10 years with T. No chance to advance my career. I’ve always had very good results, made sure to always update my skills and use training and upgrading opportunities, and I put extra effort in everything I do. I have long since realized being dedicated and valuable at T is more of a hindrance than advantage. So I gave up and I started thinking about moving on. The only thing that still keeps me here is a great team. Rare thing in a corporate world.
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In my career, I always had great teams, and in the last 13 years when I was in ATS, I had an awesome team and two great managers during that time. Every one of my teammates was extremely knowledgeable, hard-working, always learning and sharing information, and always jumped in to assist in any issue. Both our managers over the timeline were supportive and equally competent and fair. It was a stressful job at times, but my team made it amazing. The day after I was surplus'd, the team got broken up, disbursed among two other teams, and our manager was made an "individual contributor".
When the bell rang on me, any team I would've been technically able to work in, was also having cuts at the same time, so when the time comes, I wouldn't personally put much faith in being able to get into another team within the company. It'd be best to try and grow a network outside of the company. Perhaps stay in touch with those who were cut previously.
start being lazy and do nothing. have your team mates pick up the slack.
Getting an internal role, you have to know the hiring manager, know someone on that team or in that leadership chain. Otherwise you will not get considered. Internal networking is critical to career advancement. That being said, yeah, I know what you mean about great teammates. It really does make a huge difference, but at the same time as time goes on those people also move on or leave and you find yourself all by yourself. I would move while your skills aren’t stale. I’m in the same boat as you. Time for better work/life and more money. Your pay falls behind over time so you have to move to keep the money where it needs to be.
I would advise start looking while there is no pressure to find a job to pay the bills. Network anyway you can as a lot depends on referrals. Don't wait to be tapped on the shoulder and being told 2 weeks and off payroll.
Consider brown nosing (most valuable skillset at AT&T) hiring managers, its the only way you will see better opportunities.