It's dead Same quota as November in March? It's by design, the company is making their money back. If your DM or Sr Director is breathing down your neck, hand them the POS and ask them to show you how its done. Cuts are coming, and they are... — read more
AGI talk seems nonsense
Reality check: Frontier AI only handles ~2.5% of real remote freelance jobs per the RLI study. Paper: https://www.remotelabor.ai/paper.pdf Video breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3kaLM8Oj4o Nonstop AGI hype looks more like a convenient... — read more
Most companies will pull forward Layoffs due to increasing prices due to OIL and WAR
Many companies will pull forward their layoffs that were planned for later on the year (in the second half of 2026) to the first half of 2026 due to oil price increases and the cost of war, inflation causing everything to go up. Save your money... — read more
Normal Verizon Timeframes - April & October each year. Be patient, it is coming.
Normal Verizon Timeframes. April & October each year. Be patient, it is coming.
Execs Leaving
Any word on other higher executives getting let go and how much will that impact the people under them really? Will whole teams be impacted?
Correct calculations
Has anyone calculated all the layoff payments? Have they been correct? Not sure how much fees are being taken other than taxes...
Latest impacts
Which lines of businesses will be next thus year? Not sure if anyone has an idea but definitely curious.
More changes?
Will there be a lot more reorgs this year?
Future severance?
Will future severance payouts be impacted? Will it be less?
Watch out if your in business sales
Pip process moved to 30 days. 1 month of not hitting 80 and bam your on a pip. No room for error. Oh and don’t forget if you don’t hit 50% of your INSANE phone quota you go straight to a written. Oh and theres more! 30 days to get on a pip BUT 90... — read more
Union contract extension retiree medical
Any info on the retirement medical was anything done
Confirmed - "No planned layoffs"
Verizon ain't doing any more big layoffs. They've already cut over 13,000 jobs in late 2025 to streamline ops under new CEO Dan Schulman, who's laser-focused on AI-driven efficiencies and customer experience. Financials are solid—2025 revenue hit... — read more
March 26th
Hearing the next round is that date. Massive layoff affecting retail, business sales, Frontier and network
New Retail Comp plan in April?
My leadership has indicated new comp plan training will be coming in the next weeks, implemented as soon as April. Haven’t heard any more details besides this. Anyone have any more information on this? This will be my fourth comp plan. Besides the... — read more
Outsourced Customer Service
I think all our customers and as well as our biggest complaints is the outsourced customer service. We need to bombard the next pulse survey with complaints. They are inept , incompetent and are not helpful
Concrete insight on layoffs
Is anyone aware of any upcoming layoffs? I’m looking for concrete information.
I’m optimistic about our future
I feel like we are headed towards a successful future.
What more will change in Verizon?
Is change coming?
RIF
Does anyone know if there will be a RIF in Q1 or Q2?
How long will we have stock together?
Anyone know if it’s in talks of going away?
Overtime.
So Hans ran the company into the ground and gets an extra year of his 24 million salary. Sampath gets a 4 million dollar retention bonus and leaves 3 months later. Meanwhile store managers are being read the riot act if their stores have overtime... — read more
Morale at an all time low in FT Lauderdale District
Ever since RC got let go, the morale has been at an all time low, AM who is the DM now has made everyone miserable
Verizon Wireless focusing on lumpish things instead of the customer...!
Here are Verizon Wireless's senior management PRIORITIES and nowhere will you find the customer! 1- SLACK! You will be ON SLACK at all times, it's the number one priority of directors and senior directors. 2 - You WILL show your FACE on WebEx. No... — read more
Key to a Promotion?
Be related to the DMs friends or their inner circle. Holier than thou, sanctimonious sc-m of the earth. Slam, cram, brown nose and lie your way to the top and when HR asks, put the blame on anyone that calls you out.
February 2026 Retail Sales Quota
Seems very unattainable, I am in deep trouble as I am only at 18% Where does everyone else stand?
Specifics
Does anyone have any specifics about when the next RIF will be. 1st or 2nd quarter?
Judging our current direction
I know my success at Verizon or any job was attitude and adaptation. It was also how quickly I could get good at the next challenge and make the changes I needed that would help me win. Sounds easy, but it requires a full buy-in and positive... — read more
Verizon CEO admits to and apologized for huge pricing mistake
The wireless industry does not traditionally have a great reputation when it comes to being transparent. That was the basis of T-Mobile’s entire Un-carrier strategy, which forced Verizon and AT&T to drop what used to be the mainstays of how the... — read more
Sampath out with the Golden Parachute as Dan S guts prior regime
So.. Verizon's head of its consumer division, Sowmyanarayan Sampath, is stepping down?? Or was he asked to leave?? When ole Danny Schulman stepped into his role in October he helped approved a $4 million payment for Sampath to retain him in his... — read more
AI Customer Service Agents
Ran into a few customer service reps that may have been AI (based on how they sounded). They were much more knowledgeable than any PSO agent I’ve spoken with. Can we please replace PSO with AI? He-l, I’m willing to work Sundays if it means the calls... — read more
Verizon needs to divest businesses without high margins
Happy former 30 year employee and current interest is only as an investor. Verizon needs to become a pure play Consumer focused company Wireless/Internet. Parts are worth more than the sum. Verizon Business would be one example. Sell it and other... — read more
Mass Corporate Retail Closures Incoming
I suspect there will be mass retail store closures/indirect takeovers over the next two years. If you listen to the Q4 earnings call 10 min 20 seconds in when Dan is speaking he word for word says “we expect to realize 1 billion in run rate operating... — read more
Locking phones for a year!
Verizon is so desperate to stop the bleeding they got their buddies at the FCC (many Former executives of Verizon now work for the FCC) to agree to force people to stay by locking their phones for a year. Unreal
New Verizon 2025 (2) a year plan.
Guaranteed 100% - Already planned on the Verizon 2025 (2) a year plan. Verizon will have a Massive layoff - Q1 2026 (March - April) timeframe. Verizon will have a Massive layoff - Q4 2026 (October - November) timeframe. T-Mobile will have a... — read more
Frontier/Verizon merger
https://www.lightreading.com/broadband/california-approves-verizon-frontier-deal-with-conditions Lots of conditions to be met for this merger.
More Layoffs Coming…
There has been some speculation about potential layoffs in March. Has anyone heard anything credible or been given guidance related to this? Please share context if... — read more
Verizon needs to reidentify
We have identified as phone gross adds for years. Thats all the investors can see is additional income vs churned income. It greatly effects the companies numbers. We need a change from that sort of idealogy. All kept customers in the network matters... — read more