Take on the AT&T payoff

There was nothing more obvious to us at TOR than the payoff AT&T gave their workers in the Anke of the TaxReform in exchange for leniency on their desired takeover of TimeWarner. The $200million they dolled out -and took great bows for- was already ridiculous as most people would have just seen them as Christmas Bonuses, ones that people get regardless of tax reform. But the blatant stroke of Trump's ego with their statement trumpeting the reform served one purpose...to get the justice department off of their back
How else do they justify laying off thousands of employees if they claim that the business climate has so greatly improved