I make $55/hour and most of my contractors actually do the work. I would recommend it to anyone
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Let’s be honest. No one I mean No one would. In America anyway, then again they’re not hiring Americans.
@2pna union-represented employees make up only 1/4 of the vz workforce. And if hired today, is unlikely to remain here long enough to retire.
2trx+16bFOqMX- hans?
@2nhg, my linguistically-challenged friend, what department do you speak of, where you made the organization billions a day?
So much craziness being claimed here in support of a false premise.
I’ve seen the crazy things for nearly 20years that confirms what the gentleman with 14 years describes. We made that company billions sometimes millions a day. Literally that can’t do it with out us yet we where ran off all the talent that could leave and the ones that stayed behind wanted to leave. The phrase Sinking ship or death spiral comes to mind. All for this Anti America globalization agenda. This all shows as well their stock hasn’t done squat once dec 2018.
@1hep, that's an unfair untruth. The vast majority of union-represented employees exit the scene via retirement, often incentivized. You ignore this, and only complain dishonestly.
Verizon does not want skilled labor. It wants cheap labor. If you consider working here, make sure you have no illusion about a long term career and choose a field that doesn't lend itself to outsourcing, if there is one. If you set your expectations right, the pay is good and the benefits are excellent.
@tjl+16bFOqMX - This is the kind of company you’d want to retire from.
You may want to retire from this type of company, but VZ will make sure you don't
After 14 years with the company I get the “nice to know you” generic email, so no I won’t recommend to work for Th is company unless you are ok with not wanting a career, the higher you get the more chances of losing your job. For the last 5 years in a row Verizon have been doing “realignment” to lay off people and not bring too much of attention to their profile. Don’t believe their bs about been social responsible and pro employee. Executives are out for themselves and make more money while screwing over the hard working people. Glad I planned for this to happen and secured a better job, so thank you Verizon for the money you are giving me for leaving, I was going to quit the week after you announced the realignment. So thank you for trying to screw me but it was me doing the screwing at the end.
@tjl, you wrote paragraphs of whining about, wait for it, whiners.
It seems you'er one whiner that we ridded ourselves of. That's a start.
I left a year ago because of the constant threat of layoffs (I had already moved once when a call center was axed) and although I still have some great memories at VZ, I do not regret it. Looking at everything going on now, I'm even more convinced that I made the right decision. I would not recommend joining the org unless it was for a role at the corporate HQ or Dallas area campus. Stores and call center type roles are far too fragile.
@tjl+16bFOqMX you come to a layoff board to post how wonderful the company you no longer work for is???? I call bulls#!t. This company was a great company 8 to 10 years ago. It has been getting worse and worse has time goes on. A great company doesn't screw over its employees and customers by converting corporate stores to indirect and call centers to vendors/outsourcing. This will be Verizon's down fall.
AVOID VZ AT ALL COSTS!
Past VBG employee here- Yes, I would refer people to join. There is a reason why the average tenure on the VBM team was well above 6+ years during my time here.
Many current employees are either rockstars or whining lazy middle aged employees who have absolutely zero skills yet expect the world and some to be given to them.
I’ve never worked for an organization where there’s such a lack of respect to leadership from these whiners. As for the leadership, I suggest cutting these whiners as they were WAY to lenient to these whiners and negatively impacts the overall culture and mindset of the actual rockstars.
I challenge these whiners to actually take a leap from Verizon to AWS, Google, microsoft or any other technology company and realize how terrible they actually are with selling technology and their lack of overall skills.
The bar here in terms of skills and performance are extremely low due to the majority of these whiners Setting the norm - I would suggest anyone with a drop of motivation and skill to apply to this company- HUGE opportunity to raise the bar and make decent cash- This is the kind of company you’d want to retire from.
The company truly cares for its employees but it is sad to see these whiners take full advantage of the culture to drag feet and complain about everything but there own skills. My 2 cents- sincerely, former VBG employee who has actually worked with orgs like AWS, Microsoft and IBM.
This question was asked on employee surveys in the past. As I recall, HR seemed surprised about the low percentage of folks that would recommend Verizon as an employer, even though reductions in force were yearly events at a minimum.
I would just tell them to have a game plan out if they are going to join. Long term this is not a good company for most roles.
Do I like them?
I would not
Stop trolling