Layoffs today. Wish you all the best!

Besides people in positions considered management are very clueless.I mean this is contractor type ,engineering type,Actual managers.First all you need to see on here is employees who barely go to office or interact with anyone asking if there’s... — read more 

OPED in today's WSJ. I think Verizon will likely see another big round of layoffs in the fall. SMH. Algi Febri Sugita/Zuma Press Two weeks ago I laid off more than 20% of my workforce. I didn’t do it because Cloudflare is struggling. We posted... — read more 

If you are jumping ship to AT&T, they are asking for 30/60/90 day plan which includes your major accounts, stakeholders, and most wanted accounts. Do not give up your sensitive information and easily hand them your sources. They are just farming the... — read more 

R2Bs meeting was lack luster. They want them going door to door 5-6 hours a day and only increased at risk by less than $500 a month. They did not increase base pay or offer a vehicle stipend. Business Sales On Demand will be a big failure for... — read more 

Playing the fiddle while Rome burns.

Buyouts coming for management and possible eisp for the union before end of year handouts for everyone!!!!

Our staff meetings are a joke. A lot of words, no substance and acting like everything is great. How are your “leaders” handling your teams staff meetings, given nobody knows Dan’s master plan?

Why every time lay off news.. some thing do new .. better to develop new unique features that is not available in market

I’ve seen quite a few people leaving from the UK offices across different departments — some went mid-May, others are due to ship out end of May. It was a mix of VBGs and the rest, probably around the 100 mark all in. Heard the RIFs are pretty much... — read more 

Anything good coming from VBG products that will generate good sales? (Or any current products showing potential?) Seems like AT&T and T-Mo are putting out products - what do we have that's got potential? Hard to tell if the AI Connect stuff is... — read more 

Why in the world is Gemini AI being pushed for everything...from scripting to positioning statements to call analysis to coaching. Just stop already.

Anyone know what's going on in NJ? Heard a bunch of senior leaders are out there for a couple of days. Rumor mill says they are discussing more cost cutting

Sales is only doing outbound calls with an automated dialer now…. Don’t know where incoming calls are going to…..Just voicemail after voicemail being left to sign up for VHI Lite internet. Are we trying to get a whole team to just quit at one time?... — read more 

So I was being told I may have to start reporting to the office 3 days a week.I was wondering if this had any thing to do with the possibility of a strike with the labor unions .Any info

I wrote this poem when I got made redundant from Verizon in November 2015. Still relevant today. It Was my Final Day – The Bard of Verizon It was my final day. I looked around the office. At all the empty desks. I could tell. The building was now... — read more 

Please stop doing layoff. We are only 80k employees which is very less then your competitor. Still you continue doing layoff . Not even a single employee is happy over here. Please make your existing employee happy.

What is the max weeks they paid out? I heard conflicting info. Was it 2 weeks for each year maxed at 40 weeks?

Just heard all contractors are being forced to take 2 weeks unpaid furlough between July and September. Guessing this will save the company about $25m. There’s got to be a better way than to have so many contractors, some of which are useless…. If... — read more 

Can't wait to get to work tomorrow. Such a fulfilling job where I feel valued. It is great knowing my work is part of the future plan and I am contributing to the overall success of VZ. I'm so excited that I won't be able to sleep tonight. Set... — read more 

with most of the layers doing nothing but making reports celebrating that the chocolate rations have been increased from 2.4% to 2.7% this quarter. Meanwhile back in the garages and CO's it's now BYOTP (toilet paper) time.

The Future Maybe ! Absorbed, Sold or Discarded. What do you think?

It began with Lowell. His first real big mis step was the 5G mm bandwidth we purchased in in May 2017. This kind of data idle, as ww got itvyhrough purchase of another company. He hired Infosys in 2018 to outsource the IT, which was huge. He laid... — read more 

Like AI, Crypto, or whatever fad tech is in style to talk about.

I guess that confirms a higher paycheck puts a target on your back. Fine. But why never any follow-up? There's a reason those people were paid more than the rest of us. It boggles the mind that management expects us to pick up work none of us... — read more 

It's all doom and gloom. Is this AI wave really going to affect people?

Verizon CEO cuts to the chase on new layoffs and AI future: As a new wave of job cuts hits Verizon, leadership delivers a blunt reality check on future plans and an AI deadline. May 11, 2026 5:37 PM EDT Dan Schulman, president and chief... — read more 

A commenter said: “leadership needs to be realistic about the culture issue. There are people on both sides who clearly don’t even want to be here anymore. Fine — give those people strong packages and let them move on. That is not the reality at... — read more 

Verizon’s side of the house seriously needs to adapt some of the ways Frontier operates because, frankly, Frontier has always done certain things better. Faster execution, scrappier teams, less bureaucracy, and way less unnecessary process wrapped... — read more 

I'm not seeing any reason to train the thing that's supposed to replace me.

51 switch positions in the NorthEast are being forced into the union. Supposedly those people will have to bid for their current positions. This eliminates the need for current VZB techs to have to go to the switch locations for work. Rumors have it... — read more 

~89,900 total headcount. Seems like DAN need only one person to do all the operation ( Dan - 89,900 ) = DAN so Dan single handlely will work for Verizon and will make customer focused company by being bold. 🌅🌄

With the union contract expiring on Aug 1, why haven’t we been assigned EWA jobs yet? In the past they always assigned them many months before the potential strike. We also haven’t seen any bargaining update emails recently. What is the status?

I know 2 weeks per year of service, but: Did you get any of 2027 STI? Did you get prorated Stock Together or did all units vest?

Next round big changes!

Asking for a friend.

So it's SMB now and we're sc--wed. New title and responsibilities, no OT and no raise. Enough already, time to quiet quit.