Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

Everything is awesome
Everything is cool when you're part of a team
Everything is awesome
When you're living out a dream

Everything is better when we stick together
Side by side, you and I are gonna win forever
Let's party forever
We're the same, I'm like you, you're like me
We are working in harmony

I remember a few years back when my splicing manager got an email asking why he hadnt filled out an anonymous survey yet. lol.

They know what the culture is. Especially after RTO was announced. They were able to see the posts and hear the voices. Do they need to pay big$$& to some third party to get the message? Or maybe they need third party to falsify results. As usual there will be some lessons learned and nothing will change.

The first few questions reference the companies vision. I searched my email and the internal site and did not find a single reference to the vision. Anyone know what the vision is?

I definitely filled it out and voiced my opinion. I’ve often wondered how in the heck did the survey results come back with high ratings for ATT?

Now I know. Everyone is a keyboard warrior who doesn’t participate in filling out the surveys.
Definitely fill it out and embarrass the company with honest low scores

The open ended questions are really important, especially 3-word descriptor question. I have a list of roughly 5 words that I am going to choose from. This question does not have to be a 3 word statement. It can be 3 adjectives.

“ I will be laid off since I refused to relocate. Don’t care about any surveys any more. And from my experience these surveys are waste of time. Every year we are asked to take it and every year is getting worse. So what’s the point. Last year after survey was completed they hit us with RTO. Wonder what will be this year.”

Sorry to hear that and what you say makes sense but I still think it is worthwhile to let them know we are not just rolling over. The last few survey results seemed very positive, real or not, and it probably confirmed to them that they could pull this stuff with little negative impact. Stankey and co seem incredibly arrogant and out of touch.

We need to let them know we were not fooled even if they do nothing to change, which is exactly what they will do.

I will be laid off since I refused to relocate. Don’t care about any surveys any more. And from my experience these surveys are waste of time. Every year we are asked to take it and every year is getting worse. So what’s the point. Last year after survey was completed they hit us with RTO. Wonder what will be this year.

When I was there, they said the survey couldn't be traceable to an individual, but could be traceable to the site. So, since I didn't want my site impacted by layoffs, I always said nice things.

Wow!!! Did they find any culture? Is just toxic cancer - just ask the customers!!!!!

OP here

I gave my honest feedback, but not everything is negative or disagree. There are some things I agreed, but mostly, I hated the fact that some of my most competent coworkers were let go because they are at the wrong state and then be replaced with an incompentent one because he/she happened to be in Dallas. This is not how you get the best of the best, but I think that is not the goal here. The RTO, the call center environment at an office do not produce any effective measurable results that benefit T and the employees.

I wish I was still there for one last survey to tell them how toxic their culture is and their initiatives to mind warp employees into thinking they have it so good are no longer working. I took a package when I refused to move for a company that lays off weekly and wouldn't guarantee once I moved that I would have a job. Remember that, to att you are all a number. There are places outside of this company that will value and respect you.

I remained silent when they total away a weeks vacation a few years ago. I remained silent when they tried pushing us out by taking away medical payments as a retiree. I have never given any poor ratings and always thought the surveys were not anonymous . However this year is different - I am not remaining silent any longer . I gave the lowest rating for each question with some 100% honest feedback in the text portion. And u know what- I don’t care if they can track my name . It’s nothjng I haven’t already told my AVP!!!

A couple of other things about the survey and please do take it.

1. Don’t just choose the most negative for the multiple choice. Giving a few positive responses here and there helps show that you give a damn (even if you don’t) and you aren’t a total whiner.

2. When you blast away in the free response focus less on the pain the a-s that the office rules are and more the disruption they caused and the mistrust fostered by all the lies.

The key is to show that these disruptions are more destructive to the company as opposed to personal inconveniences. The execs couldn’t care less about that.

Ultimately McKinsey is here to tell the execs what they want to hear but not be so rah-rah that they look useless or like a bunch of sycophants. After all, they want to keep the money flowing and many of them want to be the leaders at the end of the day.

We need to make it as hard as possible for McKinsey to spin the survey to validate the idiocy that has taken place here. Also if you don’t take the survey only the internal sycophants will.

PLEASE use your voice and take the survey. retaliation for expressing valid concerns is illegal. all the comments here saying they’ll ignore it are really bumming me out.

“I took the opportunity today to use my voice and spoke very loud and very clear.

Please do the same.”

EXACTLY. I don’t think any real change will come from this but a truly negative result at least tells the dunces at the top their propaganda isn’t working. And we need to offset the Kool Aid drinkers who lap up everything these people say.

If you don’t do the survey it’s a silent endorsement.

You guys better not bltch out and tell them exactly how it is!

(too late for me, T is in the rearview mirror, and it feels great)

It isn’t anonymous if you have to use the link sent to you in your company email. I won’t be responding.

How about we use this site to survey the company culture?

Read the bottom fine print. Your survey is sent to HR also. This is how they target you when you speak out about them. Don't believe me then too bad.

The best thing you can do is not participate in their survey. Withholding feedback is feedback.

The survey serves two purposes. First, for senior management to break their arms patting themselves on the back for what they have done well. Second, to blame the rank a file employees for their unhappiness and then put in place programs to "address and correct" their concerns. Not enough training? How do you like a mandatory 120 hour training program? Saw it happen.

Never do these surveys. They don’t care about the negative responses, but not doing their surveys gets them upset because they know nobody cares about these asinine surveys.

I won't be responding at all to that survey.

This one should be interesting and I imagine they know exactly what the results will look like. This is rock bottom.

Did anyone else receive an odd email from their org leadership that encouraged responses that show how 'engaged and optimistic' they are?

Can’t wait to write what they want to hear, on my anonymous survey.

Into the trash.

So which will get you laid off faster, answering honestly or refusing to participate in the survey?

Negative on almost everything... and then let them have it in the open-ended questions about how RTO and forced hub relocated were the d-mbest initiatives this company has ever undertaken.

When I got the survey email I couldn’t help but think back over the last year.

From the RTO email in May, the systematic elimination of some of the highest performers I have worked with, the blatant age discrimination statement in the never released town hall recording by Stankey, and so much more.

I took the opportunity today to use my voice and spoke very loud and very clear.

Please do the same.