Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

I meant 5%

Upon coming back from a strike in the 90's our foreman remarked, "Doing your repair work was easy. I could have done it forever." However the next two weeks revealed she had a 100% repeater rate. Funny thing was, if ours were hovering around 15% or over, she was all over us. An untalented hypocrite supposed know-it-all who had some nerve belittling others.

During the California training a few years ago, I had a woman in my training class that was in her late 50s. She worked with mainframes all her life and weighed maybe 100 lbs soaking wet. She was made to try and pull a ladder off a truck, lug it around, then secure it to a pole. She was in near tears because she could barely reach the ladder on the van, then it weighed about half her body weight.

The pole climbing selection is ridiculous and dangerous.

The point is, no manager should be put through pole climbing school. I have worked outside for 30 years, believe me you don't need to climb. Ladders of various sizes will do the trick. Last time I put on hooks (15 years ago) it felt like gravity doubled.

@G2XH1lb-crw - The EWA system randomly selects the pole climbers and it tends to randomly pick people who often would never be suited for that type of work. Last Strike my 50 year old female coworker received that duty. She had avoided this type of work her entire life and was not physically suited for that type of job. I'm a lowel level mgmt employee in my prime that has worked in factory assembly lines and on construction sites but I was selected for an EWA office job. I could easily handle your job with the right training and mentorship. Stop acting like your job is overly complex...you aren't working on the space station. I admire what you guys do but over time many many MANY people can easily learn to do your work and they do. Of course there will be a struggle for employees that temporarily fill a role. Since you think that mgmt positions involve no real work I would love to see you attempt to come work as a software analyst with little to no training. Quite frankly that amount of training would not be possible for you to learn to do anything productive in a short amount of time.

1bfz Wow. In what world could it be a good idea to put middle aged middle managers up a pole on hooks? Oh wait - the Verizon world.

A manager lost his life pole climbing in school. I haven't climbed a pole in 20 years, so why are they putting managers through pole climbing. They have no clue what they are doing, putting hooks on guys who have been behind a desk for years.

I knew some management folks that lost their lives during training. Real work will be much tougher than training and god knows what will be the count.

@eoo...Oh yeah, your right...hit the button for me, thanks now back to sleep.

@Bin... Aren't is not grammatically correct when writing. Are not is the preferred choice. Bozo.

You're little FiOS install can't do jack without my switch ;-]

@crw you sure aren't qualified to work in an office with grammar like that...stop believing your own b.s.

You need to visit some of the offices and other buildings. Bring your own coffee and heater cause you will not get any of either at the "office"

OK, I will.

Enjoy the food stamps.

In a way, i want to see all these inside people and managers that say they can do the job, to do it. OK, I want to see it. They were lulled in the training lab into thinking they could handle it. It's nothing at all like the lab in the real world. In the training lab your feet are on the floor warm and dry, in the real world your 20,30 feet in the air, in snow and rain. Your under ground in manholes, your in customers homes with them looking for you to do a professional and complete satisfaction job in their home. There is no, and i mean no way, they are going to able to do that job at any kind of productive level, if at all, for a very long time. We've seen it up close and Live in past strikes. Your doomed people. Your just not going to do it. Listen, i probably couldn't sit in a cubicle or office, surround by Hello kitty figurines and cute funny pictures and giggle and laugh at the coffee station, or kitchen, or TV lounge, chit chatting about this one, and that one, all the while your worry if you should leave early to beat the snow on your commute home. While your counting the days till your, Thank god its Friday. The technician is out there actually earning Verizon dollars. Actually bringing in the money. So hears my tool belt...You go bring in the money.