It will be announced tomorrow and will offically start July 1st. This is similar to what T-Mobile did several years ago to cut cost. When Verizon makes this switch there will be no need to pay overtime and the employee insurance burden will be... — read more 

The layoff is coming 5/17 , but this is never ending. They do it strategically to abide by state laws of non disclosure...smart. Don't expect thousands to be rif in a couple states, expect thousands from many states. Round one for 2018, i expect... — read more 

Anybody else here thinks that this whole May 17 thing has been blown way out of proportion? If there was to be something as huge as some are indicating here shouldn't we have heard something by now through official channels? I'm not disputing... — read more 

Store spacing will play a part. Look at how far away Apple stores are from each other. Using my home state of VA you have one in the major metro areas and that’s it. Outside of that there are NONE. So if you are in an area with heavy Corp store... — read more 

May 17th. Who is scared? I know a lot of it is BS. However, I am sure some of it is true. Scary! What ever happened to the rep who could not keep her legs closed and popped 6 kids and school tuition debt? Hope she is o.k. While Rome burns to the... — read more 

This is what I was told today, most stores will lose their GM this week and they will share a GM with one or two other stores. Busier stores will keep the same setup they have now. Commission is changing, it hasn’t been fully decided on whether... — read more 

What has happened so far? What is expected to happen on May 17th? What is expected to happen after?

reps 10% sales 90% walking corpse support, forgotten password abuse target, apple store for the people that can't be bothered to go to the apple store to fix their icloud, indirect clean-up, telemarketer, babysitter solution managers 5% actual... — read more 

If you want to see posts that had replies, you can click that blue ACTIVE button, it'll filter out only posts that recently had replies. https://www.thelayoff.com/verizon-communications?sort=active

Just got our 6 month death sentence. Just got the news we will be closed on Sundays starting June 1st and we are a smart store. Seems crazy they would eventually close down a smart store but who knows?

If you need an invite here it goes: https://www.bevisible.com/invite/0abfa/ Reminder, we launched a service called Visible - it offers unlimited data, minutes, and messaging for 40 bucks. They are trying to hide the fact that VZ is behind the whole... — read more 

Is this going from a pilot to company wide implementation?

Keep in mind, these are UNCONFIRMED RUMORS. But here’s what we have so far: • Elimination of Retail SMB. Solutions Specialists will be cross trained to handle this additional task. (In addition to tech support, key holder, merchandising and... — read more 

Verizon is going to lay you off eventually. Why not stick it to them one last time before we are gone.

3,500 layoffs confirmed all wireless side this time.

What's everybody thinking about the whole Verizon wanting to buy CBS thing? Is this really something we should be getting involved with right now?... — read more 

I see so many people here wishing to be laid off because of severance, as if that will solve all of their problems. Folks, be really careful what you wish for. Severance might sound great on paper, but by the time it's in your pocket there is much... — read more 

Bye Bye IT! https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/verizon-goes-aws-as-its-proffered-public-cloud-provide

I fully expect, at some point for the ISS position to be fazed out as the reps in stores continue to become more comfortable with SMB. Then you have reps selling in stores and BAM’s for the outside. Just not sure if the 17th is a realistic time for... — read more 

https://twitter.com/TheLayoff/status/996446801245990912

The 17th is shaping up to be a stacked event

If you don't get whacked, keep working. If you do get whacked, take the package and get another job. Don't sweat the small stuff, the world will keep spinning whichever occurs.

This just in, I have CONFIRMED that NONE of this crap can be confirmed. We can all hope some of this happens, but let's stop the lying.

Keep seeing people say that stores are being converted into indirect. Can somebody please explain what does this mean? I don't work in a store (obviously), just curious to figure out what's going on. Oh, and I've tried searching, before somebody... — read more 

Many opened across south Florida and other states...

why can't a gm cover more than 1 store? They can. Take care! Also, Commissions can change whenever; there are no rules.

The trolls have been out of control the last week, it might just be one sick person. I don’t know anything special, I’m just a lowly solutions specialist, but I can guarantee you that they will not be laying off GMs or switching to team commission or... — read more 

I keep reading that on 5/17 all store GM's are gone or 1/3rd of store GM's are gone, etc... etc... Anyone care to take an educated guess at the number of jobs Verizon will shed in this latest go round? Maybe 3000?

post here when you first heard about the GM layoffs internally and what region youre in.

Stores without GMs will not be backfilled. 1 in 3 GMs will be laid off so roughly 33 percent of GMs but NOT all.

Have you guys been reading about this new service

I am a-- in the NEM the problem with vzw is mid management to many people making something hard than what it is we sell stuff. Look at New England it is in two different terrorities with 12 to 14 districts and around 80 stores. Other companies dm... — read more 

I dont know who made this decision but it was signed off on earlier today... GLTA

I will keep this short. Just leanrned that many GM’s will be let go May the 17th. Sources, can’t give you any details other than this. Don’t believe me, don’t care. Hope this helps some people.

The rumor is that everyone is going next gen or getting turned to indirect within the next few years. Where does this leave all of these new, expensive smart stores that we just built? Will they be last to go because of the investment or first... — read more 

I just left a meeting regarding cutting more in store cost and there was an general agreement that GM's added little value to stores anymore. SM's and a Floating DM will replace the void left by the GM's. This has been experimented in several... — read more