AT&T workers forced to train replacements before being fired

[Ray From Cleveland]

where both Ray and I agree that globalism is fked in the head, your solution is fked in the head as well. There is no actual solution other than ridding our world of demofks.

There is a solution, but it would take unity and sacrifice to exercise it. When it comes to business, the consumer is the most powerful force. Without customers, a company goes under.

no, no, I meant there is no solution from the government. I think I have just learned the reason for the jobs that are moving out of the country from my company, the higher ups reached out for capital. Investment money.

It is unfortunate. It's also unfortunate the higher ups don't realize that any monetary savings or benefits will be eaten up in training and poor quality control.

As long as I've been using AT&T, they've had foreign customer service. It's aggravating, but U-Verse is the best cable system in the area. I've had them for about ten years now. Sometimes I get so mad because I can't understand the idiot in India, I ask to be transferred to a customer service rep in the USA, and they do it too.

BTW, direct TV is the exact same.

So is the other cable system here which was the old Time Warner outfit now called Spectrum. After AT&T bought dish network, they tried like hell to get me to switch. I refused. I hate satellite dishes. I see my neighbor with his broom in the winter trying to get to the roof to brush the snow out of it so he could watch television. During strong winds, you can't get any reception because the wind is causing the dish to rapidly move back and forth. I don't need the headache.

 

[Maxdeath]

AT&T workers have also reported the company is forcing current employees to train foreign replacements as their jobs are being outsourced.

“Some people have already trained their replacements,” said an AT&T computer programmer in New Jersey who requested to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. “We are at the whim of management. One minute we are told we will be off payroll this year, then we are told we may be off payroll first quarter of next year.”

Might have something to do with their bad business model and loosing customers hand over fist.

Then why hire foreigners to take over these jobs? According to the CEO they had great profits and hit targets etc. If they were doing badly they would just lay people off and not hire people to take those jobs.

You mean hire people for less money in an attempt to stay alive instead of just folding?
Suddenly everyone wants to believe a company is doing great simply because they say so when the numbers of subscribers shows a downturn.

 

[SmokeALib]

'A slap in the face': AT&T workers upset jobs slashed despite Trump tax cuts

So some of you were saying last week AT&T was laying off workers because other phone companies were doing better but as usual that's not correct. They are hiring foreigners in other countries AND thanks to the bullshitter in chief not clamping down on legal invasion more invaders coming to take these jobs here as well.


It was not meant to be like this. Huge tax cuts, supported by AT&T, were meant to allow companies to hire more and pay better. But instead AT&T has cut 37,818 jobs in the US from when the Trump tax cut bill first went into effect in 2018 to the end of 2019, with more than 4,000 jobs cut in the last quarter of 2019, based on the company’s quarterly reports.

The company strongly supported the tax cut bill and promised workers a $1,000 bonus ahead of the bill’s passage amid claims of a hiring spree.

The bill, passed in December 2017, cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, saving AT&T an estimated $21bn initially, with an estimated $3bn in annual savings. Despite AT&T’s promises to invest these savings back into their workforce, the company has shed employees since the bill went into effect, while capital investments have declined. In 2018, AT&T’s capital investments declined to $21.25bn, and the company announced plans to reduce it further in 2020 to $20bn, while rolling out a three-year plan to spend $30bn on stock buybacks.



overall, workers have not benefited from the Trump tax cut bill, despite several corporations claiming bonuses and wage increases were due to the bill’s passage.

“Even at the time, this was clearly nothing but PR. The economic theory linking corporate tax cuts to wage gains was never supposed to occur immediately. Instead, it runs through a long chain of economic events, starting with increased investment,” said Hunter Blair, budget analyst with the Economic Policy Institute. “Without an uptick in investment, typical workers have no chance of benefiting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. And for the first time since the Great Recession, investment has declined for three straight quarters. With investment cratering, there’s no reason to believe typical workers will see the benefits that proponents of the bill promised.”

Wow really his bullshit tax bill didn't help workers!? Shocked I tell ya!

Probably has nothing to do with bad management decisions, such as buying DirecTV and shady billing practices.