These people keep getting spared every layoff and they're the ones at the water cooler, long overdue for retirement. They are good at showing up on time in a crisply ironed shirt with a positive attitude, much like the old IBMers. But as far as carrying the load when half the team gets axed (strictly according to their manager's own specific preferences and prejudices), the work output won't scale accordingly. They have one speed. The speed of every telephone company. Because every telephone company is comprised of them.
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I take offense to this statement about "long overdue for retirement". I was hired in 1999 and am not even 50 yet! Retirement is still 20 years away.
I have worked hard over the years, have continued my education, and want to continue.
GEN Y is hands down the worst gen of all time
Most of us were cut in December.
We worked our as--s off for 30 years so you Gen Z’s can complain about it 🖕🏼🖕🏼
There are no layoffs coming tomorrow. There are suc$%S born very minute!
@ac it’s a self-insured plan. So unless your doctors are consistently billing your insurance $20k+ a year, it’s costing Verizon next to nothing.
@OP what a tool....
@OP, you want people to work harder, pick up more work, and at the same pay so higher ups can make more money? That sh!t gets old real quick, but you do you and keep drinking the Kool-Aid. Your turn at unemployment will come.
Productivity over the past 50 years has increased thousands of percent, but has that translated into worker benefits. Nope. It has translated into creating a 0.1% class that has more wealth than probably most of the population of the US combined. It now takes two incomes in a family to just get by (one breadwinner used to be able to support a family). The benefits of increased productivity have not translated into increased benefits for employees at anywhere comparable to how much the oligarchs have taken. Frickin' troll id--t.
The amount the company pays is way more. I pay maybe 4k a year and the company pays 20k+
74 dollars a week for healh insurance
It used to be zero
I'm not a dot-com boomer, but OP sounds like a baby... Praying someone else gets let go so you can - what? Climb a ladder of a company that's so successful they can't help but layoff thousands of employees every year for the past decade and then hire a new grad at lower payscale because they lack experience. Just let that sink in for a minute, and know that Gen Alpha will be praying you get let go in 10 years too.
Funny the old bell golks the only ones that gotta clue and know how to manage
@OP whatever. Just remember that “All your base are belong to us”