Down in the south here. Sick and tired from the micromanaging. Can’t take a day off with out 30 days notice. Treated like kids. Have to lay our day out minute by minute to our boss. He has more spreadsheets with numbers on them. Rather then help you sell it’s “ you need to fix this number” with no guidance or suggestions. He’s the first one who will tell you he can’t sell but if you need a spreadsheet he can do that. We have hours upon hours of beat down calls a week. It’s the same sh-t day after day. Don’t even get me started on our sh---y a-s network. This company used to be fun to work for. Now it’s trash with unobtainable quotas
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i was incredibly lucky to have a great managers and my last good ine took the 2018 VSP. Ever since then it has been pretty aweful. My current managers and director can’t say a sentence without half of it being corporate word vomit.
Who has really every had a good manager at verizon if you have you are lucky the ones that get promoted no absolutely nothing they just know how to speak the trendy corporate lingo and kiss the right peoples a-s all the time this place has become a corporate parody
Boss shoots me an email in b2b asking what I did all day. I made 32 calls but couldn’t land an appointment. He wanted hour by hour breakdown.
They go out and blitz with you and get the same results you get. Yet, “you need to meet with so and so to close a most wanted”
Duh - didn’t u hear them tell us to pi-s off?
We are desperate as a company
micro managing has been
around since Lowell mc'A-hole,was CEO and has never changed since
İn midwest market they got a guy from leadership program who was made a manager in adifferent team 1-2 years before being bought as manager in out team. He didn't have any previous experience in system performance and no technical skills and was micro manage 20 plus years employees "no do it this way". Would get in arguments with team members. Had no sense how long something tkes would be calling every 10- 20 minuyes asking updates why its not done even after being told these processes time. Was obsessed with presentations for every little thing.
And get this would travel on weekday Thursday or Friday out of state / driving back on Mondays but had Bluejeans on checking up on us and trying to show he s still working. Had no idea how to do simple things himself that any previous Manager would do.
“Down in the South” say it with your chest next time big guy. The south is big, be specific so they can hear you.
We had a first time Director who was manager in another market. The Director micro managed coople managers and the manager micromanaged their direct reports. He was trying to create a generation of micro managers. He was doing that till very negative feedback was given by managers and moved by a new ED. who was realized this Director had too much time on his hand and could better serve a market which needed more interactions with upper management on how to improve customer issues.
You talked we listened you want individual commissions here they are. Now let’s raise the bar on how we take care of our clients and your commissions quotas to. We can hold you accountable and say hey don’t like your pay don’t worry just slam so you can get fired and we don’t have to pay your a severance.
Come over to VSG ops here in the South. We have a director who’s a ghost so it’s the opposite but just as bad. Not around to get things done.
Individual commission is back! So are big commission checks!
In Network team, midwest Directors in RF team were the most d-mbest just were repeating what their management would. Couldn't make any decision and left it for indirect reports. And then thy get promoted to HQ team or become ED also.
Same in the northeast, constantly treated and talked to like you have done something wrong or punished
Are you an RM talking about your DM,
All this company wants to you to do is slam, slam, slam, slam. Goals are unattainable, or else there would be more stores at goal not under. Maybe understand what products and services your customers really want not the ones you made bad business decisions on. My managers at my store are constantly talked down to and criticized but they aren’t pushing shady tactics and are ethical. This is why individual quota will fail. Quota and Rev too high, worked my a** off this month and demand just not there. I was a winner circle winner multiple times and finished this month at 70% straight up bs. If they wanted to pay us they would and they don’t just want to force us out so they don’t need to pay severance.
Managers can’t be set in the 2015 way of verizon. They don’t do anything except micromanage. Quotas are a-s
We wouldn't need to do this if we had quality employees
Unionize
It is worker empowerment, or something euqally ridiculous.
Whoever your manager is. Is total a-s.