Topics regarding layoffs at Verizon Wireless

Topics regarding layoffs at Verizon Wireless

Verizon Retail leaders don't care about our health

Executives sitting comfortably at home looking at reports and asking for more sales, questioning why we are not beating last year's numbers and trying to make us drink their whole Verizon 2.0 Kool-Aid of supposedly being the "Employer of Choice". So... — read more 

Feb Quota relief garbage

What a joke. Super high quota, limited supply of phones, horrible promotions. VZW takes care of upper management by adjusting quota on regional basis but leaves local stores and us little guys that take care of the customers with half a paycheck or... — read more 

Virus

Hans?? Bubby!! Make the call and close up for 2-3 weeks!! We are frontline with exposure to customers that dont care about our well being. You do realize that we touch the money that these people are paying with , who knows where this money... — read more 

2019 Profit sharing for VSPs

I’m wondering if anyone who took the buyout and left in 2019 has gotten their profit sharing ? I was told we would get the rest of our payment this year 2020 in check form . Am I wrong ? Or when can we expect to receive ?

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| 760 views | | 5 replies (last March 16, 2020)
Post ID: @OP+13WK4Lty

Still Good For Me

Verizon is a good company for what it is. With only 1 and 1/2 year of work experience I was able to get into Verizon and go from $14 an hour to $25 an hour in a few short years. I don't have great hopes with the new CEO and his history of... — read more 

Comp Structure Changes

With the Smb team going to an all bucket commission structure do you guys think retail will ever do something like that? And if so would you like it?

2.0 Mystery

Are we respecting people’s time and not overselling to them or are we slamming accs & pt ??? DM’s, RD’s, VP’s & MP’s are struggling to maintain profit margins/goals from upper management and now are reverting back to old ways of management. This... — read more 

RETAIL STORE CLOSURES

I work at Verizon in the real estate lease and property department. My job is to manage leases for corporate stores and find and lease locations for new Verizon stores. I feel it's my duty to tell everyone whats going on because when stores close I... — read more 

Store Closures

Three stores closed today in Central California, anyone else have any news?

Winner Circle Cancelled!

Winner circle is being cancelled due to concerns over coronavirus! Those of us who made it should get an email shortly with a dollar value in lieu of the weekend. I’m sure Verizon will be saving a good amount in travel and hotels... and yet they... — read more 

BPK

If you can’t take the 5 seconds to read the screen on the bpk than we shouldn’t help you Or get rid of the bpk all together, most of the reps day is assisting with disfunctional customers who need to hand held on paying their bill

Latest update on job cuts

From the website seeking Alpha. Spread word Verizon (VZ -2.4%) CFO Matt Ellis says the effects of COVID-19 and the coronavirus haven't been visited on the company's business, noting "We haven't seen a material impact yet." But it's not immune... — read more 

Another change to STI coming?

Saw my supervisor watching a video entitled STI redesign when I went to ask him a question and I was like “whaaaa?” And he told me to go away.

2.0

Ok so why is it that reps are 100% phone adds, 100% upgrades and 100% total rev and still middle management wants to micro manage the numbers ? Wasn't this the way it's supposed to be ?? As long as you are 100% across the board and 85% RIS ? The... — read more 

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| 1760 views | | 9 replies (last March 3, 2020)
Post ID: @OP+13L95un5

100%

Ok question...if a rep finished 100% new adds, 100% upgrades and 100% rev why are middle managers still trying to micro manage the metrics??

Winners Circle East

Nashville TN at G–lord Resort/Water park Anyone know the date?

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| 1510 views | | 8 replies (last February 29, 2020)
Post ID: @OP+13IibbDq

HBA lay offs??

There are rumors going around that the next step of the budget cut is going to be to lay off all hba positions and move them strictly to vendors. Any truth to this?

Got an email about a lawsuit

Got an email in regards of using “Teams” and “Groupme” while being off the clock... who else got it?

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| 1620 views | | 4 replies (last February 29, 2020)
Post ID: @OP+13Hzd9HR

Grass IS Greener

I left about a year and a half ago. My time and effort are actually rewarded where I am now. I should have left a long time ago. You can have happiness. It does exist.

Customer experience and RIS scores

In regards to RIS scores a rep in the great lakes region claims she was sabotaged by the company deleting positive surveys and leaving only negative ones. Apparently she had some relationships on the DL with management and they tried to get rid of... — read more 

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| 1850 views | | 3 replies (last February 26, 2020)
Post ID: @OP+13GU0BEi

Deleted comments

So why are comments disappearing on this page? Who is really controlling this page?

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| 1140 views | | 7 replies (last February 29, 2020)
Post ID: @OP+13GQGTCN

Vzcg raises

Outrated my dm peer and she still got higher raise than me wtf?? Should I reach out to my union rep????

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| 1260 views | | 8 replies (last March 15, 2020)
Post ID: @OP+13FfolQZ

Is 5g safe?

So far I have trusted Verizon on this one. Has it been misplaced? Think about it we will be on the front line.

Verizon Hilliard Building could be for sale soon

Multiple commercial real estate company’s are in current talks with Verizon about the Hilliard Verizon building at 5000 Britton Parkway. I am not sure if this is to lease the unused part(s) of the building or to sale completely. However these... — read more 

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| 1160 views | | 4 replies (last February 24, 2020)
Post ID: @OP+13CLpDpC

Death of the pixel

Verizon is ditching the Google pixel. So we are back to selling iPhones and Samsungs not that that had changed anyway.

Coronavirus hurting store inventory??

Just checking to see if other stores have been seeing their phone stock dwindle over the past couple of weeks. We are almost out of certain iPhones in our store and we haven't been getting any in. Reps are concerned that they won't be able to hit... — read more 

Call centers closing timeline

When are the rest of the call centers closing? Lots of rumors going around and would like some accurate information regarding the trajectory of remaining centers.

Hiring Freeze in effect?

I know they can post jobs but not fill them in a large geographic area.. So I guess a pause? Anyone know if this is company wide or area specific.

Verizon Hilliard

Cafe is closing first week of April. More to come.

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| 1140 views | | 4 replies (last February 18, 2020)
Post ID: @OP+13yR0eNJ

Store Closures

Since January we have had North Shore Mall MA, Coolidge Corner in MA, and now Pheasant Lane Mall in NH all announce they were closing. What’s next? How do I find out if my stores closing?

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