Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

lmao

It's what happens when idiots run a company.

I hope the stock price goes back up - since it nosedived when the deal was announced.

I agree, a certain portion are racists and white supremacists but the vast majority are working people who are getting screwed hard by the 1% and corporate America.

The DNC has been focused on appeasing wall street and the GOP on voter suppression.

Trump has no solutions for anyone other than himself, maybe the Bernie crowd can build on this opportunity to focus on solutions for the problems destroying what was once the middle class.

I think this article is off the mark. AT&T and progressives spent much of their time lobbing, the argument was "innovation" something AT&T comes short from any angle.

Let's face it, Obama turned the Treasury over to Wall Street and foreign policy over to the neocons. The 1% have been looting the economy, Clinton is viewed as the face of Wall Street, the FCC approved the DTV merger thanks to te generous donations to the administration.

Trump is flawed, and clumsy –you have to cut and paste his comments to figure out his overall policy ,let's call this mergers the achieveless takeovers

I have no illusions about Trump, but progressives would be better served to find ways to connect with many of his supporters rather than mock them, by supporting corporation such AT&T, based on how much contributions they get, to advance their business objectives directed by te well connected

I understand OP position, AT&T has by far more Democrat operatives, lobbyists and lawyers than employees ' with a byline who ginned up the phony Republican “war on Net Neutrality and Zero Rating”. CEO has donated 75 millions to the Clinton Team, yet no one mentions it to your audience until, you know, it sleazed out. AT&T’s argument is that any company that participates in its Sponsored Data program has to pay AT&T for it, and that includes DirecTV. Except, again, AT&T owns DirecTV, so even if one division is paying another, the overall company still ends up not paying any money. The situation for other companies is very different . You don’t believe it. But it is. I call this an Antitrust textbook case

Trump will defeat net neutrality, then what does the FCC have?

You net nuetrality folks are a bunch of commies if you really support that mess.

I mean its the chickens coming to roost. You put all your chips on buying other companies and hedging all bets on borderline anti trust tricks as a products instead of actually innovating and putting the money on tangible real products coupled with terrible timing and you have a nice big mess on your hands. No matter what T does though you can bet its the employees that pay the price. Randall the schmuck seems to be made of teflon himself because no matter the blunder the board keeps him in charge to come up with some new asinine plan. Lets hope they are getting a parachute ready for him this time.

Op is making me sad

This deal is dead and AT&T is going to be out of $500B as a separation fee. Imagine what this money could be used for.