It's bad enough that AT&T cut thousands of jobs (after promising to
> create thousands of new ones) despite saving a reported $3 billion
> thanks to the Trump tax cuts that were signed into law in December
> 2017. The carrier had pushed hard for the tax cuts, promising to
> invest an extra $1 billion in 2018 - with CEO Randall Stephenson even
> touting that "every billion dollars AT&T invests is 7,000 hard-hat
> jobs." And he told CNBC the following, by way of continuing to make a
> public case for the tax cuts: "Lower taxes drives more investment,
> drives more hiring, drives greater wages. I know exactly what AT&T
> would do: We would invest more."
>
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This is a far cry from the past, when the Bell System often bragged about hiring multiple generations of families
"35 members of her family worked for the telephone company"
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"575,000 workers in the Bell system"
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"mothers and daughters doing just fine"
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"father, two sons, and daughter in law all work for telephone company" "Bell System average length of service is three times that of other companies"
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"This way son"
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"Nine members of the Moore family make the Bell system work in Little Rock" (1981)
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"Up from the ranks" (Bell System presidents started at the bottom of the ladder)
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