Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

So I have mixed feelings. I like that he was transparent and didn't beat around the bush, or Bowie smoke up our butter, but I don't like the elusivity behind it. BC it's done nothing but create fear and panic in everyone who isn't in his conversations.

I also like he said he's only been in role 22 days and if he came to us with a full plan that early, we should be concerned. I think that's a smart reminder. What I don't like is, again, the inability for us to translate into anything tangible, and therefore continuing to stir the mental pot of doom.

In all reality, at 22 days, the plan was probably still in his head and now he's hustling to see if, how, and when he can start making it happen. Whatever he's planning, it's not going to be small like a pricing plan change, we know that. He's patting himself on the back a lot about his AI knowledge and capabilities, so whatever it is, sounds like it will be big and far too much to have ironed out instantly.

The other reality is that it's probably changing and evolving, as any plan, large or small, does. So for him to communicate everything out of the gate, he would likely have to back pedal and change his story countless times, and that's also not the way to communicate.he would be viewed as clueless or having no direction or capabilities, and that's not necessarily true - we don't know yet.

At the end of the day, it's our imaginations that are creating our current stress, because we simply don't know, and we want to. The brain will try to make order out of chaos, always. I'm not defending this dude in any way, I'm just trying to make sense of all this, like everyone else, and hopefully reduce my anxiety if I can step back and think about this more logically than from a victim perspective.

Based on my 40.+ years if experience in the legacy Ma Bell to Vz system the mass leadership void entered with Hans/European Executive Team and the utter lack of awareness of a USA Market.

Verizon Board equally at fault putting International in their Global mission statement.

The accelerant was ultimately DEI.. which evolved from VTeamers to MeTeamers.

Whose idea was it anyway to removed the Vz Credo?

Are we not v teamers anymore?

Vteam was a hoax?

Verizon talking heads don’t respect their vteamers. They consistently lie about retirements only to find departures were involuntary in the proxy. They give vague goals to achieve, and then reorganize to the point where there is no accountability. MANY people see this and do so little work they would be fired anywhere else. But managers have little recourse to hold them to account when the mission isn’t clear in the first place, not to mention HR makes it cumbersome and near impossible to fire anyone. These people are the first to suddenly show up for volunteer or team day pictures as well to get visibility with the out of touch leadership more focused on pulse participation and LinkedIn posts than serious work. The rot is deep and wide in vz culture OS. Dan has his work cut out for him to clean house.

A bit of empathy and consideration would go a long way…Nov 20th is an artificial date …there’s nothing stopping management acting sooner but employees appear to not be thought about at all in this process. Weak leadership is not transparent, not straight and does not meet challenges head on imo