Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

@GSDAm3w-1rve I am a manager you dirtball. My guess is that inside of three days that NO ONE will want to partner with you because the union guys I think are gonna hunt you down right on Day 1 and never let go, because you just seem like one of those idiots that likes to make trouble.

can't wait to piss in your truck @rpe

Managers are actually not "scab" scabs, since unlike the contract workers, the union employees, the managers are actually full time employees of the company. A scab would be someone who is not an employee or retiree who is hired by the company to work during a stike. Many scabs will come up from the south to help out. Most of them are former telco employees that got burned by their companies over the past couple of decades.

SCABS? are they not good things? don't they protect the body so that it can heal? Really, you need to come up for a better term for those that cross the line and do what they were Hired to do.

Maybe the Union needs to hire all of the unionized employees and contract them to work for Verizon. Then when the Union decides that they are getting the shaft they can walk away with no one left to cross a line, because it will be their employer telling them not to go to work (not just a group of people intent on taking your money for dues and providing nothing in return).

vrw I dont want you in my truck! what an a$$hole. If you think that training prepped you to do the job in the northeast, you are sadly mistaken. You will find out soon enough. My guess though is that none of the other managers will likely want to work with you.

vrm, you have mommy issues

The so called scabs, will show how easy the union jobs are.

The union will be down to 5 members soon.

You lose, you scum

You do have the upper hand. I have been through all of that training a lot over the past 25+ years. Last year was fun. It was informative, and though the instructors were good, most were not serious telecom workers and there was almost no troubleshooting. All of the work was done in well quoiffed labs and class rooms and all of the tools and boxes were brand new. We did have karaoke nights though. It was more like a college or camp experience, but no way as rigorous as earlier versions. It was also almost a year ago for most people.

The other big difference was 'who' was in the class. This is not to cast any aspersions on anyone, because I think everyone should go through that training, but most of the trainees were very unfamiliar with working with tools. Pole climbing classes were taught in half the time of what was taught in earlier versions and therefore significantly less climbing.

Bottom line is that the training was helpful and good for employees that have done it before, but given my experiences, there will be a lot of very lost people out there. And despite all of the 'checking' along the way, because you are going out in the middle of the week as opposed to the weekend, there will be a real scramble going on.

The managers are just now being trained for jobs that take YEARS to master. There will definitely be a large drop off in service while the 5G network gets set back from its estimated date. Your move Lowell.

Shelton sold you out and you paid him for it talk about drinking the kool aid lol

I hope the strike happens. Verizon, and specifically Lowell, Shammo and the other executives need to feel some pain. It's long overdue.

Shelton will not fold

too late for arbitration

Lowell wil now find out how bad a CEO he is

Mediation by the company seems like a panic move. It's like they said, oh no these guys are really striking. A mediator could have been called a month ago, they are a PR experts. I say let's walk I feel we have the upper hand.

Good luck to all of us! But you SOBs MUST win for everyone, or we are all screwed...again.

Good luck with what? CWA and IBEW will be at work tomorrow since Shelton will agree to Mediation later tonight.

GOOD LUCK SCABS