Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

How it may play out.

Had to repost this it's good:

Every Associate Director will be required to cut headcount down to 3 badged US based employees but allowed to keep any offshore badged like those located in Slovakia and India. Any contractor will not be impacted in the force reduction. Layoffs to accelerate as another 2 Billion in cuts needed by December 2024. Attracting younger, cheaper talent is going slower than expected as many are saying no to offers due to lack of WFM. Meanwhilethere are many that are still WFH being tapped for RTO or relocation to Atlanta and Dallas. Also spend on 3rd partly software continues to rise-go figure, and explain how that works. It is that fuzzy math only leadership can ever understand, we are not that smart. They are going all in and betting this will all work out just fine, as it usually does right? So you get a few outages and upset customers but as long as the Enterprise clients keep paying it all washes out in the end.
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I can confirm this. I work in Bratislava and was told I'd have to fly into the states at least twice a week to meet with customers and developers.

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Post ID: @2jme+1uAkrJc8

Thats going to work out well in customer facing departments. I guess you can fly them all in every single day. LOL

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Post ID: @1ksj+1uAkrJc8

"Even Amazon is going to lose quality people."
The only difference is that Amazon has lines of candidates wanting an opportunity to get their foot in the door. Not for T.

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“Don’t know if this comment is being facetious but it is amazing how many people actually believe that is how the job market is operating right now. Know a couple of people who thought the market is still at the point it was a couple of years ago. They have been looking for real jobs the past 6 months.”

These things are cyclical, talented people will stay just long enough for the market to improve enough for them to find something else.
If that’s the kind of work environment and culture you want, then good luck.

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Post ID: @1oqp+1uAkrJc8

Where did this come from, OP?

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Post ID: @1xfg+1uAkrJc8

Ha. If you are really talented, you wouldn't have to try to convince people you are talented.

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Post ID: @nhq+1uAkrJc8

Funny howan elderly CEO thinks he can attract new young technical talent by having them RTO. Not how it works. Even Amazon is going to lose quality people.

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Post ID: @esy+1uAkrJc8

“just give me a severance package and we'll part ways. I promise, we'll still be friends..@
You are being targeted for next year after the policy for maximum servance amounts changes.

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Post ID: @aiv+1uAkrJc8

Total made up cr-p

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Post ID: @ajv+1uAkrJc8

If I have to move and go in 3-5 days a week I might as well just su-k it up and get paid $500k a year at Amazon or something.

Don’t know if this comment is being facetious but it is amazing how many people actually believe that is how the job market is operating right now. Know a couple of people who thought the market is still at the point it was a couple of years ago. They have been looking for real jobs the past 6 months.

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Post ID: @hmf+1uAkrJc8

The move to third-party software makes sense, especially if you are looking to turn over your workforce. Using bespoke, exclusive to AT&T applications presents a learning curve for new hires. Moving to teams, infor, workday, compass, and all the common ones makes it easier for outside management to step in and count beans.

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Post ID: @eyq+1uAkrJc8

I love how one of the big selling points for RTO was how many “SUPER EDUCATED MOTIVATED YOUNG TECHNICAL TALENT SUPER HEROS!” We could recruit and how Stankey wanted to cut all the olds…

Little did Stankey know…as someone who is young and in tech myself, knew - most young TECHNICAL people basically expect work from home now and view being in the office as inefficient and a distraction…

So now, he’s having brain drain from seniors, leads, principals, distinguished older folk who are quitting or getting laid off, and not able to backfill with juniors out of university.

Why would a talented young technical person want to work at T? Last choice? Location (used to be location, cause we had tons of locations and that young person didn’t have to move) but why now?

Now T will want a young person to relocate AND go in 3-5 days AND will pay less than tech.
So why would they work here?
If I have to move and go in 3-5 days a week I might as well just su-k it up and get paid $500k a year at Amazon or something.

Fu-k Stankey, he’s a dum--ss

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Post ID: @yyp+1uAkrJc8

lol. I remember when Legg was going to dump 3 contractors for every 1 employee hire. Talk about your all time "leadership" backfire

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Post ID: @tgd+1uAkrJc8

just give me a severance package and we'll part ways. I promise, we'll still be friends..

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Post ID: @ghy+1uAkrJc8

“Can’t attract young talent due to no WFH”
YOU DON’T SAY?!

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