Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

What does it take to get selected for surplus in a management role?

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Post ID: @OP+1tDpueVz

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Tell your boss or skip level that you are Interested In Leaving.

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Post ID: @3fdc+1tDpueVz

Be a male over 50

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Post ID: @3mpk+1tDpueVz

I let my boss know I wanted out several months ago, I was chosen for the class of 7/9.

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Post ID: @2eyi+1tDpueVz

Post your userid on this thread. They’ll find ya.

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Post ID: @2ovy+1tDpueVz

You need to do something really epic so I can read about it in the ethics newsletter.

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Post ID: @2yno+1tDpueVz

You gotta Hawk tua on that thang

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Post ID: @2pas+1tDpueVz

The "Not-So Annonymous Survey" always works.

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Post ID: @2rjk+1tDpueVz

I know I was honest on a emplyee survey a while back. I have been gone since 2022. Well played, if I do say so myself!!!!

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Post ID: @2tnc+1tDpueVz

Say something negative about your leadership team in an "anonymous" employee survey.

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Post ID: @2zvl+1tDpueVz

Stop kissing a-s and you will be the next person on the surplus list!

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Post ID: @1ovu+1tDpueVz

If you don’t meet DEI then, you are on the list, being over 50 gets you moved to the head of the line.

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Post ID: @1uxq+1tDpueVz

Tell your manager SBC stands for Southwestern Bell Cancer! Yup, that's all it takes or be legacy BellSouth, Ameritech or Cingular....your numbers up.

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Post ID: @1tkc+1tDpueVz

At a team meeting with VP saying "no layoffs, relax & work harder to payoff debt"; I asked if a surplus should happen "do I have to finish the day or can I leave right away?" I was gone the next week.

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Post ID: @1qah+1tDpueVz

Reject RTO and relocation and your wish will come true. I did that, it works.

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Post ID: @1byh+1tDpueVz

Be on the T payroll.

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Post ID: @1qiw+1tDpueVz

I’m literally doing to be doing as little as possible f this company. F work in general

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Post ID: @1igx+1tDpueVz

Living outside of Dallas.

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Post ID: @1ods+1tDpueVz

Put out a PowerPoint with less than six colors!!

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Post ID: @1hov+1tDpueVz

Keep breathing.

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Post ID: @1iak+1tDpueVz

According to all the posts here, just be a top performer and you're as good as laid off.

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Post ID: @1klx+1tDpueVz

Literally just tell your manager and your head will be on the chopping block the next time the team is hit.

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Post ID: @1wgy+1tDpueVz

RTO. Innovate. Collaborate. Demonstrate competence and loyalty. Serve Customers. Be Bold. Go Faster. Win as One. 60 hour work weeks preferred. COU on at all times. Apologize for your privilege incessantly.

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Post ID: @1vsy+1tDpueVz

Tell your boss you want a “skip-level” with their boss about ideas for improving efficiency. You’ll be surplussed before the week is out. YVW

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Post ID: @1duu+1tDpueVz

Keep doing your job. Give 110%. The lay off will find you. This is AT&T. The company has a "little" bit of debt to deal with. Act accordingly in your own best interest.

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Post ID: @1fox+1tDpueVz

“…while receiving a package.”

There are no packages. There is severance.

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Post ID: @1sfw+1tDpueVz

You quietly advise your manager and hope that you can save someone’s job while receiving a package.

Doesn’t always work out, but sometimes it does.

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Post ID: @1epz+1tDpueVz

Pocket your paycheck until they let you go.

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Post ID: @1zgk+1tDpueVz

Ask your manager if you can sacrifice yourself for the good of the team on the next go around. (And I say next go around because there's ALWAYS another round in this company!)

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Post ID: @1rzl+1tDpueVz

Stick around. It will happen shortly.

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Post ID: @kzc+1tDpueVz

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