Verizon is a terrible company to work for. Nobody in the upper management cares about you or the development of your career. If you want career growth, you're out of luck. Those promotions are reserved for brown nosers, hard workers need not apply. On top of that, doesn't pay a fair salary. Horrible, horrible place.
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In fairness to VZ, there's good and bad about it. Good news is that their benefits package and salary are not bad...pretty good actually. The bad, which tends to overwhelm the good, is that the original poster is correct - get used to the fact your management and the company in general doesn't care about you, your career growth, or anything but getting promoted themselves. Once you understand and acccept that, then the rest becomes easier to tolerate. My experiences with company lies, unethical behavior (and even perhaps illegal at times), empty promises, lack of opportunity for advancement, having "leaders" that don't (or don't know how to) lead, and general mismanagement is what drove me away. But when you are the size of a company like VZ, they really don't care as the company as a whole succeeds despite themselves.
Verizon is a big company. It's all dependent on what organization and director/sr manager you have.
Some groups are just terrible, dead end, medieval fiefdoms. Others that are more "corporate" like Finance or Audit really do have mapped out career trajectories and have atleast a modest focus on aligning employees skill and experience levels to their title.
This is something that's really hard to figure out before you join though. Add in Verizon's odd position titles (everyone is a "consultant", way too many managers who manage nothing) and it's even worse. I would advise that unless you are entering Verizon through a college recruitment program, assume you will never be promoted.
“Hm. What your saying is they are a business”
Exactly. And since you’re going to take that attitude: Step up, lead by example, identify who you are, voluntarily give up your job in order for the business to save money and improve their bottom line.
Hm. What your saying is they are a business.
I agree with you, it is a horrible company to work for but disability it is even if it means amputate a body part. You know Verizon is horrible when someone is willing to go to the extremes to not be there.
So why are you still there?