It’s been very quiet. Anyone hear anything concrete?
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Yay, more chaos.
“I thought Wave 3 had until June 2025 to move? “
Not anymore.
Correct wave 3 dates are moving up
What’re they moving up to?
If I made it past wave 2 (which I didn't) I wouldn't do jack for this company. Virtual and wave 3 folks are in trouble, but hub people were laid off with wave 2. At this point, its the Squid Game
Correct wave 3 dates are moving up
My org has been told Wave 3 dates are moving up.
Legg/Chewning needs to get rid of the monster non-performing program like Ticket to Ride on Service Now….it’s burning mega $$$$$
ServiceNow su-ks and the continue to push it.
Legg/Chewning needs to get rid of the monster non-performing program like Ticket to Ride on Service Now….it’s burning mega $$$$$
Are these the wave 2 timeline pulled up or additional layoffs not related to RTO?
“We are losing an additional 4 people from my team next week. Last date on payroll is 7/9.”
Good start.
7/24 notice | 8/7 off payroll
I thought Wave 3 had until June 2025 to move? Are they moving the date up? I am sorry I have to ask on a blog for layoffs but have not heard?
Except that Legg was not at AT&T between 2015-2018. He became CTO in 2020. CIO was called TechDev and its leaders outsourced everything to IBM, DCX, TechM and Amdocs. Now they are converting some of those contractors to employees but mostly hiring in India. That is Legg’s legacy.
“Getting rid of unneeded workers. Right sizing the company.”
The only people saying this stuff are smucks who still are holding T stock and hopium on Stankey.
“IT payroll costs are huge. I know this because I work in HR. Stephenson and Stankey pressed hard on Legg to tighten the belt every day. In 2015-18, Legg re-badged and outsourced thousands of IT. The salary savings was minimal and short sighted. As third party contractors, skilled former-employees were reassigned work to other clients. Unskilled former employees were overwhelmed and projects just didn’t get done. Then the pandemic hit, Legg got a kitchen pass from Stankey to hire and hire he did, but most of what was hired was underperforming rejects from other companies. So Legg blamed HR. Now the pendulum has swung back to shrinking the workforce. They pay no attention to good performance or project priorities. They just want a person in a chair in a hub, regardless if they can tackle the challenges we face. We need a new CIO who understands how IT gets done and who to staff the organization with and we need it now.”
The first post I’ve seen from someone in HR who knows what’s going on… I’m a senior network developer and this is exactly what we’re facing.
They hire incompetent devs constantly, promote people based on presentations who can’t code their way out of a paper bag, and consistently let go senior and principal developers because they happen to live in the wrong place even though their output is 10x some junior in a hub.
It’s a disaster, our software & systems are incredibly dated and we don’t have the manpower, will, or skill to upgrade them. I’m constantly trying to suggest and push improvements we could make and all I hear is “we’ve been doing it like this for years, why should we change it?” Because good practices? Because rewriting bad code will pay dividends?
It’s a total cluster and the people with the ability to fix it are leaving for other companies (Microsoft, Google, Intel to name a few) or just getting laid off because they want a decent quality of life on T sub-par salaries.
This place is only going to get worse.
Getting rid of unneeded workers. Right sizing the company.
A Legg super fan is downvoting negative comments here. Jer, we know it’s you. Could you list one of the posts here in your next “mean messages”? Here’s one:
If us employees are just a t4rd on Stankeys desk, then Jeremy was last nights pollo enchelada with a tall glass of milk, rife with food poisoning, exploding liquified f3cal matter all over John’s office and soaking Stank’s pajamas while he delivers his next disappointing earnings call. Legg is rejected, half digested moldy chicken.
Downvote that. 😉
Something has changed the past few months and not for the better. Numerous times I call someone and either I can’t hear them or they can’t hear me. Have to hang up and call again. Had a couple of neighbors complain about the same thing. Seems to be one or two in each household. The rest are fine. None are using WiFi calling but the cellular network. One of those neighbors has called in numerous times and been told that they can’t find a problem and there is nothing they can do. If our future plans are to be a cellular/fiber company we are missing the mark on half of that strategy.
IT payroll costs are huge. I know this because I work in HR. Stephenson and Stankey pressed hard on Legg to tighten the belt every day. In 2015-18, Legg re-badged and outsourced thousands of IT. The salary savings was minimal and short sighted. As third party contractors, skilled former-employees were reassigned work to other clients. Unskilled former employees were overwhelmed and projects just didn’t get done. Then the pandemic hit, Legg got a kitchen pass from Stankey to hire and hire he did, but most of what was hired was underperforming rejects from other companies. So Legg blamed HR. Now the pendulum has swung back to shrinking the workforce. They pay no attention to good performance or project priorities. They just want a person in a chair in a hub, regardless if they can tackle the challenges we face. We need a new CIO who understands how IT gets done and who to staff the organization with and we need it now.
Legg org is top heavy. Dump the Legg, Summers, Chewning and Zilberstein clown shows. Collectively they share one brain cell
Our leaders have termed it “monthly cleansing”
The Legg org has always had a lot of dead weight.
The most worthless in the Legg chain, Bachelor of Arts big Jer, will remain.
L’egg layoffs next week that’s just the beginning. Expect monthly reductions and waive 3 starts Jan 25.
Massive L3/L4 layoff coming in Q3
I'm in the Legg organization. We are losing an additional 4 people from my team next week. Last date on payroll is 7/9.