As a shareholder, I was incensed that we are paying this je-k to waste our time.
As an employee, I am just embarrassed to see yet another incompetent buddy of the CEO ramble on with no clue and no actionable plan.
He had 45 minutes to inspire. Instead, he went long and ran out of time while he scrawled 10 unbelievably simple and dated management claptrap slogans on a whiteboard as if they were the 10 commandments.
Please wrestle the red marker from his hands and have Dan give him a big hug as he sends him off with a $4M check, just like the last guy.
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Nick Jeffery from Frontier should have gotten this role. Would have been so much better, at Frontier we had a real plan and no ambiguity about where we were going and why
McKinsey guy, what else do you expect. Lots of corporate jargon with little substance. Bunch of MBA clowns
Well. I’d rather listen to his lively Spanish accent any day than Scampath’s annoying one - like fingernails on a a chalkboard
Stock will come down. Being an employee 35+years Vz stock never follows the market growth and 2026 will be another growth year.
We at Vz know Dan had zero to do with 4Q net adds and no doubt disconnects were held. All dividend stocks up 4Q.
I’m with the OP. It would be better to leave the role open until they find somebody with vision and charisma, not an old timer who is googling management platitudes to write on a whiteboard.
@OP stocks up over 20%, some of the fat is gone. Sti 100%. There well worth the money. You're probably not