LinkedIn Post is buzzing with leaders busy posting, reposting and then liking each others posts. They surely are making millions for themselves and peanuts in corporate jet rides to All Hands.
Anyone care to remember or look up the stock price and where it was 25 years ago today?!?!?
Shareholder Value Unlock for sure!
@b2, human centipede?
They are also gracing all of the VZ original employees a free tshirt!
They are doing whatever they can to distract from reality. The same way Hans touted "5G, 5G, 5G" while laying off domestic employees in favor of cheaper labor overseas. It is a diversion tactic steeped in propaganda that I saw far too many people buy into when I was there. I was thoroughly embarrassed for the sheep who clapped, cheered and used noise makers in all hands, to celebrate their own demise. I come back here to read about the train wreck from time to time and one thing is clear, nothing has changed. Verizon has done well taking care of employees they RIF and I am thankful for that as well as not being there any longer.
While the C-suite celebrates itself with curated posts and talking points, long-term shareholders are left with underperformance, strategic whiplash, and stagnation masked as transformation.
Worse, some senior leaders now mock the very employees who helped build the company—calling them “losers” or “unskilled” after layoffs. That’s not resilience. That’s rot.
This isn’t a bitter take—it’s a warning signal.
Leadership culture has drifted from accountability to arrogance.
Investors deserve better. Employees deserved respect.
And Verizon needs more than optics to chart its next 25 years.