Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

As stated by some of these other posts, managers are just as worried as front line if not more worried. The idea that leadership is care free about layoffs is wildly naive. We all got bills to pay and families to raise. We are all paying way too much for goods and services. We are all dealing with the same crazy job market. Losing a career you work hard at is devastating to anyone, regardless of job title. Seek perspective op, you are deep in your own perception which has you closed off to reality.

They are and more busy on b*t l?king

They are.

@af thank you for insight

They won’t say anything because they don’t want to rock the boat. Also, they have no idea when, how many or where. Their decision making impact is not part of the process.

Been in both sides, recently moved from Associate Director with 7 reports to IC and I can tell you managers are worried as much as everyone else. Problem is the power and say was stripped out of their hands and given to consultants or analysts who have no real stake or understanding of job roles or departments; they just look at hc and cost. Most don't even account for big picture impact which is why so many experienced people are let go while new employees who don't know how to run things yet are left holding the wheel. All these consultants see is experience equals short term cost. Not how impact rolls down.

The last round I sat in a room when a senior director screamed at a VP that he had no idea what he was doing by cutting the most experienced people.

But most of them are just in survival mode like the rest of us. C suite is breaking us and they don't care. But managers do, they just feel hopeless.

Both my managers got let go last year. ADs. Two of three ADs got let go in former department.

What do you imagine " pushing harder against it" looks like ? Managers are just as at risk as anyone under them. I've known several supervisors & Sr Managers that have been RIF'd