Corporate becomes indirect. Does this mean we go back to individual commission?
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If indirect companies reselling services from VZ can do it at lower cost with less benefits, all that means is that you were paid more than the market rate. T-Mobile's price war absolutely decimated Verizon's margins, and everyone's coverage is as good as everyone else's now. The lack of profit margins means costs go down for the consumer, and the public at large doesn't see that as a bad thing even a little bit. Verizon has to cut buildings and reps to compensate. Web sales, Costco, and resellers work just dandy, and there's no more untapped market out there to acquire in the US. The days of well paid phone sales is as obsolete as the Pony Express.
Anyone know if there are account manager impacts??
In my district in Texas we had some corporate stores convert to Go Wireless owned indirect. It happened quick. SS at that location were given the opportunity to work for Go Wireless, at lower pay, less benefits, etc. They got a package from Verizon. Go Wireless only had 2 spots open for corp SS to take if they wanted. 2 of these stores were renovated to Next Gen within a year of the take over.
It’s very obvious the amount of people that have no idea how the indirect side of business works. If your store becomes an indirect location, it’s because VZ decided you weren’t profitable as a location and decided to close your door. You’ll never transform into or merge with an agent door. Agent companies are completely separate from Corp VZ
It’s not merging in the sense of a take over. They will have our policies and getting more accesses like a core store. Like cubeside, touch less retail, ispu, stuff like that.
I have heard that in indirect the micro- managing of the sales reps is 100 times worse than a pre covid Corp location. Who could work in that type of environment?Not many
Also.pay and benefits are lower with more stress so what Verizon frontline employee would be going from bad too much worse .
You would work for a different company if this happens. Most of the indirect operators have much different benefits. So you comment is misguided.