Why does AT&T call it a Surplus and Verizon call it a RIF, but neither calls it a layoff?
Was Surplus just a Southwestern Bell/Ameritech/Pacific Bell/Bellsouth term that carried over while RIF came from Bell Atlantic/NYNEX/GTE?
Why the different terms if almost all came from Ma Bell (or in GTE's case, Cousin Ring)?
Let the Indians have these bullshit jobs. Do you really want to sit in a cubicle for another 20 years, making more $ for Lowell and the other Wall Street fat cats as you slowly kill yourself?
Rif means you're being replaced with a guy named Kumar?
RIF and Surplus come with exit the business money.
Layoff does not.
It's all semantics and jargon, a layoff is a layoff.
Isn't surplus the union term and rif for managers?
Does it matter? We all know it means the same thing.
Whether it is Verizon or AT&T - they are both dog $hit companies that hate both their customers and employees. They have that in common at least...