So many posts discussing not actually working while being paid or not giving full effort. That's disgraceful.
I understand the frustration. I've cut back my hours too. Difference is I'm still giving 40+ hours of solid work in exchange for my paycheck.
Not for the company, for me - I have self-respect and I care about my team and the group I support.
If you can't / won't put in an honest days work for your paycheck just leave, you are no better than Stankey.
I’m old. They don’t want me to work. I’m happy to oblige.
lol@golden boys & girls because IDGAF anymore so I just do the very minimum I have to do without getting fired and iDGAF about what you or anyone says - because IDGAF and I'm lol@anything anyone says - and the funniest part is no matter what, IJDGAFF.
Most 3rd, 4th and even AVP levels have little to no say as to who gets the ax. When the caca hits the air-conditioner, they are given a number of people to cut. Usually the underperformers go first. After that, when the next layoff comes around and they get a new number, they start cutting to the bone. I personally had a person on my team who was a stellar performer and critical to the business. When her head was on the chopping block, we all screamed bloody mu---r and excalated as high as we could to keep her. All of our management team said they were powerless. I even volunteered to take the hit to save her as I was planning on retiring in a couple of years anyway and she was about 10 years younger than me. She had a wealth of instituional knowledge and after she was cut, the systems she supported started to crater. When the next voluntary cut came around, I took it and never looked back.
I work the number of hours I am paid for. With minimal merit increases and rising inflation I do the math on what number of hours I need to work to get the market wage
Different situation but same experience, I was a top performer when they started the 5-star rewards program years ago. I was working on a special project that made my metrics way above normal and was locked into those numbers. I never received any rewards even though my metrics were always one of or the best on my team but could never approach those numbers again. The irony was a coworker received the reward the same month they fired him for attendance and performance because all one had to do was show improvement. His numbers were very low but was rewarded. Go figure…
My manager tried to get the programs director to address the unfairness but he said he couldn’t do anything about it. That’s a microcosm of AT&T operations of not taking responsibility for a broken process. Flows down from leadership.
I will give what is paid for. No more and no less. I work 40 hours M-F. It’s not quiet quitting. It’s not living for work. I’m working to live.
sadly performance has very little to do with your raises at att. You could be a top 10% perfromer at Att and your raise might be 1,000-2,000 above very average peers? WhY?
Because HR took away the ability for managers to lead and manage wrt compesation....to them it's a formula....if you make x, and were ranked y, you get z....if you wanted to go outside HR guidelines it was discouraged and a real pain...
For example, I had an individual, top performer, HIPO making ~175k base...I had others making 140-150....I was told I couldn't give the top performer a raise ....the money went to his peers who were very average...so the top performer was punished, and the other employees got more than their due.....just plain stupid...top performer left to one of our partners and is doing extremely well. AT&T loses.
Oh, shut up.
Op is clueless. Go ahead and work your rear off. It will get you nowhere until the attitude of upper management changes (i.e. Stankey gets fired)
I quietly quit for years at AT&T, before it was a meme. I got the same bonuses & increases as my friend who put in extraordinary effort. Told her she was just reducing her hourly rate by putting in the extra effort. Bonuses & increases are dictated by corporate HR, as the told us, so effort isn’t rewarded.
@OP, why did you cut back your hours?
I picked up the slack after the last coiple of surpluses and now we will loose more with this one. At some point everyone has to admit that the same level of service can't be provided without the proper resources.
I’m quietly building up my 401k while earning my pay, only going above and beyond if absolutely necessary, i’ll care again when leadership starts caring. I’ll know when they empower, value employees and begin to care more about customers than metrics (dashboard). The former style when the company was successful, had more revenue than most countries yearly GDP, employees were empowered, had pride and morale was high.
They tried to reinvent the wheel, obviously with more than a decade of the new Dallas/Cali acquisitions and micromanagement style doesn’t work, all the numbers are proof. Financials, stock price, employee base, benefits, assets, total customers, morale, are all down dramatically. They are trying to stabilize but unfortunately it’s the same management that drove this ship into the iceberg.
@OP, why did you cut back your hours?
@jyn+1nRQmciH, quiet quitting is when you do a job that you are paid for (and no more nor less than that). Why should anyone deserve to be fired for doing his job?
The new Soft Generation that had been coddled by their parents way too long. That is what we have been hiring these last few years.
Quiet quitting deserves quite firing where they just don't pay you.
OP you do you.
Just know, if the surplus notice ever comes calling for you it will NOT matter your dedication, how MANY hours you have put in per week, your accomplishments, your cost savings, NONE of that will ever matter to AT&T when your time is up.
There have been MANY high performers throughout the years that were surplussed and this will continue.
However, when you walk away— you will know what you did.
You do you.
Nobody at AT&T cares about your effort!
Will your boss or team members be at your funeral? Will your tales of working 40 hour weeks be on your gravestone or in your obituary? Of course you should do good work and feel good about the work you do. But don’t get su-ked in to these lies of rewards for “loyalty.” You could be laid off tomorrow and nobody at the company will care.
PS listening in on calls for 20 hours a week and staring at your email the other 20 hours doesn’t make you a star employee. How much meaningful work are you actually producing yourself?
Good for you OP. Must be nice to have an office. Tells me all I need to know. I guess we can just eat cake too. For the rest of us fighting for open work spaces daily, life is a bit different. Oh and we aren’t allowed to eat at our desks, just fyi. Personally I work what I need to work, still a top performer, maybe that means I’m doing 35hrs this week or less sometimes more than 50, though I’m doing less of that anymore, all depends on what needs to be done. Working an hours goal on salary is just d-mb. Maybe I’m just efficient at my job and do in 2 hours what it takes other 8. The job gets done, the goals get met or exceeded, the number of hours is irrelevant, the output is all that matters (though small brain management doesn’t seem to get that).
I bet you don't even have an assigned workspace. How's that for self respect?
Actually I have an office. I'm not in a hub.
company should quit sending a paycheck and when asked about it say we quiet fired you 2 weeks ago. return to their old office people act like they are being told to do something so unreasonable that they were already doing. yes it is not as cool but come on. some never got to enjoy that situation that was always supposed to be temporary.
OP is another smooth brain boot-li---r.
If you had self respect, you would also leave AT&T for how they treat you.
I bet you don't even have an assigned workspace. How's that for self respect? How's that for company respect to employees?
"OP, you’re so full of sheeet. Lying to yourself and us saying you put in your full 40 hours. Do you check your personal phone during the work day ? you take personal calls ? Personal errands ? Extended bathroom break ? Extended lunch..."
Do I check my phone or take an occasional water cooler break, of course I do. Do I eat my lunch at my desk while I'm working, yep. Do my water cooler conversations regularly turn into a conversation about a project, yep. Do I sometimes take a real lunch hour to run an errand, yep. Do I have an occasional day when I'm just not focusing and am not as productive as I'd like to be, yep. Do I make up for those less productive days staying late another day, yep. Am I at all religious, nope. Just because you're a lazy jerk, doesn't mean we all are.
OP, you’re so full of sheeet. Lying to yourself and us saying you put in your full 40 hours. Do you check your personal phone during the work day ? you take personal calls ? Personal errands ? Extended bathroom break ? Extended lunch ? Small talk with co workers in the hallway too long ? Take a cat nap ? Veg in front of the computer screen from time to time ? Of course you do these things and more so climb off your high horse judge Judy. I can tell your one of these religious types who thinks they’re superior to everyone else and their sheet don’t stink like the rest. I’m sorry to break it to you but your sh-t stinks like the rest of us and god doesn’t think you’re special.
When my performance has no impact on if I get a pink slip, I won't put in more than the minimum required to do the job. I'm not going to miss my kid's ballgame because someone wants something at the last minute. I'm simply responding to the environment that I'm in. There is a difference between doing this and doing nothing.