I really hope to be laid off soon. I kind of like my job and most of the people I work with but I'm just ready to be done so rather than putting in my two week notice to retire, turn on my pension, 401k and social security, I'm just hanging out at work now waiting to get laid off so I'll also get the termination pay, which for me is two years per contract. So I'm happy and laughing at work right now hanging out until layoff notice inevitably happens. Do you want to be laid off too?
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Eventually the company will have AI/ Automation ramped up so they can happily let the union workers go.
AI isn't replacing work requiring physical labor.
Termination pay is for being fired.
In some states you get unemployment if you choose to leave voluntarily or take a buyout since you're still in a surplused workgroup.
Don’t be one of those techs that gets sick and dies waiting to stick it to the man by getting that 2yrs severance. Retire already and enjoy life, I mean really enjoy it!
You will be waiting a long time. Test me, severance will be avoided for craft at all costs. They know you’re not worth 2 years pay.
Anyone just hanging out and not actually putting in a full day of work should be fired under COBC for work avoidance, and disqualified from severance.
Pick me!! Pick me!!! Pick me!!!!
Current layoffs on this site are for management currently due to the hub consolidation and relocations. Not for craft.
Surplus goes by seniority so you could put in for SIPP and may be chosen to save someone of less seniority from the surplus. If you have more seniority than others in your work group you’ll do their work after the surplus if you don’t take SIPP. You should know that also. Look at your SIPP payment. Termination pay is for being fired.
Damn. This "AI" push by the media is about controlling the inputs for when we have actual AI in the future. Not this cockammamy junk we have now. All information being produced now is a well from which the true AI of the future will draw.
The information being gathered and collected now is about curating the inputs for the AI so that when one comes along that actually does have an ability to truly think for itself, the limitations around it by our curated inputs push a "errorless" outcome that will justify the totalitarian ideology and curb on your God given rights.
The machine said you needed to be detained.
In 1- 3 years, eh?
I'll believe it when I see it. We have legacy systems that were slated for sunset a decade ago but today still process production data for billions of dollars of sales and service revenue.
My job supporting one of those legacy systems is assured to exist for at least 3 more years, but for collaboration's sake I've been told I have to relocate, even though the few people stateside aren't at my designated hub and the actual production maintenance is done in India (they too are being forced back to the office). India, last time I looked, is pretty darn remote from any of our hubs. So much for scheduling meetings where no one is up at 3 am; none of the employees involved on either side of the ocean are interested in off-hours work if we can't do it from our home office, especially if that is expected on top of enforced 8 hour attendance in the schoolhouse.
Sometime after August this won't be my problem, at all. The only question remaining for me would be, why has executive leadership not been replaced by the board?
Wasn't a deal made between CWA and T that there would be no union personnel laid off through the end of 2023? There might possibly be layoffs in 2024, but none until then! If anything, T would have to offer you a voluntary severance package to walk away on your own volition! Good luck with that!
You are a leading cause of T's current financial problems.
I don’t want to leave, but for anyone in the union, being surplused does have a nice severance.
Glad the OP has found his/her happy place. We should all strive for happiness, even during turbulent times such as we are going through currently.
The surplus is inevitable. Eventually the company will have AI/ Automation ramped up so they can happily let the union workers go. JS did say they are looking to have AI in 1-3 years doing our jobs. Just like when “the original AT&T “ started getting rid of all the operators. Gone are the days of the party line, operators connecting customers, pay phones and the 8 track tapes. The progress to eliminate the human factor is ramping up. Just recently Congress had a hearing regarding UFO’s and “non-human biological remains having been found. Maybe these CEO’s wanting to get rid of people…are really influenced by alien. Aliens who are far more intelligent and advanced than the human race… they are just playing the long game and watching the humans self destruct. Even setting the wheels in motion for the humans to fail forward. This would make for a good Netflix series. Lol
“Two years and per contract” so you are a union employee. Best of luck to you.