Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

The New Verizon - putting pieces together

Here's what I've gleaned so far and I'm certainly hoping the new year will shed some.real light on things. Please feel free to add anything I may have forgotten or missed.

So Dan comes in and touts himself many things, including an authority on AI, even so much as smackin coffee lips about it at the white house.

He's uber excited for this "new Verizon" that will be scappy and non-bureaucratic, with inital claims that no other carrier will be able to easily replicate what we're going to do.

To accomplish this mastery of his mind, we obviously must have massive cuts to fund the multi-billion dollar mystery venture.

And how amazing it will be that we will be willing to miss paychecks and/or bonuses with a smile on our faces because when it's all done, it'll be the single greatest moment of our careers that we'll remember for all of time

And so far, this has consisted of a mega layoff, a declaration laden in hypocrisy that our culture must shift to starting meetings on time so we are no longer sloppy, and a story about a cancer patient who was allowed to break contract, implying that delighting our customers mean we will now be more giving to all who want/need special cost-related provisions.

I fail to see the connection. In fact, as I typed it out, I felt an overwhelming sense of nausea come over one me. Something doesn't feel right.


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@OP it is all bs. how can you turn a $120 billion company to move like a start up, to be scrappy. its all words. Dan sat on the VZ board and was part of the problem.

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Post ID: @fa+1kca3vcnb

@c9 very true. I know of associate directors with no direct reports making over $200k per year with literally no real job. Just goes to show how clueless leadership really is when claiming to need savings so badly.

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Post ID: @d6+1kca3vcnb

3 levels of Directors and 4 levels of VPs. They didn’t make many cuts to make things more horizontal = didn’t make things less bureaucratic.

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Post ID: @cq+1kca3vcnb

Looking at the new orgs as they’re taking shape we have SDs with no reports…SDs reporting into other SDs…ADs with no reports etc…it’s still a mess with overpaid leaders reporting into peers etc

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Post ID: @c9+1kca3vcnb

I think you captured the highlights. The open question is.. what will really change??

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Post ID: @b9+1kca3vcnb

Lost me at “ non-bureaucratic” when this recent layoff was the most bureaucratic non flexible thing Verizon has done in years

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Post ID: @b6+1kca3vcnb

Customers are already p i s s e d.

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Post ID: @b1+1kca3vcnb

@OP - "culture must shift to starting meetings on time so we are no longer sloppy."

True, Verizon is too fat, d-mb and happy even post-layoffs round 1.

Dan needs to be given the opportunity to turn around an underperforming monolithic corporation that has been digging its own hole for years.

BTW, what's wrong with drinking coffee?

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