You know what hurts? That they consciously reduced our pay...only to offer us a lot less in severance because it’s based of your last annual income which just happened to be the year of a global pandemic, when the company has been receiving government aid during this entire pandemic! On avg most years I made between 80-95K per year in sales....the last year I made 55K due to our commission structure change. Now that my location closed my severance is based on that 55K. 😒
Such b—s—.
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Dude is right my guy.. severance is based off base pay plus base commission.. you multiplying for years never had anything to do with your package. It is really about the same as it would have been before OneTeam..
Dude. You got a base pay INCREASE last year, it’s not based on what you actually made, it’s based on your base pay. I know, I got an offer as well. The sad thing is it is very clearly laid out for you on the form, you are just trolling and trying to misinform people. Step off Karen, no one feels sorry for you.
Yea heavy hitters are fast and efficient salespeople. There were def some slammers and all that as you say. But honestly man you sound jealous and it seems like you’re trying to justify you’re trash sales history. Sales is not for everyone and at one time Verizon was a sales org. If you like hanging out with grams for an hour doing data transfer while I rattle off 3 adds and a load of roll up, go for it.
People crushing it in commission dates back even before Verizon was called Verizon. The big commission checks have been cycling through since the 1990’s. The animosity and jealously from managers making less then the heavy hitters had a huge factor in the creation of team commissions. The irony in all of this is that SM’s and store managers are on a higher at risk then the rest of the “ team”. One team different commission pay outs.
First of all believe it or not reps making 80-100k prior to covid were in like the top 10% of the company. With the new team commission overall pay ranges from slightly more- break even - to about 20% less. In the grand scheme of things only about 30% of reps felt a real hurt in their paychecks. Agreed that to a rep making 90-100k the team commission was a painful blow HOWEVER everyone knew it was coming AND making that kind of money for the task was unrealistic anyway. To the OP regarding severance pay. You are 100% wrong about how severance is paid out. It is strictly your salary or hourly pay that is calculated at 40 hours for the week then multiply that by number of weeks you get. In no way shape or form does commissions or bonuses factor in.
Lmao heavy hitters? Most of those "heavy hitters" are cherry pickers, fast at transacting, phantom churn experts, and selling products to customers they didn't consent too or were misled.
Some people just wanna show up to work. No shame in that
There were levels to a solutions specialist in terms of revenue production for Verizon. However, the company did not see the value in heavy hitter res as they eliminated all individual awards and prizes for a team concept. Some SS are beasts and worth quite a bit on the open job market. As for the clerks and entitled reps well, you still haven’t learned how to play the corporate game.
My name is everyone on this post:
“It makes me feel (HUGE) even though I’m tiny to make fun of solutions specialist”.
Grow up guys!
They need to invest that money in spectrum and network not lazy retail sales reps.
Anyone with common sense knew the gravy train would eventually pull into the station. Glad to have milked it for all it was worth in retail from 2004-2008 after that I became a Senior Analyst and initially took a pay cut but gained it back through raises and promotions. I bought a house in the SF Bay Area padded my retirement with Verizon ultra generous 6% 401k match plus profit sharing. Sitting high on the hog with a $1 million plus net worth now and just cruising to retirement. It is all a game, you just have to play to win. Retail has ran its course, time to play a new position.
Agreed with the 2 prior post below. What is it exactly the Solution Specialist do that warrants 90k to 100k? In the past, customers came to you. If you go to B2B, you have to hunt even within your existing modules, look for projects, etc. I am deeply surprised that people have been SS for 10 plus years. What are they doing anything different than Apple or Best Buy? Same for Indirect. Indirect became more and more less relevant with each passing year as the agent got more access. Other carriers got rid of or restructure that role. How do you justify another 80k to 100k job there as well? Covid only validated it. It is horrible that people lost their jobs but it is kind of like that roommate that over stayed their time.
Agreed, very little sales skills and the sales come to you. Also the customer experience before was poor on top of that causing higher churn. Many real full cycle sales jobs that require massive rejection and funnel management trying close sales from people who don't even want to talk to you pay less than you were making preying on retail consumers.
Step back and think about the situation for a second...
Does Verizon really need to be paying somebody nearly $100k/year to sell cell phones and cell phone accessories....all of which nearly sell themselves in the year 2021? Also, Verizon pays many of their ENGINEERS much less that that.
Honestly, $50k is pretty good pay for selling cell phones. It requires very little (if any) technical knowledge and only a little sales skills.
They had a plan
You are correct
They screwed you
They will screw many more