All you 25+ years of tenure people joined cellular one, pac bell, ameritech, cingular, bell south, etcetera and likely made loads of money for the business and yourselves. You grew your markets from literally nothing to powerhouses. Then SBMS bought you all up, and employed “the stank-tegic key play”, where people in Dallas who have never stood on a sales floor 8 hours a day, sat in a call center 8 hours straight, ran a line or programmed a box started giving us pointers on how to do a job we were already proficient and profitable at. That was our first clue that Dallas people turn everything they touch to smoldering ash. The Dallas people then upped their game by having us slam Insurance, Digital Life, WHP, and DIRECTV on customers accounts. Then Randy and Stank said, “Hold my beer!”, and earned a hat trick in the failed T-MOBILE, DIRECTV, WarnerMedia mergers. But, like the board of directors said, it was very brave of the senior leadership team to throw thousands of non-Union employees under the bus to save their million dollar bonuses for the Dallas people to run what remains of this company into the ground. Good luck “stank-splaining” why the RTO/HWWW fails to get the stock price out of the gutter. Blame it on the inability to “connect the dots” to the fact us old timers built you an empire by “connecting customers and businesses” so they could do business anywhere at anytime… and now you squander it by saying “your own employee connections can only be made in person in a crowded bullpen office space” in Dallas with all the other inexperienced and ineffective benchwarmers. PS: Happy Friday!
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Stellar stinky stats. I don't think he understands the concept of viable financial returns. He is like a toddler, grabbing at huge new shiny toys every year or two, which soon prove nearly worthless. His ignorance means you and your family suffer. But he suffers none. Keeps a job at huge pay. While he stays at top of cramer's wall of shame, along with randy the retired re--rded corporate raider.
Good thing we got rid of Stankey after those fiascos. Can't have a guy like that making decisions about the company.
“Did the union get pushed out? Att employees aren’t running the fiber cable anywhere that I’ve seen. It’s all external companies doing the work.”
"Several states, through Federal grants, bid out fiber placement for broadband expansion . T didn’t get any of those contracts that I am aware of. So the fiber deployment you’re seeing is most likely cable companies or straight internet providers and they pretty much all use contractors"
Days before the line sprayers for non-att workers and non-att diggers starting visiting yards, att cards were hung on doors saying that this was coming. not a single att employee truck or employee has shown up to this mass fiber rollout. biggest infra construction in years and att didn't utilize any employees for it
Yeah, it's funny how people can wait years after the fact and complain about things that didn't work out.
Did this really happen?
“Did the union get pushed out? Att employees aren’t running the fiber cable anywhere that I’ve seen. It’s all external companies doing the work.”
Several states, through Federal grants, bid out fiber placement for broadband expansion . T didn’t get any of those contracts that I am aware of. So the fiber deployment you’re seeing is most likely cable companies or straight internet providers and they pretty much all use contractors
Right people for the job. They throw hardworking professionals out, while the top stays on and continues to add to their list of terrible decisions. Let's take Microsoft as an example, in 2014 they replaced Balmer with Satya Nadella. In just 9 years, Microsoft stock grew by over 1000%, and they're now the second most profitable company in the world I believe (after Apple, crazy that after all these years, it's still these 2 battling it out). What do we have? Stanky. The board keeps Stanky around. There is no hope for this place. I might be unemployed now, it's temporary, and I'm so happy to be out of this failing company. I'm sorry these few people destroyed such a great thing for all of us, guys.
NAILED IT!!! More cuts by end of year. Always nice to hear your out of a job around the holidays.
Our stock was $13.50 this week.
Can you even buy a hamburger, fries & drink meal for $13.50 ?
Did the union get pushed out? Att employees aren’t running the fiber cable anywhere that I’ve seen. It’s all external companies doing the work.
The story of T will be written as a company that went from riches to rags, all while destroying its brand and employees along the way. It’s happened in the blink of any eye , 10-15 years, which is relatively short. Probably the most unusual thing about this whole sad story is that leadership is never, ever held responsible for the absolutely horrible business decisions which changed the direction of this once healthy, thriving company. They used the company as their own personal hobby. This would never happen at Google, Apple, Amazon etc. The future of T is crystal clear. It will ultimately end up moving forward as a shell of what it once was. A very company with a very thin product portfolio, and a skeleton staff augmented largely by contractors and resellers. That is the only way it survives …..