AT&T Wireless to cut 1,000 jobs

[Kenster]

AT&T Wireless to cut 1,000 jobs

Company will let about 3 percent of its work force go as it continues to trim costs.
July 2, 2003: 7:04 AM EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Wireless Services Inc. will shed around three percent of its work force this year, or about 1,000 jobs, as part of an ongoing cost-cutting program, according to a published report Wednesday.

AT&T Wireless, the second largest U.S. wireless operator in terms of sales, cut about 2,000 jobs last year, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The latest round of reductions, which have not been publicly announced, will happen in waves, the paper reported.

About 200 workers had their last day at AT&T Wireless Monday, and another 300 are set to be laid off this month, a person familiar with the situation told the Journal.

A company spokesman told the newspaper that the cuts resulted in part from moves to consolidate AT&T Wireless operations at its Redmond, Wash. headquarters, and in New York and New Jersey.

The spokesman said AT&T Wireless did not have definite information yet on how many people would be affected, and what the reductions would cost.

[njsvrzncdma]

guess that that says alot about AT&T

[bobolito]

I know.....the company doesn't live up to its name anymore.

[nero]

Originally posted by: bobolito
I know.....the company doesn't live up to its name anymore.

heh, well said again bobo
im thinking of keeping my ATT till november when its up
but joining the free n clear sprint with the sanyo8100 now... just leave the ATT phone off and the answering machine message will state my new number
heh [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

[ILUVSOCAL]

Well, Sprint sent a lot of their customer service jobs to India, that's as bad, if not worse than laying people off here.

[bobolito]

India? Is there Sprint in India? or was that a joke?[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/img]

[sillybilly]

Originally posted by: ILUVSOCAL
Well, Sprint sent a lot of their customer service jobs to India, that's as bad, if not worse than laying people off here.

So that is why you have to wait so long when you call Sprint customer service!![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

[AnthroMatt]

Originally posted by: bobolito
India? Is there Sprint in India? or was that a joke?[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/img]

I think a lot of Sprint's "eCare" is based in India. I am not aware that any phone support (*2) is based there though.

[ILUVSOCAL]

Lol I guess. To be fair to Sprint, Dell has also outsourced a lot of customer care to India. I have called them a few times and could hardly understand the rep, no offense to Indian people.

[ILUVSOCAL]

You could be right Matt, I just knew they outsourced a lot of care to India, wasn't sure on which type. I see the unemployment rate in the US hit it's highest rate in 9 years, any bright news for our economy? Recall of Bush, Cheney? Sorry, shameless political stab [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

[AnthroMatt]

Yay, I guess I am doing my part to help the rate hit a 9 year high.

[ILUVSOCAL]

Lol me too, student hoping to get his career going soon here [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

[bobolito]

"Hello welcom to Spreent coostomer Car, this is Punjabi, how can I help yoo?"

>>"Yeah, I like wanna know like which phones will be like available for Sprint in like the next month....hehe"

"Ooooh, yes my friend!, we hav the new Gujarat 3000 coming in Septembar!...Also, we hav the Bombay VX-600 with colur screen, with "poosh to tolk" designed exclusiv for taxi drivers, my friend!"

>>"Oh! that's cool"

"Yes my friend! We also comin with the "Teveo Laraj 1000" which has TV bilt-in and wil com with the new Spreent service called Bombay Online!"

>>"whoa, that is so cool"

[ehcruzan]

That was priceless Bobolito!!! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

[ehcruzan]

Not to change the subject, but it seems like a lot of American companies are outsourcing functions to India. These are companies run by idiotic CEOs and overpaid executives who think you will still buy their products or services even though you have no job. I guess they know something I don't.

[AnthroMatt]

It must be working! I have no job and I just signed up with Sprint!

[NYCDru]

Originally posted by: ILUVSOCAL
Lol I guess. To be fair to Sprint, Dell has also outsourced a lot of customer care to India. I have called them a few times and could hardly understand the rep, no offense to Indian people.

You know, when i asked the guy were he was and he said the phillipines it finaly struck me how much/many things are being exported.

[ILUVSOCAL]

Sad, isn't it? At a time when our economy is the worst it's been in a long time, and umemployment at record levels, these companies, in the desire to make one more almighty dollar ship good jobs to overseas lands by the boatload. Now, I am not a isolationist at all, and I believe in fair trade, but this is a sickening trend. I am glad those people in India and the Phillipines have nice jobs now, but I wonder if they or the corporations know or stop to think about the family in California or the single mother in Ohio that lost their jobs due to having them exported.

By the way Bobo, LOL ETC.!!!!! I loved it

[AnthroMatt]

I don't know that a customer service job can be called "good" as they usually pay less than a job at a fast food joint. The fact I can't get hired for that kind of job anyway since I am "overqualified" makes me more upset. And though this has nothing to do with wireless, the lack of jobs is not in the "low skilled" sector such as customer service and fast food, as McDonald's has been able to lower their starting pay due to overabundance of applications. The problems are that medium and high skilled jobs are gone.

I wonder if the Japanese got mad when Toyota announced they were going to build an assembly plant in San Antonio?

[Codepyro]

Originally posted by: ILUVSOCAL
Sad, isn't it? At a time when our economy is the worst it's been in a long time, and umemployment at record levels, these companies, in the desire to make one more almighty dollar ship good jobs to overseas lands by the boatload. Now, I am not a isolationist at all, and I believe in fair trade, but this is a sickening trend. I am glad those people in India and the Phillipines have nice jobs now, but I wonder if they or the corporations know or stop to think about the family in California or the single mother in Ohio that lost their jobs due to having them exported.

By the way Bobo, LOL ETC.!!!!! I loved it

its sad if you look at it from that way...but the fact is this is how capitalism works...if the ceo(or whoever) of sprint didn't send those jobs to india and reduce cost guess whose job was going to be on the line....this happened before its just that we're noticing it now because it penetrted in to the service sector...look at most of the products we buy...from cars to toys...most of them are not made here...noone complained(actually people did complain it just didn't make a difference) when those jobs were shipped to taiwan or china(no offense to the people livng there)....i think most of the jobs in the US are now going to involve managing...because these days just about EVERYTHING is outsourced...

[ILUVSOCAL]

I don't care what it is, it's wrong.

[AnthroMatt]

You could also argue if Sprint didn't send those jobs to India they would lose more money here and in turn possibly go out of business and then a lot more people would be out of work. Not saying that I believe it, but.... I don't even know if Sprint laid-off workers here and shifted to India or if the jobs were just created there.