Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

It’s definitely a their way or the highway kind of company. The problem is that they don’t know the way and won’t admit to being lost so you end up changing direction frequently and going around in circles. It’s the trial and error method!

This is what I do every day, no matter how id--tic what I’m doing is. Boss says do it. I do it and do it well and tell boss this is revolutionary leadership as I’m doing it. So I drive the car off the cliff. No big deal.

Look out for yourself, straight fives across the board on the pulse survey. Otherwise, you'll be looking at hours of "gap filling" meetings wasted your time while your actual work piles up. Worse, you could just end up inviting an invasion of HR Barbies to your office. Treat it like the joke it is, just a people in a third-world country do where the dictator gets 100% of the vote and everyone knows it BS.

@ex Unfortunately we get a lot of ADs, SDs, and EDs that only have a superficial understanding of how the sausage gets made in their department so they come up with ill-conceived strategies and you have to go along enthusiastically to get along.

Those who speak up or resist end up on the losing side.

I wouldn’t frame it so dramatically, but this really is the key. What matters to your boss is what should matter to you at work.

People always decide for themselves what’s important then they get super disappointed and angry when their boss doesn’t see the same value.

@a1
1- They will move up or lateral within a year and become somebody else’s problem
2- Most of them are narcissists and narcissists grow overconfident over time and make mistakes which lead to them being nudged out of the company (oftentimes through a generous VSP). I have seen this scenario play out three times thus far.

@a1 You have to be loyal to your spouse, your friends, etc.. but in a corporate environment, you have to be a chameleon. Chances are your boss is also a chameleon otherwise, they won’t last long.

For example, they used to spend like drunken sailors on mmWave 5G without worrying about poor ROI but now they’re cutting costs ruthlessly.

this is a great way to allow your boss to accrue more power and rule like a dictator. dont be manipulated into this foolishness and get away from your toxic team if you think this is a way to climb the ladder. your boss has zero loyalty to you. they are faking it and will protect themselves while promoting another useful 1d1ot