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Great Pay for No Work!

Principal Technical Architect
Current Employee
Has worked at AT&T for less than 1 year
June 20, 2008
Atlanta, Georgia
2.0
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Pros

Great pay for no work. Hire a couple of contractors and get them to do all the work.

The executive senior management is very focused, but the middle-level managers are leftovers from the wireline business. The middle-level management has no clue on what needs to be done in terms of execution.

There are a lot of people who should have been laid off or re-assigned years ago. Folks that work are motivated but are not generally given challenging assignments. Most of them are highly educated doing rudimentary jobs.

Contractor pay is great, and some of them make $250,000 a year running lame tests.

Cons

No work can be boring. Pay rises can be stagnant. Better to leave and come back as a contractor.

Advice to Management

Fire all contractors and double the work for all "knowledge" workers. Figure out ways to catch people slacking off.

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