Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

T has been cutting real estate costs for years. Moving company owned stores to dealers, closing smaller locations, consolidating market areas and regions, consolidating customer service, accounting/finance and other office functions, designating field employees as virtual, outsourcing certain operations, etc. The goal is to increase revenue per employee and lower cost per employee closer to where our competitors are. I’m not saying it is good or will be effective, but it’s what I’ve seen for the last 20+ years and it accelerated after the DTV and Warner debacles increased debt to unsustainable levels. Poor senior leadership decisions got us into terrible mishaps that will go down as colossal business blunders and will be classic case studies on why companies should not try to create portfolio of disparate businesses through ill-conceived mergers and acquisitions.

Keep em coming. Whatever story I can get to WFH and avoid actually working sounds good to me.

Previous poster is a total cuck.

Unreasonable to return to off and actually work. Much more reasonable to WFH - sleep in late, do personal business, play with kids.

Constructive Discharge

Constructive discharge notably occurs to older employees. In a factory setting, older employees removed from the production line and instructed by managers to clean bathrooms or sweep floors that can be construed as constructive discharge as it creates an environment of embarrassment or harassment. Instead, firm should adjust quotas, provide roles in Quality Control or present early retirement benefits.

Applied to the world of technology, constructive discharge occurs in the form of forcing employees who are successfully meeting job requirements at home to travel into a hostile workplace where workstations are unassigned, poorly furnished and forced participation in DINE events disrupts the completion of job requirements, leading to longer hours and lack of work and life balance.

Constructive Discharge

In general, the term "constructive discharge" is when a worker's resignation or retirement may be found not to be voluntary because the employer has created a hostile or intolerable work environment or has applied other forms of pressure or coercion which forced the employee to quit or resign. This often arises when an employer makes significant and severe changes in the terms and conditions of a worker's employment. What constitutes a constructive discharge is usually defined in state law and varies from state to state

This was a very interesting article. Thanks for posting it. I had exactly the same thought about the passage you quoted.