Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

This mentality is ki-ling the brand. Our brand is built on the opposite of this idea. A decade ago things worked, network, systems and customer service were PREMIUM. Now we piece mail it all out and no one is responsible when it all goes to sh-t.

Bruce Anderson is that you. I heard you got a-s cancer from being pegged by your shemale boyfriend.

Spoken like a true uninformed corporate staffer. Contractors don't save money for the company and the knowledge and expertise in the field is way beyond your understanding. Don't let our knuckle dragging mouth breathing looks fool you. Who do you think makes this company run...Hans keep drinking the kool-aid

Wireless has d-mbed it down and contractors are doing job core responsibilities now. A few more years these boomers will age out and not be replaced

@er+1. You do realize that as foreman, you’re responsible for getting training for your techs so they can do their job. Why in the world did you send out two untrained people to do a job they didn’t know how to do? This is where that whole”management” part comes in.

that's an awesome idea
so, get rid of techs there's no need for foreman 2nd line 3rd line
there is already a group overseeing contractors
so let the layoff begin
plus, contractors only do what is on design so every fu-k up by engineering is an extra
wake up you mo--n that's why you are a foreman fu-k up and move up

Foreman job at vz is just a glorified attendance taker job....these 2nd and 3rd liners know it also....but to speak up would mean they just manage attendance takers...so the CEO is never gonna know how much cash he's burning just to take attendance

the customer base will not increase at all. If contractors are used with offshore, that will lead to higher costs. The costs are huge compared to USA labor. This will force the cost to be pushed onto the customers. Customers who can't afford it, will go to the plans which are not the top three. Thus causing huge acceleration in layoffs of US workers, contractors, and offshore. There are just way too many aval contractors than what the workforce needs. Sorry, but will only cause massive layoffs.

I miss the days when foreman be defending me and you. Now they be about doing they job and only they job. That is crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!! I miss you

Are POC foreman of the community prone to hypertension always eating McDonalds and greasy Kennedy Fried hood Chicken. Not a good look for VZ

Do you guys still hang out in the McDonalds on Jerome and Kingsbridge Road in the Bronx for hours at a time. The trucks are always parked in front .

It would be best to get rid of about 75% of techs and rehire or use contractors. I would never hire anyone in NYC or North Jersey.

'It's well known that contractors will hire incompetents and even convicts, with little to no vetting. Do you want that person coming into your house where your wife, mother, sister, daughter are ?'

Unfortunately it is already happening as a Charter tech ki-led a customer some years back:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/07/jury-orders-charter-to-pay-7-billion-for-mu---r-of-woman-ki-led-by-cable-tech/

'Trial testimony also revealed that Charter "hired Roy Holden without verifying his employment history, which would have revealed that he had lied about his work history," - so if HR doesn't do required checks - it doesn't matter if they are regular or contract employees. Did they save money from not performing this background check in a rush to get this tech hired????

Re Post ID: @j1+1jjb59ken. It’s funny that you think VZ doesn’t hire incompetents or convicts .

It's well known that contractors will hire incompetents and even convicts, with little to no vetting. Do you want that person coming into your house where your wife, mother, sister, daughter are ?

Get rid of all copper lines!!!!!!!!!

I was thinking we should get rid of the foremen because most of them know nothing about this job anyway. We could share their pay and do a much better job and be happier. As far as contractors go 20 years into the fios build and they still can’t do a lot of these jobs correctly.

Taming techs poor behavior would do a lot for the company and the union.

We're all brothers Lonely Boy.

Biggest cost savings would be stop letting techs dispatch as a two man crew on a one man job. Replacing a single Adtran and loading the config takes ONE person. There was not one, but TWO techs in NY dispatched on this device replacement, and NEITHER ONE knew to load a config from a text file to the new device.

Oh, and they were brothers, too. Earn your own time per tech and stop putting one guy on an all-day “ticket”, perpetuating the “buddy” system. That’s 100% waste.

Yeah... Contractors always work out so well when Verizon workers are on strike. Nothing gets done and they steal from customers. What a stupid, ignorant, mentally challenged way to think.

your naivety is so adorable cupcake. that’s all been said already over the course of last 125+ years. all the techs & your fellow useless managers will all be laughing at you when you get RIFd. you can always learn to code lol

A foreman attacks a tech and the techs throw customer service under the bus. Bunch of rats.

100. all center representatives are su-king the life out of Verizon. They were worthless at the office and now they sit home and it’s even worse. Can’t wait for all there calls get outsourced.

Jealous of my 150 K every year and 6 months short term disability vacation...su-k it fo-----n...

The techs are the biggest sc-m in the company. Think they got your back? Nah, they’ll rat you out quicker than you can say cheese. They will rat on you, they will rat on each other. Bunch of anti union people who brag about how ‘hardcore’ they are. Rats, all of them.

The techs are useless. Everyone else’s job would be easier if they actually did their work.

@ac+1jjb59ken no it doesn't.
Google the tales of contractor nightmares and, the nightmare of being a contractor.
It certainly isn't working out for the cable company.

and you're still not @aa (OP)

Contract labor is un-American and unfairly shifts too much hardship onto the contractor.
That ship has sailed in today's AMERICA! The people are back in power.

@ab+1jjb59ken It works for everyone else.

You can't have unvetted, fly-by-night, people going into customers homes - there's too much trust at stake, too much liability exposure, too much downside.

@a8+1jjb59ken I’m pretty sure they weren’t hiding it.

Hahaha I don’t care. I’m retired in a few year yal let me know how it works. As long as I get what I get. You don’t matter.

@a6+1jjb59ken = obviously the OP (now start the furious denial @a6 OP)

13. Race To The Bottom

• Contractors ensure shoddy work that belongs in the real of the local cable company yahoos.

• moisescabreracharter

• An installer who falsified his identity to hide his history of s-x crimes has been convicted of the 2003 ra-e of a developmentally disabled woman in Carmichael, Calif. Charges included s-xual crimes and kidnapping. At the time of the attack, the suspect, Luis Saravia, was working in the Sacramento suburb for Links Communications, which had a contract to do field work for Comcast Corp.

I also worked in dispatch and the cssc at one point. Trust me, you’re all a waste of space but the techs are the worst.

Let me have some of what you're smoking.
Suuurrrrre, you're a foreman, rather than some office kid in your basement waiting for mom to call down to tell you your SpaghettiOs are ready.