what are everyone’s thoughts?
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“ … El Segundo is a city near Los Angeles.
I gather the Town Hall was held at the Rl Segundo office complex near LA.
The invitations probably went to people who are assigned to the El Segundo complex and not to all employees who work in Los Angeles County.……”
Good explanation. El Segundo is the LA ‘hub’ office. It’s the old DTV HQ and now aside from AT&T it is basically empty (think of working in a 50 story office building where only 6 floors are occupied). DTV is remote.
The message, while not delivered by Stankey, was that attendance was “poor” compared to other locations and there was a not so veiled threat that if this continued the office would be closed, which it likely will be anyway.
The other message is that attendance is the only real metric used to determine if a location is “thriving”. This was specifically stated by the compliance VP. The actual work output from the people there apparently does not matter.
If you work there, the complex is dreary and empty unless DTV has an occasional event like their programmers fair. AT&T did nothing to make it the least bit welcoming or desirable to go to, he-l even the chairs are awful and the vibe is generally like a struggling mortgage processing company,
Companies that done this well, and there are some, have made going to the office have a purpose and have made the offices themselves places worth going to. AT&T just said show up or get canned. That isn’t exactly the way to build a ‘thriving’ location or attract the gen Z people Stankey is so obsessed with. These clueless execs still don’t get it.
Or more likely they do get it but are just doing everything they can to justify as many layoffs as possible.
Hope that clarifies.
… El Segundo is a city near Los Angeles.
I gather the Town Hall was held at the Rl Segundo office complex near LA.
The invitations probably went to people who are assigned to the El Segundo complex and not to all employees who work in Los Angeles County.……
THANK YOU!!
“ El Segundo office. If you don’t know what’s going on in your area, that is a YOU problem.”.
I read a lot of the comments and I can see there is some confusion.
El Segundo is a city near Los Angeles.
I gather the Town Hall was held at the Rl Segundo office complex near LA.
The invitations probably went to people who are assigned to the El Segundo complex and not to all employees who work in Los Angeles County.
Stankey has been quoted/ misquoted as though he attended in person when it appears he did not have in person.
Hope this helps
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Legg did a video to "answer more questions" a few months back and attempted to answer "why are some AT&T hubs not on your list?" He basically answered, in the long run there will be more hubs with my people than in the rest of the company as they will be consolidating to Atlanta and Dallas.
That was pretty clear that anyone not under Legg will be asked to go to Dallas or Atlanta or cut without even being asked.
“ These posts are so vague and confusing. Truly lack common sense.
Who held the town hall ?
Who was invited ?”
I’m in Los Angeles and received the invite twice, along with hundreds of others. If you weren’t invited, then you’re likely non-management or not part of the El Segundo office. If you don’t know what’s going on in your area, that is a YOU problem.
There was a whole slide up about VP and above leadership in the area and the main speaker was a compliance officer in legal. Do you know who the VPs and up are that work around you?
If you can’t interpret what leadership is saying, it’s you that lacks common sense.
These posts are so vague and confusing. Truly lack common sense.
Who held the town hall ?
Who was invited ?
Sadly this is leadership "going out to see the troops" and checking an HR box. Stankey has been a terrible leader for years on every important measure - shareholder value, customer satisfaction (as witnessed by more customers flocking to T-Mobile every quarter) and employee satisfaction is at an all-time low. He should have been let go a long time ago...if any of us would have been responsible for accumulating so much debt we would have been fired.
As mentioned in another post, the RTO is really a forced layoff...a recent article referred to it as "corporate cowardice"...I couldn't agree more....John, we've had enough of the layoffs, poor performance by you and we don't need any more of the cute wings eating contests and haircuts....time for you to go and time to fix this company with new leadership. All you seem capable of doing is cutting costs....we can have ChatGPT do that and save your $30 Million salary.
Time for you to go and time for the Board to act...
T likes the revenue from California
T just don’t like California
Look at all the jobs moved from CA to TX, GA, Indy.
It should have been “ live your designation on your dime” to be 100% truthful about it!
“we can’t just exist, employees and locations need to provide value to the organization.”
The value to the organization provided by people is not based on whether we are sitting in the big glass box in El Segundo or at home, it’s the work we actually do. And the fact is that a lot of critical work is still done in LA.
This obsession with where people are located or where they are doing their work is just baffling and amazingly backward thinking. Get the best qualified people to take care of the task at hand wherever they may be and let us do our damn jobs.
If in person collaboration is so important, then make sure time in office is specifically geared to do just that instead of sitting on more Teams calls. Other companies are doing that. It seems like no one in senior management is capable of having a creative or original thought, just spouting d-mb phrases and obsessing over attendance.
Whenever big wigs from Texas come to see us in California, bad things happen
Agree on the threatening messaging! Also insulting they started by saying “we can’t just exist, employees and locations need to provide value to the organization.”
If the packed room of people who showed up today don’t provide value, then why weren’t we surplused already? Do the dozens of private pilots and admins in Dallas provide value?
Then we saw video clips from execs. Stankey was on there and said the best talent comes from CA because that’s where he’s from. Such arrogance.
If the goal was to create a “thriving physical presence” then these leaders failed. Next time, don’t ruin the morale of everyone who cared enough to show up today and put on a happy face.
it seems like they are warning us that the LA office will close soon (I assume it will happen soon after at&t sells it’s remaining interest in DTV). it doesn’t matter whether we come in or not. we’re all at risk of being laid off / sent to dallas
“What LA town hall ? Who held it ?“
Was at the El Segundo ‘hub’ office.
What LA town hall ? Who held it ?
Was not terribly useful. Didn’t need the dog and pony show. The lack of Q and A time and vague, kind of threatening messaging showed that they don’t care about people’s legit concerns and it’s the same stuff we hear in every one of these.
Insane that they equate showing up with culture or performance. This isn’t middle school or a Soviet era nail factory.
They are clearly laying the groundwork to close El Segundo in the next couple of years and implement pack your bags or collect unemployment here.
Whoever came up with the live your designation slogan should be banned for life from ever writing any kind of communication.