I’ve been here for a long time, and I accumulated relatively decent savings. But I’m fed up with bad management, current culture, and probably burnt out as well. I still have time to retirement, going for early one is not the option I prefer. I would rather switch to some part-time job, something that would allow me to still work but have more time for myself and family, and most importantly, to put T behind me.
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I'd love to go to part time but am waiting for them to give me a package and don't want the amount to get reduced. So just doing the minimum cause I know the cycle will eventually come around to my org.
“The only long-timers at Boeing and LH know when to jump from project to project to avoid the ax.”
This is not true. They layoff contractors but keep the engineers. In that business they steal off each others engineers all the time. The companies don’t want to lose their talent. For instance, I know one LM employee who is toxic. She Takes credit for everyone’s work, forces her work onto others, gets people fired, starts a whole bunch of drama and lies. Her teams grey rock her when she comes around. LM knows how bad she is but, chooses to keep her. No one wants to work for her at all.
‘Stay. Punch in physically but punch out mentally. There is no stress here when you truly decide not to give two sh--s.’
There’s no way I could sit there in a dead end career and do that for 30/40 years. Doing the same work for more than three years and not promoting up is career su----e. Nobody is going to hire someone who has stayed at the same company doing the same job for years like that. It shows lack of drive, fear of change, lack of courage, lack of ambition and motivation.
If you’re young enough to look good and crush it at job interviews, go. But if you’ve been here a long time (guessing 30+ years) then su-k it up. You can make it through the day, and the next, one day at a time. You don’t have to jump through hoops. About the only thing you really have to do is swipe in 3x/wk for RTO. Use your vacation time, spread it out, have more 3 day weekends. Use your 15 days of caregiver time. Collect your paycheck and enjoy life on the weekends. And hey, if they pull your card before you hit 40 years, at least you’ll get severance.
I think a lot of people have checked out like this and maybe do 2-3 hours of real work a day.
This is the effect of the way the company has been treating people.
If you don’t think you have a future at the company there’s no motivation to do anything beyond the bare minimum to not get fired.
I remember warning about this 2 years ago when all this started.
If I worked four hours today, that’d be a lot. Movies on my iPhone and a nice morning walk. Do I feel guilty? No. In the words of Rambo, they drew first blood.
I work part time and get paid for 40 hours. Figure out how to make it work.
OP,
Stay. Punch in physically but punch out mentally. There is no stress here when you truly decide not to give two sh--s. Come to work, grab the paycheck, and go through the motions. Come in to spend time and converse with your friends and enjoy the relationships you’ve cultivated over the years. Decide today, right now, that T is just a money printing press for you and nothing more. Do all that and you will have become as far removed and emotionally detached as our CEO.
God bless you. Stay physically and mentally healthy and enjoy the new stress free you.
If you have a hard time staying, then leave. I wouldn’t stay if I didn’t want to.
If you have other options, take them and leave!
Build up your knowledge, wealth, network and keep trying for a better opportunity. We each have personal experiences or know of close colleagues being mistreated due to location and other arbitrary criteria completely unrelated to performance & ability. All supervisors have the ability to ‘protect’ a select few. Look around your team members & it’s very clear who is ‘preferred’ and getting the corresponding special treatment regardless of location, RTO mandate, etc. This preferential treatment, inconsistent policies & never-ending layoff/surplus has destroyed morale. Why stay unless you have little to no other options? It’s a terrible work environment where our sycophantic leadership get rewarded for the wrong reasons. J.Stankey got a $3M raise for defiantly claiming that AT&T is “worth” the $17 share price earlier this year. Would any of us be able to keep our jobs with the same defiance for low standards & performance?
no one is stopping you gtfo
I'm fed up with the Senior Leadership and with Union Leadership, especially after this round. The word "entitled" continues to come to mind. The veiled statements around "hoping people don't get hurt in the storm" coming up shows me the truly ugly people are in this company.
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You are for sure right about that!
“You don't replace senior management when the company is going to be significantly downsized and eventually sold. Otherwise these buffoons would have been sacked and replaced long ago. Stankey isn't competent to run a Waffle House, let alone AT&T. His finger prints are on every disastrous decision made in the last ten years.”
I’ve been saying that, this whole initiative is nothing more than downsizing while maintaining minimal functionality while bumping up the quarterly earnings reports with bs “revenue” numbers pushed up by layoffs…to push up the share price so Stankey and co can cash out, sell or whatever, and walk away with a fat payday while the bag holders are left with a skeleton and some other company buys it up for spectrum etc and merges it into whatever.
Maybe we will get lucky and a decent company will buy it up, but unlikely.
You don't replace senior management when the company is going to be significantly downsized and eventually sold. Otherwise these buffoons would have been sacked and replaced long ago. Stankey isn't competent to run a Waffle House, let alone AT&T. His finger prints are on every disastrous decision made in the last ten years.
“Do not hesitate to leave toxic T. You will be miserable staying here. Worst place to work award. Toxic culture. Thank you Stankey! But what can you expect from guy who put T in $150 billion debt. Everything he touches is a fiasko. It amazes me he is still driving and nobody can stop him. How is it possible?”
No CEO of any real skill will work here.
BOD is scared to get rid of him because it will likely spook the shareholders and indicate that T is once again failing at something.
There were activist investors, but I hear they gave up on the company and sold sometime in 2022.
I suspect someone or more than a few members of the BOD are old boomers (let’s get real, they’re probably all ancient boomers) and actually support him and think his approach will work.
T isn’t known as being cutting edge anymore or a trendsetter, lots of the shareholders aren’t tech savvy or really “locked in” on how modern companies have succeeded in the modern age - T was really only successful since the 80’s due to them basically being a monopoly…there’s 40+ years of bad habits and anti-innovation risk-adverse mentality there to overcome.
They don’t want to invest into innovation which is why they tried to just acquire companies to diversify income streams but then the executives realized they didn’t understand how to run a tech company or manage creatives and it fell apart.
These are stiff suit bozos, not people who think freely or have original thoughts and ideas.
Bell labs was the last time T did anything worthwhile - it’s good that Stankey is having T go back to its roots, mobile and fiber - falling back on the network…still su-ks they fu---d it up so bad previously that it’s now an absolutely abysmal place to work.
Do not hesitate to leave toxic T. You will be miserable staying here. Worst place to work award. Toxic culture. Thank you Stankey! But what can you expect from guy who put T in $150 billion debt. Everything he touches is a fiasko. It amazes me he is still driving and nobody can stop him. How is it possible?
After this strike, it’s going to be even more toxic working there. Everybody really hates everybody else now. It’s just going to be nasty. Glad the union decided to step in and make the environment a lot worse than it was.
This is precisely the sentiment the C suite is seeking to induce.
Stankey and the c suite is making that choice for a lot of people, who haven’t they pi---d off and demoralized the last few years? Now they picked a fight with labor with regressive proposals and it isn’t going well, they are getting exposed for all their poor decisions. Their tone deaf pattern is to double and triple down on bad policies, employee disempowerment and generally any other bad decision.
Leadership have even gone as far, to not release the most recent survey because of the results. I don’t remember in leadership training that pi----g off the whole workforce as a successful business strategy to grow long term. Stankey and the BOD needs to look in the mirror and quit blaming failures on employees and the market. Innovation is nearly dead, now AT&T has become the followers and not the Leader. Fell from 1st to 3rd, maybe lower in some markets. Removed from the DOW and reduced the dividend.
Go man, no one is going to really care outside of you & your family. You see Stankey literally said he's increasing the contractor force. The work is gonna get done by any means, with or without you. And i say that respectfully. Do what's best for you & yours. Godspeed.
Do you also announce when you unfollow/unlike a page on Facebook?
I mean, okay, just go. Start looking on Indeed, update your Linkedin, etc., but announcing it here isn't going to do much. Don't know what your field is, but I wouldn't recommend Google, Meta, or Boeing/Lockheed--they all do frequent layoffs. The only long-timers at Boeing and LH know when to jump from project to project to avoid the ax.
If you have a lot of assets, then quit…get some part time job doing something you enjoy that pays less just so you can stay employed…do it for a couple years, then retire.
Enjoy your life dude, this place is going downhill - get out while you can or talk to your manager about getting surplussed so you can collect severance.