Byline: Harvey Mackay
A few weeks ago, the day that John Walter was named the new CEO at AT&T, the stock dropped 2 points. It was the corporate equivalent of the traditional bone-jarring sack that greets rookie quarterbacks.
``Welcome to the NFL, kid.'' Welcome to the corporate big leagues, John.
Leading the corps of business blitzers was ``Chainsaw Al'' Dunlap, who got his nickname by sacking 11,200 employees when he headed Scott Paper. According to Dunlap, John Walter was not what ``suffering shareholders are looking for.''
Well, neither was Walter's predecessor, Bob Allen, another job-slasher, who pared 40,000 employees at AT&T. This …
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