Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

The obvious answer is to become critical in your role. Make sure that you are the only one on your team that has all the answers and knows how to get stuff done. Then, at the critical moment when all of the chain of command is watching, turn in your notice at the end of the day and walk away, and let it all burn down.

I'm well on my way down this path. Maybe it won't come to fruition, but maybe it will. If it happens, there will be commitments made by VPs to regulators that won't be able to be met when I walk away, landing some people, I hope, in hot water.

At one point, there was a post by Jeremy Legg about we are not individuals, but teams, and the team is what is important. Except, between RTO, the waves, and layoffs, many areas, including mine, have teams that are essentially 1 person. So what was that about individuals? Let's see the (non-existent) team pick up the pieces when the 1 critical person walks away.

I'm at the point where I'm considering leaving due to unrealistic requests and requirements.

If they're unrealistic then they can't be done. Why voluntarily leave when you can do with what you have and still get paid? Let them show you the door. At least you can get unemployment and severance.

Every company pushes the envelope with the do more with less attitude. They'll change their tune when we hit that wall.

I thought were supposed to do more with AI

I’m part of the do less mentality.

I’d ki-l for some more work. So bored.

“Whoever was left doesn't know anything, because so and so and so got cut off and didn't train people.”
This is a direct reflection on your team’s manager. He or she should he fired for not making sure continuity was in place. It had been known RTO and increased layoffs have been coming for over a year.

In my org, nobody knows anything. They cut off so many people at once and fast, and with that, the transfer of knowledge was left out. Whoever was left doesn't know anything, because so and so and so got cut off and didn't train people. Our meetings are just bunch of ping pongs bouncing problems with no resolution and create more questions. Boss in charge also is clueless on everything.

Thanks to Snake Oil Ed the SBC sh-t show has destroyed every company it acquired. The list is a long one but here are a few names, Ameritech, BellSouth, Cingular, DTV, and the all time biggest cluster, yup you guessed it, Time Warner.

Do more with less is for rank and file, doesn't apply to the executives, who do less with more $$$, don't be a schmuck and buy this company bs... Do the bare minimum for what you get paid, hard work is not how to get anywhere in an organization that doesn't value it

Then just do more.

My uncle told me he was told to do more with less in the 1950's, my cousin said same in 1960's, I was told that in the 1970 & 80's, my boss said that in the 1990's, I quit hearing that BS in the 2000's because I left.
Don't forget : to think smarter not harder.
We're in this boat together.
Row this lifeboat together.
All hands on deck.

Sadly, T has been saying/doing this for years as they continue to slash expenses/overhead (human capital) since they have to do something since they aren’t making revenue and due to incompetence/BAD decision making by the C-Suite and BOD! They will continue saying/doing this for YEARS due to C-Suite leadership & BOD complete incompetence. Buckle up everyone!

Less and less with the same expectations and deliverables. My team has worked the past 28 days straight without a day off. 80, 90, 100+hr weeks. They dumped the hourly shift folks and threw the extra work (full time jobs) on the exempt “managers” and here we are working constantly. Nights, weekends, holidays and still expected to do our regular jobs. No overtime, no comp time, 3 people already quit. More about to follow. F this place.

Did you just get recently get hired?

Exempt employees have always been expected to work overtime to meet job requirements. Overtime is becoming a needed requirement with T’s current finances.