It stands to reason the overall workload is going to be less (but may be more for some people, depending on the job function). The network is being allowed to deteriorate. Not as many real estate people and rf engineers are needed if we are going to let the network coast (with some work here and there).
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It's got to be rough in GNT. I left a few years ago and get constantly hit up by recruiters encouraged by my old manager to come back as a contractor working through an Indian company. Two years ago, they offered me the same pay as what I made at VZ, sans benefits and any sort of job security (obviously I didn't accept). Last year, they offered me about 1/2 (!) the pay to come back to fill the same contractor role.
Now, the recruiters are asking me to refer them to people who will take the 1/2 pay contract role. I don't have anyone in mind.
From an executive level, I get it: workers are numbers in a spreadsheet, their costs are obvious and the headcount within a job title (when presented in a spreadsheet) looks completely fungible and transferable, and contractors are cheaper and more flexible than employees. Thus you should have all employees replaced with contractors, present a PowerPoint to the Board about the cost savings, revise your LinkedIn claiming to be a "visionary leader", and immediately bounce to the next poorly-run company and run the same playbook.
At a certain level, some of this must happen: the US needs a dynamic labor market and companies need to scale their operations appropriately. However, when this stuff gets too stupid (as I'd argue it has with VZ for a while) the companies leaning too much into it get immediately hollowed it by psychopath short-term c-suites and society in general starts to fall apart (I sure as he-l wasn't buying a house on a 30-year note with my VZ income, and I didn't have any energy left after work to coach little league. Younger folks sure as he-l aren't having kids like they used to, even if they can afford a starter house).
At some point, the political process pushes back on this insanity and you get populist uprisings (Bernie/Trump/whoever), but by that point a lot of damage has been done to a generation of people.
Anyway, keep your skills sharp, always be taking to people OUTSIDE VZ so you know about other jobs that pop up, and if you can find one, join a union somewhere.
So the big beautiful build plan is being slow rolled (due to "process delays") and the money for improving the network is not being spent anytime soon? On paper there is a plan, but it is really vaporware? Leadership does not want to admit to letting the network coast?
@d8 what are you talking about?
They’ve gutted RE and RF, the network will deteriorate, and in two years the c-suite will freak out, but there will be no one left to fix it. They’ll hire bunch of contractors, but as we all know, you need institutional knowledge and familiarity with our network to excel at RE and RF. It takes time to build those things. By the time most contractors become real assets, they’ll time out.
They should rid the place of all of them. Overworked my #$$. The condition of our facility is atrocious. A total disrespect to anyone working there. A contractor couldn't do worse.
They moved a lot of RF to SP. There's now a soft limit of how many projects to push out because they don't want to be overwhelmed from lack of of staff.
Also the tools to support network are all trash. With a continue to push ai into tools that don't need it.
Atoll is a mess, cq is a mess, rfds is a mess and we are not getting help from central.
Field Assurance Engineering will be reduced. Tasks will be turned over to contract company. You are welcome to apply if you are willing to climb.
@ca Never been better. Never been good either. The entire consumer landscape thinks Verizon coverage su-ks.
@OP Network hasn't been better.
So the New York Penn project was cut after they announced to the market in the summer about this new office and location. And no upgrades to existing offices - makes sense with all headcount cuts but now we will have to live with cr-ppiest of facilities. The new facilities leader doesn’t know sh-t but is HOTt.
@a4 no it wasn’t. Our build plan is higher than last year with about half the people!
The RAN organization under GnT will experience a lot of disruption. It's really bad what everyone is witnessing.
Don't question it. Dan knows what needs to be done.
@OP ok doooooosh
Less real estate means less employees. Makes logical sense.
@a4 Not even close. The staff that's left has had to pick up the workload of those let go. Everyone is overwhelmed.
That's Dan!
Yes? The RAN budget was cut proportionate to the headcount cuts.