Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

How many of the 33 didn’t move to Dallas or Atlanta? Mike Paradise nor his team is in a hub. He works in the suburbs and his team isn’t with him.

True, Paradise was able to designate Chicago some sort of special location (not a hub but something else) that is going to allow him to stay there. You really have to wonder how Stankey made such a bold move with RTO and all the follow up comments by various leaders about all execs need to be in Dallas or Atlanta yet we have people like Paradise staying where they are and no follow up comments about how Chicago is now some sort of non-hub location that has allowed many non customer facing / no need to touch equipment employees remain there.

Donovan wanted to go the cloud route. Stankey and Stephenson wanted directtv. Donovan your out.

I didn’t realize that Ron Jeremy had folks at AT&T working under him at headquarters.

So at Legg's first town hall, he said nobody would be forced to move, consolidation would happen by attrition.

By summer he changed that story and people were being forced to move as early as wave 1 and his hub location list was smaller than the corporate list.

In fall he announced that the hubs not under him would be fewer than his list and are headed for being only Atlanta and Dallas.

So what kind of "change of plans" (lies), can we expect from him at the 4Q meeting? Can only assume his hub list will have shrunk. Maybe he'll say that office consolidation will mean 2 story cubes to further reduce space and he'll call it even better collaboration?

I wonder about Donovan. He did push for bringing the company into the 21st century, which culminated in a huge deal with Microsoft in 2019. That hitched the wagon to azure which is a decidedly mixed bag. A lot of what was promised doesn't quite work, and the bureaucracy that's being built around it surprised me, even though it shouldn't have. Now that the true costs are beginning to roll in, and I wonder whether it's time to take another look at hosting our own systems.

Software defined networks was a smart move

Donovan also had a hissy one time here in NJ when his town hall did not attract an auditorium audience to match his ego. We were all at Costco — at least what that's what management seems to think. When I heard about this working late one afternoon(at home) I lost some respect for him.

Who is Jeremy related to?

"You people are never satisfied. Blah, blah, blah, blah..."

Imagine being this much of a simp for the losers running this company - get this man a VP title.

Good point about Donovan. Had vision, technical depth, had empathy, and inspired folks.

Not sure if things would be different if he stayed but his legacy and direction has lowered our unit cost in our network even if you think otherwise.

I'm disappointed you'll didn't realize our leadership has meetings to make comments on unethical charts and criticizing we're not making them happy by telling them we're enthusiastic with the silent sla-ghtering of peers.

Please tell me what these Execs did successfully; TMobile, Warner, Digital Life, DirectTV,selling employees to IBM to avoid paying severance,layoffs, and now proposal that E// will be the vendor to handle wireless..tell me what I'm missing here

They don't do sh-t, tbh.

How many of the 33 didn’t move to Dallas or Atlanta? Mike Paradise nor his team is in a hub. He works in the suburbs and his team isn’t with him.

“You people are never satisfied. Execs come out of the business school pipeline and you call them out of touch and stuck in a single mindset. Execs come from a different background and you call them unqualified. This forum is a cry session most of the time with no real arguments.”

No real arguments??? $100billion dollars vaporized because of no vision for what we can monetize in the future. They will write books about this for decades. It gets no worse than what they did. John Donovan tried to tell them so they fired him. It happened and can’t be erased now.

You people are never satisfied. Execs come out of the business school pipeline and you call them out of touch and stuck in a single mindset. Execs come from a different background and you call them unqualified. This forum is a cry session most of the time with no real arguments.