www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-15/at-t-return-to-office-plan-feels-like-layoffs-to-some-managers
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Let's say they made a WARN notice for this. What would it change? I think it would raise the stock price, if anything.
Oh I don't know ... beats sorting my baseball cards, or organizing my underwear drawer.
Some strange ones in this thread. This is a layoff article on a layoff message board. Stop with the “victim hood & get back to work” nonsense. Get out of here and get a real hobby.
Yes, and then it corrected ... and life went on.
“ No one cares ... business does what business does and as long as the proverbial lights come on, life continues.”
Remember the time the market punished BP after the spill incident and the stock price continually decreased until bottoming out down 55%? You see, the market does what the market does.
Time to get back into the office and do work. What the company has been paying you to do. Enough taking care of personal matters on company time.
yet the sponsored shills
Wait ... what? WHERE THE HE-L'S MAH MONEEEEEEEEEEE!
“It's a very sleazy maneuver intended to hide a layoff and avoid the sort of negative publicity that will come with the truth of him doing this to continue to cover his own incompetence.”
Exactly what it is, yet the sponsored shills on here attempt to paint the employees as the problem for pointing this out.
No, yawn as in the selective outrage encouraged by this thread. No one cares ... business does what business does and as long as the proverbial lights come on, life continues.
@bwv+1n8NMuY5 -- you mean a collective yawn like the stock still being below $16? Or do you mean the yawn of T receding further and further behind both Verizon and T-Mobile in revenue, customer acquisition, broadband service, and customer satisfaction?
Yep. Stink sure is making the right moves, eh?
The worst part of all this is that Stink is doing this specifically so he won't need to satisfy WARN requirements. It's a very sleazy maneuver intended to hide a layoff and avoid the sort of negative publicity that will come with the truth of him doing this to continue to cover his own incompetence.
But then again, sleaze is Stink's only true skill.
Not really. Rational employees (at least those who're looking out for #1 and don't get energy from the drama) recognize the dysfunction and leave. Victims, however, get energy from their victimhood ...
“T has so many employees with a victim mindset.”
If that’s true it’s only that the employees are following the example of the leader with a victim mindset about his merger and acquisition failures. “Me and Randy had a great plan but the employees and customers screwed it up.”
T has so many employees with a victim mindset.
“And Wall Street lets out a collective yawn,”
This is the kind of response that lets you the company has people on here attempting to spin damage control. It’s the exact same narrative used to downplay the FCF miss and any of Stankey’s missteps. Nice try, but the cat is out of the bag.
And Wall Street lets out a collective yawn, customers check if they still have service ... and life goes on.
“There is no story here. T is an at will employer and can make any strategic adjustments needed.”
John, there is indeed a story here and that story is you are deliberately misrepresenting a mass layoff and forced resignation initiative as RTO. It quacks like a duck, it walks like a duck, and now the public will see that it is a duck.
ARE YOU NEW? T started foung tbus in 2008...Mass layoffs always starts with the pretense or Re-Orgs. If you dont have a plan...it its you fault.
There is no story here. T is an at will employer and can make any strategic adjustments needed.
Of course not, because it's all about the drama and look-at-me and self-validation.
Losers ... and they wonder why layoffs are happening.
This was already posted. Like literally the fourth discussion on the page with Bloomberg in the title so it was super freaking obvious. Did you even bother to scan the page before you created the redundancy?
Thank You Scott Moritz !
Please feed this guy as much info as possible. This story needs to continue to be told.
https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AQm2cP5Cuho/scott-moritz