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Comments on news posted 2007-12-13 14:32:28: AT&T employees have been e-mailing us, lamenting the fact that the company has been reigning in their telecommuting policies. ..
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OLD PRO
@sbcglobal.net
| OH PUL-EASEEEEE......... The Talent at AT&T? That left a LONG time ago. Figure about 1984. Management? Yes AT&T Management is still what it always has been - MANAGEMENT - not leadership.
Management is more worried about protecting their bonuses and cash cow network. Since 1984 our network infrastructure has slipped from being the best in the world to something second class (to be kind).
A lobbyist is more valuable today than any engineer or network guru. Look at the cuts at all the companies. Network engineers and technical sales people? Long gone either by layoffs or attrition. Lobbyists? Hey protect that network. Easier to influence and legislate locked in profits than try to innovate and create a better fiber-based network. (cheaper cost too)
As to dress and demeanor - The was a time when everyone dressed for Success - blue and gray suits. No casual clothes. No slobs.
You want to be treated like a professional - act and dress like a professional. That was Arch McGill's influence in the early 1980s. If you remember him.
As for dress - Casual doesn't mean Homeless. Unfortunately some people dressed like slobs on the jobs so you reaped what you sow.
As to education - The Bell System used to train people to a point that if you could add up the classes - you had a PhD in Networking & Telecommunications. Courses were two to three weeks of solid knowledge, not like some of these paper certificates from the vendors.
At Bell Labs - you got ALL the Yourdon courses and had telephony courses at WECO's Princeton Facility among other things. If you were in that special technical marketing area in the operating companies - you went to MIT for grad courses to learn about IBM SNA and all their products.
Today's investment in people? A joke. The technical talent? A joke.
And those criticizing from a non-Bell System education - you have no idea how much training some people got. No one invested in people as the old Bell System. No ONE. Certificates today - are a joke. Sorry to burst your bubble.
No company has a corner on all the talent anymore.
As to whining about the Right-wing tone or the step backwatds = the pendulum swings both ways. Too many slackers (at every level - mid management too), creates the need to tighten the screws. I remember some account executives that were also Real Estate Agents as they "telecommuted" from home. How deep were they committed to AT&T? As some said, it's about time they get rid of the slackers - that is something more companies have to do because the way I see it, the talent is not at the companies anymore, it's on the street. | |
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prestonlewis
Premium,MVM
join:2003-04-13
Sacramento, CA
 ·VoiceStick
| Consumer View As a consumer in Northern California, I was pleased with the progress PacBell was making in expanding DSL services. When SBC bought Pacific Telesys (Nevada Bell & Pacific Bell), everything ground to a halt. No more RTs, COs in my neck of the woods (Sacramento) which is woefully underserved. A whole metro county served by a handful, yes handful of COs? When Userve or whatever they call their TV was rolled out in Sacramento, I wondered just how many dozens of people would qualify for the service. Under the AT&T banner, SBC still isn't doing anything much. Perhaps somewhere in California/Nevada AT&T/SBC is doing something nice but I don't hear about it.
I barely use AT&T these days. Comcast for cable internet with Clearwire beginning WISP service sometime soon. DSLExtreme for backup DSL (great company). We do have an AT&T phone line for faxing/DSL but it is barely used.
It is hard to see a venerable, predictable, performing company like PacBell be taken over by old Ed's company which laments competition, wants web page providers to pay him for the privilege of serving his pitiable small DSL footprint, etc. | |
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rec9140
Provoice just DO it
join:2003-07-29
Mulberry, FL
|  Guess ATT has forgot IT developed...
VNC!
The ORL UK ATT Labs developed Virtual Networking Computing or VNC and is a wonderful way to telecommute. This is what ultimately became RealVNC.
ATT just doesn't get it.
While I've moved to UltraVNC and KRDC, you just can't beat VNC.
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