A personal pet peeve are those loud, long duration personal phone calls in a shared work area. The office was a quiet place to focus on work before the RTO mandate. The side hustles developed while employees were working from home are now being managed from the office. Confrontations are almost daily now. The cell phone of the guy sitting behind me rings constantly and we are treated to listening to whatever the issue happens to be. The woman sitting next to him said she counted 41 personal calls on Tuesday. There are easily a half dozen of these people within earshot. The people who were not conducting company business when working from home are disrupting the rest of us. Send them back home.
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Why do you people care so much? Is it angst from them bringing in a bigger paycheck when you honest hardworking types beat yourselves up for 20 years only to get rewarded with a layoff? You know they are paying very steep taxes on their inflated salaries, yeah? Those taxes pay for your kids to go to school. You think leadership is paying taxes? lol.
If you have the time to waste reporting these people, then you obviously don't have enough work yourself. Stop whining and go sit somewhere else if it bothers you so much.
Give it 2 months. I think it very likely these people are already under the magnifying glass. No better place to document it than in the office.
We had an employee at one of the stores who had a side hustle - the oldest profession in the world. She had a steady " stream " of clients - men, who were always eager to find out where she was and what was her schedule. If her car is a rockin - don't come a knockin is what we were told.
Sounds like you should be filing COBC violations near hourly and wait till they get escorted out of the fu----g office.
you've seen those integrity bulletins before right? this is textbook firable behavior.
And it's hard pretending to be working when there is nothing to do. Nobody looking at me while I am at home napping.
managers: my bottom gets so sore from sitting at my desk all day
Where are those clowns who used to brag on this forum about their side hustles and how much money they make combined. Suddenly they stopped posting. Maybe afraid to be identified?
AT&T following most US elementary schools edict, confiscate cell phones at begining of shift or school, return them at end of shift or end of school day.
Well we somehow ended up hiring children instead of adults.
Whether to listen or not is not a choice. 2 weeks ago we were on a troubleshooting call for about 5 hours. There were lulls in the Teams dialogue, and during these times we heard conversations about toddlers, UTV repair, getting stoned in Denver, Ham radio, and traffic in LA. All of these coversations were picked up from open mikes on our troubleshooting call.
When will you people realize that RTO is to reduce headcount without paying severance. They want you to quit and not RTO. They don’t give a cr-p about whatever you are whining about. Stop being a whining busy body. Quit and find a job you are happy with.
If you have time to listen and count someone else’s conversations all day, then you aren’t doing your own work. If you were on your own calls, you wouldn’t have time to count. That person likely will dig their own grave by slacking, so focus on your work.
I wouldn't do anything of my personal business while on T premises because these dirty a--holes will fire you and claim any revenue you brought in is subject to their ownership since the work was performed on company time on company premises.
AT&T following most US elementary schools edict, confiscate cell phones at begining of shift or school, return them at end of shift or end of school day.
"Sounds like personal cell phones should be checked into a storage area when you first enter the building."
Now this is something that WOULD make me quit. I don't engage in outside business or regularly make personal phone calls during work hours. But if I couldn't get a message from a doctor or ailing family member, I'd be outta here. Take care of the abusers and leave the rest of us alone.
It will be ok, they soon will be a contractor and I’m sure their new employer won’t mind that they work part time for them. They might even pay them half day wages.
“As long as it is not a conflict of interest, why should anybody care? If you are fulfilling the work given to you by meeting or exceeding your teams expectations, and you can balance more work in a side gig, more power to you.”
“Side gig”, or second job is cool, but not during the hours that T is paying you to be working. I don’t care if you are meeting or exceeding expectations, like someone else said this is not fair to co workers. If the mentality that this is okay, no wonder T is in trouble.
Thia is what Stankey wants: Employees getting frustrated enough to quit
I know several employees who are also real estate agents. One of them is officialy a broker on Linkedin and works out of real estate office every day. I hope his manager knows because if you google his name you can easily find out.
You do understand RTO isn’t really about “collaboration” right ?
Most areas are drop in space. If you don’t like it go sit somewhere else
“they were fired, as they should have been”
As long as it is not a conflict of interest, why should anybody care? If you are fulfilling the work given to you by meeting or exceeding your teams expectations, and you can balance more work in a side gig, more power to you.
Just more corp mentality holding employees back and being more involved in their lives than they need to be.
Send them back home! Noooo, someone needs to notify their manager with the info. Awhile back I worked with someone who pulled this crxp and with proper documentation they were fired, as they should have been. Not only wrong behavior, but unfair to coworkers
Sounds like personal cell phones should be checked into a storage area when you first enter the building.
"The collaboration comment was someone being sarcastic with the original post because it is one of upper management excuse’s to RTO."
Good to see someone else gets it.
My side hustle was being a merchant selling product on Amazon and eBay. No phone calls.
The collaboration comment was someone being sarcastic with the original post because it is one of upper management excuse’s to RTO.
I agree, Teams is a great way to collaborate and multitask without be disruptive or rude to others. Use business etiquette, there are other various forms of communication too but loudly interrupting someone shouldn’t be one’s first choice.
Headphones helps me to concentrate and focus on my work, which doesn’t involve my fellow office teammates. My team is scattered abroad but guess I could collaborate lunch with my office peers sometimes.
"Noise cancelling head sets should be banned!! How in the heck are you going to collaborate when you can’t hear someone ask you to collaborate?"
If someone wants to collaborate with me they can politely get my attention. I can't be expected to stop my focus at a moment's notice. Pop me a Teams message and ask if I have time to chat. We can take our conversation where it isn't disruptive to others. Have a little respect and common courtesy please.
After October there will be more space because they have recently informed more groups via calls or their managers that more management layoffs are happening before or around that timeframe. They are dribbling out the torturous news, believe it’s part of their plan to get people to give up/quit due to the stress and uncertainty.
The implementation of the plan is starting to become clearer, RTO while coordinating layoffs in waves to match the available office spaces. There isn’t enough Hub office spaces, with the existing office employees to RTO everyone all at once. It’s a complicated balancing act to condense over 300 plus nationwide offices, along with the WFH employees into a few Hubs.
Noise cancelling head sets should be banned!! How in the heck are you going to collaborate when you can’t hear someone ask you to collaborate?
Not quite on topic but is related;
The sudden RTO to office is for the elite and government, it’s is bigger than AT&T. Look it up, the top 59 wealthiest have more combined wealth than over 50% of the country’s population and the top 10% own over 88 percent of corporate equity and mutual fund shares. There is a method to their madness. I’m not against capitalism with regulation but it’s become unbalanced and the wealthy are forcing mandates on the general population for their enrichment and what’s best for their investments, we are just pawns.
Copy and paste the following link, https://nypost.com/2020/10/08/just-59-americans-own-more-wealth-than-half-the-country-data/. This is just one article, a little dated..2020, I quickly looked up but there is a plethora of information and statistics out there.
The great wealthy overseer’s, like Blackrock and a few other large US corporations, along with the government is using the RTO and relocation plan for their enrichment. It’s to make sure their centralized urban businesses, real estate assets they own won’t go into default and tax revenues for the government are increased. It’s back to the Robber Baron’s of the Victorian era, Lords vs. the serfs.
That plan dovetails in with Stankey’s and BOD layoff initiatives, so a win -win for the elite. Guess who suffers? Remember next year 2024, need an administration change.
Bose, over the ear noise cancellation headset is my salvation for the over crowded and noisy environment. There should be some Labor Day sales for anyone needing some relief. Sony makes a great set too and there are cheaper alternatives, my experience has been that you get what you pay for.
I prefer over the ear for daily use in the office, in the ear work too (AirPods pro 2) but for me they become warm and uncomfortable after long periods of use.
Isn’t forced RTO great! I’m collaborating up a storm with my peers in other states, 3x8 @ week.
Similar problem. Asked to be assigned to a desk away from the reservation system desks. I was told no changes could be made until October.
Noise canceling headset saved my sanity.