#contractor

The older workers pdf clearly showed a bias in laying off the older population of RFEs. A couple of very recent RFE hires were included in with the riffed group (to mask the age discrimination?). Were RFEs in other regions affected similarly?

Also, the CARTN RFE team already has approx. 20 contractors (not touched) supporting the build plan (entering data in the tools per the RFEs' directions, plus running plots for review by the RFEs). ALL of the 20 or so contractors appear to be from India (Amdocs, with the contractors in TX?). Are the contractors now going to planning the designs of the cell sites? How is the quality of the designs (new builds and modification projects) going to be affected given the relatively short time span contractors are working for VZ (through Amdocs)? Contractors do not have as much skin in the game as fulltime VZ employees, and it may take 6 months to a year and a half for poor quality work to show up in the network.

Really short sighted on the part of management.

Anybody know what’s going on with Truist and Accenture? Truist decided to end the contracts early for 100+ contractors this week. Granted some of them were offshore/useless but there were quite a few in IT that were solid and were supposed to be extended for another year and then magically the powers that be decided otherwise. Not sure what to make of it but our team is not sized correctly and now we definitely won’t be able to keep up with the workload.

Two members of my team, of the 4 that were kept, keep messaging me to help fix or document items I was holding together.

They have been loud about the fact they want me to return. To return as a contractor is that after the 6 month freeze?

As of February 1st no more in-house techs Cute 🥰 How the destroyed this place, You will now be and independent contractor

After 25 years I was terminated on 11/20. And now a local Engineering firm has just reached out to me to see if I would come to work for them on the projects I was working at the time of my dismissal. So VZ will now pay much much more to get projects completed and they won't be able to overwork me like they did in 2025. I was told my former manager was in "Panic" mode to get these projects completed. Should I take the job?

So now that this wonderful Auto Routing in OFS is working so wonderfully- Says absolutely no CEs! But the Senior Management is all in on this and ignoring what we all think of this system. The TMs are loosing more and more abilities to do anything. They cant do anything with calls or scheduling. so I see the SPs and TMs getting cut. Maybe not all of them but a big chunk of them. I can see some of the CEs getting changed to Contractor status or just cut more of us. Hope im wrong on this but after all, there was a reason for Splitting NCR to begin with. To make us more sellable.

Isn't the Accenture contract cancellation date fast approaching? Does anyone know how many current Accenture contractors will be brought on by the new vendor and how many will be let go?
Someone I know who is still there tells me they have been setting up access for new the new vendor like crazy.

More and more contractors are being moved to different recruiting companies that will ultimately be their last stop. Contracts will expire and not be renewed and in some cases will be cancelled outright. If you have had three or more different recruiting companies under your tenure with HP then you will likely be next on the chopping block. Your $100,000 salary will be taken from you and fed into Asia.

Any contractors heard of anything regarding their extensions for 2026?

Stating the obvious: layoffs are direct hires losing their job. Ironically, outsourced labor is often low quality and sometimes justified because it is “easier to fire a contract worker”. Yet I am not seeing a directed reduction in this labor pool. What gives?

Any management in here that can explain what was told to them about next steps with contractors?

All the middle managers ads avps vps and svps are intact, they said they want to transform, laying off ppl from lower band will not transform verizon ppl who bleeded the money hiring contractors and asked the Vz lower band to manage contractors and they get away with this it’s a shame

Have any teams begun laying off contractors this week?

Anyone heard any contractors being layed off? All I have heard atleast from my team is FTE…which su-ks. I thought contractors would have been more impacted than FTE.

I work with contractors in engineering. Only one that I know of was told he is leaving because his time was almost up anyway. All the others were told they are staying. They are a different animal it seems while the rest of us are thrown to the wolves.

More contractors to be cut in San Jose soon.

Does anyone know how long these contractors are here to stay?

Anyone know if this is contractors too?

If you RIFD, may we come as a contractor to Verizon with some vendor and there are no regulations to return?

Several of my peers who left Vz as part of the 2024 HCL deal have recently been hired back as contractors. Would you consider a contractor position if offered?

Are contractors cut before FTEs? It would be weird to cut FTEs but keep contractors.

Saw a very talented guy being laid off for cost-cutting and redundancy.

Funny part, Many of his ideas improved TU's core products and saved a ton of money for the company. I as one of his previous manager was more devastated than he was. He was moved from my project to Onetru forcibly for his talent, now laid off because of onetru/onedev's management failure.

Neustar management is firing loyal, talented full time employees in favor of contract for hires which I bet they have an under the desk deal to line their pockets.

Is the layoff applicable to full time only or contractors are going to be impacted as well? Can organizations sacrifice contractors to meet the 15~20% target and reduce Opex pressure? My organization is loaded with contractors with only a handful of full time employees.

The district manager told my boss (area manager) that he is going to have to cut 1/4 of the 1st level managers. Does anyone know if this is true? I recently switched from a local manager in construction because I thought contractor services would be safer and I wouldn't have to deal with OPT's. Now I am worried because at least before I had people that reported directly to me. Has anyone heard anything concrete? I'm seriously considering volunteering because I cannot handle the stress. My new job is so much better than when I had to babysit union OPT's but I'm afraid I made the wrong move going to "supervising" contractors.

Will the RIF impact any contractors, or just employees?

I heard engineering is going through more cuts. Some staff were quietly let go this week and their last day is tomorrow. They were replaced with off-site contractors.

Anyone hear about this or other cuts in the organization?

Recently got my employment terminated at Nike. I was working as a contractor ETW at Nike. My vendor called me and told me that my contract got terminated due to HR policy violations. This is because as I am a remote employee I went to Nike office occasionally. But I don’t have an active badge. My badge was expired long back. Also, I got a call from local police saying that not to enter Nike property. Anyone saw this kind of stuff happening?

As of December 1, eDOCS will be officially, legally, and technically integrated into NetDocuments. All current employees will transition to contractor status under a six-month probationary period.
In General, contractor roles don't come with benefits such as 401(k), RRSP, or health coverage; dental, vision, because they are considered self-employed.

This presents significant challenges—particularly for U.S.-based employees, who rely heavily on employer-sponsored healthcare. Canadian employees may be somewhat less affected, though ongoing issues with the public healthcare system and lack of private coverage options still pose concerns.

in a call last week MN mentioned five deaths this year from the Angola incident (3 reported deaths) and some other incident. Does anyone know what the other incident was? I think a contractor was also ki-led in Pascagoula due to a fall.

Anyone knows if they will allow hiring of contractors again. I know some groups never stopped hiring but some are still on hold.

because the coast guard is expected to drop Peraton as the prime contrctor, it is easier to cut the subs first and then move on to the prime... IMHO - they have done a poor job supporting the coast guard.

i have heard from multiple uscg feds, contractors, and dhs feds that uscg has wanted to replace them for a while.

This is just my opinion, i dont have any insider info.

Any updates on contractors working for Edward Jones such as CGI, Accenture and Deloitte ? It already seemed like they wanted to fill as many positions with them as possible instead of full time EJ employees, but with the future offshoring seemingly coming down the pike, is there any contracts that anyone has heard of changing or getting canceled.

Contractor for 2+ years, and not looking promising. Job market is tough. This place su-ks and LACKS DIVERSITY, big time. Managers, supervisors, etc don't give a single sh-t.

Any suggestions?

Tactics will be used to simply encourage employees to leave the company.
No relocation
No guarantees
No housing assistance
You are on your own.
Much of the work will be absorbed by Dallas, Contractors, and India.

IT has so many departments and similar functions. IT is a service, why not eliminate most of them by contractors and real IT companies. So many IT workers looking for work with AI so the pay and market availability is now a great time to lower our cost.

1. Cost Savings
2. Access to Expertise and Technology
3. Focus on Core Business
4. Scalability and Flexibility
   5 24/7 Support and Reliability
5. Risk Management

Keep the chemical engineers and people in the field paid well. They are out in refineries and terminals in harsh conditions. Why pay them the same?
Most of them are useless and over paid and couldn’t get another job in the market.
John Deere man look into IT please!!!!!!
So many Losers!!!!

Stemilt will lay off more than 1,500 seasonal workers.
The WARN notice lists 1,561 jobs. Layoffs start Nov. 21, 2025. These are H2A seasonal roles. Contracts end after harvest.

Year round warehouse and shipping jobs are not affected.
Stemilt says most H2A workers return.
The company expects operations to continue normally.
Headquarters is at the Fresh Center in Wenatchee.
Packing sites are in Wenatchee and Stockton, California.

GPC has undertaken a large campaign of offshoring since they hired Naveen Krishna. Eliminating roles based in America for years and only using two contracting companies (TCS + Cognizant) both based in India. The IT dept is now 70% staffed by contractors in India (2500 out of 3500 roles) and over-represented locally by H1b Indians. Locally, the 3100 location that used to be primarily American FTE's is now flooded with Indian contractors. Naveen has kept his direct reports to a homogeneous mix but one level lower you will find gross over-representation of Indians. There are also Perm notice of filings hidden from the public job board.