#layoff

I survived… but not sure how Vz can ever feel like “family” after so many face so much uncertainty right before the holidays.

Unfortunately, we will meet again layoff.com, when the next round comes.

This site had many trolls but it also provided more information that leadership cared to share with us.

VTeamers do not get too comfortable if your job is saved this time around… round 2 is coming sooner than you can think of, End of March to early April i am hearing from a realiable source details are being ironed out. The frontier merger should be finalized before Feb 16th and at that point frontier has 20k employees and they are all not cutting cut, i heard verizon can only cut a maximum 50% of their employees to avoid legal ramifications, that means we will have an additional 10k employee cut again in late spring! If you Don’t believe me ask your direct manager if there is a second round coming soon that was something discussed with them once they had already gave the notice to employees who would be impacted, they had a second meeting with their leaders to debrief. You can also go back and check their calenders yesterday you can clearly see their calenders match at a certain point….

For NJ workers 90 days under payroll, u like other states that are only 30 days. With the possibility to still apply internally within the company or search for another source of income while under payroll. Though tempting to look within, it is a hard choice since also being offered a severance package and expand your horizons elsewhere.

I got the call yesterday that my position was eliminated, but I haven't received and severance papers yet. My peers have received there papers. Is it because I'm out on STD?

How does it work for getting a new job? My last day at Verizon is in February. I don't want to wait until February to start looking I want to be able to look and possibly get a job. But if that happens before February do I have to tell Verizon? What is the ruling around this?

I have seen so many people on LinkedIn post that there in the market for a job and I kind of want to do the same thing but I don't want to jeopardize my severance.

We lost more than 20 in West Michigan on Monday. Some with over 30 years experience in their positions. And, these weren’t positions with surplus people. We are all overwhelmed with normal day to day work loads, and it just got worse because of these layoffs! I say no bonuses for leadership as long as there are job eliminations or layoffs!

Get ready. I was told by a VP level Sales executive that HPE will be doing a WFR again in January..

The law firm Strauss Borrelli PLLC is investigating FIS for WARN act violations. Many of us were laid off this month without notice and this applies to us.

This is their website:
https://straussborrelli.com/2025/07/15/fis-global-warn-act-investigation

From their website:
On July 11, 2025, FIS notified the Washington Employment Security Department of its decision to conduct a mass layoff at its facility in Bellevue, Washington. The federal law, known as the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, requires covered employers to provide 60 days’ prior written notice to employees, their representatives, and certain government parties in the event of a mass layoff or plant closing. We are investigating whether FIS failed to provide at least 60 days’ notice before laying off 133 employees and, therefore, violated the WARN Act.

All the middle managers ads avps vps and svps are intact, they said they want to transform, laying off ppl from lower band will not transform verizon ppl who bleeded the money hiring contractors and asked the Vz lower band to manage contractors and they get away with this it’s a shame

Don’t want to hurt them or show off I survived.

Do we know the total layoff count as of yesterday? Was it 13k or with more to add to today’s count? Is it over?

He's gone

Is there any theory or knowledge as to how victims are selected. Presumably a role has to become redundant and then individuals in that role are selected based on length of service, performance and so forth.

Just because you were just let go, or know of others being let go, doesn’t mean the laid off 13,000 in a single day.

They got the higher paid, and the lowest performers off the books before the new year.

More waves are coming. ETA 12/20 and 1/20.

If I’m wrong, I’m wrong, however, I’m still quitting after I take advantage of my Fmla benefits next year. Good luck everyone.

Someone I work with, a friend, was told today is last day.

Can’t they just reduce everyone’s salary instead of layoffs like some cultures do?

Funny how Dan S couldn’t wait to send his email to lay 13k people off. Sent it at 7 am. Well it’s 8 am the next day and we still don’t know which execs, vps, sds and ads got laid off. He laid off all the people that do the actual work but kept all the people who just go to meetings to wag their fingers. Good luck turning this company around with people who don’t want to do a lick of work

Does anyone know if our severance will be paid out in what format?

Developing a checklist of what to do pretty quick. Remember if you have Electronic Distribution set for W2 and 1095-C, you need to go to payroll site and select TAX FORMS and then opt (radio button at bottom of page) to Revoke Electronic Distribution of EACH Form.

Happy exiting. I am still sick and mad at my riff but trying to adjust.

Got an email earlier today saying I got laid off. I’ve been here for 4 years. 4 years loyal to this company and they just fire me like that? It feels like there is no reason for them to let me go aside from cutting cost. I’ve sacrificed so much for this company and they decided to say my work is worthless.

(Repost - the original got nixed, probably because the rest of the post contained foul language)

In October the U.S. saw more layoffs in one month than any month in the last 20 years. Now another 13k, there are no companies hiring we are out of a job and right before the holidays and a massive Great Depression hits. This is so much worse than many think, there won’t be enough jobs out there for all of us. I just lost my insurance, I am fu---d
This is heartless and I was laid off on a fu--ing mistake. I was not bottom 5%, I was a top performer I did not deserve this at fu--ing all. This is bullsh-t. The CEO gets 20 million fu--ing dollars and lays us off before the holidays. Fu-k this company.

Read the comments. So many posts about how it’s heartless to do a mass layoff right before the holidays … and how this isn’t the right strategy

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/patiencehaggin_verizons-largest-ever-round-of-layoffs-started-share-7397358127546777601-dyxz?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAACIHN8cBW6MjhO5MIGRsVYnqPlZ3Ttd_bdI&utm_campaign=copy_link

Jan 31 @ 237. Apr 17 @ 172. Oct 17 @ $213. Nov 3 @ $254. Nov 20 @ $217.

LAYOFFS!

There seems no clear answer to how people or groups were selected. Any inputs?

It can’t just be me but does anyone see the logic in the random decisions? You know, the decisions to keep really unethical employees/leaders around because of favoritism or pure discrimination but let valuable employees go because they have opinions.

JM’s favorite is trying like heck to show value by trying to take other people’s work because she doesn’t have enough work to actually keep her team busy Remain hopeful that from these layoffs people will finally speak up and expose the truth behind the lies.

Might have just been some one-offs but I know two people who were...

Not sure what’s going on anymore. All the people that officially got impacted were only part timers and a couple of our stores in our market got shutdown/turned to indirect. By any chance, may they resume calls tomorrow or are we safe. I kept hearing rumors of tenure & performance was going to be a factor, but no one that fits the category got impacted atleast yet i also heard rumors that round 2 is coming on q1…. I havent officially got the “youre safe” message from my leaders

Did most employees in Boston get laid off?

What kind of emails are they sending to people regarding layoffs? I’ve heard a couple different ways they’ve been handled.

I need at least 10 to deal with this layoff. Reparations

The Format

What org do/did you report to?
What level are/were you?
Where others impacted, your team, you boss, your bosses boss?
How did you find out?
Did you know? Or were you surprised?
Are you doing ok? What’s your perspective going into the future?

Will share mine below. Stay strong everyone.

Let me leave you with a thought today.

We’re being told that in September, the economy added 116,000 jobs. Great. Cool headline. But I want every single person who got cut today or thought you might to remember something:

This is the largest round of job cuts in Verizon’s history, and we’re not alone. Corporations across the country have spent the last month announcing some of their biggest layoffs in years… after receiving massive tax breaks and incentives from 2017 to the “big beautiful bill” . Those cuts came straight out of working people’s pockets with a promise that it would “grow the economy,” “create jobs,” and “trickle down.”

Well, here we are.
The jobs didn’t trickle down.
The layoffs did.

We’re the ones being replaced by AI, consolidated, or “restructured,” while the top climbs higher and the middle gets squeezed until it almost disappears.

So remember this in 2026, in 2028, and beyond when they tell you everything is turning around, when they claim their policies “worked,” when they try to sell us the same story again.

Because if this is what “trickle-down” looks like, all it’s doing is drowning out the middle and forgetting the people who actually keep this country running.

I was informed my position was eliminated today.

I was told by my supervisor that I don't have to do any work (including transitioning any work to other teams) or charge any time for previously scheduled PTO.

Is that correct?

Anyone at VCG CSO impacted. I left last year, it's been good. There are jobs for VZ people, you guys have skills. Good luck

What is going on with those two love birds? Are they still bringing 5100 jobs to the Train station? I ask because an investment / real estate project is banking on that and I don't see it happening.

Dec 19 or 16 is my last day. Can’t even remember everything is a blur. What a sh---y time to lay someone off. A few days before Xmas.

I am wondering if there any rumors about layoffs? It has been really quite and lower level management states that there will be no layoffs. Just curious. I see topics about a bunch of other topics, but not layoffs.

Hans can fu-k up and he gets a nice bonus. In comes Dan, lies with a sh---y PR statement. Communication company with sh-t communication, gets rid of productive workers with great track records, but the bosses fu-k it up.