No layoffs this week. Confirmed. But Quota and metrics will go way up starting this month to help people quit. No severance required. Good luck!

Let's be straight folks, Verizon can no longer compete against T-Mobile and the other competitors. T-Mobile has become a marketing genius. They attract the millennial's and the elderly's, with simplistic pricing. It is now too late for Verizon... — read more 

AP In a surpise Monday afternoon announcement Verizon Communications (VZ) announced a deal with Yum! Brands Inc (YUM) to acquire their subsidiary company Taco Bell for Three Billion dollars. The unexpected move set off a flurry of late trading as... — read more 

http://fortune.com/2017/04/21/verizon-ceo-merger-acquisition/ Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam spent much of the past two years explaining why he didn't need to acquire a big media company as part of his diversification strategy for the telecommunications... — read more 

Anyone heard if layoffs are coming for B2B reps (BAM's, MAM's)?

Curious about these 5/4 layoffs...Not sure if it's true or not. Wondering how Verizon is going to afford all of those severance packages. And how do you actually pull something like this off? 10%-20% of your SS is a lot of people. What if my entire... — read more 

Any word about layoffs in the Pacific NW this week? I'm hearing a lot of bottom 20% for SS. Can Verizon afford anymore serverances?

Feeling The Bern of Reality -- The Facts About Verizon and The 'Moral Economy' Apr 13, 2016 114,602 views 1,701 Likes 451 CommentsShare on LinkedInShare on FacebookShare on Twitter I read with interest Jeff Immelt’s spirited response to Sen. Bernie... — read more 

Has anyone heard more on the 5/4 rumor? I'm in upstate NY and curious.

We already know that the Verizon credit card is maxed out, and 1 Fiber won't be enough to offset the debt coming to maturity. What's to stop VZ from filing Chapter 11, RIF'ing massive amounts of people, ripping up the current CWA and IBEW agreements... — read more 

Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) last week saw its shares tumble by 2.84% to maintain its position as the worst-performing stock among the 30 equities included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. For the year to date, Verizon's shares are down... — read more 

Marissa Mayer will make $186 million on Yahoo’s sale to Verizon Tuesday, 25 Apr 2017 | 12:26 AM ET The New York Times Yahoo shareholders will vote June 8 on whether to sell the company's internet businesses to Verizon Communications for $4.48... — read more 

Maybe we should all say screw it and join the union, that would piss off the powers that be!

I don't know anybody in a store here in the south that doesn't want to get Rifd, managers. Sm's, SS, we all want out. What little morale there was has been taken away by all the crap that's going on, not to mention we are being told to " do whatever... — read more 

Over heard a manager saying they got an email about a GM meeting next Wednesday. Our district also merged with the neighboring district last week, effective May 1st. Seems to be lining up with the phase 1 phase 2 phase 3 rumors. If anyone else has... — read more 

What Indian hack designed this worthless customer software on the wireline side and why does Verizon think they need to integrate every part of the business into it slowing it down ever so greatl I hate

When the last rifs came to rss and some ams there was a lot of talk about this only being phase 1 of 3... a few posts stated another layoff coming 5/4. With that closing in any updates on what to expect? I know Q1 numbers were trash and morale in... — read more 

GMs asking the reps to fudge all kinds of numbers. Where can we report this?

LoZillo and MarZillo will keep their oath to treasure and cultivate their employee base. Never forget their commitment to the Verizon Credo!

What happens when you hire an experienced media executive to run Go90? He lasts a year and is gone. Why do I think he didn't grovel enough, give up on integrity, and kiss a-- enough? Well, he left... — read more 

Will the Telematics sector have any layoffs soon ??

Extremely disappointing results for Q1 but of course we were expecting that based on the rifs earlier this month. But what's the plan? Do we even have any plan whatsoever as to how we are digging ourselves out of this hole?

I would rather work with Verizon company experienced employees than the walk-ins that are literally being hired off the streets. Even worse, these no nothings hires are being "trained" by the most dysfunctional managers that we have...It's a recipe... — read more 

Think about the long line of retards, senior managers and "governance" this went through before it actually launched.... Just Pathetic... — read more 

Verizon Retail has been slamming accounts for years. You've seen it and turned a blind eye. It's time to file complaints with compliance before we become Wells Fargo. Go to your local HR or call compliance and report your managers and co-works. Stop... — read more 

...until I'm paid $128k to go find another job. I couldn't be more excited to find out what life is like outside of Verizon. You can't ask for a better deal!

The RIF coming this fall will be very large! Now is the time to prepare resumes and start searching the job sites. Nobody should think they are exempt from a RIF happening to them.

Wallace Colyer was standing in a garage. It was a day in early February 2015 and Colyer was at Verizon's (NYSE: VZ) development center in San José, Calif. He was addressing more than 250 employees at an all-hands townhall meeting, and the crowd was... — read more 

Marissa Mayer will make $186 million on Yahoo’s sale to Verizon http://www.cnbc.com/id/104423724

I was mgmnt and left two months ago. I asked to be on the rif list last year but nothing happened. Manager told me they were talking about a rif this April. I told him bye bye because I would lose more money watching the Gatt (interest) rate climb... — read more 

http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/t-mobile-adds-798k-postpaid-phone-subs-q1-post-record-low-postpaid-churn I have zero confidence in our current leadership. Time for someone younger to come in and shake things up.

Anyhow, if the unemployment rate is only 4.9%, why are so many people looking for jobs? Why do people feel things are not right?

I notice that some of you who claimed "leaving" VZ to better things never post "where have they gone to?" As the name of the company. That being said, where to go after VZW?

25 years at VZ landline and have never had an Eisp explanation pamphlet sent to my home. Now I have one. What does that mean?

Is there a layoff happening this week? The Telematics division has an org announcement this week and thinking there's going to be a substantial hit.

Anyone hearing of layoffs in the legacy MCI division of VZB. Had heard it could hit both management and non-management employees.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/why-verizon-is-losing-more-cellphone-customers-than-ever/ar-BBA5Gxl?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp

VZ made $$$ hand over fist for years, they made $$$ in spite of themselves. now when the competition has finally caught up some, they are clueless where to turn or go to make profits. I was around for over 20+ years and left recently with a nice... — read more 

What are the PIP leaves for Solution Specialists and how long does it take for a previous write up to be null and void (meaning if you were written up 4 months ago, nothing since then, does it go to the next step if you were to be written up 4 months... — read more 

It's a major milestone for Verizon, which on Thursday reported a net decline of 289k cellphone subscribers over the past four months, = 7K monthly or 2k+ daily, hundreds of thousands of customers defect to competitors such as T-Mobile and Sprint... — read more