Posted on 03/26/2008 6:41:43 PM PDT by RDTF
Maybe they wouldn’t be short of manpower if AT&T hadn’t laid off people by the thousands so they could pay the CEO’s compensation package.
Oh it’ll be just fine . The chief lobbyist will send his aide de camp over to the hallowed hall & kiss enough cottage cheese ass and whalla ! No more problem .
Chief Executive Randall Stephenson <— As for this smug jackass , you are the reason I pull down a 6 figure net profit paycheck . On the 1 hand thank you for pissing me off .
On the other .. I can feel for the poor bright eyed people behind me .
Thousands, huh? That must mean he makes billions. You guys are funny.
Most companies spend months and large sums of cash trying to hire the right CEO. Good CEOs can command such good salaries *because* they’re good.
Thanks for insulting mine and most of my friends children.
That article just broke my B.S. meter.
Quit it with that Thomas Sowell propaganda! Don’t think, REACT!
” it was having trouble finding enough skilled workers to fill all the 5,000 customer service jobs at what they feel like paying.”
After reading the article I was going to make the exact same comment. Looks like you beat me to it.
really? Are you unaware of AT&T’s layoff procedures or are you just playing dumb?
They find unskilled CEOs all the time. And give them the job. And then a year or two later give them a multi-million dollar severance package after they've run the company into the ground.
They keep bugging me to come back. I get at least one call or email a week from a fly-by-night recruiting firm trying to suck me back into AT&T. The calls I ignore. This is how I respond to the emails:
Dear Headhunter,
My name is Disgruntled Ex-AT&T Employee.
I might possibly be convinced to go back to work in that slave pit for an enormous amount of money. I mean, really enormous. Like, say, $500K/year, with 9 weeks of vacation, full, PAID medical benefits and a company car. A Mercedes would be fine. A Hummer would be better. With a hot tub in it. And the "convincing" would still probably have to involve getting me drunk and stuffing me in a gunny sack before delivering me to the third floor of the Overlook Building. (Yes, they really did give it same name as the hotel in Steven King's "The Shining." But more on that later.)
Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "How could somebody possibly turn down an opportunity like this? With sixty hour work weeks, the constantly-changing shifts (not that it matters, since you'll get phone calls at all hours anyway), the complete lack of the possibility of promotion, the 27 layers of useless, incompetent management, the 10-year old flickering monitors and other antique equipment, the daily morale boosts of 'Work harder! We're laying people off! No bonuses this year!,' the non-existent HR department and the general resemblance to an endless, nail-studded, up-hill ramp covered in broken glass and human excrement, what's not to love?"
Well, nothing, if you're the kind of person that enjoys tazering yourself. In the genitals. In front of a webcam. While wearing bunny ears. Sorry, but that's just not me anymore. I'm really not up to returning to the kind of job that would make Sisyphus say, "You poor slob!"
While I regret that I won't be assisting you in collecting a huge commission while I go off and dash myself against the sharp, pointy rocks otherwise known as AT&T Managed Security, I do wish you luck in finding a sucker --er-- that is a willing candidate for this position. Hopefully someone with a terminal disease since at least they'll have something better to look forward to.
I'm going to go now and give my thanks to God for getting me out of there before I went entirely insane. While I'm at it, I'll say a prayer for your soul, since AT&T will be collecting it soon after you deliver a victim for this job. No AT&T is not Satan. That would require ambition. They're just the place that soul-gathering has been outsourced to.
Please don't take this personally, I know you are just doing your job and you probably have no idea what the inside of one of AT&T's Managed Services departments is really like. I understand. Before I worked there, neither did I. I didn't have gray hair or ulcers before I worked there either.
Envision a medieval dungeon. Set everyone inside on fire. Now add cheap, pre-dotcom era furnishings, add a dash of West Virginia coal mine (before child labor laws) and toss in some wall art. The kind you find in a motel with hourly rates.
Now that you have some small inkling of the hellish nightmare for which you are seeking willing victims I hope that my description will help you to do that right thing. What might that be, you ask?
Simple. Get the guy a ton of money and tell him, "Whenever you want out, just call us. We'll find you something else right away."
Then get him out of there before he buys a US Post Office uniform and starts caching weapons.
Sincerely,
The Recovering Basket Case of AT&T Managed IDS.
P.S. As much as I delight in receiving these charming offers of torture and pain, you'll probably want to take me off of your list. In fact, please do so, since seeing "Managed" and "Security" in the same sentence still makes me reach for the Maalox before breaking out in peals of near-hysterical laughter.
Sometimes, I kind of wish all these people who know better than the CEO of AT&T how to run AT&T would have their own little society to run into the ground, as it seems that’s the only way they understand how things work in the real world.
I don’t know, can you do math, or are you incapable of becoming a customer service rep at AT&T?
Anderson and Two Temps (AT&T)
Most small business owners will say the same thing. It is hard to get good employees. Skilled or not, employees should all go to work willing to work hard to earn a living. That is why people hire so many foreigners. They do the job. The truth may hurt, but schools and parents really need to do a better job. Then again, there is no greater incentive than a fear of poverty. Something most Americans will never really see.
as usual, you are living up to your obnoxious username.
But you had better deliver on the good wages. Years ago I answered an ad offering "good wages" only to discover he was offering two bits over the then minimum wage. I grabbed my application out of his hand (I think he thought I was going for his throat.) opened the door and then gave him a piece of my mind so that the other 4-5 applicants could hear. At least a couple of them followed me out.
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