Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

It may look nice in pictures but "collaboration" is not a thing for many jobs within AT&T. Workers increased productivity with long hours from home through some major mergers and network building years. AT&T gladly consumed that productivity and continued to raise the bar of expectation for worker production. Now the same level is expected while taking away the conditions that made it possible. This attrition tactic is not only unnecessary but cowardly. If they need to downsize they should do it the right way, through proper due diligence, determining where the cuts are needed. For my part, I live in the suburbs of a city with horrible traffic and commute times. 75-90 mins each way means about 2.5 to 3 hours of my day on the road.

Stankey AKA Gargamel Doesn’t care

My hair grows on company time so it’s only right I get it cut on company time.

“and not talking to a soul unless it's via MS Teams.”
Be part of the solution not the problem. Are you really a manager?

Some of you folks clearly don't comprehend the concept of individual contributors and the fact that some of us do technical tasks that are complex enough we could spend 5 years collaborating with the drop-in newbies and they still wouldn't be able to do the work. Not everyone here is a PM or customer service or call desk person.

"You have all been comfortable sleeping in , running errands, taking kids to school, grocery shopping , dentist appointments, FaceTiming with relatives, doing laundry, mowing the lawn, shopping online and on and on…..get back to work or resign, the gravy train is over."

You sound like someone who is incapable of enough discipline to actually get your work done from home. The rest of us work harder and longer....with few exceptions.

You have all been comfortable sleeping in , running errands, taking kids to school, grocery shopping , dentist appointments, FaceTiming with relatives, doing laundry, mowing the lawn, shopping online and on and on…..get back to work or resign, the gravy train is over.

RTO is a just a way to surplus folks and get to the bottom line. Trust this will go away at some point once they finish shedding what they set out to trim. Trickery!

Just admit it, you don't want to have to work. Sleeping in, personal business, not working.

Gas at Costco is one of the cheaper sources for filling up your car. Be sure to go during work hours.

Legg is a effin' rat. I will never forget a townhall with him, around May, when one of the questions was: "Will you be relocating to Dallas?", and his answer: "I'll be there when I'm needed". Tell you everything you need to know. He's not putting his family through this. How could he? They have lives. Kids like their schools. Wife has her career too. Right? Yeah that's right, but not for you, plebs.

These are no leaders.

Millennial, Gen x and Gen y = Must receive participation trophies or will quit.

i love how people say they lose personal time commuting when we all know they subtract it from their work hours

“and not talking to a soul unless it's via MS Teams.”
Be part of the solution not the problem. Are you really a manager?

Another tree hugger. Use your EV and get to the office. By the way I will never have an EV.

This pretty much nails the RTO disaster... and matches my reality as well. Do the same job, now sitting in a drop in with headphones on and not talking to a soul unless it's via MS Teams. Except now I lose 2 hours a day for commuting. On the bright side I've seen an uptick in collaboration... except that uptick is all virtual in a Teams room and generally people venting. Either the up tops are purposely trying to get folks to quit or they are so utterly disconnected from reality that they don't understand how stupid RTO is. Any sane person would have left RTO to the front line managers who know their employees best. RTO for groups that make sense, hybrid for those that make sense, and TW for those that make sense. But we all know that's not how it played out. The fact that families are having to make the choice to split up or move and even then you have to reapply for your job and get no relocation assistance kinda makes it clear what RTO is. The fact that this wasn't a return to pre-COVID but rather a end to all TW and move or find a new job kinda makes it clear what RTO is. Those of us still here all know that we're just another MCI WorldCom and are just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

"When RTO was first announced, it was said by our leadership that you would only be forced to go to the office "if it makes sense". Well, that changed to everyone needs to go regardless. So here I am commuting to an office where I have no co-workers or clients. I literally drive here every day to sit in an office alone, have no business conversations or collaborative sessions, and then drive home at the end of the workday. My work is done in the exact same way (via remote) that I do from home. But, I now spend a bunch of extra money on gas and further pollute the environment. "

Ditto. HATE this company now due to RTO

“I bet you got participation trophies as a child.”

Children didn’t give the trophies to themselves, boomer. Why don’t you direct your nonsense to the “leaders”making the decisions?

When RTO was first announced, it was said by our leadership that you would only be forced to go to the office "if it makes sense". Well, that changed to everyone needs to go regardless. So here I am commuting to an office where I have no co-workers or clients. I literally drive here every day to sit in an office alone, have no business conversations or collaborative sessions, and then drive home at the end of the workday. My work is done in the exact same way (via remote) that I do from home. But, I now spend a bunch of extra money on gas and further pollute the environment.

If you don’t want to Return to Work, see the door.

Lots of jealousy in this post. You can move on, if you are adult enough. I bet you got participation trophies as a child.

RTO = Forced employee attrition.

That covers a lot of the hypocrisy of the RTO order by the Stink.