AT&T Calls Telecommuters Back To the Cubicle

bednarz writes "AT&T is requiring thousands of employees who work from their homes to return to traditional office environments, sources say. 'It is a serious effort to reel in the telework people,' says the Telework Coalition's Chuck Wilsker, who has heard that as many as 10,000 or 12,000 full-time teleworkers may be affected. One AT&T employee says rumors have been circulating since AT&T's merger with SBC that the new upper management is not supportive of teleworking: 'We'd heard rumors to that effect, and all of a sudden we got marching orders to go back to an office.'"

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[Anonymous Coward]

long shlong silver!

Good Point.

[baboo_jackal]

You know, now I truly appreciate those people who post lengthy excerpts from gay child-porn novels as first posts. Most people mod them down and ignore them, but it's actually a scathing commentary on how crappy the discussion on this site has become.

These gay child-rape porn first AC's that post that stuff are, in essence saying, "You know what? I pay enough attention to /. to be a first poster. But instead of trying to say something good, I'm going to post graphic text describing gay child-rape porn because, no matter what, I bet that the crap that follows will at least equal or exceed the suck of gay child-rape porn. It won't be because it's as offensive, but it'll suck just as hard because nobody bothers to actually comment on the substantial technical aspects of the article in question, and within three posts, you'll be blaming the Neocon-Libertarian Conspiracy and Microsoft for stealing babies and grinding them up for taco meat."

Re:Good Point.

[Anonymous Coward]

A few years ago, while browsing around the library downtown, I
had to take a piss. As I entered the john a big beautiful all-American
football hero type, about twenty-five, came out of one of the booths.
I stood at the urinal looking at him out of the corner of my eye as he
washed his hands. He didn't once look at me. He was "straight" and
married - and in any case I was sure I wouldn't have a chance with
him.

As soon as he left I darted into the booth he'd vacated,
hoping there might be a lingering smell of shit and even a seat still
warm from his sturdy young ass. I found not only the smell but the
shit itself. He'd forgotten to flush. And what a treasure he had left
behind. Three or four beautiful specimens floated in the bowl. It
apparently had been a fairly dry, constipated shit, for all were fat,
stiff, and ruggedly textured. The real prize was a great feast of turd
- a nine inch gastrointestinal triumph as thick as a man's wrist.

I knelt before the bowl, inhaling the rich brown fragrance and
wondered if I should obey the impulse building up inside me. I'd
always been a heavy rimmer and had lapped up more than one little
clump of shit, but that had been just an inevitable part of eating ass
and not an end in itself. Of course I'd had jerk-off fantasies of
devouring great loads of it (what rimmer hasn't), but I had never done
it. Now, here I was, confronted with the most beautiful five-pound
turd I'd ever feasted my eyes on, a sausage fit to star in any fantasy
and one I knew to have been hatched from the asshole of the world's
handsomest young stud.

Why not? I plucked it from the bowl, holding it with both
hands to keep it from breaking. I lifted it to my nose. It smelled
like rich, ripe limburger (horrid, but thrilling), yet had the
consistency of cheddar. What is cheese anyway but milk turning to shit
without the benefit of a digestive tract?

I gave it a lick and found that it tasted better then it
smelled. I've found since then that shit nearly almost does.

I hesitated no longer. I shoved the fucking thing as far into
my mouth as I could get it and sucked on it like a big brown cock,
beating my meat like a madman. I wanted to completely engulf it and
bit off a large chunk, flooding my mouth with the intense, bittersweet
flavor. To my delight I found that while the water in the bowl had
chilled the outside of the turd, it was still warm inside. As I chewed
I discovered that it was filled with hard little bits of something I
soon identified as peanuts. He hadn't chewed them carefully and they'd
passed through his body virtually unchanged. I ate it greedily,
sending lump after peanutty lump sliding scratchily down my throat. My
only regret was the donor of this feast wasn't there to wash it down
with his piss.

I soon reached a terrific climax. I caught my cum in the
cupped palm of my hand and drank it down. Believe me, there is no more
delightful combination of flavors than the hot sweetness of cum with
the rich bitterness of shit.

Afterwards I was sorry that I hadn't made it last longer. But
then I realized that I still had a lot of fun in store for me. There
was still a clutch of virile turds left in the bowl. I tenderly fished
them out, rolled them into my handkerchief, and stashed them in my
briefcase. In the week to come I found all kinds of ways to eat the
shit without bolting it right down. Once eaten it's gone forever
unless you want to filch it third hand out of your own asshole. Not an
unreasonable recourse in moments of desperation or simple boredom.

I stored the turds in the refrigerator when I was not using
them but within a week they were all gone. The last one I held in my
mouth without chewing, letting it slowly dissolve. I had liquid shit
trickling down my throat for nearly four hours. I must have had six
orgasms in the process.

I often think of that lovely young guy dropping solid gold out
of his sweet, pink asshole every day, never knowing what joy it could,
and at least once did, bring to a grateful shiteater.

Re:Good Point.

[jcicora]

I wonder why the powers that be don't make some way for those comments to be automatically deleted?

Re:Good Point.

[trolltalk.com]

"I wonder why the powers that be don't make some way for those comments to be automatically deleted?"

1. [_] the "powers that be" posted them in the first place;
2. [_] they LIKE it ...;
3. [X] once you start deleting posts, your legal position vis. posted content changes. They don't want to go back to having to delete scientology-slagging posts, etc.

Some quick calculations

[WwWonka]

I just completed my intravenous mobile organic multi trillion cell processor running at 7.9 gazzillion gigahertz(it's based off the new iPhone) and it has calculated that if you add up the letters AT&T and then divide by the Latin letters in COMCAST you get the numeric value 666. Just saying.

Re:I hope they all quit!

[Richard Steiner]

Uh... A VPN connection over a normal home DSL or cablemodem internet connection is sufficient to do almost anything most telecommuting workers require, at least in terms of computer access.

No dedicated hardware or lines required.

Since the $rtbl edits dont seem to count.

[sethstorm]

Laziness, as they could just delete it as they have on certain discussions related to this post.

The user that incorrectly stated something about editorial policy would do well to be modded -6, Wrong.