I never realized how important company culture is when it comes to job satisfaction until I started working at AT&T. Every place I worked before had a good culture, so I accepted that as a given. Until I started here five years ago. Since then, I think I lost a few years of my life due to constant stress over the toxicity, politics, and overall negativity. I'm now looking for a new job and pay and benefits have lost the first place in my consideration to the company culture. I never again want to work in a similar environment as here.
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Normally, your direct supervisor is the only leadership relationship that makes a difference. I have had both the best and worst bosses at AT&T, and C-suite really had no influence on either of those relationships. However, since Stank took over, his culture creation has permeated all the ranks and my relationship with my boss cannot make up for the putrid and toxic environment that Stink/Stank/Stunk has created.
And, sadly, management really doesn't care how toxic they've made the culture. It started when Stankey took away benefits first 6 months after becoming CEO, it tanked straight to the bottom with the poorly thought-out, imlemented RTO policy. And when the survey results showed management just how bad the culture was not only did they decide not to release the results, acknowledge the results, they decided not to make employees participate in the yearly EPS and Stankey doubled-down in seeing if he can make the culture (aka work environment) even worse by hinting at a '5 day week' RTO policy.
"Culture" is so important to Leadership here that they commissioned an exhaustive, expensive, 3rd party survey to gauge where things were at "culture" wise and basically mandated that all management participate.
In which the feedback was so bad, they decided to simply not share the results,,, which the CEO himself promised would be shared to every management employee.
How's that for "culture" ?
We know how some made it to the too ...sc-m always rises.
Last three posts all from the same company TROLL ...... "Brown-nose" much ??
"AT&T was by far the WORST, most toxic work environment I have ever been exposed to"
The lemonade stand in your mom's front yard is not much of a comparative work history
"Every place I worked before had a good culture, so I accepted that as a given. " If the culture was so great, why did you leave all those jobs?
"Very few employees are positive"
Few employees are as negative as you are. If you feel your statement is factual, consider that you might be the catalyst for the negativity in your environment.
AT&T was by far the WORST, most toxic work environment I have ever been exposed to. Rule by Fear and Intimidation plus the incessant whipping from above to make the Elusive, Falsified, manipulated "numbers" (metrics) every day, week, month, Quarter. Employee turnover was also the highest Ive ever seen, especially with anything regarding management, Sales or customer service. What a complete sh*t show of a company, I feel sorry for anyone still stuck there or the new employees that have NO idea what they got themselves into ....... RUN !!!!
When I first started 14 years ago, culture was awesome. I had great bosses and teammates. Best job I’ve ever had. Starting about 8 years when they gutted some of the older awesome leaders in our org, it has plumbed new depths of terrible each year worse than before. The past couple years and especially this past year have been as bad as it gets. But, we aren’t seeing folks walked out the door every Friday, so could be worse. I have worked at worse places still. But yeah, it’s really bad and I’m heading for the door. I would leave right now if I could. But the holidays are coming up as is the year end bonus cutoff. If I find something sooner, I’m out, if not, I’m going to wait till Jan 2 and leave anyways.
I've never worked with so many lazy people than at AT&T. So many workers that just don't want to work, just ant to be paid.
Worked at a number of places and good culture is hard to find, hard to maintain especially when there are challenges and absolutely starts with leadership. If the people at the top truly care about employees and set a good example, you’ll see it reflected all over the org
The culture of my group is actually pretty decent, but the sr leadership actions especially in the last two years have made this place really hard to take. Nothing they say regarding culture or basically anything other than straight numbers has any credibility. It’s not easy to stay motivated when you have no faith in your leaders and when career paths keep getting cut off.
And yes I am trying to leave. It’s just not so easy to find something else worth jumping to and actually getting in the door.
You'll never see the survey. The results are so bad and a complete indictment of leadership. Of course the BOD doesn't have the spine or integrity to remove the core problem
We had a great culture for many years. Two people demolished that culture and ruined an iconic American company. As more of my former colleagues exit the business today, I'm thankful I left the toxic mess in May.
They keep you hanging on, while they fumble about making decisions. They fail to treat employers with much respect. The culture is to pull the ladder up and let everyone else drown. Very few employees are positive, everyone is just waiting to be let go or for the next wreckless decision to mess with their lives. It's not a game, these decisions impact people's lives. Careers and decent people are being destroyed and the environment is filled with endless doom and gloom, positivity is at an all time low and it's not just one employee, it's virtually everyone that I am in contact with. They can't treat people like this.
Culture at a Company is not just top-down but its bottom-up as well. Take some responsibility to create a positive culture yourself instead of complaining about what everyone else isn’t doing for you. Otherwise you are part of the problem and you should probably leave!
25 years ago, prior to the BLS and SBC mergers, AT&T su-ked then too.
Post mergers, AT&T completely ruined both the BLS and SBC work cultures and did it in record time.
That stank f*ck accelerated it so that, along with the massive debt, will bring AT&T down for good.
Amazon should purchase the wired assets and Google the Mobility assets a d be done with it.
No f'ing parachutes for executives either. They should go down first. Assbags.
You know it’s bad when they give you a survey and never release the results.
Good job “leading”. It’s no wonder why Sambar left.
Speaking of… Where are the survey results?