Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

Someone said: "Managers are expected to take the training seriously and practice skills to make sure they are ready to go on the first day."

Wow! Somebody drank the koolaid! Only someone who has never worked a job that required physical skill could make such a clueless statement. You are not going to be able to replace a skilled craftsperson with an office worker and expect good results. You can deny it all you want but it is a fact. I look in my crystal ball and see a lot of post strike rework. Shoot, office workers in the younger generations are lucky if they can change a tire.

Yep, got sent on a big pipe repair. Boss said do the best you can. Looked like a toddlers nest of hair in the morning with wires everywhere. Twisted it together, electrical tape and covered it up. Didn’t train me for this. Haven’t heard a word back, guess it worked.

I start my assignment this weekend. It’s go time!

now you know why stankey wants a younger workforce, fat old guys like me can't climb phone poles

“Say no to dr-gs! CP training goes in one ear and out the other. Let's be realistic, if it isn't something you practice on a regular basis to the point of mastery then its just a checkbox on a piece of paper saying you completed it.”

The dr-gs are the only thing keeping me sane in this job.

"Managers are expected to take the training seriously and practice skills to make sure they are ready to go on the first day. "

Say no to dr-gs! CP training goes in one ear and out the other. Let's be realistic, if it isn't something you practice on a regular basis to the point of mastery then its just a checkbox on a piece of paper saying you completed it.

I’d do it but I’m in a wave 3 cut.

Hope so, I need a break and relief from working 12 hour days. Not doing much but I’m here.

“ Managers are expected to take the training seriously and practice skills…”

LMAO. So we should just randomly do some pole climbing on our off days? Ok. Sure.

"This individual is in a deep state of denial."

Which part of what I typed is incorrect? Enlighten us with your wisdom since you chose to call out what I said. Let's see if you have the gonads to provide us with why I am wrong.

Stank here.

You folks get busy making me some money to gas up my corporate jet!

Yes. You are the future.

You must not be too smart.

If we're going to talk about smarts, let's talk about the id--t who tried to buy WM.

Wait, you guys actually paid attention to the CP training?

Oh fu-k…

Yes. Expect to be rotated in.

The CP training covers the company's behind even if you can't do the job.

“CP training is a joke...insulting to think managers can take a few courses and perform the job well.”
Managers are expected to take the training seriously and practice skills to make sure they are ready to go on the first day.

You must not be too smart.

“CP training is a joke...insulting to think managers can take a few courses and perform the job well.”
Managers are expected to take the training seriously and practice skills to make sure they are ready to go on the first day.

CP training is a joke...insulting to think managers can take a few courses and perform the job well.....its a negotiating ploy pure and simple. I,d love to see the stinky stank do a crafts job....that would be a hoot..

What do you expect from evil T. Stankey doesn’t care. He and his minions are exempt from deployment and layoffs.

“ First, The company is trying hard not to deploy everyone because they do not want to spend the money, and most of it would be wasted because the CP employees are not qualified or trained to do the jobs, especially out in the field.”

This individual is in a deep state of denial.

If targeted with a contingency assignment, your manager declared you nonessential. There is no business need preventing deployment. You do the math.

“Expect to be deployed. The mandatory training has prepared you to meet the goal of the business. Since you successfully completed the training, you are expected fulfill those duties as the company is paying you to do.”

But I let it play in the background while I did my real job, coding.
What am I supposed to do?!

Expect to be deployed. The mandatory training has prepared you to meet the goal of the business. Since you successfully completed the training, you are expected fulfill those duties as the company is paying you to do.

I'll put as much effort into CP as the company put into the training. :)

You guys got training?

The earlier the deployment, the sooner the layoff notice upon return. Managers who get assigned in later phases will have a little longer reprieve from surplus.

Expect to be deployed. The mandatory training has prepared you to meet the goal of the business. Since you successfully completed the training, you are expected fulfill those duties as the company is paying you to do.

Seriously, ask your supervisor. That is always the answer at T.

yes. they are doing it in phases. you will rotate in at some point. they only have so much room at the training centers.

Who knows? CP was never actually about you doing the work or fooling the union. That's why the training was garbage. How can anyone be realistically expected to do trade work without any kind of hands on experience? You don't.

CP exists solely to demonstrate to customers that AT&T is "doing something" - you're a legal pawn being used to keep AT&T from being sued.

First, The company is trying hard not to deploy everyone because they do not want to spend the money, and most of it would be wasted because the CP employees are not qualified or trained to do the jobs, especially out in the field.