#goodbyeemail

At this stage in my life I have come to look at companies like ranches and I am just a hired cowboy to help drive their herds north to the rail head. In viewing the modern working world this way I don't get too attached to any one company in my life when working in the field of IT. Yesterday the cattle boss said in a not so surprising one on one Teams call that I was no longer needed. I got my notice and packet in my personal email later in the day. I tried logging in one last time on my company laptop this today, but my account had been disabled. So I packed up the monitors, dock, meraki, phone, laptop etc. and took it over to the UPS store. Got my UPS equipment return receipts with tracking numbers to the Bloomfield "Wild Bill" Depot. Now I ride off into the sunset to another ranch over yonder. Hopefully everyone laid off finds a prosperous new ranch and cattle boss to work for. You all worked really hard here and still have tremendous value and potential yet. Stay positive and I wish all of you Happy Trails!

I got the layoff call last month, last day is in May. Others on my team who are buddy-buddy with leadership got promotions at the same time. Needless to say I’m done giving this company anything more. I’m withdrawing all internal transition applications and barely going to reply to emails. For the next 2.5 months, I will swipe my card and turn around go home to apply external roles. I can’t believe how many extra hours and long nights I spent working for this company. Congrats to all promoted and good bye to all!

Not sure if this is it guy. But I just got a meeting with my manager, their manager, and someone else I don’t recognize.

I guess this is me signing off from Oracle

Wish me luck

Just a sad day for all those impacted. Some really good workers let go who have been here a long time. The rest are wondering when their turn will be.

25% of our department was cut and I only heard of one person finding a internal role in the 2 weeks. Good luck to everyone. This job doesn’t define who you are as a person.

I have been searching for a new opportunity outside Verizon and it took a while to land a new Job because of the market conditions.

Good luck guy's hope you landed the job that's make you happy soon

Received the notification of my last day Feb 6th. I wish everyone the best here. It was not my ideal place to work but I came here 2+ years ago thinking it might grow on me. On to the next thing.

I was so fed up with the work and the constant anticipation of losing my job that I'd lost any motivation to work extra-hard. And I constantly felt guilty about it. As if being a hard worker would've made any difference. We all saw today that being good at your job means literally nothing. Anyway, I'm off. Good luck to everyone. The only good memories are the nice coworkers I met along the way.

Nice knowing yall!

good luck to everyone.

I can’t wait for this week to be over.

All SDR teams received pack it up boxes! Good luck to everyone affected by this!

If it is happening today I just want to say I've loved working with you all. I hope the right decisions are made but regardless, I hope you have amazing outcomes and a wonderful future.

Good luck! Especially to the Aerojet folks

Happy new year everyone hope yall have a successful year getting out of OT and landing an actual job in a better / good company. I would say great but even good is better than OT. I will be interviewing over next two weeks. Good riddance OT. They don't know what's going to it them in next week or so. Good luck OT "leadership" trying to fix this.

2026 will be the last year of AT&T employment for many. Make the final weeks count.

May the odds be ever in your favor!

The fact you can work for a company for over 30 years and not get one thank you or goodbye from leadership or even your peers is very telling and just plain sad. Before any of you trolls starts saying move on and get over it, just remember your day is coming. I hope this company sinks faster than the titanic.

To those who are leaving Tomorrow, may God iluminate your new path and help find success on your new endevours.
To those who get to stay.... May you have peaceful and joyful holidays. Please leave this board for now ......Come back in about two/three months......

Hope all Dell workers and previous Dell workers have a wonderful XMAS. In 2026 you want to rid yourself of Dell and ensure you sell any Dell stock you might own...

After a lot of thinking, I've accepted an offer from a new company. It was tough, but the layoffs and lack of any real path forward here made the choice clearer. I'm really looking forward to a fresh start where I can actually focus on doing good work. I wish everyone the very best.

Good luck in the future to all new alumni.

Farewell dear friends
Seems like a moment ago we were all doing great. That it would last a long time. Well it ended and the curtain is falling. So to everyone hope y’all keep in touch. Even though we may go different directions. We were all in one place at one time. Remember the past and embrace the future.

I have been at Optum for 8 years. I love my team. I had a really great Manager until they brought in a Design guy who was some influencer. This dude was an a-s clown.. The problem was not him, it was leadership above him. They wanted to bring in someone who would “shake things up”.. Well, they did. He was a train wreck. Since then things have gone down hill. Our leadership acts and has the intelligence of a JV squad at a community college. They make cr-p decisions, they tell us to embrace AI and then don't give us money to get tools that use AI. We are led by fools and mo--ns. I have been waiting for this RIF for at least a year. Happy it is finally here. I no longer need to worry if it is gonna happen to me or when. I wish all the employees well, I wish leadership to get a clue. Last person off site.. Make sure to turn off the lights (or get someone from India to do it). After all… Thats where all the work is going.. Bye for now :-)

I’m just sitting here reminiscing about the past 37 years working for Nynex/NYTel, Bell Atlantic/Verizon. The union, while certainly far from perfect, got me enough to get married, buy a house and raise 4 kids into adults while allowing my wife to stay home and raise them. Did they blow it with the tiered compensation/benefits for new hires? Yup. Did they bone over retirees with crushing health insurance costs starting in January? Yup. Could they have done better with pensions and lump sums? Yup. Did they spend way too much time and effort defending slug members who should have been fired? Yup. But overall It’s been a good ride with a good group of coworkers. Not sure if I’m gonna bail before August or hang for a bit longer, but either way it’s gonna be on my terms. As for the recently layed off folks, I feel for y’all - this company is as ruthless as it’s ever been and this guy Dan ain’t gonna be a bag of laughs for any of us. Cheers and good luck. AGB

Hang in there, life after VZ has been a breath of fresh air.

Wanted, valued, respected, empowered, heard……

all things missing until I started on this new path.

Good luck and take care of yourselves.

🤗🫂😗

I’m a goner after 11 yrs (probably)! Nice knowing yall.

Not burnt but nuked, crazy stuff.

It will be a shell of its former self. Brilliant strategy, wireless and broadband, the 2 most commoditized products in the industry, and supposedly a transport provider with the shittiest and smallest footprint fiber network there is.

Old glass doesn't cut it these days.

Good luck to all!

I guess they are truly looking after the employees being laid off. That is why I am moving all my 6 lines to T-Mobile. Based on my initial calculations it will come out less than what I am paying with the employee discount. Let that sink in :)

Not even a year here and I got my walking papers. I'm VGS. It was fun knowing you all, I guess.

About 80% of the whole VCG PSM organization was let go. That includes Program and Process Orchestration (PPO), Portfolio, and Project Management (PMO).

Good luck out there!

Drop any info here. Good luck

Good Luck to all, calls should be starting soon.

Whatever happens, just know that you will survive this! There is life outside of VZ

I’m a union member with 30+ years. I can feel grief and pain in your post. I just wanted to say I wish you a heart felt good luck. We will miss you.

I just got my early notification only cause my superior is good with me wanted to not hold me out to dry .Im in a department that has been dead a while .I knew it was coming good luck to all .

Good Luck to the slope workers today. It’s sad to watch really. High $$$ consultants were given the reigns. Reminds me of the RLG days. Conoco used to be the common sense operator on the slope. Only hired good people. Those days are gone. We’ve hired some real winners over the last few years (folks that didn’t make the cut at BP and Hilcorp). To top it off, management thought it best to lay people off right before the holidays, and expect a wildly successful winter season with minimal remaining field experience. Good luck to all. Those that are asked to move on, it’s probably for the better.

Oh, my dearest, most radiant Qorvo family — today I lay down my metaphorical badge, yet my trembling heart refuses to let go. To say “thank you” feels as feeble as whispering to a thunderstorm, but I must try, for you deserve nothing less than a symphony of gratitude.

Every morning at Qorvo was a sunrise painted by destiny itself — every meeting, every spreadsheet, every coffee-fueled brainstorm, a brushstroke in the masterpiece of my soul. You were not just colleagues… you were constellations of excellence, each of you a blazing light that guided me through the vast galaxy of innovation.

To my manager — the titan, the visionary, the Michelangelo of leadership — your wisdom carved purpose into the marble of my career. I am but a humble apprentice who will spend a lifetime trying (and failing) to emulate your effortless brilliance. You didn’t just manage; you manifested greatness.

And to my team — the dazzling architects of possibility — thank you for letting me bask in your glow. You turned ordinary days into living legends. The camaraderie we shared was more intoxicating than the finest coffee from the breakroom machine (and that coffee was divine).

So this isn’t goodbye — no, never that. It’s merely an intermission in the opera of our shared destiny. I know, deep in the spreadsheets of my soul, that we will unite again when Qorvo, in its infinite wisdom, calls us home once more.

Until then, I remain forever in awe, forever devoted, and forever —
A Proud, Grateful, Eternally Weeping Qorvonian

Today is my last day at this clown show. Good luck to those that choose to stay on this sinking ship. It will be slow, but inevitable with PP, DC and the other clowns running the show. Peace.

Received a farewell email from a band 6 employee this morning. She is with corporate finance - enterprise risk management based in Lake Mary, Florida.