Sweedish Meatball was in tears during the company announcement where he was thinking about how the C-Band auction would ‘change the world’. Now it looks like it may cause interferrence with airplanes. If VZ can’t use this spectrum and the government... — read more 

This is an official Verizon video released on May 19th, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF_L7onVIo8 Who the he-l is going to want this product on their window? What about curtains? How many people could follow these steps? This company is... — read more 

Heard it on good authority that come January 2022 everyone will have to return to the office, no exemptions will be allowed. HR is working on the details and will announce the RTO in November. The decision has been made!

If anything has been frustrating me here lately, then it’s nepotism. It's affecting both, the company and the employees. The company loses because people are in positions that far exceed their capabilities. On the other hand, employees also lose... — read more 

Interesting. Just saw an email sent after 6pm yesterday that CWA 1101 and Vzn reached an agreement that ANYONE who put in for the recent surplus offer will be accepted.

With the increasing numbers of covid, what are the chances of home garaging again? Last month in August, covid numbers were higher than August of 2020, and also higher than the month of January of this year. There are also several techs testing... — read more 

Verizon is a terrible company to work for. Nobody in the upper management cares about you or the development of your career. If you want career growth, you're out of luck. Those promotions are reserved for brown nosers, hard workers need not apply... — read more 

I stand with my brothers and sisters in the office. You go back to an office, we go on a wildcat strike. We won’t let you stand alone, even if the Union isn’t with you.

RIF coming for Wireless engineering..... Can anybody elaborate on this, please?

Hans is on the same path with VZ as he was Ericsson. Major labor budget cuts but we continue to bleed out on donations to initiatives related to racial inequality. Leaders are focused on hiring based on race instead of talent. Corporate jets continue... — read more 

Hiring spree at AT&T is good for the industry. Hence, it is very likely VZ will follow suit and no VSP package will be offered this year folks https://www.lightreading.com/open-ran/atandt-preps-for-hiring-spree-open-ran-deployment/d/d-id/771838 — read more 

500 yr flood, Subways closed, roads flooded.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/01/apollo-completes-its-5b-acquisition-of-verizon-media-now-known-as-yahoo/

I feel for the new hires. Remember when you went away for weeks put up in a hotel somewhere if far enough, or at least in a class with people for a week. Now it's all on the computer and apparently they aren't learning anything of value about the job... — read more 

I didn’t mean to stay here long, but I didn’t think I would be looking for a new job in less than two months because I already saw that this wasn’t the right fit for me. Kudos to those who can stay here longer than that, but I’ve learned that there... — read more 

Verizon AND the Union combined the Cable Splicers into one group and have started sending us to the cities to work on 5G. They are forcing the System Techs to work down as Splicers to cover us while we are out of town. Meanwhile the office workers... — read more 

Does anyone have any inside info

How long would you recommend a person who has just come here and is looking for experience to stay here? Unfortunately, I think I stayed too long and lost a lot of time here. Now that I look back, I really regret my decision. I don’t even know why I... — read more 

Title says it all. We’re finally able to get away from the office pervs, racist’s, and sexists. Why go back to that garbage after a year and a half. I don’t want to hear the 20 some odd year rep give me advice on how to deal with 3 baby mamas. I... — read more 

It is not just POS. It is literally like everything we touch. Our gmail goes down. Our calendar goes down. Slack goes down. Salesforce goes down. Those aren’t even VZ branded platforms. When they aren’t down, they are slow! In some cases, the network... — read more 

According to Fox Business Verizon promotes defunding the Police and thinks America is fundamentally racists. What you guys think about that. Social media having a field day with this one

There argument is with less grievances, they have less to do. You would think with less grievances that it would mean more happy workers. This will be an indirect layoff and they’re willing to accept the majority of members leaving the company... — read more 

If verizon continues down this path ,of the cr t post that was just deleted , there will be more layoffs because there is lack of focus on the business. Which means more jobs will move offshore. Maybe this is why christie left.

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1430626413032329217

https://www.city-journal.org/verizon-critical-race-theory-training

Verizon is next on the mandatory vaccine list of companies Walmart Chevron , AT&T , Universities, CVS, Banks all requiring Covid shots https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-25/get-shots-or-get-out-u-s-employers-tell-workers-and-consumers — read more 

It’s on a Saturday but I’m not seeing the 31st listed as a holiday.

Don't fill it out. Deny them their toys.

Rumor Verizon will be mandating the jab.

They want us to fail. Can't fix the ipad point of sale systems we've had for years yet they can spend tons of money of everything else and expect us to do more. Failed activation orders daily.

Personally, I don't think we will ever have staffing like we used to, but I wonder if there is an optimist who thinks we will?

T Mobile has two class action lawsuits in the work related to the recent data breach.

Hi V-Teamers…what is the current time off policy for work from home employees who test positive for Covid? Is Covid leave still a thing if not feeling well and have a positive test result?

Why do people even complain about working here? The previous question is not something you need to answer; just something to think about. This is a very good company compared to the rest of the world's corporate. It's very difficult to find something... — read more 

I'm in b2b and was told to expect longer wait times for all tickets, requests sent in via email, and phone hold times. Reason was that after we combined the coe and bgco, we laid off a bunch of them. True?

I’m in CSSC- is anyone else wondering where all the calls are and why we’re getting so much surplus? At first, it was offered from 5-7- hardly anyone getting it. And then gradually more time granted to more people; including low seniority reps in the... — read more 

It’s amazing how much retail has changed in the last few years. Now, if we have someone call in sick we are screwed. Most days we have 4 reps on the floor, and our queues grow to one hour or more on the regular. Considering our pay is team based and... — read more