Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

@2bsf+1nT81zaB - come in and play the game and calm down. Go to the office and dont work, if they lay you off then you get severance and leave. Don't give these A..ss..rats time of your day.

OMG. So many lazy people that don't want to go into the office and actually work.

“ I am so sick and tired of the d@#$ musical chair game called RTO!!!!!! Give me a D@$!# dedicated space to work at if you want me in the office!!!!!!!”

Cry baby….

Not surprising. Forcing people back to office in another city is the worst part of Stankey's debacle. I won't relocate to a hub with such a high chance of still being surplused

“I am so sick and tired of the d@#$ musical chair game called RTO!!!!!! Give me a D@$!# dedicated space to work at if you want me in the office!!!!!!!”

“ Mom!!!! MEATLOAF!!!!!…….the MEATLOAF!!”

“ I am so sick and tired of the d@#$ musical chair game called RTO!!!!!! Give me a D@$!# dedicated space to work at if you want me in the office!!!!!!!”

Another home shopping network customer annoyed by the real world. When you’re at Costco , grab some extra tissues..

OMG. You people that say we're lazy or grousing about not doing Costco runs or mowing lawns: go into any Atlanta office on a Wed. Try to make a reservation for a day you didn't expect to have to come in but now told to do so for an in person meeting (which is on Teams with people in other parts of the country). YOU WILL HAVE NO WHERE TO WORK. Not unless you want to sit at a counter or booth in a break room

This is f@#$%@ insane that to demand everyone in the office and not have enough room for them all

I am so sick and tired of the d@#$ musical chair game called RTO!!!!!! Give me a D@$!# dedicated space to work at if you want me in the office!!!!!!!

“ It is going to be damaging as the result is a lot of terminations and they are not done in a strategic manner based on functions to make sure there is backup. Instead, big cuts will happen in one function and the result is disastrous with no one to do a function. A stupid idea by a stupid CEO”

Wins the d-mbest post of the year award..

Working in the office is far less productive than working at home for many of us. The commute uses valuable time, then you get to an office with limited parking and have to find a seat and hope there is proper equipment like Monitors, keyboards, docking station, etc. There are always noises to impact your concentration with people on calls, in groups chatting, companion dogs running up the aisle, etc. If you supervise and need to make/receive a confidential call you have to search for an empty room with a door. Rarely is there anybody you work with in most cases, so collaboration is not happening. Dirty break rooms, restrooms and sick people coughing, sneezing and blowing their nose then you wonder who sat at the desk you are at before you.

Stankey needs to sit in a drop in desk for a day and see how unproductive the drop in environment is

RTO has really cut into my Costco runs and my lawn care time.

I wish all the people being negative on RTO would quit. They are sounding like babies and the soft generation. Ge-z

For those spouting we should just get over the new rules, or leave- don’t you realize the Leadership decisions have a huge impact on productivity in our business. Our team is losing talent that is difficult to replace. The losses we have this year will have a profound effect on productivity in the future.

When Stankey eliminated Health care subsidies (which in term forced many experienced managers to retire) many groups had to hire Contractors to do the work the retirees left behind. About 5 months into the next year, Stank said in a Town hall - we spend too much money on Contractors, focus on reducing the expense.
He didn’t realized he caused this increase in spend? Or is he just plain st-pid?

RTO and actually doing work. Cutting in "me" time and personal business time. Not liking it at all.

there are not as many wfh opportunities out there as people think

@1nwi+1nT81zaB - you're missing the point of the article. Of course work was done in the office back in the day before telecommuting was much of an option. Work was also done on typewriters and then d-mb terminals. Should we have stuck with those methods?

Now that both employers and especially employees have experienced by necessity (covid) that productivity can be just as much if not more working remote for some specific types of roles, many employees have no longer have an interest in being forced to be in an office setting 3+ days a week just to sit on conference calls and do the same exact thing we did at home. and spare me the bllsht about networking - that's for interns and new hires - those of us with 10+ years already know how to network with remote work tools.

The job market is strong and employees have a choice - they largely prefer the option to work remote the majority of the week (those that have jobs that can be done remote of course). Employers that don't face these facts will be hurting.

If you are using any AT&T service you are not required to, then drop it unless it is the lowest priced offering. If employees start dropping services it will be a retaliatory punch back to that bald headed, braindead CEO

The problem is they did RTO specifically so that people would leave.

"Trust me, buddy. I am actively looking for a new job. When I walk, T will survive, but a lot of expertise will walk with me. You’ll be left with those too lazy to find a new job. I am not the only one."

Aren't they just 2 different forms of lazy? Is one any better than the other? One too lazy to rto some of the time, the other too lazy to look for another job.

I would bet that Stankey already saw this study months ago. Probably the day before he put out the infamous email. He wants to drive people out, so RTO is a blessing in his eyes.

This is a nonsense proposition and article.

Employees in Corporate America (and elsewhere) have worked effectively in the office for the last 150+ years. To suggest people can't productively return to the office if and when required by their employer is patently untrue.

What's really being said here is I'm too lazy to get up on time to drive to the office, I'd rather not get dressed for work and I'm unwilling to put in a full effort for my paycheck.

I've seen numerous people get laid off for getting too comfortable at home and too deluted into thinking they can dictate the terms of their physical place of employment. In fact, this just happened to a guy I went to school with who's now shockingly unemployed at 59 & 3/4 because he started scr*wing off at home when he was expected to come in for meetings. His employer Samsung called his bluff.

They don't refer to it as work for no reason. "Buck up buttercup!"

"Trust me, buddy. I am actively looking for a new job. When I walk, T will survive, but a lot of expertise will walk with me. You’ll be left with those too lazy to find a new job. I am not the only one."

Yup. My group has already lost a LOT of talent and more people are actively looking.

“If you don’t want to work under current T guidelines, you are free to leave. That is beyond fair.”

Trust me, buddy. I am actively looking for a new job. When I walk, T will survive, but a lot of expertise will walk with me. You’ll be left with those too lazy to find a new job. I am not the only one.

It wasn’t just the RTO it was the hub relocations that went with it. Even if you were already safe in a hub, I don’t like seeing people and my teammates getting treated like that. As for RTO it was a blanket top down mandate, and it doesn’t make sense for many teams. I was FTW long before covid, I came into the office 2x per week because I wanted to. Now I’m on a new team and NO ONE I work or collaborate with is in any of the hubs, yet I have to go sit in an office anyways. It’s a total waste of time for many of us.

If you don’t want to work under current T guidelines, you are free to leave. That is beyond fair.

If you want me to be productive, you can pay me above the market rate. Otherwise, you get what you pay for. Bringing me back to the office will just mean more coffee breaks and browsing the internet.

If you don’t want to work under current T guidelines, you are free to leave. That is beyond fair.
Naw. We will make AT&T pay to change those "guidelines". John Stankey helped us out a little here lately. You might want to keep up.

If you don’t want to work under current T guidelines, you are free to leave. That is beyond fair.

I don’t think RTO will go away. WFH is over we have to be prepared to accept this and if they back off then it’s a gift.

AT&T is not a normal company. AT&T does not want to attract talent, AT&T wants to shed employees, regardless of talent. RTO is the way AT&T a financially sick company goes about it. Randell and Stankey have made a "few" missteps the last few years and there is no way to pay down the debt unless they cut the workforce. I'm not sure there are enough employees to cut.

“ The statement is true that there will be severe damages unless T backs off. No one said they are thinking they will back off.”

What planet do you live on ?

“1mqg+1nT81zaB “
is exactly what is wrong with T……get out of your mom’s basement already.

“ Wishful thinking. RTO is nothing more than a veiled , passive aggressive down sizing exercise. Anyone that thinks otherwise still believes in the tooth fairy.”

“Yes it is but they also want us at work.”

They only will want you at work until they’ve reached their target attrition numbers…then it will loosen significantly…..fact

To @foa+1nT81zaB: They should put you on the surplus list for making stupid comments. There is no wishful thinking in the op's post. The statement is true that there will be severe damages unless T backs off. No one said they are thinking they will back off.

It is going to be damaging as the result is a lot of terminations and they are not done in a strategic manner based on functions to make sure there is backup. Instead, big cuts will happen in one function and the result is disastrous with no one to do a function. A stupid idea by a stupid CEO

“Wishful thinking. RTO is nothing more than a veiled , passive aggressive down sizing exercise. Anyone that thinks otherwise still believes in the tooth fairy.”

Yes it is but they also want us at work.

I don’t know what we’ll do with out our SME. He’s quitting because of RTO. He knows things that none of us know and we rely on him all the time.

Wishful thinking. RTO is nothing more than a veiled , passive aggressive down sizing exercise. Anyone that thinks otherwise still believes in the tooth fairy.

“ Unispace found that nearly half (42%) of companies with return-to-office mandates witnessed a higher level of employee attrition than they had anticipated. And almost a third (29%) of companies enforcing office returns are struggling with recruitment. In other words, employers knew the mandates would cause some attrition, but they weren’t ready for the serious problems that would result.

Meanwhile, a staggering 76% of employees stand ready to jump ship if their companies decide to pull the plug on flexible work schedules, according to the Greenhouse report. Moreover, employees from historically underrepresented groups are 22% more likely to consider other options if flexibility comes to an end”

Underrepresented groups more likely to look elsewhere if mandated RTO = DEI goals not being met