John gets a lot of hate on this board that is unwarranted. He has been making the necessary hard choices to streamline costs and headcount. Thank you, John!
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Stankey - if you are reading this board, if you think cutting and mistreating employees are going to help your cash flow, I'd say yes, SHORT TERM. You are a M…O…R…O…N who absolutely did not think this through, or maybe you did, just did not have the capacity to understand the seriousness of this all. In my dept, (which deals with your disaster effort, your cherries to make you look good on TV, we are the 1st responders). Our SOW is not compatible with the RTO 5 day office because we work nights/weekends and on call most of the time. I assure you, if you capped me at 8hrs in a cubicle, that's where the work is going to be done. If there is another hurricane, fire, snowstorm and you need our team to work nights/weekends. It is going to wait until 8am in a cubicle. We handle the entire US.
Senor A**holey
John ordered the hit on Peanut and Harambe
Delusional trolll. No doubt top needs to make tough decisions. However, Stinky is lining his pockets, and his cronneys. Getting back to profitability based on the bodies of hard good productive workers. Sinking ship and Stinky gets paid, And Randal still getting paid.
Total POS
John get paid $22M for something that can be replicated on ChatGPT.
Prompt: “How do I grow AT&T?”
Response: “Here’s what 45 Phds, 600 Business Textbooks, 1,800 Articles and Current Events news stories are saying… focus on Core Competency, spin off failing businesses, simplify workflows, rationalize workforce size requirements for the new business through outsourcing, automation and layoffs.”
“Sc--w you, OP and fu-k you, John.”
I was thinking the same thing except I would have added an exclamation point after every single word. Afterwards I would go grab a muffin tops and give John the stumps.
IMO we are risking security breaches
We've been begging for security breaches for decades and still are. It's called not paying for sustaining. And after the recent breaches they stamped their feet and demanded a bunch of stuff, but most of it can't happen due to decades old unsupported software being ingrained in our business. And it gets worse with every forced retirement as the people who even know where these problems are go away.
"These were needed changes to shed dead weight."
Except taking away retiree healthcare has made the dead weight stay longer. If they cannot afford to retire without the healthcare then they are not going to retire when it is not offered. They are going to keep working until the get to Medicare/Medicaid eligible. This was another shortsighted move by and horrible CEO who cannot look past his one nose into the future.
It’s lonely on the top. Specially when no one is on the bottom. - Rodney Dangerfield.
And John’s future.
Has John ever written a book on leadership or been interviewed on leadership podcasts?
He's responsible along with Randy for the reason of layoffs.
He's eliminated all of our benefits and yet still has his and gets an annual raise. He needs to be fired.
"This CEO and his most senior staff need to be replaced with those who understand the strength of a company goes far beyond financial coffers. AT&T needs a helm staff who can grow the business AND a loyal and competent employee base, and also reduce frivolous expenditures and distractions. That is all we want. Not so much to ask for."
Agree, but would add the requirement those replacements would have to come from outside the company. This company is broken in many respects, and will not be healed by the next crony in the existing line of succession.
This CEO and his most senior staff need to be replaced with those who understand the strength of a company goes far beyond financial coffers. AT&T needs a helm staff who can grow the business AND a loyal and competent employee base, and also reduce frivolous expenditures and distractions. That is all we want. Not so much to ask for.
“Taking away retiree healthcare and making people quit without severance to get fcf from 16 billion to 18billion is necessary?”
These were needed changes to shed dead weight.
IMO we are risking security breaches and sensitive network access is being offshored for the almighty dollar. I guess we’ll worry about that later. Even certain 911 servers the Indians have the password to those servers. Verified info.
Taking away retiree healthcare and making people quit without severance to get fcf from 16 billion to 18billion is necessary? Decide for yourself.
Stankey deserves every bit of contempt sent his way. He willingly went along with every disastrous decision made by Stephenson, Whitacre, and the rest. He's responsible for bringing us to this moment. He led the acquisition of DTV and TimeWarner, and we know how that turned out... $100 billion lost, and tens of thousands of jobs eliminated. But it was only the little people that had their lives upended... not anyone that 'John' cared about. Certainly not any of the executives in the C-Suite.
Signed: Mrs stankey
GTFOH
Are you serious. His finger prints are on every disastrous decision that started this epic dumpster fire. Someone needs to be dr-g tested.
Thanks HR!
Xoxo, Mrs. Stanley
MBA’s are a cancer upon society.
"Have John's precious kids found their way to this board? "
His precious daughter landed high paying job at T for being Daddy's girl. never online, don't think she actually works. definitely RTO doesn't apply to Daddy's Girl
Love you!
Mr Peanut would be a better CEO.
Have John's precious kids found their way to this board? 🤣🤣🤣
Daddy sqauandered BILLIONS of dollars and has no way to come back from that, except at the expense of employees. Meanwhile, daddy has not taken a pay cut voluntarily and maintains a fleet operations staff of about 50 where we actually keep plane mechanics, pilots, drivers, and flight attendants as full time employees. They're not even outsourced or contracted. Explain how that's him making HARD CHOICES. I'll wait.
i laugh at the bald head jokes
Thanks for the Friday laugh.
He is making the hard choices due to poor leadership blunders (T-Mobile, DTV, Warner) that he co-piloted. Our memory is not that short… OP you want us to praise him for fixing his own mess? WTF
You're so right, OP! I have made hard choices to right the ship. Which is why I'm sure you'll understand that you are no longer needed. Clean out your desk...you're fired! Thank you for your hard work and dedication. -The Stink
What a crock of horsesh!t.
Typically bully can't take the heat.
Man up for a change you chump.