As a longtime Verizon engineering employee, today's outage is no surprise to me. In 2024, the company eliminated over 4,800 jobs in a voluntary severance program, followed by another 13,000 jobs involuntarily in 2025. Many of the people who left were senior employees who understood the network and whose jobs were to find and fix problems before they could impact customers. In their place will go an "AI" system that's not yet in place. It will be interesting to see how long it takes to restore normal operations.
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Besides another wave of rig rumored in Q1 anyway
@OP You forgot Han's first big move, the VSP. Didn't that also eliminate 40,000?
oh what is AI going to do now....they can probably blame it on Hans
Past 3-4 years as they have been cutting people silently, and major 13k, every year there is a major outage in Jan-Feb since 2021-22, right after the ThankYouGiving and bye bye to folks…make it sense if it does, of course no way to validate the reasoning
VZ continues to delight its customers. What is AI going to do
I couldn’t be more proud of the work we accomplished today. We run to a crisis to delight our customers! Our people are our most important asset which is why we set the foundation to reward top talent and upskill for AI. So proud to be a vteamer. We are the best in the business. Watch this space we’re just getting started. Let’s go team!
Perplexity told Dan there would be no repercussions.
@a4 the ceo needs to remove more employees like the ones that keep doing the work during the day
There will be more! Cutting the budget down to nothing and telling us to cut preventive maintenance on critical equipment. Verizon doesn't give a sh-t. I think the ones who got riffed ended up with the better deal honestly! Also, they're hiring some recently laid off employee's as contractors making more money and they got a severance! Make it make sense!!!
@OP the verizon engineers knew what they were doing today and again like 2025 did it during the day.
@OP Agree. I had been around since 1990 and it was a great run. I liked to be pro active and find low hanging fruit on the RAN side to fix daily. Today the new engineers are taught to react, everything is a knee je-k. Sad to see what has happened, but like you not surprised at all..
The new ceo needs to step down
You’re right. We didn’t appreciate Vodafone enough. That 45% stake appears to have been the secret to VZW’s success. Once Big V got the whole thing they couldn’t wait to start swallowing pennies and throwing their own fe--s against the wall, thinking they had anything to do with it.
I’m surprised Cowboy Dan hasn’t pulled some magic AI fix out of his pocket. If not him, one of his PayPal cronies.
Sarcasm of course. There isn’t one. But Danny can use this as a reason to get rid of everyone associated with the network and the network itself.
All hat. No cattle.
@OP And of course I meant January 2026.