06/22/2002 09:48:47 PM

Questions for AT&T Management.

I was often one of the people who asked questions at "town meetings" with AT&T management and during lunch I would often discuss good questions to ask. Here are a couple of questions still on my mind.

(1) Question for AT&T CEO Mike Armstrong:
AT&T announced losses of over 5 billion dollars on Concert and billions more on Excite. As a result of losses like these hundreds of employees in AT&T Labs were layed off due to no fault of their own. Why do the people responsible for these failures, not only get to keep their jobs, but also continue to make important decisions about the future of the company? For example, don't you think it's a little unfair that Dave Dorman, head of Concert while it was losing billions of dollars is now President of AT&T and others lost their jobs partly because of what he did?

(2) Question for AT&T Labs head Hossein Eslambolchi :
As you are undoubtedly aware, employees who were put "at risk" under the Forced Management Plan have the right to know the age statistics of those let go versus those retained in their "job universe". However I and others were put in separate "universes" of just one and thus (in effect) were given no age statistics at all. Since this makes it look like AT&T is trying to hide something, don't you think it would be better if the age statistics for all those "at risk" versus those "retained" were made available?


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