RTO IS A MASS LAYOFF IN DISGUISE (AT&T's FULLTIME Return To Office)

[@JoshuaFluke1]

Anyone else smell constructive dismissal?

[@stonedsour9140]

Bet the CEO is dropping a stinky one in his depends when he was in that interview.

[@chrisglosser7318]

The desperation on LinkedIN is palpable

[@Rilbo]

current ATT employee here. Company is going in the garbage and putting a ton of pressure on retail to make this look good. even though this CEO has lost a ton of money on this BS Directv buy. Now they are selling it thank god!

[@chm9935]

@@Rilbo DirecTV?! Lol!!! Late 1990s has beens

[@sl8774]

Stanky is a funny lastname

[@serpent77]

1200 people and 150 desks, someone needs to call the fire marshal... daily.

[@collegeman1988]

Only problem is, when the Fire Marshall shows up, bosses will say, “You’re absolutely right. Way too many people in this office. Okay workers! Listen up! We’re going to play a game of musical chairs 🪑 and anyone who can’t find a seat in the next 60 seconds is out of a job and security here will escort you out of the building!”

[@ernieschwarzenegger6682]

Dont you have any labor code in the USA? the employer should be legally obligated to provide employees with all they need to work, including desks and chairs.

[@LauraSnow-in3nx]

Exactly!!

[@VonCroy-y2p]

@@collegeman1988 Then they have to pay you severance and you qualify for unemployment. Which is what they were trying to avoid.

[@need-to-know-]

No way is a worker more productive sitting in the hallway than in a home office. Unsafe work conditions and should be reported daily.

[@-veritas-]

And with RTO, a million micromanagers cried out in excitement……

[@JoshuaFluke1]

media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExNTlmcmtrdGcwemNldXZjMDVyeWEyamxtNmdiZGk4YmRhZHFka2tkdSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/3owyoUHuSSqDMEzVRu/200.webp

[@arat2376]

Thats one paer of it. Lots of people who need to justify their existence

[@07Flash11MRC]

Yes. Because their entire paycheck depends on having complete control over their minions who just wanna exist and have an income.

[@ennuiblue4295]

​@@07Flash11MRC I always thought it would be a better motivator to give employees the incentives and not designated hoverers. they are motivated by money, so why wouldn't they think workers are too?

[@zachroberts1988]

@@ennuiblue4295 just like working 4 days on and having 3 off has been proven to be far more productive than the typical 5 day work week, these companies care about exercising control rather than doing whats best for their employees and the bottom line...

[@ZeLogicnator5k]

These companies don't want the most competent, they want the most compliant.

[@Jadty]

Oy!

[@seanothepop4638]

something they could automatically produce....that wouldn't question anything....something not human.

[@-_-----]

THAT is the actual heart of the H1B Visa issue.

[@pllpsy665]

You do not need the most competent. They are not in the business of making the best products or offering the best services. You just need the type of workers that provide the best Shareholder Value tm.

[@noahknight4039]

A lot of people think their the most competent when they’re not. That’s why they scream DEI all the time, they feel they’re the most qualified and simply don’t want to compete. And when someone else gets the job it’s not because that person is better at the job, it must because they fill a quota or are more compliant. But there’s also the reality of if you can do the job from home. Couldn’t someone else do the job for less overseas?

[@rickdonkulus]

Ironic for a tele-communications company.

[@1SevenFive]

Good one!

[@orealz]

_insert palpatine ironic meme_

[@mrmannoob1]

exactly!

[@returningwhisper]

They want you to resign. Make them lay you off.

[@jameshorton3692]

Bingo, force a severance and unemployment insurance. Give yourself a vacation.

[@asadb1990]

​@jameshorton3692 most companies in us don't offer severance.

[@sandragiven4752]

Exactly what I did no matter how bad it got. Never been happier.

[@crg34]

Exactly. Don’t quit, make them fire you.

[@athomewithrobin292]

If you don't go into the office would you get unemployment?

[@sech1243]

I’m a software engineer at AT&T, place has gone down hill drastically since Stankey took over. It had problems before, but they made an effort to attract talent and promote work-life balance - all of that has come to an end. You didn’t cover the forced relocations AT&T has performed either forcing people to move or quit their jobs as they shut down offices in many cities including St. Louis, Chicago, San Ramon, etc. Look into it a bit, I can’t wait to get out of that place, constantly losing team members to layoffs, RTO, etc…workloads constantly increasing, budget cuts, no progression, it’s just become an awful place to work.

[@andgoedu]

AT&T customer service has been moved to Egypt , I know because I was offered a job there let me tell you I didn't even bother going from the negative comments both the clients and even the agents had 😂😂

[@RancidDragonProductions]

It's been a terrible place to work for a very long time. You can thank your CWA for that. They've never bothered to fix anything, and they fold during contract negotiations every time they should win. They figured out that if they give the lower paid workers inside a tiny raise, they are far more in number and then they can screw over the people who actually do the heavy lifting for the company. The Union allows it every contract season.

[@jermainemyrn19]

You self taught?

[@sech1243]

@@jermainemyrn19 cs degree.

[@sech1243]

@@jermainemyrn19 Cs degree

[@PeterT-i1w]

When you lay off people, you can chose which one to fire; the overpaid, underperforming, too old, etc But when you are pushing RTO you have no control over who will quit; it will be most likely your best talent who can easily get a remote job elsewhere.

[@MathewLewit]

Cool and all, but that will not show on quarterly report. What will is immediate reduction in costs and hence higher profit. Short term gain, long term disaster, but Mr. Stinky does not give a ...

[@brianviktor8212]

Nope. The "best talent" cannot easily get a remote job elsewhere. Unless you make hundreds of applications and have a stellar CV (like the goodest of boys), you'll struggle to even speak to a single person. In my case, I decided to take my time and skills, and work on my own project.

[@aar0n709]

Remote jobs aren’t plentiful anymore the best talent elsewhere already has them.

[@PeterT-i1w]

@@brianviktor8212 If you worked in an industry for any length of time, you should have a professional network who can directly refer you. If you don't, then you are probably not as talented as you think you are.

[@evanaltman9286]

Do you *honestly* believe that the "top talent" doesn't get some kind of exemption or exception or accommodation, either express or implied? They know who they want to keep and who they want to get rid of.

[@tkordik]

MAKE THEM FIRE YOU

[@genx7006]

Don't worry, they will (fire you) eventually.

[@Funyoutubevideos-z9s]

@@genx7006and you!😂

[@HaggisMuncher-69-420]

@@genx7006 Yep and then they are forced to pay unemployment

[@hammbannana1038]

@@genx7006 yeah.. that's the point.

[@justinwhite2725]

Or check with a lawyer if this counts as constructive dismissal.

[@alphaomega1351]

I told y'all this would happen. The last thing the C-suite wants is flexibility, efficiency, and productivity for the employees and the organization. It's all about power and control with these psychopaths. 🤓

[@k.chriscaldwell4141]

You are wise. Very.

[@johnnyng8527]

Psychopaths until people revolt

[@RandomPeasant123]

Nailed it! They value domination and control over money.

[@kingartifex]

​@@johnnyng8527noone will revolt, people will just gradually get poorer and start living on the street

[@need-to-know-]

That’s why there’s no outcry over what happened on 12/4/2024 in Manhattan.

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

The irony of his last name being stankey

[@cashmere109]

😂 this is honestly hilarious!

[@ChipsMcClive]

I seriously thought it was an edit 😂

[@YouMissedBro]

Remind me of the exec from Jaguar being Raw[don G]lover

[@neilmcdougall4927]

Sounds like a brasseye pseudonym

[@maryhobbs4183]

Stanley came from my old network unit. He was a good guy. Shi# happens.

[@jermainemyrn19]

I hate the way corporations are structured and operate. Life isn't supposed to be this way.

[@need-to-know-]

Thank you! After a few years in these environments, it makes me wonder if we are better off building our own homes and growing our own food, and part time work to pay necessary bills for a comfortable life.

[@GirtonOramsay]

@@need-to-know- I'm been trying to figure out where I can live on part time min wage work for some time now thanks to this new hell of a job market, but not many places that isn't just the middle of nowhere with no real jobs. Only a rural college town seems viable, where you work at the university.

[@MereAYT]

The legal entity of the corporation has ruined the world.

[@DavidTector]

@@MereAYT Absolute ignorance, as you type from your computer utilizing the network effect of the internet. And all that food that just spawns at the grocery store... Life is just so awful because of "evil corporations". And all because, people are unhappy that they can get fired... You are welcome to live off the land and not enjoy society. You can start immediately lol

[@MereAYT]

@DavidTector We could have achieved all of that and so much more through worker collectives in the absence of publicly-traded corporations. The drive to maximize shareholder value at any cost only stands in the way of progress.

[@kevenpinder7025]

If they are trying to shoehorn 1200 people into a 120 desk space, isnt anybody calling the Fire Marshall? Im sure the space has an Occupancy Limit. Go over it and the Fire Dept will help them rethink this.

[@TheJase8566]

Damn fine idea

[@10speed4]

AT&T owns MANY thousands of buildings, this is just another ploy for clicks. However, AT&T definitely isn’t the “look after your employees” company they use to be. I retired from them in 2019 and I refuse to pay for any of their services. I don’t even use them as a phone service provider, I use xfinity.

[@CarimboHanky]

desk space has nothing to do with building capacity... i can have a empty warehouse with 1 desk and 6 people assigned to that warehouse 🤷‍♂️ its all about making it stressful for the empoyees.

[@need-to-know-]

@@CarimboHankyperhaps I should remind you that the video indicated people sitting in the hallways and cafeteria.

[@ABQSentinel]

That's a great idea!

[@LibreGlider]

Sounds like they're violating fire code occupancy codes.

[@CoralNeon-nk6vf]

It really is a violation of fire code. Someone should call the fire Marshall

[@Jupiterfunk]

Yes most definitely

[@chm9935]

@@LibreGlider a company i had temped for yrs ago got in trouble for that. They had a deadline of 6 months to fix it or they were being shut down

[@need-to-know-]

@@chm9935Yes get them to shut it down. Shut it down! Shut it down!

[@chm9935]

@@need-to-know- It was but bc the company sold the bldg and laid off the people in it.

[@cabc74]

A company whose business is to connect people in different locations... what a paradox.

[@trumpetbob15]

Same with Amazon and AWS. They keep saying, "We need you in the office." Well, I'm hoping some of their customers realize if people are best in the office, so too should data and stop using the "cloud." Uh oh, bye bye Amazon revenue!

[@GuitarsAndSynths]

@@trumpetbob15 irony at work

[@DavidTector]

@@trumpetbob15 That makes zero sense... Because amazon cloud allows people in the office to focus on their companies objectives to their product. Any team a company can afford to hire to deal with data warehouse operations will be infinitely less capable than Amazon, a company that lives or dies by the success of their cloud. Working remotely and outsourcing an incredibly fragile, costly business venture in it's own right are two entirely different things. It's the same in all industries. Take the gaming industry for example. Maintaining in house game engines is getting to hard to keep up with demands by gamers. Especially as the code bases grow ever larger coupled with employee turnover requiring new people with zero knowledge to work on a behemoth. All game studios are turning to outsourcing this task to companies dedicated to game engine development that live and die by the success of their engine. But by your logic, maybe we should allow remote work again and just let indians all work remotely from India and lay off people who have lost the plot, like you. At least they seem to understand the deal. A lot of people born in America are losing the plot. Your take is completely biased. If it was best companies would be doing that... I can promise you that. And I'd bet everything I have on it.

[@ordinaryavgguy]

My last job we worked remotely since Covid. New CEO championed it when he first came in. Few months later he demands RTO, then me and hundreds other get laid off. I really don't care what happens to these people at this point.

[@xHelloSushix]

my place said Amazon, Google and the top dogs are doing it, so we must too 👎

[@GamerGee]

Blame the demon Elon musk for pushing this.

[@HueyFreeman-l7m]

​@@GamerGeeagreed. He's a corporatist disguising himself as "MAGA"

[@eaglesfan109]

​​@@GamerGee and Jamie Dimon at JP Morgan Chase

[@justanothercommentercarryo8367]

Luigi needs to call in the Super Mario cast in for clean up on aisle CEO

[@nathancarranza9860]

Josh, been following you for years. You have idea how happy it makes me to see you succeed bro despite never having met you in person. May God continue blessing you brother.

[@Ragnar452]

The fun fact is that the first people leaving are the high performers since they have a ton of options. They are left with the lazy people who won't find another job. What makes them think the low performers will quit?

[@MathewLewit]

They don't care. CEO has pay tied to stock options for a few quarters. In that time, decrease in quality will not show, but cost reduction and subsequent rise in profit will, which will inflate the stock price as most investors look only at Profits and Losses change and price the change immediately. Quarter to quarter mindset.

[@AnthonyBenderBender]

Lots of DEI and Offshoring going on. It is a Zombie Ship at ATT.

[@Anthony-dj4nd]

😂

[@polyticks04]

Be ballsy - setup your workspace in an executives office.

[@mutiny_on_the_bounty]

Park in VIP too!

[@GuitarsAndSynths]

and microwave fish

[@nwatson2773]

@@GuitarsAndSynths And popcorn

[@FreeKekistann]

@@GuitarsAndSynths😂

[@ConradCreel]

Just don't go. Make them fire you. Collect unemployment anyway

[@JoshuaFluke1]

It will uno reverse and because you can't come to work you are the quitter.

[@OO-il6sl]

Go to work, dont work ​@@JoshuaFluke1

[@need-to-know-]

@@JoshuaFluke1Then go there and do job hunting on their time and location?

[@jazziez6467]

Retired att here, they've been forcing folks out since the 80s, they are pros at it and back at one of my many surpluses they downgrade you and send you 35 or so miles from home and you have to pass tests for a lower job.

[@Grombrindal91]

My last job did this. I think they assumed I wouldn't relocate across the usa. Once I agreed I was put on a PIP, or rather they told me once I relocated I'd be put on a PIP???? Weird, after never having a poor performance review too.

[@eXclusive1]

Bro they want you gone. Start looking elsewhere immediately.

[@evanaltman9286]

If youre told to RTO, you're laid off. "but but but" no, you're laid off. You can dance the dance and you might beat it back for a little while, but eventually, they're gonna get you

[@RandomPeasant123]

They are such ruthless gaslighting psychos.

[@aerialdarkguy]

Im so glad i called BS on my company's RTO policy. I havent gone into the office in months and never had any issues.

[@athomewithrobin292]

I received a 2 day mandate bc my boss is a mocromanager and wants to see me every once and a while

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

Remote work has been proven to boost morale and workflow, But you can abuse your authority if employees are at home

[@Jupiterfunk]

They don't care. This is about asserting dominance over their work force.

[@BarfingGerbil]

If the employees are at home, they can be looking for other gigs too. If the employer gets nasty or violates your policies about employer conduct, fire the employer and pick up your next gig.

[@JamesSmith-ij8nj]

Other than those that mow the lawn during the workday. Yup, and he forgot his cell.. His manager found out and... no more work from home..

[@MrBrewman95]

I’m so happy I can work remote.

[@ShotgunWizard]

Same here, been working from home for 15 years. I’m never going back to an open space office nightmare. I’d take a 50k pay cut if need be Sorry John Stinky

[@HaggisMuncher-69-420]

Same. It started when my wife was pregnant and I had to move too far to commute to the office Give the directors an option to either allow me to work remote or I'll have to hand in my notice there and then. That was nearly three years ago - only have to go into the office one week a year for some event they like to hold which I can deal with.

[@MarktheRude]

Lucky, wish I could work remote.

[@Mr.Majestic77]

So layoff federal government employees with over 50% of fully remote federal employees being veterans of the United States Navy/Army/National Guard/Air Force/Marines/Coast Guard who served their country, and possibly making them and their families homeless???? As far as I know VEOA (Veterans Employment Opportunity Act) and VRA Veterans Recruitment Appointment Act) are both federal protected.

[@TheScrubmuffin69]

I work for at&t, technically it's an authorized retailer not at&t itself but it's the worst job I've ever had. Every salesman is a scammer and lies about everything.

[@DarknessFalls29]

Oh yeah? What do they lie about?

[@MegaGliders]

I installed residential service for AT&T and can confirm it’s an awful company to work for

[@invisibleloveone]

I had the same experience with Verizon as a sales rep fresh out of college. Also, side not the reception sucked in the store which is hilarious because I had an At&t mobile service and my phone worked fine. Can you hear me now?

[@Jupiterxice]

Smh RTO is outdated mindset.

[@TheJosephWhitehouse]

I’m so glad to be out of that place, thanks for calling them out!

[@TuPapi2014]

I hate the "No one wants to work" BS. It's not that people don't want to work it's that people have finally woken up to the fact that no one wants to work for a trash salary and or wage with absolutely way to retire me personally I'll probably die before I ever see a single cent from my Social Security personally speaking from experience I'm an armed security guard working here in Puerto Rico and I have to always risk my life protecting rich people's property as well as business properties as well as corporations making a measly trash $10 an hour in 2024 while also having to work the graveyard shift which is night shift this is the reason why my health is getting bad and I'm also overweight because breaking night has literally destroyed my internal clock I sleep at the wrong times and eat at the wrong times. Security for any company sucks no matter where you are in the world!!!!

[@chm9935]

Im gen x. I was born late 1970s. I find myself cheering on things like ghosting interviewers and quitting jobs abruptly bc of employer trash bag behavior. Most of gen x, y, and z know they aint seeing soc sec.

[@arat2376]

Sorry man. Empty words but do try to keep your fitness up. Peas arent too expensive, im not sure whats the cheapest non trash meat down there

[@theneonpython]

its not too late to switch to a trade and make some more money. go to trade school, start an apprenticeship, develop a skill, start your own independent contracting company

[@neilmcdougall4927]

​@@chm9935as a fellow late Xer 0 decency all around eh

[@jaaguitar]

4 to a desk. Think of the collaboration!

[@goBadgers1995right]

1200 people. 6 toilets. Let the games begin.

[@timwhite8500]

Think of the farts.

[@YouMissedBro]

Still waiting on any actual evidence RTO makes employees "more efficient"

[@auraspersonal]

it's funny you mention that. I'm an AT&T employee and during a Q&A with one of the SVP's someone asked whether there was actual data on that. the SVP then went on to say "yes we have data but we won't show you" followed by "no we don't have data actually and dont see a point in getting it" and finished with an emotional tirade that concluded with "if you don't like it, then leave". so yeah, not a great place to work.

[@turnopsverdsen9578]

The studies universally reveal the opposite so they just get ignored lol

[@flguy6807]

My niece just experienced this firsthand last year. She worked for a transportation company in N Carolina. Was remote and the company told remote workers they needed all staff back at the office. Roughly 20% quit. No severance package or unemployment since they voluntary separated. I think you will see a lot of this in the future.

[@blahblahblah-uw4uf]

No. Workers need to force the companies to fire them.

[@flguy6807]

@@blahblahblah-uw4uf Niece said company policy was if fired no sick/vacation time accrued was paid. If they resigned, they got it.

[@blahblahblah-uw4uf]

@@flguy6807 that depends on state laws.

[@charliedallachie3539]

@@blahblahblah-uw4ufunfortunately that’s allowed in a lot of states. I was terminated and my 4 weeks of accrued PTO was denied. They even tried to fight unemployment but I won luckily.

[@blahblahblah-uw4uf]

@@charliedallachie3539 Yeah it’s unfortunate, but glad to hear you won the unemployment. It looks like these are the states where it’s required by law for companies to pay out any accrued PTO: • California • Colorado • Illinois • Indiana • Louisiana • Maine • Maryland • Massachusetts • Montana • Nebraska • New Mexico • North Dakota • Rhode Island • West Virginia

[@commander0zero]

It's not just the RTO at AT&T its that they literally didn't allow people to work from locations where they started their career even if it was a main hub. Let me explain. AT&T as constituted today is actually several companies merged together. So many long time employees were hired at certain locations and have always been there. These are not as bootlickers on the internet claim people who just decided to move to the boondocks during covid. AT&T decided to relocate their job they accepted in the current locations years ago to locations across the country and literally wouldn't let them work in the perfectly fine office they were in. Keep in mind there were zero moving packages and even if there were one why would you uproot for a company that surpluses people by the thousands regularly? Where they couldn't get away with this tactic they stuffed people in locations where there are more people than literal seats and provide the bare minimum. This is an issue that carried over from Hybrid and they did absolutely nothing about. What's even worse is many times they deny letting people go to say a CO that had admin space (cubicles) that is closer to their home even when none of their team is where they are assigned. This isn't ATT employees just crying or being lazy this is a guy like Stankey (who doesn't have to fight to find a seat in the morning) on purpose making it difficult to do what he says he wants done.

[@YESITSWILL]

This is what my company did way back in 2019. Anyone within 400 miles of a company facility or a partner facility was required to RTO. Yep many people left. Ironically, one of my directors was promoted to VP a couple of years earlier by shutting down an entire building and implementing WFH saving the company $10M/year.

[@echtogammut]

AT&T stock is down over 7%, I guess he's not added enough value to make the shareholders happy. I think is time we optimize the CEO role to realign with the new synergies stemming from AI.

[@CC-gu3ze]

Compare AT&T stock to the S&P 500 or any other telecom for the past 20 years. It is ugly. Bad company, bad leadership. It is a shame because they bought out a lot of good companies and then destroyed them.

[@JSANDFS1]

You lose so much money with T in your portfolio, doo doo stock. Look at 20 years growth. Pathetic

[@nairblooc]

Stank is the reason AT&T is in the financial mess they are in. Failed TMO buyout, Warner Communications buy, Directv buy. He’s helped spend their money like a crackhead.

[@prs44]

more like a kennedy in a topless bar

[@bb5242]

They also bought Akamai, another pos product

[@turnopsverdsen9578]

And this moron gets paid MILLIONS while the people who actually work get fired and starve. Just another member of our worthless untalented nepo neo-aristocracy who couldn’t work a day of a real job

[@Tobybunz]

The video push was not Stanley, it was Randall Stevenson.

[@Bodom1978]

Keep pushing the working class, I'm sure this will end well for those in positions of power.

[@_andry]

If everyone would say no, this nonsense would not even be an issue; so long there are ones that comply with this kind of nonsense, they will continue to make life miserable for people

[@georgerafa5041]

There's a lot of things I don't like about working in healthcare but we have zero reason to do RTO, if anything they're kicking us out of our hospitals to create more patient rooms. I'm very thankful for my job and how chill it's been about WFH.

[@TheJase8566]

Screw “working in the cafeteria”. Turn up, tell bossmang there is no seat. Do no work, just chat shit and chill all day

[@VonCroy-y2p]

If you're showing up to work, but doing a poor performance, they can fire you and deny you unemployment.

[@CowToes]

​@@VonCroy-y2pmeh, it's easy to fake it til you make it. You sound like a CEO.

[@_JonJon_]

Dude I remember I worked for AT&T… bro .. im never doin that shiit again.. it was the worst company I have ever worked for.. I remember when I worked sales, they didn’t train me on OPUS(the system used to help handle customers plans, buy services etc) in other words, the main system.. And they would literally get mad at me for not being able to keep up with sales… like .. the manager dead ass told me “If you were to quit right now we would have to pay you and your free to go , you can take your money and leave if you wanted” , because he was trying to get me to quit since I wasn’t keeping up. How tf you not go teach me the system, then get mad when I’m not doing good in sales as everyone else .. that’s like throwing somebody into war without any type of training, expecting them to be able to perform the same task as trained militia.. tf .. okay so .. Ramp up is what sales employees get the first few months because AT&T says they “understand” new employees might now be able to keep up with sales so they help with with commission by giving ramp up blah blah blah … bro .. so you mean to tell me.. they have things in place for new employees because you know they probably won’t be able to make the amount of sales needed.. but now you’re yelling at me and mad and want me to leave because I’m not keeping up with sales ?? Lmaooooo .. Yo wtf .. I left without officially quitting because that yelling shiit got out of hand .. since it wasn’t official, and I was a union employee, they gave me ramp up for the next three months even though I wasn’t there 😂😂 .. bro I’m done .. fuk AT&T and John Stankey old dusty ass ..

[@phd_angel]

A big corporation I worked for used RTO as a backdoor layoff of remote workers like me. After 4 years at the company, I suddenly became a "poor" performer. I resigned the same day they put me on a PIP. I decided that one extra month of soul sucking in hell was not worth any severance.

[@glanemann]

I'm one of those employees that was laid off because of the AT&t return to office policy. Except they got me in the first wave in 2023. The rest of my team was in the second wave and I'm not sure if any of them are even left. I only had one out of my 14 team members that actually lived in the right place. Everyone else retired or probably has been let go by now.

[@madmerlot841]

Have fun if the office is in the bad part of town. In my case we used to have a commissary in the building but that's gone. Enjoy bringing a lunch or eating eat out (or skipping lunch and leaving early). Waking up at pre-dawn hours to have a reasonable commute will be fun!

[@leeb.7188]

I was ordered back into commuting to the office because the city complained that they weren’t getting tax money from employees buying lunch and coffee downtown. So yes, I have to commute but I don’t spend a penny there. I bring my own lunch and coffee from home! F*** them; I’m not playing their game!

[@twiston43]

It should be illegal to not have enough desks for all employees.

[@mellowfieldsmusic]

best way to boycott- change providers. I am no longer an AT and T customer.

[@Aangrox]

And this is what created the Luigi Mangione mentality. Unchallenged power at its best.

[@goBadgers1995right]

Excited to see who the next Luigi will be!

[@gghacks5013]

We need a Luigi bat signal

[@GamerGee]

More luigis coming

[@scroatymcboogerballs8554]

Lmao…not condoning it but it is absolutely going to continue

[@justanothercommentercarryo8367]

start encouraging security guards to join in on the cause, it would be a REALLY good way to tell them what's up.

[@Electronzap]

Companies want you to build something, and then when it is done, they want you gone while cheap labor builds the next thing.

[@blahblahblah-uw4uf]

Exactly 💯

[@LibreGlider]

While my employ is "Right to Work", I still have my offer letters state that my position is remote. So when I refuse to RTO, I'll at least have something to fight back with. If its with my manager or with HR, I can point to that. If my unemployment claim is ever challenged, I have the letter. But it's likely I'll be assigned a task that's designed to fail, be put on a PIP and let go in 60 - 90 days. Stay Overemployed folls. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

[@johnwatts3862]

My last company did this, jokes on HR, ever HR person there got laid off after they finished firing the people who didn’t return to office.

[@RandomPeasant123]

It's not HR's fault. HR doesn't care, they are just following orders. It's the executives who call the shots.

[@begood-2U]

Whenever a person in authority starts a sentence with "look"... stop listening immediately!

[@tonystanley5337]

In the UK, if a desk wasn't provided for computer based work you could probably leave and claim unfair dismissal, and get compensation.

[@SteveMichael]

A LONG time ago (decades), I worked at a company as an I.T. Operations guy. We just bought a new building and I was in the planning meetings and discussing seating. One of my coworkers said "We don't have enough seats. We have 1700 employees and we only have 1500 cubes/seats". The management didn't miss a beat. Dude just said that they had enough seats and not to worry about it. My coworker didn't get it at first.... I just nudged him and told him we would talk about it after the meeting. In the end we had empty cubes in the new building. My guess is that they silently laid off around 300 people. It was weird because there wasn't any formal announcement or chatter about it.

[@dallasmove537]

As someone who's been through this, let me tell you how it goes. The young, the well-educated, and the high performers will all leave. They have options. The barnacles, the layabouts, the noxious do-nothings will hang on for dear life. The result? An entire company staffed with indolent, cognitively inert, technologically illiterate pre-retirees. If you think AT&T is bad now -- just wait.

[@enriquejavier8056]

The fundamental problem in the US is that our companies by law are supposed to do everything they can to raise the price of the stock, and nothing else matters. That has to change.

[@Jupiterfunk]

Theu need to ban stock manipulation. This has been destroying the economy. Artificially inflating stock price is going to blow back big time.

[@stevepreskitt283]

Stock buybacks *were* banned for this very reason until 1982. Lots of other stuff that previously worked towards the greater good got changed around that time, too.

[@CowToes]

​@@stevepreskitt283boomers killed the greater good when they crawled out of whatever shitbox they came from.

[@seansettgast5699]

Josh, thanks to you (and others), I try to be on the look-out for corporate rot. To anyone out there who works for a corporation, once you start seeing corporate rot, understand: unless you're the c-suite, it does NOT get better. It ONLY gets worse. View the symptoms as red flags at your company that will continue to grow in severity and number over time, and either start implementing an exit strategy to something better or accept it as a part of life in a corporation.

[@1SevenFive]

The execs can afford to have someone else clean, cook, do laundry, and cut the grass, whether it’s an outside hire or a spouse who doesn’t need to work. The time saved for the average person working remotely is invaluable and allows them to get things done during time they would have otherwise wasted commuting.

[@VoldemortsMissingNose]

Stankey gets to be chauffeured to work, meanwhile he's forcing tens of thousands of worker to waste their own time driving to the office every single day.

[@1SevenFive]

@ apparently he made $26m in 2023. Wow.

[@jlogan2228]

the only people who actually want to return to the office are the people who work is all they have in life and they HAVE to be in an office to feel fulfilled.

[@vttklazer]

CEOs are garbage

[@AmericatheBeautiful-p4z]

Old news. Wait until they hire you back but your paycheck is from an ln'dian consulltancy. _No OT, no benefits, no leave, no holidays_ and your salary is skimmed because you are working for an ln'dian contractor. Been there, done that! Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha.

[@ALifeWellSteved]

I remember when Quiksilver did this after they acquired DC shoes. First told all the DC people that lived in San Diego they could work remotely then suddenly changed policy to see who they could chop. People either quit or were made redundant.

[@leeb.7188]

No way I would quit. I’d make them fire me so I can get unemployment. And I’m going to cancel my AT&T account. There are other companies to choose from that don’t treat their employees so disrespectfully.

[@TheSmark666]

"strengthen our connections..." has nothing to do with working. "foster a vibrant culture..." has nothing to do with working. "achieve our shared goals..." *might* have something to do with working but is too vague to know for sure.

[@blahblahblah-uw4uf]

Exactly lol. And they can never give specific or tangible examples for any of the buzzwords they try to use.

[@thomascardwell8117]

My dad was laid off because he refused RTO; he has worked from home for 15 years

[@coffeebeardtv]

they are hiring alot in mexico for att. the entire SASO team of att is in guadalajara mexico and they work remote. i hope trump tariffs mexico to bring those jobs back to the usa.

[@cadcad-jm3pf]

At some point all these corporations decided they don't need Americans/Canadians anymore. Mexico, SEA, India are booming - thousands of jobs are opening there, while hundreds are closing here every quarter. If it wasn't for regulatory requirements, the would just fire everyone in the US and move their HQ to a cheaper country.

[@tawnygirl2000]

The incoming administration favors the billionaire class, so whatever is good for corporate donors is double-good for the proletariat.

[@LauraSnow-in3nx]

They need to be reported to OSHA. Are those desks on the hallway safe to use? How about the tables on the cafeteria?? Is it compliant with guidelines regarding fire safety??

[@NickOloteo]

I used to work for Amazon. They have a slack channel with almost 37k against RTO and now tons of people are quitting.

[@ABQSentinel]

We need a class action lawsuit. After decades of labor law established what you can and can't do to employees, in terms of working conditions, this can't possible be legal.

[@DigiModelsdfz]

great content thanks

[@MiasmaTazma]

Look at this Goomba. It'd be terrible if Mario were to extract some coins.

[@gh00stbeard]

We told y'all not to shut the economy down & give people checks for 2 years. We told you there would be hell to pay on the back end. You asked for it.

[@vf1923]

Another company mainly in the stock hype business. "What do you sell?" "Hype, baby!"

[@JoshuaFluke1]

hey look they do more than that, they are facilitating ai baby

[@umbreon37]

@@JoshuaFluke1 on one of the first rounds of layoffs they fired the #1 guy pioneering an att internal generative ai tool. Insane!

[@philiparonson8315]

Yes, RTO is an attrition strategy, not an efficiency strategy.

[@RaidenSetsuna]

Best part about this is that they are forcing their repair contractors to do "tech support" from home and sell their add on insurance. Something that those repair techs weren't doing until the pandemic. The repair techs became sales reps and now they are going to introduce PIPS to sales.

[@erikpollard9458]

I had DSL through AT&T, and it was horrible. Like worse than dialup. I went all the way to corporate to get them to either fix the DSL or install fiber and I was told by Stanky's assistant, very rudely, that they were NEVER going to put fiber in my neighborhood and to just kick rocks.

[@l.baughman1445]

Two words: Constructive Firing

[@edavis5451]

If my company decides to RTO, I will not quit. They will have to fire me. Commuting is so unproductive.

[@rustym.shackelford5546]

This is why I am volunteering for humanitarian support. I need a break from the job-market.

[@latteARCH]

I love how the CEO always directed the answers about success, numbers, and vision but never about stuff on the ground like the day-to-day experience of workers and consumers. Shows where the care actually is.

[@Sarah_lieve_meisje]

This video is so awesome! I laughed so hard, my phone almost cried!

[@dangerzzzone2925]

Reminds me of my job. I ended up leaving but my job was necessary and so was the other person on my team who was leaving. And they had to hire someone to replace me anyway 😂😂 most of the RTO people leaving were people who they couldn't replace anyway 😂😂 I was already underpaid but stayed to be remote. Now they would need to pay someone market rate. I was getting 98k as a senior but someone with my role should be getting 125-150k. 😂

[@jackblog-k7m]

If my job suddenly becomes RTO I won’t quit, but I certainly won’t go in.

[@HealingSwordsman]

Sit in the hallway? How is that legal?

[@peterfmodel]

I remember many years ago when IBM wanted to dismiss a long term manager but balked at the redundancy costs. This was a long time ago where companies gave employees 1 or 2 weeks for each year worked. Instead of dismissing him they made him a receptionist at a distant location, still in the same city but about 20 km away from his old office. I use to go to this office and saw him sitting behind the reception desk reading a book for many months before some negotiated redundancy was agreed and he disappeared. He still wore his dark blue suit until the end.

[@MegaGliders]

I worked for AT&T years ago, it’s an absolutely trash company to work for

[@bb5242]

every corporation sucks these days

[@williambreeden4805]

Workers have re-structured their entire lives based on hybrid or WFH. Think child care or elder care issues. And this issue is only going to get more prominent. Thank God my age starts with a "6" and I don't have to play this game much longer. I feel really bad for younger people trying to juggle life and work nowadays. More power to young workers for standing up to this nonsense. It's about time.

[@daleyfamily2179]

I would just play the game and come in and sit on the toilet till my laptop died. Go in my car and take a nap etc. They would have to fire me. I will win the war lol.

[@PSOpwnage]

these companies have mastered getting around giving people unemployment

[@visibletoallusers3793]

Someone needs to sue these guys for not having enough seats which causes loss of employee's productivity thus endangering the employee's job *someone that does not have anything to lose*

[@justincapable]

My company pushed for an RTO option, but I chose to stay remote. I have 26 weeks of paid severance saved up.

[@KodiAdmin]

They called us back to the office and I haven't returned. I'm still waiting to get fired lol

[@ixiahj]

Isn't there a law that states companies are required to provide humane working spaces for their employees or something?

[@MathewLewit]

In US, not really, or yes, but it revolves mostly about workplace safety. Over-occupation is however safety hazard. In EU, that would not fly in general as Labour Laws and Hygiene centre stipulates that you need to provide accommodation for employees (also area wise per employee) and they would put stop to that non-sense on day one.

[@ixiahj]

@@MathewLewit Based on the video, it sounded like companies wants to fit a thousand workers in a 150 capacity building. That has to be a violation of some sort.

[@Cadebayo1]

I remember when people were arguing with me that RTO was because of real estate…Ahhhh! I wish companies were that strategic

[@evanaltman9286]

150 desks for 1200 people means that we want to layoff about 1050 of you

[@deiterwakes1907]

It's like a big game of musical chairs and the music has stopped.

[@sunnyskys2428]

You're awesome!!!❤

[@Scott_T_]

Is the CEO in the office 5 days per week?

[@spidalack]

Honestly, share holders should sue the C suit over RTO. Lower productivity and wasting money on office space that is not needed.

[@jwetzel3141]

Sick days will kick up massively. Then a new pandemic and they’ll make us work from home again. Just wait.