Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

@Kisco Kid Congrats on your retirement! Well deserved. I left earlier this year and due to the pandemic, all the we could do was a team zoom meeting. Years ago, the company would provide a luncheon and a retirement gift. Things sure have changed. Hope you enjoy the next phase!

It is now Sunday, December 6, 2020, and I am officially off the payroll. For those of us that left, I am curious what the company did on your last day. In my location, we were asked to clean out the trucks we were using. They sent some of us out to help other technicians. I learned my first level wanted to take us to breakfast, but he would have gotten in trouble with the second level. No coffee, no breakfast, not even a half day, just a half hearted thank you for your service from the second level. I wish to thank the first level for trying to be a human and show some decency. I would like to hear other stories. Best wishes for all retirees and for the people we leave behind.

Coming up on the off payroll date. Soon i will leave this for the know-it-all junior guys who’s only purpose in this company is to look good to their manager. Hope you get your Cx+ jackets, while I stay warm at home making money. And don’t forget that bonus your first and second levels are making on your backs. How many triples can your boss do? Or his boss? Enjoy the winter, I know you’ll be working overtime to do the work I’m not there to do. Make money for the holidays that you won’t be home for. Best wishes to all of you.

I like your sentiment but it’s schmuck not smuck.

No, it's a string for union members to push their rotgut pure and simple.

This thread is for union members being offered a package to retire if you are not union the only reason you're here is because you're a smuck otherwise mind your own business and move along the more you comment where you have no business it only proves that your jealous you can't help yourself

Oh brother! The only ones I see up/down voting is the person being paid by a union to post here and sow angst among the ranks and just being a total sock puppet. 🙄

If you tax brass maybe that will fund the horribly insolvent pensions. Tax it all so the entitleds get their "fair share.

which one of the only two people posting here are you, union guy, or union-hatiing upvoting downvoting guy?

Let get real here, down to brass tax. I am pretty much just a reader and browser of the board and I must say that it is pretty clear there is 1 or 2 people here posting that that is it. It's a sock-puppet fest here. ROFLMFOA at the postings there! What a joke, seriously! It's the worst comedy I have ever seen in my life.

I don't believe anything being posted here and anyone that does is the biggest fool on the planet.

$1.4 million is not a lot of money for the rest of my life, but will be comfortable. You can think that’s rich, and I am a liar, that’s fine. That just means you have no plans on retirement, no 401k. Just a junior person who doesn’t know about what the company offers. Maybe if you took advantage of the benefits the company has for union and non-union employees, you would be able to leave with more, if you make it that far.

Take@+17DgYwCG, how would you know what rich people do? Why would you consider $1.4mil, that needs to be used for retirement, rich? Starting a sentence with "Um" makes you annoying and juvenile-sounding.

@take, let @trcj boast if she wants to.

"but I have 1.4 million reasons to leave"

Um rich people don't come to boards like this! What a joke! Another lying sack of dung making stuff up!

The person who posted the meaning of union labor was either a manager who got fired, or a disgruntled junior member of a union. I have been a member in good standing for 32 years, and have not asked a lot of my local. I have been paid a living wage, and have gone on strike when a greedy corporation tried to take away what we have bargained for. I don’t always agree with the union, but they have helped me to get a pension and 401k so that I can retire. Not all unions are equal, and some have greedy people running them. In general, this country would be better served if they had unions. That’s just my opinion.

I retired last year from Verizon, took the package, I am 57 and I never have to work again in my life, I am set. And, guess what, I never worked for a union. So go pound sand you union twit!

@tjyf
hint: collect all your inane thoughts and then post just once instead of in manic, one-offs. (and then upvote your own "wit" like crazyI.

Oh I left out
Uninsured!!!!

Definition of non union
POOR !!!!!LOL

• oh yes I forgot

Fired hahahaha

Definition of labor union:

1: the substance at the bottom of something
2: the most undesirable part to be discarded
3: the by product that is of no use and goes to the bottom
4: the last remaining part or lowest worth
5: the part that is cast off or shed

Someone in this thread said that old timers aren’t smart. I’m not the smartest, but I have 1.4 million reasons to leave, and not have to deal with miserable management, and techs that mule for them to get their praise

Most young people these days are smart enough to work a few years and then move on so they don't get old and crusty in a job. Most young workers want to keep fresh and grow within the workforce and not become stagnate and have useless skills 10 years later. 10 years these days in tech is a life time. Most young workers understand that if they sit in the same job for more then 10 years they will not have any advancement at all going forward. I myself am an old timer (by years worked), but I never stayed at a company more then 10 years. I left VZ in the last VSP and I was with VZ for 9 years at that point. Now I am working at Space X and will retire there too. BTW I have never worked for a Union either and never wish too. At 60 I will retire and live very comfortably for the rest of my years.

Just telling the truth here and everyone knows this too.

I’m glad I’m leaving. The young go getters will learn the hard way that the company is about Wall Street, not about what you know or do above and beyond the job. Just send us “old timers” a text about who the most senior person that turns off the lights as they leave for the last time.

Downvote Guy LOL looks like you know best Mr. Up Vote guy! And down vote guy too! Seems you are the expert in this subject 😂

"Those that accuse others and do it anonymously are usually always guilty of the same offenses they accuse others of." - Downvote Guy

The above statement accuses another anonymously. SMH

@ Post ID: @rewk+17DgYwCG Those that accuse others and do it anonymously are usually always guilty of the same offenses they accuse others of. My personal observation is this, for what it's worth. Seems to me there are people here being paid to post by unions and then there are trolls. I take nothing at face value here nor do I believe 99.9% of the postings here as authentic. Most people that view this site understand it a rumor site and most rumors are fake to start with. Also those that protest as much as you seem to be doing are always suspect to being classed as an agitator. Those that live in glass houses should not be tossing stones you know.

He's still sore that he showed his id–tic misunderstanding of the word idiom and his exposing of his own idiocy, so he needs to set the record straight by upvoting and downvoting the thread history multiple times to ease his self-loathing inadequacies, and to shoot down the woke people who pointed out that he's a blithering anti-union id–t.

German translation - Downvoting douché

wow, deuché that agrees with himself, has also figured out that if he erases his browsing history, and has no time for family or productive work, can also down vote continuously. You go loser.

"It's not my job!"... I agree [with myself] fire them on the spot!" – @qxwe

Danke, der Führer for your dumkaff outburst, but you have no power over us, geistig zurückgeblieben.
In seiner Welt ist er ein König! Hier ist er ein Peon.

@qxwe, thank you for consulting a dictionary and correcting your earlier self.

The problem here with it's not my job is the person saying it's not my job is just to stupid to do what is being asked of them hence, it's not my job pops out of their dumb mouths. Union members are such dummies they can't even do a simple task without checking their stupid contracts. This is why the Wireless side of Verizon is where all the talent is within Verizon and also where all the money is being made too. Maybe in Union members would spend more time say, OK, I will figure it out instead of saying it's not in my contact they out grow and not have to be hand held for the simplest jobs. Just Say''n

You id–ts don't realize that causing an obstacle by say not my job or it can't be done force's a Manger into the feild and takes up their time so they can't ride on another union members these are the things that were taught to us by the senior union members the same union that negotiated the benefits we still enjoy today those who bend over to please their Manger today will surely be replaced by the next a– kisser for half of the union wage wake up and realize management will take what ever you give and ask for more and never give back stand strong and never give up the standard that was set by the union members before you or someday you will be looking for a job

The poster meant, I would assume, axiom. Personally I agree with the poster. Saying it's not my job or it's not in my job description is only said by the kind of workers that need to be removed from that company. The response to an asked tasked that is not in your wheelhouse should be. "I have never done that before, let me research it and give it a try ASAP. But please note, I will give it my all and we will see how it goes." And you do it, you ask around, you "google it", you use all the resources you can and press on. Saying "It's not my job!"... I agree fire them on the spot!

"You don't know what an idiom is, do you? st ID: @quwo+17DgYwCG"

You don't know what an idiom is, do you?

Oh the classic idiom "it's not my job". People that say this should be fired on the spot. Oh wait, onboard a ship if you say this to the Captain you can be put off the ship in the next port without pay! Sounds good to me! Crybabies!

Sad to see the younger guys don’t understand they are just company mules. They claim to be educated and know how to program things not in our job description. I wait for the day that the company says they don’t need those guys anymore. I hope that never happens, but the company DOES NOT care about what you know. They care about the bottom line, and if that line says dump salaries, it’s not the upper management that takes the hit. Even management is fired regardless of their knowledge. Keep walking around saying the company cannot do with out you. They survived before you came here, and they will be there long after you are gone.

I love the attitude that people with 30 years cannot learn anything new, can only do one type of job. I have grown through the technology that this company provides to customers, and even go in depth as to how this stuff works. I have forgotten more than the younger technicians have learned. I have been blessed to have been here for 30 years, and have an opportunity to retire. The big differences between myself and a younger technician is I am slower due to my body breaking down from doing the jobs asked of me, and if there is a job that needs the knowledge of older technologies, I possess that knowledge. There are still customers who are working with things other than FiOS. A younger technician can’t or won’t work those jobs because they don’t know how, or feel they are above that job. I blame the company for not supporting those services and not having the tools to work those jobs. I also blame the company for not training so that everyone can work any job, any time. It was also sailed its unusual to work in a job for 30 years. This is true for the current economy. But to be at a company for 30 years is not a bad thing for any of us. The only regret I have for being in a job for 30 years is that we as union members are supposed to leave the people who follow us in a better place then we came in to the company. I don’t feel as if this has been accomplished, partially due to contract negotiations over the years, and the “it’s all about me” attitude. With that said, I still wish those I leave behind all the luck in the world to get the opportunity to retire as I am doing.

"This thread is made for union members "

I am a union member with a brain and it's pretty clear other members are trolling and lying, even in this string. Why don't you try applying some honestly once in a while? Just Say'n!

This thread is made for union members genius its about receiving a million dollar buy out along with full benefits for life its obviously something you don't understand and even more importantly you not entitled to so move along and go complain about your job on a different thread