Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

"I have marketable skills" (yet I work here)

I have to travel 100 miles each way to my job and I do it proudly because I don't have or need a union. My kids have a new daddy now because I slave so many hours for Verizon with no overtime pay. But hey thats how it is now and I accept that because I took a business class in college and the professor said it was so. And when they RIF me next quarter I'll be happy to go to a new company with my marketable degree.

I don't have a pension and I don't need one because I am smart enough to invest my money in winning stocks because I listen to the financial gurus on AM talk radio during my 2 hour+ commutes. See Union people pensions are the way of the rotary phone. Steve Forbes is right , pensions are only for the top 5% of the company.

You should strive , neglect your family, never take sick time and work from home on holidays chasing the dream of becoming the 5%.

When your 75 in the supermarket buying canned cat food at least you can tell the checkout girl how hard you worked in your prime years before you got tossed out like yesterday's trash by your employer.

And of course on the way home you stop at that CWA guys house and pick through his garbage cans for the 5 cent bottle and cans to return while cleansing your hand with your old degree in business studies.

The company said they estimated 40% would cross when they took our benefits, turned out less than 1% did.

We got this contract for ourselves, they didn't want to give us anything.

"I'm a proud EWA and your job is easy. My father was a doctor and my mother was a lawyer. Not sure of the relevance of bringing that up, but I had to mention it. I have a Master's Degree and marketable skills. I know about quantum mechanics and how to fill out a spreadsheet. Oh and for some reason, I need to get it out there that I'm bisexual and am very open-minded, tolerant and mature. I'm perfect and am content with my current lot in life. You union guys yelled at me from the picket line, so you are all stupid, fat, lazy, dirty, uneducated, illiterate slobs. Also, it's you're not your."

"I just completed a full triple play in 2 hours. I'm in-shape, attractive, have a lot of marketable skills, have several advanced college degrees, my customer was happy to see me, as all I did was run some coaxial cable, active set top boxes and program the remote controls. We are all caught up and they gave me a week off. Don't understand what's so hard about this job. You guys are definitely overpaid and should take Verizon's generous offer."

"500 people crossed yesterday at the Silver Spring call center. We are all caught up and sending everyone home on vacation."

I'm printing this out. Going to look at it everyday to remind me of all the B.S. and lies these a-holes put out. Will not be forgotten.

"Steve Forbes said nobody uses rotary phones any more, so you should take what the company is giving you and stop listening to your union bosses who only want to enrich themselves. Unions are no longer needed, because VZ is giving their LBFO based on their benevolence and concern for your well-being"

But they still post, nothing they say matters. They lost because they are losers. These jobs are skilled, one week of training was a joke. I thank the union for everything I have.

"I'm not a scab so I can brag about the billion dollars I am supposedly making in this strike in order to easily accept my RIF and take my marketable sills and tell you all this job entails is putting two wires together, but I'm really doing it for my family and I want to help our customers"

"if you care about your family, you will cross the line"

"5,000 crossed the picket line just in (insert name of state here) today"

Thank you. Best sum-up ever.