Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

WverYbOdY do bETtEr!!11one!!eleventy

New company slogan of Win As one has now been retired. No more pillars. Thank you all for cooperating.

CTX Town-hall a little while ago. Press basically raising voice at workers with all of the recent outages, data leaks,connectivity failures. Stating "We need to do better" the view of the audience was one of disgust with this guy.. I was hoping that one, (or more ) had the _alls to say to him he and LEadership team, was the cause of all of this with all of the surplus / RTO actions taking place getting rid of key people and leaving the work to inexperienced, overworked, dejected workers wondering if they had a job tomorrow.. but no one said boo... too afraid of the guy who is a big reason for the problem he is describing ... and the do as I say, not as I do leader.

That's malarkey. There are lots of reasons for the failures of 2024 an previous years, too, but RTO is not the main thing, or even "the" common denominator. The common denominator is attempting to cost cut from the wrong places: data storage, network security, job reduction from the bottom up instead of vice versa, etc, etc. ad nauseum.

Did anyone really buy that RTO was for increased collaboration? It was an impetus for the company to shrink its employee base.

I don't think its the root cause. I think it removed the vulnerable layer of tolerance that allows us all to watch out for each other as a common good and view leadership decisions as responsible ones. RTO turned us all into enemies against each other with terrible things that already existed and we all knew about. Screaming on calls, bad security decisions, bad financial decisions, bad HR handling, backstabbing, people being passed over for promotions - all existed and we glossed over it and moved on before May of 2023. Now, the piper is being paid.

I'm full of resentment for being laid off, because I couldn't move. Stankey says too bad in his Town Halls. My experience along with 1000's of others, creates a terrible example for those remaining. Its the tower of resentment that gets built and it will never come down. The t4rds that Stankey says were on his desk, transferred their stink. He'll never get the stains out now.

Enjoy your legacy John, you made it.

You’re right, but losing talent and demotivating the staff to then reassert control was the point.

All Stankey needs to do is show he’s cutting costs in the short term and since most customers are locked into contracts they can’t easily leave…thus it doesn’t matter and the stock price will go up, which is our real product, the dividend - therefore he doesn’t care.