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And AT&T's CEO Just Made It Official.....
It's an interesting read, and a fascinating insight into how AT&T CEO John Stankey sees his employees. Basically, slaves who need to work their asses of for nothing but a paycheck.' The old quid pro quo where you worked for the company and went above and beyond when needed, and in return the company was loyal to you has been put to bed for all to see. It's not every day that a CEO's 2,500-word response to an employee engagement survey goes viral but this one did. AT&D did an engagement survey and Stankey apparently didn't like the results and lashed out at his frustrated employees. The article itself is good, the memo by Stankey is revealing....he's basically making it very plain that all the longheld norms around workplace loyalty are gone.....
Stankey says his workers deserve a transparent career path, a functional office, and the proper tools to do their jobs - but a funcional office and the tools are all givens that aren't even worth a mention. As for a transparent career patth, I've been working 12 years and I've never seen that. Every promotion or change I've got in 12 years has been because I applied for another job and changed employers. LOL.
Personally, I don't see anything new here. It just articulates it and makes it plain that as an employee, you gotta say fuck the company, what's in it for me, and do whatever you need to do to secure the job skills, training, experience and whatever else you need to go find that next job and move sideways for more money, or upwards, or out and into something new, depending on your own goals. Which is what I do. As an employee, forget loyalty, forget doing what's best for the company - do what's best for you personally and if that conincides with the employers goals, thats fine. But always put numero uno first. Skipping vacation time? Forget it? Extra hours? Don't be silly. Take work home? You gotta be kidding me.
I have to say, in 12 years I've seen enough really good people terminated due to "cost reductions" and all the other bullshit that now I tell newbies to start looking for another job as soon as they have 2 years under their belt, and plan to change jobs at least once every 4 years. As soon as you stay too long, you start to get into a rut and and if you're aid off, it becomes harder and harder to find a new job the longer you sit there. I've averaged one job every 3 years and right now I am looking around for the next one after almost 3 years in the same employer and role. Time to move......THAT is what Stankey is basically saying should be the norm.
Works for me, but it's really not what a lot of people want, is it, and I see it as being detrimental to society overalll. How nay people can live with that kind of instability?
Stankey says a lot of things that make sense, and he's putting the company first and foremost, which after all, is his job, but there's a tradeoff between the company and employee's, and Stanket throws a lot of whats meaningful to many employees out the window. To me, all that means is, any employee has to put their own interests first all the time. And no one should be committed to remaining with any employer longer than 3-4 years max. Thats my take anyhow. What do you guys think.
https://www.businessinsider.com/att...il-employee-feedback-survey-rto-policy-2025-8
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/car...S&cvid=bc5f6b99df7644518422aa742b317d5d&ei=36
It's an interesting read, and a fascinating insight into how AT&T CEO John Stankey sees his employees. Basically, slaves who need to work their asses of for nothing but a paycheck.' The old quid pro quo where you worked for the company and went above and beyond when needed, and in return the company was loyal to you has been put to bed for all to see. It's not every day that a CEO's 2,500-word response to an employee engagement survey goes viral but this one did. AT&D did an engagement survey and Stankey apparently didn't like the results and lashed out at his frustrated employees. The article itself is good, the memo by Stankey is revealing....he's basically making it very plain that all the longheld norms around workplace loyalty are gone.....
Stankey says his workers deserve a transparent career path, a functional office, and the proper tools to do their jobs - but a funcional office and the tools are all givens that aren't even worth a mention. As for a transparent career patth, I've been working 12 years and I've never seen that. Every promotion or change I've got in 12 years has been because I applied for another job and changed employers. LOL.
Personally, I don't see anything new here. It just articulates it and makes it plain that as an employee, you gotta say fuck the company, what's in it for me, and do whatever you need to do to secure the job skills, training, experience and whatever else you need to go find that next job and move sideways for more money, or upwards, or out and into something new, depending on your own goals. Which is what I do. As an employee, forget loyalty, forget doing what's best for the company - do what's best for you personally and if that conincides with the employers goals, thats fine. But always put numero uno first. Skipping vacation time? Forget it? Extra hours? Don't be silly. Take work home? You gotta be kidding me.
I have to say, in 12 years I've seen enough really good people terminated due to "cost reductions" and all the other bullshit that now I tell newbies to start looking for another job as soon as they have 2 years under their belt, and plan to change jobs at least once every 4 years. As soon as you stay too long, you start to get into a rut and and if you're aid off, it becomes harder and harder to find a new job the longer you sit there. I've averaged one job every 3 years and right now I am looking around for the next one after almost 3 years in the same employer and role. Time to move......THAT is what Stankey is basically saying should be the norm.
Works for me, but it's really not what a lot of people want, is it, and I see it as being detrimental to society overalll. How nay people can live with that kind of instability?
Stankey says a lot of things that make sense, and he's putting the company first and foremost, which after all, is his job, but there's a tradeoff between the company and employee's, and Stanket throws a lot of whats meaningful to many employees out the window. To me, all that means is, any employee has to put their own interests first all the time. And no one should be committed to remaining with any employer longer than 3-4 years max. Thats my take anyhow. What do you guys think.
https://www.businessinsider.com/att...il-employee-feedback-survey-rto-policy-2025-8
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/car...S&cvid=bc5f6b99df7644518422aa742b317d5d&ei=36
