Now that Assistant Managers have been reclassified as non-exempt. Have you all thought of unionizing? :)
Let's be honest, politics puts the most incompetent people in senior roles. How many of you have a Director that's a complete id--t and has no idea what they are doing??
Not true. You're the id--t for not understanding, us getting overtime is what makes us close to eligible now as we have been reclassified from Exempt to Non-exempt.
We are supervisors at best, as we have no direct reports.
We don't in fact make management decisions, hiring, firing, etc. or otherwise.
That job responsibility solely falls within the Senior Manager job description. Meanwhile, it would take a very compelling legal argument to validate our eligibility, and trust it is not as hard as you might think.
Considering, a lot of Assistant Managers already having incompetent Directors who than placate to politics and favoritism during the selection of their Senior Managers - leaving both levels of management highly under skilled, a lot of Assistant Managers are expected to pick up the slack without title or appropriate compensation.
Be honest: how many here see your Directors as glorified messengers that should and could be replaced by AI? I'd rather show up to work and have unbiased robotic algorithm give me my reports and action plan - than a lazy, passive aggressive human being who's only effective arguable purpose is People Management, which he fails at.
Get rid of Directors and give the responsibility to Senior Directors or HRBP's. Communication and Reports can fall on AI, because I can tell you right now — these endless meetings and a demotivating, under skilled Directors are hurting the Store Leaders more than anything else.
Directors are the biggest bloat.
Timelessly, it is told Assistant Manager is the most difficult role in the business - as you engage with the frontline the most as well as are the likely most customer facing manager.
Gaining support for a union across Assistant Managers would prove easy at this time, because we are unfairly paid for the responsibilities we may be frequently expected to perform outside of our job description.
If you have a Director that's poor at communicating, and is constantly talking to you about Action Planning - not to develop you - but to close the gap of his poor hiring skills; you are being exploited, undervalued, and robbed of Title.
Verizon's own reclassification of Assistant Managers to non-exempt status and ridding Salary Plus; would only bolster the argument currently, as it would showcase that Verizon appears to be moving to recognize the Assistant Manager role as part of the workforce.
When you look at band classifications, 7T is not a managerial band. Right now, with poor leadership at more senior levels, accountability will only more be scapegoated onto Assistant Managers. A job responsibility where Performance, while we are responsible for, it is not in our job description to hire, fire, demote, or employ disciplinary action for the lack thereof.
Also: AT&T's Assistant Managers are unionized.
It's time Verizon Assistant Managers did the same. Give us the titles we have the skills for and remove poor senior leaders that are the tried and true underskilled employees.
(Not saying all Assistant Managers are overqualified for their roles, but I can assure you many are under valued and under utilized during this political environment of shared reactionary incompetence; and the job responsibilities they do perform qualify them as employees eligible for unionizing; meanwhile, it is noticeable they are exploited and expected to deliver beyond their job description - thus an argument for Salary recalibration can be bargained, support can be garnered for better work conditions, ESPECIALLY in hiring decisions involving promotion)
Our senior director has been spewing the same message day after day for going on 5 years. He has completely lost his district , passive aggressive messages and tones are getting you nowhere . Does he look at why managers are leaving for other departments? And than he promotes store managers who have no clue because it’s all he can get.
You can’t unionize based on being able to get overtime. You’re the real id--t. Assistant Managers are MANAGERs. Get a new job loser
Where do I start how managers and Directors in Verizon are and were complete id--ts!
One thing in common was most of them were management rear Ki$$er's in there non management roles to get management job and eventually getting promoted to Director.
Verizon hardly affects management during rif's. If they sc--w up they get rotated to same management position in a different or get promoted.
The only time seen manager's or Directors getting riffed when they get a new Director or Ed and the new Director / Ed doesn't like this manager.