It’s happening. Huge cuts in Lake Mary. Mostly band 7. It’s going to be worse than last time from what my SD told me.
Good luck to all.
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@f9 you listen rat. Shut your pie hole nark
Listen I personally know a tech in NY who installs car alarms in cars as a full time gig. Even shows up with the VZ truck. Another VZ facility ops guy in Hidden Ridge owns a g-n shop with his family and comes in late leaves early and can’t be found on Mondays and Fridays. Lots of fat can be cut. I retire after the new year and can’t wait to get out. Both stories true seen it with my own eyes
@ek I heard payroll and a lot of band 8 on the 3rd floor. Hopefully accounting is safe :/
@ek Is their VP from finance not raising the bar or delivering the art of the possible for this key critical team that powers and empowers the way we get paid? Could a roadmap pivot help? Maybe a different swim lane? Let’s think outside the box and play to win!
@e3 Sorry! Cells Techs work through those a lot of days. Too busy troubleshooting problems with tower crews or backhaul providers with fiber cuts who dont get lunch hours either.
@bs it would make you feel better to see other people suffer? other people who had absolutely nothing to do with the any decisions that have affected you. that's a sign of deep personal unhappiness, may i consider seeking professional help with this? it's going to cause you so many problems in your life.
@dn hope you wrote this on your lunch hour
@b2 False. I heard 19.7-20.4%
Forgot to menion, driving in all types of weather, pulling generator trailers in ice storms and blizzards. In an ice storm dodging chunks of ice falling from towers and guy lines. And fighting with your manager over the overtime you are due. They want to flex your hours. Start late one day, take off early another, but you are only one text, phone call, email, IM, away from being needed perhaps a 100 miles away someplace else. Wish I counted all the times when I was still a 100 miles from home at it was 5:00pm....
Hope it’s VBG
@a9
Not sure why you are picking on Cell Techs. There has been some Techs that took too much liberty with their positions, but most of those characters have been weeded out by lay offs.
"Most Cell Tech work handled by vendors" If you are talking cell site construction, tower erections, antenna and radio head installs, power plant change outs, battery installs and swaps, HVAC repairs,generator repairs and maint, pest control, weed control, and if a VZ owned tower, tower lights repair and maint, then yes vendors are used. Unfortunately, sometimes you get bad vendors, so the work is not done correctly, so the cell tech has to get involved as they are the closest to the situation.
Backhauls to cell sites many times are provided by a vendor. So if a Cell Tech is on call at 3am and gets up, logs in, finds a backhaul issue with the outage, opens a ticket. Of course he/she gets paid for that.
And the buisness about Pcards. I know many techs who just pay expenses out of pocket. The Pcard card system is too hard (read too much time spendt scanning receipts, assinging codes etc.) to reconsile for Manager approval.
Many Cell Techs are trying to take care of well over 60 to 70 tower sites now. Work days and night traveling around doing upgrades, spend way too much time on chasing silly RET alarms and needed antenna troubleshooting issues, not to mention all the interference hunting that must be done. And that takes time!
Its a job that is hard to do, you work nights and days, and its hard to keep up on the latest new hot
upgrade Engineering needs done.
@a9, Why not apply for the job, and join the fun?
You guys are adorable. VZB ops techs are band 8. We make 6 figures and apparently leadership didn't know we existed. We run the network, work spilt doubles to do it and nobody even knows we exist. You union people have no idea how bad it can be. I imagine we'll all be gone by the new year. Good luck with that.
@a5 Do you realize that most of the states west of the Mississippi don't even know what VCG is? We don't even know what you do. You're just a random acronym that comes up on occasion. I bet you think the same of VZB. We don't even know each other exists in the ecosystem.
VZB.
@bc We got an invite this morning for an "all hands q and a" at 5a pacific with no link to submit questions. Starting to think they don't want to hear from VZB anymore.
No offense but if this is true, can't say I'll hate seeing you guys feel some of our pain. They cut ys by 80 to 90% last December. We're running multiple states with 1 guy. 100k sq miles with 4. And they're big states not some new England bullsh-t. Welcome to the party. Your CEO doesn't care about you in the least.
I hope they lay me off. I was told to work holidays because of fewer people.
all these all hands meetings yet no transparency on what they are really planning
what is with all the meetings in the training room in Lake Mary this week. When it is that quiet something is coming.
What groups will be impacted?
@az 20-30% across the board.
When 11/19 comes and your band 7 a-s is gone, remember this post.
Too late to volunteer I guess.... damn.... Then again, they want our year-ends done early... so maybe....
What departments in Lake Mary?
@ar Band 5 here. We are energized and excited to meet at the ridge and delight in our riches gained on cost saving benefits! Love where you work! Love what you do! The trust, authenticity, commitment and embrace of transformation by our band 5s is the art of the possible. I couldn’t be more excited for what we accomplish next - together!
@a9 Do you just copy and paste that from somewhere or do you have it memorized.
Did a cell tech touch you inappropriately at some point in your life?
All band 5’s at the ridge today planning the riffs!
@OP every two weeks a post like this is made. Don’t believe OP
@a9 who hurt you?
If a Riff is coming… they are quite on the creek. :/
@aa Yes, this is why I would not be surprised! This morning I waited 29 min before my first call. But they are pushing value!
@a5 really ? I was in case and they are putting us back on the frontline. I am surprised to hear there is time between calls.
Most cell techs are useless incompetents as well as their management and they need to get let go or re-badged. Most of the cell techs work is done by vendors anyway and all cell techs do just open and close tickets like a bunch of overpaid secretaries at 120k per year. Cell techs also rip the company off by faking overtime and by misusing company purchase cards and company vehicles. A lot of cell techs don't even roll during outages, they just send vendors out while themselves sitting at home and still charging overtime.
Last November most teams in my department or neighboring department lost 30-50% of band 6&7s. Some band 5s got cut which was refreshing, I hope to make it to Q1 but at this point its just delaying the inevitable. Bring it on big red, I'm not scared of the platypus!
If this is true, this is why they got rid of the leadership with years of operations experience and replaced them with leadership with no operations experience. They wanted someone to carry out the end game plan.
Our location is so slow. I have to wonder how long we can hang on?
I wouldn’t be surprised if. I’m in VCG/ tech support (formally customer service) we have a lot of time between calls with the exception of Monday and Friday. Ai is taking our calls first until the customer refuses to continue!
What about NY?
Home for the holidays. A VZ Tradition.