It's exhausting to feel like management only sees us as a cost they want to cut. Do they really think AT&T can thrive without the people who do the actual work? Not going from a useless meeting to a useless meeting, but doing to work that keeps this place running? We’re their best asset, yet we’re treated like we're disposable. Job security feels like a distant memory.
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It starts at the top with the Stink. Doesn't call us employees but rather human capital. Just a line item on the spreadsheet.
My boss is upset about this 5 day RTO because he knows he's going to lose people that aren't supposed to even go. My team is hanging on a thread and my boss cannot even find people to replace those who previously left. We are doing work for 2-3 people and barely catching up, there is no catching up. Frankly, I am exhausted, not because of my work, but T's rigid structures and policies and resistance to innovation. I'm looking to move toward a company with a more flexible approach that aligns with my goals, T is no longer it.
You don't see the big picture. They are positioning the company to be sold. Significantly reduce headcount, divest no core businesses, offshore as much as you can and reduce the massive debt. That's the Stink's marching orders, which is why his incompetent a** wasn't fired. No need to bring in new management when it's going to be offloaded to a hudge fund.
Leadership doesn’t realize how much everyone feels this way now. If they would only fix the culture. Sorry to use that word, but that’s the best one I can think of if the local leadership like directors and AVP‘s would only act like they are operating with a little bit of care for their teams, it would make a big difference. The same with VPs. They seem very out of touch lately. When 60% or more of your organization is in the bottom ranking, something is broken. The rankers they’ve made up don’t align to people’s comp plans. Compensation has so many issues and tickets submitted with problems from sales teams that they state the average turnaround time for help with these issues is 30 days. People’s modules are set up to fail, with old accounts constantly on the decline. Even though they keep talking about getting new accounts, white space, they don’t supply many white space to our teams at all to give us any opportunity. It’s very obvious they are trying to get as many people out on plans so they don’t have to pay severance. It seems as this point as if they’re aware they have a broken system and they are just trying to move as many people out as possible. I’ve never seen morale this bad. They have some good employees who are willing to work hard, and put in the work, but are set up to fail. They don’t realize how they are running this now will affect their bottom line in the long run, and cost them a lot more than doing the right thing for good people who want to work here.
You’re absolutely right, but unfortunately our company’s leadership made extremely poor choices.
The only way to destroy a monopoly like ours is to over burden it with debt.
They squandered hundreds of billions of dollars on failed mergers and acquisitions.
Those guys are still here somehow being paid very well, while they gut the company to pay off the debt they created.
No it’s not fair, but it’s our reality.
It is cheaper to go overseas and hire, so yes, they see domestic employees as an expense. Just the cold, hard truth!