Thread regarding Verizon Wireless layoffs

How did we become so incompetent?

Look at what we have been doing for the last 3-5 years, outsourcing CSRs, taking away abilities from the retail POS, adding fees, reducing and removing discounts, wasting billions on useless spectrum while cutting off and failing to maintain what is actually used, and then listening to higher ups and C suite employees whine and blame us for poor numbers. The actions that have been taken would make no sense to someone in middle school, yet were taken by millionaires. This is criminally stupid, almost makes you question if they are a deliberate attempt to devalue the company for a future sale.

And what is being done to fix it? More fees and BYOD plus? We lost subscribers again on the consumer side last quarter while literally giving lines out for free with free or heavily discounted upgrades. Who thinks this is working? People being payed millions to make your life more difficult, your quotas higher, and your future uncertain.

The obvious fix would be to stop sc--wing customers with fees and trash customer service and stop giving shady reps easy to hide ways to add lines, but who wants to hear that? Sometimes you have to spend money to make money, but no, lets just cut and outsource more, but we will spend on AI that customers and reps very vocally dislike.

Spend money on US customer service reps and the network and stop sc--wing the customers, all of the money they have saved with these cuts is being lost by the droves of customers leaving for Tmobile, and common sense and a little money would stop that and reverse a good bit of it.

Hopefully the new CEO doesn’t F this trainwreck up any further, maybe he isn’t at his knees in front of Larry Fink like Hans was. Maybe Dan will read this, one of the HR spies in here should put this on his desk.


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@f7 best post to date.

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Post ID: @1a2+1k9q3zzfe

When Lowell McAdam and some of the original leadership retired. John Stratton should have had his change at the top. I left after Hans came in... moved up deadlines thinking he was all cool only for deadlines to push out and push out further than the original deadlines. Who remembers the building blocks of the company that Lowell and others would always reinforce? Employees were one of those blocks....

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Post ID: @19t+1k9q3zzfe

Companies will do what you keep them do and your elected president Trump is cowboying it out there and trashing our country too.

Thanks for voting for him

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Post ID: @xz+1k9q3zzfe

The disaster that most everyone realized was coming is directly related to the hiring of executives, for lack of a better term, from Sweden, Ireland, India, and Canada. At least two have been under investigation of wrongdoing while being the head of other companies. The next part of the disaster is allowing HR to run the business with its innate stupidity. Another part of the mix is increasing prices and forcing someone within finance to manipulate the numbers by showing increased subscribers rather than terminations based upon the increase. Forcing out the knowledge base within the company. Offshoring customer service and everything else they could get their hands on. This CEO will do no better and the price increases will continue along with layoffs. When something this large is turned into such a mess, it will take a very long time to correct. One common theme that has existed for at least ten years is the executives do not want to hear the truth. Every negative is twisted, turned, and shined so the executives can continue to believe that they are the greatest.

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Post ID: @f7+1k9q3zzfe

@br+1k9q3zzfe the new one rolling out soon isn't much better

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Post ID: @d0+1k9q3zzfe

Most importantly, did you complete your pulse survey and volunteer hours?

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Post ID: @bt+1k9q3zzfe

Can't even process an order without a million errors!! New system please!!!!!

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Post ID: @br+1k9q3zzfe

The root of your problems is unchecked corporatism destroying American companies, sc--wing over customers and employees under the illusion of progress.

you got overpaid monkeys in business suits pretending to make progress by slashing and burning and stepping on everyone's neck that supports them.

that mindset needs to end. Leadership is supposed to work for us, not the other way around. what we have now is a bunch of arm chair quarterbacks leading initiatives for sh-t they wanna ram down our throats when they themselves has any capacity to execute that vision.

bunch of nothings making nothing. but they reap all the benefits with none of the consequences.

eat the rich

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Post ID: @an+1k9q3zzfe

@ab completely ignorant!

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Post ID: @ac+1k9q3zzfe

you lost me at "wasting billions on useless spectrum"

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