AT&T Age a Problem

If you have been in retail more than 10 years, they label you as old. I have been a retail manager for 30 years, and they sent me a no thank you for just a part time sales. If you want to work there, to even get an interview, you have to lie or leave out anything that looks like you are more than 12.

However,if my chance there a position open in sales, or driving somewhere I do hold a CDL license class B. You contact me at
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Amanda is 100% correct. The company lies to its customers and employees. Very unpressional organization. No job is better than a job with them.

It would probably help your job search if you could spell 'unprofessional' correctly.

Amanda said: If you have been in retail more than 10 years, they label you as old. I have been a retail manager for 30 years, and they sent me a no thank you for just a part time sales. If you want to work there, to even get an interview, you have to lie or leave out anything that looks like you are more than 12.

THERE IS A CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT IN THE WORKS AGAINST ATT FOR THEIR AGE DISCRIMINATION!!! IT IS RAMPANT ACROSS THE NATION. I HAD MADE IT THROUGH THEIR "PROCESS" AND AS SOON AS I WALKED IN THE DOOR FOR A FACE-TO-FACE INTERVIEW I SAW ONLY 20-SOMETHING-YEAR-OLDS...I AM CLOSE TO 50 AND THEY WERE STARING AT ME LIKE I HAD 2 HEADS!! (OR I WAS THEIR MOTHER...). IT WAS THE MOST UNPROFESSIONAL EXPEREINCE OF MY ENTIRE LIFE IN THE RETAIL BUSINESS! THE "GIRL" WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO INTERVIEW ME WOULDN'T AND THE "DUDE" THAT DID ASKED ME 3 QUESTIONS WITHOUT LOOKING AT ME. WHEN I GOT HOME TO CHECK MY STATUS WITH ATT THEY HAD ALREADY SENT ME THE "THE POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED" LETTER...AND TO THIS VERY DAY THEY ARE STILL PLACING ADS FOR OPENINGS FOR THE LOCATIONS I WAS INTERESTED IN! GO FIGURE! THEIR DAY WILL COME.

The abuse of age discrimination explodes in ATT and many memphis, tn organizations. They get by with it because rarely anyone sues or exposes them to the EEOC@

Stu, if there is a class action suit for age discrimination against AT&T I would like more info on it. Or if there is any action for retaliation I would also like more on that too. There are numerous complaints here in Florida on their employment practices, I believe that call that forced attrition.

AT&T executives feel that they can decide the rules on "blacklisting employees" by tagging a "not fit" status next to their social security numbers in the system etemp that all their contractors use to place people in jobs. The reason why the "not fit"status is put in has NOTHING to do with skills. It has to do with the fact that these people took certain downsizing packages such as VRIP and CIC. What AT&T is doing is age discrimination since the average people who were downsized with these packages are older than the average person who applies for a job in AT&T. Then what happens is a person who was forced out with one of these packages can not get even a contracting job in Telecom if AT&T is engaged in the business. This closes off the careers of many older and seasoned Telecom professionals since AT&T has a much greater presence in Telecom than any other company. This appears to be illegal and down right inhumane to do to people who spent a life time building up skills in Telecom.

Law suits take a long time. The baby boomer generation is huge and I am sure the largest consumer of Telecom goods in the nation. If the word is spread and we stop using products and services from companies like AT&T which have these practices $ will talk.