Elon has officially ended telecommuting at Twitter. He mandated all employees return to the office immediately for no less than 40 hours per week. Any deviation to the new policy will need to be approved by Elon personally. Dont expect any! Elon does... — read more 

Meta laid off almost 11000 employees (13% of work force) and more to come in couple of months. Where does Verizon stand in lay offs part? do we expect the same amount of layoffs? If so, which orgs might effect?

Same old script, nothing new. Keep the fires burning and your CATAs down and all will work out fine. BS and nothing new. This frog is boiling in hot water and doesn't have a clue.

I should’ve taken the hint years ago when they started offshoring anything they could from Cary to Manila. Had numerous team mates spend months on the company dime down there “training “ their own replacements

I don't think I've felt less valued as an employee in any other company I've worked for so far. Why is it so difficult for people to accept that the leadership does not care at all about our complaints? I think they will never take them into... — read more 

July 2021: Verizon and Ericsson agree on $8.3B 5G build in 2021 https://connectedremag.com/das-in-building-wireless/5g/ericsson-verizon-strike-8-3b-5g-deal/ December 2019: Ericsson forks out over $1B in fines to settle U.S. bribery... — read more 

People who are hoping Hans will be replaced with somebody who knows how to run a company of this size are forgetting one thing: Verizon has been so destroyed by its current and previous leadership that no matter who you put at the helm, they would... — read more 

Verizon today announced the election of Vittorio Colao to the Verizon Board of Directors, effective November 4, 2022. Mr. Colao was the Italian Minister for Innovation, Digital Transition and Space from February 2021 to October 2022. In this role, he... — read more 

Let's face it. VZ has lost its way by not focusing on the business and understanding RF propagation to compete effectively with 5G. While we have staffed strategy teams, they obviously have an ineffective strategy. It's time for the Board to clean... — read more 

HR is useless and union reps are clueless. What is the minimum age plus years of service to get medical benefits. I read magic number 75 or 73 minimum age 50? I have 24 years and I’m 45. I really don’t want to stay another 5 years here. — read more 

Funny, not funny, how Hans has done to Verizon exactly what he did to Ericsson: cut jobs, outsource everything, cut more jobs, make bad decisions and acquisitions, outsource more, oh no the stocks still getting worse, uh-o better cut some more... — read more 

Vz spend $225m to acquire protectwise in 2019 and acquired Niddel in 2019 for an undisclosed amount. Is vz selling either of these products? If anyone know what happened to either of these acquisitions or the products please share. I thought we... — read more 

Hans and exec leadership are going to make deep cuts to the portfolio and people. Do you think he will drastically shrink Verizon Business Group? It continues to decline year over year.

Better off than they are now? Or worse? I say they because I will inevitably get laid off before 10 years is up

It will take 10+ years to catch up to folks like Spectrum, they have been laying Fiber for a while now. It makes sense to build out but will take a long time and Wireless doesn't have the time to wait. Also many cities and buildings don't want... — read more 

Or are we completely fu—-d

Buckle up boys, girls, and others. Hans newest idea is to push for a 5 billion dollar savings in under a year. Plans from execs required to Hans by Early March 2023. Labor cost will be addressed with more layoffs. Don’t be surprised when you get... — read more 

Or is he as soulless as he looks

Hans was critical of V Teamers for continuing to be transparent and ask critically important questions on thelayoff.com. Several questions we raised during our 3Q Earnings Q&A session were sugar coated during the non-Leadership Forum and sparked the... — read more 

Lot of employees let go knew the in and outs of their respective networks they managed in Cary as well as being hard workers. They could spot higher level issues hours before anybody else could. It seems the trend here is to fill departments full of... — read more 

I don't understand those who say that RIFs have nothing to do with age. Maybe they should rethink that one?

Read the severance package SPD under Work, Life, and Time Off > Life Events “Retirement Qualified” means any of the following: 65 with 5 years tenure 55 with 10 years tenure Age + years of service = 75 (or 73 if a layoff) This will allow you... — read more 

Verizon is betting on fixed wireless as the future. When will it happen? "I'd rather take 1 million new fiber customers a year than 1 million new fixed wireless customers a quarter," AT&T CEO John Stankey said. "The value equation of those 1 million... — read more 

I'm not saying that I was the best employee, but I always tried to do my job as well as possible. Now I have almost no motivation. How do you stay motivated when there is no logic in RIFs, when they cut the role model employees who in most cases... — read more 

I would quit on Verizon tomorrow if I didn't have to put food on that there table.

It would be a real hit. The cr-p that goes on here is comical. How did Verizon fail so hard? Who is to blame? Will Verizon continue to just go through the motions and be satisfied with lackluster performance? Will Verizon continue to let TMUS and... — read more 

Anyone heard anything out of Valhalla? It suddenly got very quiet, what changed?

Any rumors of a VSP? With three all hands next week Mon, Tues and Wed, kinda reminds me of 4 years ago...

From a wireline standpoint the downfall was when the company thought bringing in wireless leaders to 'turn it around' with their fake personalities lack of true ability to manage a business and changing a culture to only thing that matters is... — read more 

I'm wondering why they cut some of the best employees and kept some of the greatest mediocrity. Do you think that the managers were actually protecting their favorite workers by sacrificing those they dislike or is there some other reason why the... — read more 

Or are the glory days over for good?

How did we lose against Lumen? https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/lumen-bags-15b-dod-contract

Hearing rumors of a second round next week possibly for international employees protected by their various country laws. Anyone hearing about it or is it more expansive?

It's amazing how many people are surprised that they got RIFed. This means that there are still many people here who believe that their engagement and hard work means something to this company and they persistently refuse to accept the fact that we... — read more 

Is there life after Verizon? It doesn't seem like it. I got rif'd and went home to sulk as they suggested. It's boring nobody is hiring, too close to the hollerdaze. Money is not really the issue as I git paid through the end of the year with... — read more 

I retired as cable maintanence. Still young but the price was right. Can I reapply??