anyone see a former VSPer return back to work?
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In an unfair land, true patriots, rather than diabetic a.m. radio slobs in Lay-Z-Boys, take up the charge against true (invisible to you) tyrannical miscreants. Sit there boys, we'll do the man's work you obese snowflakes.
"Ahhhh.... The union fear monger raises her ugly head."
Army's don't live in fear, individuals do.
People band together for mutual advancement of common goals.
Just easier that way.
Or, buy krugerrands, go down under.
chuckle.
OUCH, touch a nerve @arsr.
Don't worry bud. We all make ignorant life choices and investments, we're all lead astray by those we trust, from time to time, and we massage the cover story until we can live with it. Human nature brah.
Push onward. Prayers!
Fear monger, or honest individual, who steers clear of unwise, pumped up, investments?
Perhaps pyramids will make a comeback. Let's sink our non-union money there.
Did I touch a nerve Karen?
Hello Karen.
Ahhhh.... The union fear monger raises her ugly head.
@7gzg: "I'm a VSP rehire"
Translation - contractor.
@7gzg: "My director realized he let too much experience go in the VSP."
Translation: The Director could use some contractor temps to get over a hump without a long-term obligation.
@7gzg: "He practically begged me to come back."
Translation - He didn't beg at all. Begging occurred but, let's just say, it wasn't him doing it.
@7gzg: "I'm making 33% more than before I left, full benefits and my time was bridged."
Translation - If I were Pinocchio, a thousand people could play ring toss with my proboscis.
@7gzg: "I got an 8 month vacation, and most of my package money is still in savings and precious metals."
Translation - I looked for eight months. No one was interested. My dwindling life savings, poorly invested in get rich quick schemes with no basis in financial reality (Rush, Sean, why?) quickly ran out and, having done nothing to improve my own marketability, I crawled back to the one entity I could trust, and got back on my mother's teat.
@7gzg+16cyg5Qg, I'm going to explain you to you. You listen to conservative a.m. radio obsessively. You then parrot what they say because it makes you feel wise. You post gloat. That boastful post belies how insecure you are but, even more telling, "... most of my package money is still in savings and precious metals. I would hope your joking, but I know you're not.
Precious-metal dealers fear-monger to conservative seniors using online tactics to peddle their overpriced "precious metals" to conservatives, they sell psychologically to the gullible. Many older conservatives have drained their retirement savings into silver coin schemes.
It's fools gold peddled to the greedy, the needy, and the seedy, by the greedy, the needy, and the seedy.
There's no gold rush to be found Cornelius. The most ignorant woman in my town keeps advising everyone to buy gold. Her house is a dump. Everyone else's, pretty okay.
Do some research.
16cyg5Qg = I too left with the VSP in June after 26 years. I'm healthy and happier than I have been in years. After time off I started looking and I was amazed how quickly I was able to find a position in fact I had multiple offers at the same time. I'm making just as much as I made at VZ and I work for a company that appreciate their people. You don't really realize how toxic the previous place was until you land in a place the quite frankly is a happy environment. I am blessed I was able to leave on my own terms an take a healthy package of money with me. I keep in touch with coworkers, but I hate to hear the c-ap they have to deal with. I hope the company appreciates who stayed behind. They can't afford to lose any more knowledge base.
It all depends on how you cultivated your skillset, how you planned your life and where you planted yourself. Make yourself valuable you'll have no problem finding new work unless you're in one of the cesspools like N.Y. even if you are, take some of your savings and move to a more prosperous location. Remember... you vote with your ballot, your dollars and your feet.
Oh... and if you don't think there's a better place for you... do some real research. Stop watching the mainstream media. Much of the country is not being ravaged by c19. If you get out of the cities, you get away from the violence. The economy of these areas are also coming back... slowly, but surely. I found a job within 30 days of starting my search. 20 years ago I moved to free and rational America. It's not fine, but it's much better.
If I left now, under the current environment, that would be fool-hardy. Some poor fella here said he had to go through, I believe, 30 demoralizing interviews before he reached the next HR level, while coping with encroaching, all-encompassing, depression. And, if I recall correctly, even after that, the job paid less and the benefits were deficient.
After horror stories like that, why volunteer to leave?
That's a recipe for disaster.
Stick with the horse you know, or get trampled by your own disillusion of your perceived worth to the organization. You are essentially worthless in the REAL world.
Don't jump ship. It's an income-ender and you know it, unless you're at the SS threshold.
@ VSP class of 2018 - BS - directors don't have that kind of power
I'm a VSP rehire... My director realized he let too much experience go in the VSP. He practically begged me to come back. I'm making 33% more than before I left, full benefits and my time was bridged. I got an 8 month vacation, and most of my package money is still in savings and precious metals.
“ Two females both over 50 in my office that were not offered VSP were RIF'd prior to June 19. ”
When you say they weren’t offered the VSP do you mean they volunteered but weren’t chosen? I thought virtually everyone (non-Union) below Band 5 was eligible to volunteer. If they volunteered and weren’t chosen but were still RIF’d in June 2019 they would have gotten the higher VSP package since they had volunteered.
that guy posted on limkedin did not take VSP
Verizon maintained the option to rehire VSP accepted employees with high level approval. There is life after Verizon. I left under VSP in June after 26 years and I am a much happier person. I now work in the bio-pharma industry in a company that values and appreciates there employees. We all need to remember that Verizon was reducing headcount at the time VSP was offered. My Director made it clear that my group was cutting by 20% with or without VSP. Two females both over 50 in my office that were not offered VSP were RIF'd prior to June 19. Both were good workers and we're the 20% on that team that needed to go. My point is that Verizon was reducing headcount and VSP was an offer to older workers to get out to avoid a RIF. Verizon is a fun place to work when you are young and with in "in group", not when you are old with experience. Look to the future!
You are intelligent people and hope you wake up soon. Leaving Vz was the best choice I ever made. The only regret is not leaving sooner. Focus on expanding your skills,not your politics, and you'll find work. We were trained to play a political game. Refocus and move on. Life is good on the outside. There are places that pay substantially more and treat their employees better. Let go of the politics. Vsp people going back are nothing more than low talent id–ts.
Has anyone kept track of how many post have been deleted from this thread? A lot.
Why be mean?
Well I hope they are old enough in their career that this will be their last job.? I personally feel it’s pretty pathetic that they would even go back as a contractor or a full-time employee. It took a lot of balls for me to walk away a job as a associate director. It wasn’t easy to find a job it was kind of depressing and it took me about 30 interviews to finally get what I consider a good job.
Listen they made their bed and they can sleep in it. Treated people horribly just to run them off and they only wished they would come bad to save them. There’s not a single person no matter how desperate they may be would go back.
@1jjb, if I understand you correctly, you are saying that some VSP'r on LinkedIn has posted that they are now back in the employ from the company, and not as a contractor but as a company rehire?
If this is in fact true, which I do not believe it is, some further details would be helpful.
Otherwise, I think your post is little more than cattle droppings.
The IT department would be lucky to get some of the VSPers back. Sounds like things are not too rosy in IT. Geez....no one could have guessed the Infosys was going to be a disaster! SMH
Who would ever want to go back there??
I came to the board today to ask the same question. What the hell is the deal with this? Some c—y a-hole who took the package and talked about all the great things he was going to do has posted to LinkedIn that he’s come back to VZ. Even posted his new employee badge (and it’s not a Contractor badge). Absurd.
actual work? no
Yes, but only as contractors.
only as contractors