Found this elaborate article on racism in corporations. https://justicefor7.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/verizon-raped-my-familly-press-release/
Copper wire, typewriters, vinyl records...
I'll take "Three things you'll see in a museum" for $200, Alex. Seriously, the sooner Verizon dumps all of it's landline holdings (and employees) the sooner wireless can get back to making money.
Verizon-sponsored Medicare Plans
Do you think they will discontinue Verizon-sponsored Medicare Plans? If history is our teacher, VZ tends to screw all of us who are retired
What is going to be announced tomorrow after earnings release?
Do you guys think that our numbers will be so bad that they will have to announce some kind of major layoff initiative to calm down the financial circles? I mean, if the numbers are bad the stock is going to tank and how do you prevent that? You... — read more
All Cary, NC Wholesale to be transfered to Frontier
This is going to be a bloodbath
Just announced
Just announced in my office: 8000 management rif by Nov. 5 to include wireline and wireless. Company "restructuring" and jobs will look "very different" in the near future. Just transfered all of Cary, NC wholesale to Frontier, who wants to create a... — read more
AOL Purchase
What a colossal fail. Seriously, I mean what were they thinking about...
Quick Poll: How are you satisfied with the Union representing you?
Please keep it civilized.
We are trying to transform into what something that's very poorly defined
Verizon wants to be something that will be the next step and level up if compared to wire/wireless. But what is that? Is that a cloud play? Security? Telematics?... Are we going to be a wholesaler? The mother of all backbones? I do not get it, I get... — read more
Biggest mistake was to buy vodaphone stake
Verizon was primarily a wireline company and wireless was a privately held asset and it's revenues were minor until few years ago. The biggest mistake of VZ was buying the stake from vodaphone. Now wireless is no.longer a lucrative business. We have... — read more
Landline + Unions = Layoffs for wireless :(
Landlines are going the way of the telegraph, and their management is trying to drag down wireless with it. Don't get me started on their unions. We're in the midst of layoffs, and you goof balls are going on strike. If you landline guys lose your... — read more
In 2009 we had 230,000 employees, now we have 177,000 - the writing is on the wall
That's all what I had to say. Have a great weekend and I'll see you here on Monday
Do you want your kids to be engineers when they grow up?
I so am fed up and disillusioned with everything that's going on here at Verizon and in the industry... When my kids grow up, I will do everything in my power to convince them pursue being a doctor, lawyer, or stay in academia and become a professor... — read more
Stop exposing our company to strangers
Why expose the dirt in your own house, at the end of the day Verizon paid your bills. How soon you forgot your application process when you wanted to work here so bad because VZ was so cool to work at and all the perks the company offered for your... — read more
Severance Payment
Can someone expand on what can be expected in terms of severance if we are cut. I was planning to leave anyway due to a life event, but if I was to be let go with some reasonable severance I may decide to stay a bit longer in order to receive it. I... — read more
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Working for Verizon
I am considering a position in Wireline - can someone shine more light about working at Verizon. What do you like. What do you dislike?
In IT (over the last 5 years) Layoffs have always happened on Fridays, the rest of the team is notified on Monday. Always! Announce, whenever.
Only two candidates have discussed closing the H1B loopholes, I'd start posting your concerns on their social media sites, EN MASS! Trump and Carson are the only two I've heard discuss closing the H1B loopholes. There are 2,000,000 American IT... — read more
Timing of Layoffs
Layoffs never happen on Mondays and Fridays. Period. There is a number of reasons here (e.g., if you mess up things on Wed you have Thur and Fri to fix it). The cut will take place on Tuesday, what exact Tuesday I do not know
If the welfare of the workforce were a consideration, then this wouldn't be happening.
Layoffs will come after Q3 announcements. "Do you want the good news or the bad news?" They need the sequence to be bad news then "good" news so Wall Street can bump share price back up after it takes a hit from the results announcements. It's not... — read more
For Family Members and Friends
Please share this VZ layoffs page, spread the word. Employees will not do it, rightly so, as they are concerned about privacy. We can do it (a mother here) as there cannot be repercussions for us. All, please keep the discussion civil. We had many... — read more
No Announcements today: Make the most of your time, update your resume, share your worries with presidential candidates. Spruce LinkedIn.
Any announcements will come between 22 October and 5 November. You'll not see anything here before you see it on your internal corporate site, any accurate information posted here would be grounds for termination. You can rest assured "anonymous"... — read more
Here is Layoffs Survival Guide, Written by VZ Survival Experts
Learn from us experts that have already gone through what Verizon is putting you guys through as it gradually replaces each of you domestic counterparts with cheaper offshore workers. 1. Don't write any code comments, or if you do, don't explain how... — read more
Announce today?
Anyone know if they're going to announce today? I know something is happening and everyone is talking about it and speculating but seems like it would be a better use of time and productivity to get it out there sooner rather than later so people can... — read more
Only two candidates have discussed closing the H1B loopholes, I'd start posting your concerns on their social media sites, EN MASS!
Trump and Carson are the only two I've heard discuss closing the H1B loopholes. There are 2,000,000 American IT workers in the US, you'd think they and theirs would be all over this. 500,000 non US workers currently working in IT, or 25%, IT salaries... — read more
I Heard IT in Irvine CA is getting hit pretty hard with layoffs..,
Of course just the Americans. Those scumbag indian h1b visa holders are fine. Absolutely disgusting. Mark my words, within ten years there won't be one American left at wireless
This board is.mostly about VZ wireless. For wireline there is a much older board. http://joeshmucksboard.org/
This board is mostly addressing the issues of wireless which is 100% management employees with no union workers. Following link is a much older board for wireline and unions. http://joeshmucksboard.org/
Field Technician Layoffs
Is this round of layoffs specifically intended to get rid of many field technicians? They seem to really dislike us (kill the copper) - I would not be surprised if they were to cut field technicians even more
Sneaky H1B plans
I have a friend that lost his job (14 years) at Verizon to H1B visa people. He was laid off over a year ago. He had never heard of H1B visas until just last week. What you don't know, can hurt you.
Where are CWA and IBEW now?
I mean seriously, so many promises by both CWA and IBEW, yet nothing was accomplished. The head count keeps dropping, layoffs are just about to start. And where are unions here? Wire is being destroyed one day at the time, executive compensation is... — read more
Why is landline running wireless into the ground?
We were doing great until they took over. Now the company that loses money hand over fist, is running the company that is MAKING money hand over fist. They're laying off our productive employees, and keeping the union slugs? Oh yeah, that will work... — read more
It looks like it's about to happen
What I've heard - 2 areas, 11 regions. Rumor is that they'll announce it tomorrow. Guess we'll see.
It's busy here today
Hmmmm, I guess a lot of layoff activity. It's quiet here in Atlanta, no layoffs recently
Go90?
More like Go 180 degrees away from it
For Friends and Family of VZ Employees
If you guys think media attention would help (and it would, as they are giving away american jobs and there is a lot of focus here) you should have your family and friends like or share this page so people can see what's going on. Do not do it by... — read more
Need help
I'd like to start separate threads for a few locations that have large number of VZ folks that may be laid off. Given the size of our company I do not know what locations have the biggest headcounts. Can someone post a few locations here and I'll... — read more
Verizon is insanely diversified
This "could" be some of the problem for VZ, they're not just a spanking new wireless only company like say T-Mobile, which has all new infrastructure and a very finite set of assets to maintain. Verizon Wireless was a joint venture that happened to... — read more
I think the era of unions in the private sector is nearing the end of their existence.
They provided a vital benefit in times past, but with social media, jobs sites, LinkedIn, the plethora of places people can go to share their stories of bad treatment by employers and corporations, negatively impacting the quality of candidates which... — read more