Thread regarding AT&T layoffs

It is just a matter of time before all this outsourcing blows up the company. Then Randy and his cronies will sneak out the back door with their golden parachutes, while talking crap about the people who actually do the work in this company.

I was in the group of DBAs Morse/Boswell sold to Tech Mahindra. In the last 60 days service has gone from good/adequate to horrendous. Morse, Boswell, and Tech Mahindra will never let on how bad things are regarding response time, adherence to ASPR, data availability, and data security. Heads-up folks--your database data is ripe for the plucking by contractors here in America and India that could care less for AT&T and it's claim to superior data protection. Folks, DBAs can see EVERYTHING in a database--and AT&T has kicked them to the curb and made them mad..............and Morse, Boswell, and Tech Mahindra will never let on how insecure things are.......

You can always spot the T actions that really screw the employees, they never make announcements and try to keep the profile low. If you see Randy doing that, avoid bending over.

Can anyone say MAJOR OUTSOURCING OF JOBS??? Ultimate goal to virtualize our core network 55% by the end of this year. HELLO?

It sounds like the data sources currently in Oracle are going to move to Oracle cloud- effectively outsourcing the maintenance and admin. No mention I see of T's other cloud or SQL db's. We have a lot of cloud partners, I think Netbond and Amazon's AWS are two big ones.

Does this mean the T cloud is DOA? Or is it just Randy outsourcing work like he always planned to do?

Surprised AT&T is doing this. Oracle's cloud is anything but stellar. Hope the have SLAs in their contract. This could get ugly.

So if all that is true, the craft jobs in the ATO organization would probably go bye bye as well.

Wait a min, I thought these were the 2020 jobs that employees were being trained to take over. lol

Installers? What are we talking about, prem-tech, MSTs or DTV techs? What about managers? I know that they went through their surplus last year but are they going to be affected as well?

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You must have left quite a while ago. T offered all of those services and more through their Hosting and Applications Services aka USi.

That division was sold to IBM as of 4/1/16. IBM customers, equipment a datacenter and the most of the employees that worked in Hosting and Application Services aka HA &S

This outsourcing is a big deal, an important chunk of the company will be gone. The goal is just a shell with very highly paid upper management and nothing else inside.

Randy gets $78,000 every day of the calendar year to tear the guts out of this once proud company.

So what is att going to be in business for? When I was there, they were pushing us to learn those very technologies, as they were going to be offering them. They're giving up their landlines, their transport is being allowed to shrink through a complete lack of customer service, they're losing wireless customers to T-Mobile at a staggering pace, they're now outsourcing what they once intended to offer as their own service...I just don't see a reason for the company to exist in the long term.