One newspaper add huh - really... That's your "evidence"?

I doubt you realize, but you basically proved my point. So here are some actual facts...

Lets go through this one item at a time:

• The article and the quote states "a three-year plan to cut 10,000 jobs announced at the end of last year".. Think about what happened at the end of last year - tax plan maybe. So according to your own argument this is a restructuring caused by the tax plan.

These three pdf's from AT&T were published in 2015, 2016, and 2017 - Even after the Direct TV acquisition there was no talk of downsizing, or restructuring...

https://www.att.com/Investor/ATT_Annual/2015/downloads/att_ar2015_completeannualreport.pdf
http://about.att.com/content/dam/csr/2025-goals/2025-ATT-Goals-PDF-Overview.pdf
http://about.att.com/story/att_statement_on_latest_developments_in_proposed_acquisition_of_time_warner_inc.html
Please show me where it says there would be layoffs - I will willingly admit my error...

• The article you used as your evidence also states "most of the layoffs will be among managers." - perhaps not blatantly false, but incredibly misleading.

On Friday, the Post reported that AT&T has recently laid off “215 high-skilled technician jobs in nine Southern states” and plans to fire nearly 700 workers in Texas and Missouri beginning in February.
“How can you lay people off and then give them $1,000 and say that there’s going to be more jobs available? I wish someone could tell me how that’s possible because I have to explain that to my members, and right now at this time of year, this is a difficult pill to swallow,” Joseph Blanco, president of Local 6360 Communication Workers of America Union in Kansas City, told Fox 4 on Thursday.

There is another quarterly report from 1/31/18 that I haven't gone through yet - i'm quite sure I will find contradictions with last years reports... My point with that is not to just trust a single source - c'mon especially not the company spokesman...