The jig is up for the barnacles who hitched a ride on the firstnet whale. An insane amount of overhead like directors of useles project managers who don’t know what they are doing and have no sense of anything. The managment use to be sort of respectable but then layoffs hit and people retired and lit weights rose up by chance and changed roles and new asst veeps took over with no vision beyond there inflated benefits. Cohen and Roger A orgs has so much deadweight and drag in the business he should clean house and won’t because span of control. One guy said his dir does not show ir rescheduled one on ones and uses the ones she does come to to check mail her laptop clock. The leadership checkins rarely occur anymore and nothing if meaning gets shared because they spend our tax dollars and never deliver. The goal is to run out clock with fake status that hides what going on. It was positive to hear they hold the next number to get a surplus call next month. T can turn around if deadweight goes and opens jobs onshore and promotions for those of us who want 10 plus years to do some thing and make more than crispy salarys.
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“ the organization did not take in surplussed employees”
When the truth hurts, just lie.
“ FirstNet & Public Sector has been staffed by some of the sharpest people from the company”
Look around Karen, there absolutely none of that in the organization( again full of low ranked resources). If you believe so , you’re as ignorant as the C-suite about the health of this very ill company. Back to your table day.
FN was a 25-year contract. Let’s pretend most of us won’t be here if and when there is a renewed contract.
RE the comment
FACT: FirstNet is an absolute joke. Most employees were surplussed elsewhere in the company and couldn’t cut it a normal business environment. The clock is ticking loudly as the end of T’s exclusivity of the contract comes to an end. Update your resumes again .
WTF - @1unb+1tv7ncLP you're just doubling down on the trolling and we can tell that have very limited knowledge of our company and the FirstNet Org, though my guess is you may be one of the people that were walked out of the business several months ago. FirstNet & Public Sector has been staffed by some of the sharpest people from the company, highly technical, many with military, police, fire, EMS, or other public safety agencies, some were brought in with LMR and Radio Systems experience and the organization did not take in surplussed employees.
Like I stated, you're either a bitter ex employee or if you're even in Telecom, you maybe at best shlep phones at a vz or tmo store where you cram extended services plans
"Every AT&T employee that has a COU phone got a First Net sim."
Well, that proves the posts are coming from outside the company, as we all know how far from the truth that is. The vast majority of the people who sell firstnet can't use it.
Allow me to clarify. Every Central Office, Network Center, I&R, DEG technician and their management team all have First Net sims in their cou phones. We really don't consider people that sell cell phones to be network supporting. I bought my last two AT&T cell phones at Walmart, cram free.
I'm about as inside the company as one can get.
FACT: FirstNet is an absolute joke. Most employees were surplussed elsewhere in the company and couldn’t cut it a normal business environment. The clock is ticking loudly as the end of T’s exclusivity of the contract comes to an end. Update your resumes again .
"Every AT&T employee that has a COU phone got a First Net sim."
Well, that proves the posts are coming from outside the company, as we all know how far from the truth that is. The vast majority of the people who sell firstnet can't use it.
This is political doubletalk nonsense. It is all the same pot of mostly-printed money. I can't say "the dollar I paid you came from AT&T and not Investment income." And neither can you, or the federal government.
Saying it doesn’t make it so buttercup, oh look my uneducated, ignorant comment has as much credence as your truthful honest statement may fly on your flat earth discord but not in the real world
FACT: FirstNet was initially funded with monies from the spectrum auctions and NOT taxpayer funds and the public-private partnership agreement model makes FirstNet self funding w/o tax payer dollars.
This is political doubletalk nonsense. It is all the same pot of mostly-printed money. I can't say "the dollar I paid you came from AT&T and not Investment income." And neither can you, or the federal government.
Every AT&T employee that has a COU phone got a First Net sim. Instant 200K subscribers. Shady? Who knows. I don't care.
OP accepted the move
“ OP an the other commenters, aAt least have the foresight to educate yourself ”
This goof is obviously a LastNet resource that is scared shatless that the truth about NeverNet will close its doors. Good bet is nothing more than marketing voodoo. Coverage is far worse than the commercial network and functions far worse. Ask anyone that has it and they’ll tell you it’s awful. Not to mention that sales will put Joe’s Pizza on RatNet if they deliver to a Police station. A complete unadulterated fraud of a service. Half-life is nearing an end.
OP an the other commenters, aAt least have the foresight to educate yourself before making such ignorant and illitertate posts. I've read some crazy stuff on this board but this one makes no sense and reads like a bad North Korean bot farm AI and speaks to no-on in the actual FirstNet organization Cohen Rogers???..WTF
The comment about working in retail and calling it first-not was not from a T-employee, maybe a tmobile or verizon troll. trying to be cheeky. A smart AT&T retail rep who is able to articulate and sell the differentiators around FirstNet have increased sales-that is a shown metric.
As to the comment that FirstNet was and is nothing but corporate welfare on the backs of US taxpayers. What a cluster from AT&T. If this thing is renewed to AT&T, there is clearly NO oversight in Washington.
Again another ignorant tool post guessing maybe from a Verizon person who shills for Frontline. FACT: FirstNet was initially funded with monies from the spectrum auctions and NOT taxpayer funds and the public-private partnership agreement model makes FirstNet self funding w/o tax payer dollars.
When I worked in Retail we called it First-Not.
LastNet is doomed
FirstNet was and is nothing but corporate welfare on the backs of US taxpayers. What a cluster from AT&T. If this thing is renewed to AT&T, there is clearly NO oversight in Washington.
It’s embarassing that a fellow employee wrote this. You’re basically illiterate.
It remains to be seen if AT&T will continue to provide FirstNet once the contract expires since the repeated high profile outages and call detail hacking (both impacted FirstNet customers as well).