Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

Time to find a crashpad.

Time to embrace van-life.

10 hours a day driving is way too much. Reserve a conf room with door for three days. Work and sleep there.

sorry dude. Can you move closer to the office?

I feel you man. I walk an hour and a half to and from work every day. I sacrifice so much for the company.

Be careful driving 3 hours each way!

People, get this through your heads. Likely the large majority of people being forced back into the office do not have f2f meetings, they are not collaborating. They are sitting at a desk, staring at a screen. Sometimes, they stand up to move into a Huddle room to do more of that. If they're AVP-level, they're up frequently, wandering around constantly doing god knows what ... but they are NOT collaborating. Do you see them in many meetings at all?

There are ZERO problems reserving the conference rooms you want. There ARE problems reserving huddle rooms.

You are not unique.

Lies.

Don’t let stanky put nails under your tires. Drink six energy drinks each way to keep awake.

EMPLOYEE RATIONALIZATION ORGANIZATION runs LAYOFFS . Very busy team, that does not get much rest. One primary criteria .......ANYONE CLOSE TO FULL PENSION. Avoid paying 50% $$$ and all other benefits . You must SIGN LEGAL WAIVER TO GET SEVERANCE.

I did that for a company when I was younger. 3 hours each way plus a full shift. There were times I would just sleep in my car in a parking garage or get a cheap hotel. Crazy thing, I didn’t make that much to really justify it. I was just comfortable and I guess complacent in what I was doing at the time. Leaving that job, scary as it was to do something new, was the best move for my family.

"This is a five-hour drive to Dallas for me" Is OP saying he spends 10 hours on the road,
+ works 8 hours. That's 18 hours per 24 hrs in a day. Seems physically impossible, but you do what you have to. Good luck

Bless your heart.

I want some of what OP is smokin'.

"five-hour drive to Dallas "
Map out the costco gas stations along the way and take your time. That way, you'll be doing costco runs during business hours.

Yes they can!

Just know ATT will do everything to get you to leave before you hit that magic number.

Find someone else in a similar situation, rent a studio apartment and split days. I know folks doing this. One stays in it Monday and Tuesday. The other on Wednesday and Thursday.

My group got classed as a field team, no one I work with is in my office in Atlanta and 1 person in Dallas. Everyone else is scattered. Yet we all have to go into an office 3x per week as well and talk to no one f2f. Long before covid we were all FTW. There is no f2f collaboration. Maybe if we were all co-located, but the jobs are regional focused and require someone in those regions. This is just d-mb and I really hope they change it back for some of us where is doesn’t make sense.

You gotta do what you gotta do for yourself and your family. With only 2 years to go I would do the same. Stay mentally strong and do the best you can and make it til you can kiss it all goodbye. Good luck

“ Driving 5 hours for a job is just plain insanity! ”
I commute 3hrs total per day to go into the office in Atlanta. That’s not 5hrs, but yeah very real for some of us. Just to sit at a desk, take teams calls all day, and speak with no one in the building. Yay collaboration.

You know, if I actually got to work with folks face to face and collaborate, I wouldn’t have an issue. But since I don’t have a need or anyone to even speak to on a work related basis it just makes 0 sense.

What kind of pension do you have? If you have the cash balance pension, that money is yours regardless of when you leave.

Let’s all chip in and get a T hostel for workers stank can’t ki-l -
All out state employees chip in for an a hole a few blocks from the office, and come in Tuesday morning roll out the hole on Thursday
F Texas.

Good luck with making it to retirement, ageism is at work. Disgusting, stab in the back for employees who stayed with the company based on continued benefits through retirement. Employees are just a data point, so younger employees take note. Corporations created it so treat them the same, do your time for self improvement, experience then move on, it’s everyone for themselves now.

Stankey knows most WFH are 50 plus, so for most he came up with the unreasonable relocation plan. If that doesn’t entice the employee to quit then next will be rebadging to a contractor, layoff or even another relocation in the future, nothing is in writing beyond follow the work. Stankey already said it a few months ago about how the company needs to get younger and followed it up by not including the boomers in his latest perennials ERG meeting speech. He was busted by a female boomer questioning him during the meeting, why he excluded the boomers. That interchange was awesome and now legendary!!

"else...rule of 75 used to mean something....you literally get nothing for it now..."

This is not true across the board. Not everybody has the same pension plan depending on which company you originally started with. Many people get a considerable bump in their lump sum pension once they hit MR75.

Talk to your pension administrator and understand your benefits.

make sure you know what those 2 years will get you...may be better to leave and start somewhere else...rule of 75 used to mean something....you literally get nothing for it now...a 30% telephone discount concession...big deal...even with discount, T is still a lot more expensive than TMobile or Verizon...

Driving 5 hours for a job is just plain insanity! You really need to rethink your options, look for another job or get an apartment closer to the report office. 5 hours, seriously? There is life outside T, believe me!

Unfortunately, no matter what we do the outcome will be the same.

Can they do that??