If you are laid off, Verizon will let you use a service that helps with your resume, interviewing skills, etc. That service actually made my resume a lot better. They said to rewrite my resume by bullet-pointing accomplishments instead of just a long... — read more 

This CEO, Chief EEO(Gee Lowell, are you Black or Female?)opportunist, is the worst CEO we have ever had. Vote your shares and FIRE his incompetant ass.Buys out Vodafhone for the largest loan in the history of Wallstreet, then fires everybody, except... — read more 

Regardless of what happens my opinion is this: Do not expect love or loyalty... This Rolling Stone article is long, but well worth the time. It may answer questions many people have, or not you decide for yourself: "It's the bust-out"... — read more 

That could be reason. It is similar to the airline business- large investment, too much competition. In ountries like India incoming calls are free for lifetime. It has been that way for more than 15 years.

DO YOU THINK FIOS WILL HAVE LAYOFFS?

There must be a ton of our folks who are as anxious as I am

Do you think they will announce it tomorrow?

I have been with Verizon for a very long time. Like most of you, I have appreciated the company and I have worked immensely hard on assuring the success of the business. I "don't" think I will be affected by the layoff but I have many friends and... — read more 

I am seeing alot of numbers thrown around about headcount at Verizon... I would suggest you look at the Quaterly Bulletin, http://www.verizon.com/about/investors/quarterly-reports/3q-2015-quarter-earnings-conference-call-webcast The current Verizon... — read more 

Do you think they will change the severance rules, and go from 2 weeks per year of service to 1 week of severance per year of service (just like Sprint did)? Thoughts?

Some groups have already had their "all hands" meetings and it's just the typical yearly reduction that occurs Every Single Year. All the 10K, 20K, etc... is a crock. People posting crap hoping to stir things up, nothing more. I would not be... — read more 

A webcast was just sent out for tomorrow 1pm EST with John Stratton and "other Wireless leaders".

What it no one is let go? What if 11/6 comes and goes and everyone still has a job? What if all of these post are just here to scare you?

Of all the theories, the ones covering region consolidation have the most legs. There are certain sensibilities in some of the consolidations mentioned and other speculation appears to have merit due to other announcements and activity previously... — read more 

11/6 30-40k 11/19 40-60k Black Friday will come 3 times for Verizon this year! Good Luck!

But what about the Ponzi Schemes ???

Now Bernie Sanders is in Times Square with CWA against Verizon http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/bernie-sanders-pickets-verizon-union-workers-nyc

http://www.kansascity.com/news/business/article41237478.html

Add to this with your speculation on which wireless regions will end up combining. I'll start by saying that I speculate that New England, NY Metro and UPNY will combine. I also think Philly and DC/Baltimore will combine. Down south, I expect... — read more 

I am really surprised that people are not posting more messages on this Verizon Message Board as there is a ton of people who are very upset with what's going on with the company and where we are headed right now. I think most of the posters here are... — read more 

Yet, reading the posts it's hard to figure out what's going on and who will be affected. So, do we know anything?

Field Techs CO Techs Call center Operations Sales Marketing Finance IT Which cities/companies are good to target? What are the chances that most of the folks will find a better or equal paying job?

Here any dumb shits can get c-level & d-level jobs if you can manage up & lick up.

No one invokes race, when it comes to 'European Americns'. Not sure why.

VLSS explained in a few sentences. Anything that raises the stock price five cents in the short term is good, even if that same decision makes no sense for the long term health, positioning or profitability of the company. Building and maintaining... — read more 

Anyone hear anything about Wireless Supply Chain?

We have created an environment that promotes yes men/women willing to say and do anything to ensure they can keep collecting their LTIs Too many people have been promoted simply because they won't rock the boat....unfortunately, the boat's needed... — read more 

Too many people have been promoted simply because they won't rock the boat....unfortunately, the boat's needed rocking for quite sometime. Now, too many members of the regional, area and HQ leadership team only worry about ensuring they remain in... — read more 

http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/former-juniper-ceo-verizon-veteran-kheradpir-takes-reins-coriant/2015-09-29 While he was with VZ he might have built good relations with Juniper and Tellabs.

They are actually laying off field personnel when they need them the most. The years of chasing bonuses 1st levels fudging numbers, 2nd levels not verifying the fudged numbers, 3rd levels believing 2nd levels, we all know that its miss management... — read more 

AOL $4.4B EdgeCast Networks $350M UpLynk $$? Hughes Telematics $612M Clouds witch $? Terremark $1.4B Alltel $28B MCI $8.44B

A fake degree from Harvard, a fake degree from Stanford, then no one can gain promotion without a degree. The majority of leaders at the "ridge" received their positions because the smarter, more qualified candidates didn't want to move to NJ. The... — read more 

In the spirit of "change energizes us", can we finally admit that, we have tried changing everything apart from our C-level leadership. T-Mobile has benefited greatly from the fresh perspective of a new leader. It's time for us to follow suite. The... — read more 

These layoffs ususally don't hit network side however I heard this one is different. All wireless network side of the house will go through restructure with layoffs?