I mean, this site is a gold mine for the management. I am assuming they care about what's in the employee's head (and I might as well be very wrong) - reading this board paints that picture fairly well. Figure out what main themes on layoff.com and measure engagement, do the same thing with LinkedIn. If you were to average the two that would give you a much better picture about what's going on on the ground. The board should mandate execs to do this instead of fake survey's that are massaged to the Nth degree. Food for thought.
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There is a new post in this topic just about an hour ago that is either a troll in action or a Verizon employee. The thread is called "State of Corporate Retail" and was posted by VteamfortheW. Based on what others have mentioned, I would say it's a lock that Verizon reviews this website. I think people recognize it as well, as there is not one comment on that thread up to this point. Scandalous company, just fire me.
@es - all senior directors lie
What they should care about however is their money. The amount of leaders scrambling to be "relevant" making all their "top list" items a priority... drowning the remaining people, throwing away the little funds left... burning out the remaining employees... while simultaneously only having time talk to them about status updates.... so they can put them on a slide they have to do after hours.... so their leaders can read said slide and say something has been accomplished. Meanwhile then have to re do all the rushed work to launch programs the field and customer still hates?! It is literal insanity.
To your question: "I am assuming they care about what's in the employee's head (and I might as well be very wrong) - reading this board paints that picture fairly well."
Here is the correct answer: "we are the phone company, and we don't care."
Nobody in the Verizon oligarchy gives a r@#$ a@@ about what we think. We are tools to them. Remember that, and you will be ok.
My SD openly told us she reads it and learns a lot from it just like we do. I’m not sure if she’s lying about the second part. But I’m not sure what’s more sad, if that’s true, or if it’s not.
@dt oh, so you just care about the employees and not the company. Real smart thinking.
@OP oh, you are assuming that the board actually cares about the company and its employees besides the stock price tunnel vision
Good one
@OP I read every post. Do you miss me yet?
I once suggested to Christy P who was rolling out Pulse that social listening is more accurate than non-anonymous polls. All studies point to that.
Oh well, here we are.
But that would be a competent thing to do. Verizon leaders are not competent.
There is one woman at VZ who reviews this website as part of their job. The only thing being looked for is discussion of unionizing and any sort of "uprising" among employees. If you have been around long enough as a manager (won't use the term leader anymore because we can't lead, due to us not knowing a direction) you know exactly who this person is.