I guess nobody but me even cared to watch but this is what I learned.
That the new buzz word is "convergence" and that apparently the only AT&T product that people even remotely like is fiber. And that we somehow have to figure out how to get DSL customers not to move to competitors when we shut them off. And the means to get more fiber in the ground is by reducing costs which means, well you know what that means.
That we have reduced our outsourcing but our Indian offshoring is ramping up at an astronomical rate such that there will be 1 Indian for every 2 US employees. But we should be happy about this because these are our fellow employees "in it just like we are" and apparently offshoring isn't as bad as outsourcing. He didn't go into how much growth is being done at all the other overseas offices but did acknowledge all those offices at the start of the meeting unlike the other US offices.
That apparently the new benchmark of how wall street sees us and how we should rate the success of all our initiatives is the absolute low stock price. Our recent upticks apparently mean that everyone has forgiven us for all our past blunders and these same m0r0ns who caused the stock crash now are creating a great plan that is now driving the stock back up from record lows.
That we need more technical managers because we are a technical organization. Apparently this rule doesn't apply to him.
That our budgets for 2024 will be done with some creative math where we will spend more than allocated because we know a dollar now will be worth more later in the year.
That because the earth didn't implode, that our "back to the office" layoff initiative was a success to be noted on our success slide. Bothell, where the meeting was held, will apparently get some improvements, which means HR will create a new "stack plan" to pack more people into the building tighter than they packed them into the conference room where the meeting was held.
That there are "blue box" projects and "green box" projects and they want to move people from the blue to the green projects. Because they don't actually ever reassign people based on their skills despite the numerous requests to enter your skills into some systems that they are turning off at the end of the year as part of the platform savings, people in blue box projects will be laid off and and workers in Indian hired to do green box projects.
That there are too many code repositories and everyone in the future will put their code in the same place in the same programming language whether that makes sense or not.
He apparently didn't know some other executive meeting was the next day and also said there will be yet another meeting before the end of the year where they'll publish the worst things that people have called him. Because laughing at people who criticize the AT&T executives I guess is the fun thing to do at a holiday party.
He didn't go into 2024 layoffs aside from some brief reference to apparently "wave 2" but said he isn't paid for people to like him (about the only true thing he said in the meeting) and didn't go into why less than a year ago he said that nobody would be forced to relocate.