#layoffs

Anyone know if california has been affected? Heard market president steven keller was promoted to customer. wondering what the damage is looking like beyond that

Been here over a decade. TPD band 6. Last day 12/19.

Was anyone else spoken to about the new policy under Athena that work from
Home employees are not eligible for promotions or to even get new roles?. So essentially we are stuck unless we want to move close enough to one of the 6 designated hubs in North America. Another way for Pepsi to save $ in hopes that we leave willingly instead of firing us and having to pay severance. This is getting old

Anyone in the Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany area affected?

Are we safe? Or know anyone affected?

The folks in NJ are getting their 90 day WARN notice.
In Massachusetts only 30 days, despite the 60 days state law.
What gives?

Anyone know who is gone? Heard Shankar but not sure if it’s true.

What’s the severance package like? Enhanced and 3 weeks per year like it’s been in the past? Standard 2 weeks per year? Or is it really just 1 week per year like some rumors have mentioned?

Not even a year here and I got my walking papers. I'm VGS. It was fun knowing you all, I guess.

Relieved tbh - My soul was being crushed and the universe rescuing me because of it.

Can we start a thread here of confirmed locations out of the 180. Anyone got word yet?

This company is absolutely mad. They're just throwing in the towel to T-Mobile.

Can they cut 13k people in a single day?

About 80% of the whole VCG PSM organization was let go. That includes Program and Process Orchestration (PPO), Portfolio, and Project Management (PMO).

Good luck out there!

Band 6 - Lake Mary - AID . OUT

Was told 1/3 of the top 300 were impacted.

Verizon business group
If you were impacted, please post your details here. Letting us know your position would help greatly, especially us folks in the West coast.

Mid-Markets to be cut in half. Calls have already been sent out of EST. This will be a total shake up, if you survive you will not have the same title or job scope Jan 1. Get prepared for them to make more money on your backs.

I got cut and I’m super upset. I was recognized numerous times and was a top performer… and truth be told, I REALLY loved my job and what I did. Loved my market team. Just truly su-ks.. I know cuts are still being made… the way they did this RIF was so unprofessional and unhealthy. I’ve been sick since last week stressing about everything! Hopefully the future holds something better! Good luck everyone!

As a spouse to a former Verizon employee who was riffed several years ago. I understand your fears. I pray all get the decision you wish for. Just know Verizon is a business and no one is irreplaceable. There’s no heart in it. I know what this kind of stress can do to a person. If you are riffed please take it as a blessing and leave Verizon in the rear window of your life. The constant mental torture of worry every few years is devastating to a person’s confidence and self worth sometimes. As my spouse is here in a hospice bed the only thing I’m grateful for is that Verizon means nothing to him. If you have your health and family that’s all you need. Hold your head up and find a job that won’t run you through mental torture every few years. It’ll be worth it no matter how it turns out for you today. I wish you all the best in life.

VBG, SD and AD called.

At least so far. We won't be able to function without them, so I'm assuming either the rest of us will be laid off as well or reassigned to other teams. This will be a long day.

Employed through 2/20 per NJ Law. Severance portal opens at 1ET. EPP extended 1yr though so...woohoo.

It’s starting now. If you’re in CST or EST, and you don’t hear anything for the next 30 minutes I think you’re probably okay. Good luck

Anyone else having the same feeling? I have not heard anything from my Manager or Director…No invites or schedules on their calendar…all team members are just on the edge of their seats even if a new email pops up. But no word if we are all safe or any impact on our team!

Just getting too anxious at this point! I hope at least they let us know if we are safe or not!

All these years down the drain. Never once rated low and never written up. Told my job was being eliminated but yet they want to help train the supervisors taking my techs .

I work in GN&T in the BMET area. Two of my coworkers also notified

What’s the details on your team? I’m tired of all these group chats with depressed people

They are coming from every direction right now. This is nuts. Not a great way to do this in my opinion.

First time posting, received 1:1 with field supervisor. Other coworker said their 1:1 was expected. One of the thousands gone. Crazy is VZ is only keeping 3 of 12 ops techs that cover SD, IA and NE. Good luck with On Call and fiber cuts. Peace out everyone.

I’ve heard people are being told to take the rest of the day today if they’re given notice, but what about Friday? I can’t imagine coming in tomorrow and pretending everything is BAU after getting laid off today.

**I just got the confirmation that VEC MDU will be reduced from 7 client executives “Fios/5G” to 4 client executives per Team…..YOU HEARD IT FIRST** ask your AD/Sr.Directors to be transparent this time, apparently its to help with the transition of the frontier merger happening in less than 4 months., hopefully they wont be clueless and dont know cause it seems the employees know more than the leaders these days.

At the time it’s like “oh new center! It’ll be awesome”

And now it’s like “too much bloat, have to be lean and a miserable place to be with 75% of your team left in an already lean function” wtf?

Heard that they are planning to move all the Lake Mary jobs to New Jersey in the next two years.

Anyone know what roles were effected most? Did they target specific departments or positions? Regional selections

Emails started going to US employees, slack channels for US employees only started showing up.
They are protecting the offshore employees from seeing this ugly carnage here in the US.

US companies keep making billions here, yet they fire American workers and ship jobs overseas. Outsourcing is booming 980 billion this year and projected to grow to 1.6 trillion in 5 years, all these are US jobs getting outsourced while families here drown under rising healthcare and living costs.

WE NEED TO REACT

The HIRE Act was built to protect OUR jobs, but Congress lets it rot while CEOs like Hans and Dan cash bonuses. If we don’t support laws for U.S. workers, no one will.
Call your lawmakers, flood them with requests to support US workers and not to cave in to outsourcing lobbiest:
Contact your lawmakers
https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials

The HIRE act is stuck with this committee https://www.finance.senate.gov/about/membership

Ever since the layoffs, it’s been crystal clear: Target doesn’t have the desire to do another formal RIF, so they’re trying to make the rest of us rage-quit instead.
The new SVPs openly don’t trust any of the remaining VPs because they’re “holdovers from the Brian Cornell personality-cult era.” That distrust trickles down hard — directors and Sr. directors are getting micromanaged into the ground, skipped in meetings, or flat-out told their opinion doesn’t matter because they’re “old Target.”
And now the latest insanity in Target Tech: they are MANDATING that story pointing be “consistent” across the entire org — one point = one ideal engineering day. Doesn’t matter if you’re on a legacy spaghetti codebase or greenfield green-grass stuff, doesn’t matter if half your sprint is fighting Prod fires or on-call — 1 point = 8 hours or you’re “underperforming.” They’re literally we-ponizing story points to create impossible velocity goals so they can PIP people who can’t hit the made-up numbers.
Hours are creeping up, recognition is gone, morale is in the toilet, and every standup feels like a performance review. Classic constructive discharge playbook.