Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

people think "do i like working and interacting with this person" doesnt matter. you would keep the people you liked the best too if you were in their shoes. its human nature.

@OP Once you land back on your feet you’ll realize that it is a blessing in disguise.

Do you really want to spend the next 10-15 years walking on eggshells? Or st-----g the egos of insecure narcissists?

Listen learning to be a brown nose is a corporate skill. Get good at it and your set

You should have been a yes man , it has gotton me far and is the smart way to play the game .

I was at a job for over a decade, and like you went through the emotions when that last day came that ended the long stretch at that job that was all done in 20 minutes or so. So I know what you are feeling, and probably even more so when you did it for 20 years. It was at that point that loyalty does not exist. Decades of loyalty can be wiped away in 20 minutes or whatever that HR call takes in terms of time on the last day.

Within a few months, I had a new job. A significant pay raise doing the same work and I made 2 crucial realizations:

1. Its just a job. There are many out there. Some good, some bad. Its not your entire life or identity. Its just survival.
2. The longer you stay at a place, the more likely you are underpaid.

I think its best to just recognize that every company is composed of 2 groups of people, generally:
1) The ones who actually do the necessary work to keep the lights on and the revenue coming in.
2) The ones who do everything else but do the necessary work, and they siphon off of the group who does the actual work while kissing their cohorts a-s when its convenient.

You can pick one and only one, long term. The first group requires you to build real skill, hone it, and accomplish something valuable and realistic. Its deterministic, you have real outcome you can point at and show you accomplished something.

Being in the second group requires you to develop the skill of mental gymnastics, lying, cheating, and fu--ing other people over while sleeping soundly at night.

You pick. Don't complain if you pick one and are upset that you didn't pick the other one.

That's just how it is. Nobody likes it. Most accept it.

@OP Sadly this is commonplace at all companies. The people who get promoted or who survive layoffs are usually the ones that are better at office politics not the ones who deliver better results.

Verizon is much worse in that regard than the companies I worked for previously. So odds are you’ll end up at a company with a better culture. Fingers crossed!

Did you just get laid off this week? Or was it the last one in April/May?

Don’t hate the players, hate the game.

In management, it’s Hunger games.