasts relative to a fly over state?

Do you think T couldn't easily replace L2 staff managers with say 25 years in with a new employee located at one of the hub cities?

This is simple - because of incredibly stupid and arrogant decisions T cannot pay down its debt without becoming a zombie shell of a company. Revenues are not growing so the only lever to pull is cost reduction. Both Stankey and the BOD know this is the only option now. A terrible, unfair, and totally unnecessary situation but this is where we are at.

Lol, T absolutely doesn’t care about the customers.

Customer facing will not leave locations where their customers are based. In an interesting juxtaposition, these people may end up teleworking as their office locations are closed. The priority is the customer.

As has been stated elsewhere, there will still remain many office locations in local markets and cities such as exist in Framingham, MA…Pittsburgh PA, Indianapolis band so on. Core locations and hubs have greater focus for employees who are part of national or regional teams. Groups and employees who are operationally based in local
Markets will remain.

Now you got it! They want everyone to leave the business, even the sacred cattle.

I am in one of those cities you mentioned. I was told by my VP since I am customer facing that I am staying right where I am.

KC>St Loser