Pros
As a craft employee (non-mgt), year 1-5 will offer raises every 6 month till you top off @ max pay. @ 5th year. Good salary, benefits, 401k, vision, vacation 2 wks a year, when you hit your 7th year you get 3 wks vac..you also get 8 paid personnal days. DEPENDING, on which dept. you work in, will depend HEAVILY on how your time at AT&T will go. Construction & Engineering have been having layoffs for the past 1 1/2 yrs. They are now surplusing FT's w/over 10yrs exp...and the ST's (service tech) w/over 6 yrs exp. so you either lose your job!!! or if you an FT you possibly get surplused over to the Install/ Maint. Dept....No layoff there yet..AT&T has laid off hundreds of employees in the last 1 1/2. Upper MGT. says due to (Quote unquote) technological changes, and the poor economy.
Cons
OMG..there are alot...again depending on the dept. you end up in will Greatly influence your time w/this company!!. They ONLY care about the numbers....Your 1st. level supervisor (although some of them are good people)--(there are alot that are just complete jerks) This co. has soo many ridiculous ways they measure your perfomance. They are trying to lay more & more people off. If you don't make your #'s for a month they will write you up, any accidents now, forget it You will always (mostly) be made @ fault, and your'e fired. The service tech's and us in cable repair are forced to work extra jobs almost everyday, and they will ride you like crazy. The Prem-tech jobs are even worse. They have a huge turnover rate. Almost everyone hates working here now & they do the absolute minimum. There is such a dislike towards upper Mgt. The only thing AT&T cares about now is their U-Verse they're tring to push. IF we're working on another reg. cust. ex. Dsl is out & a U-verse trouble comes in they will pull us off of the 1st. job to put us on the U-Verse. we then have to lie to the 1st. cust about why we have to leave. The employees are mostly all good people. But, AT&T as a company is going down fast.They dont want a const. dept. Or the people that work their including the service tech's and the Outside Plant Tech's (OPT's). This is from an employee with over 12 years experience. It wasn't always this bad.
