Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

The Interview

Tell me your greatest strength.

Unity. I stand by my brothers and sisters so nobody pushes us around.

Why did you leave your last employer?

They offered me a lousy 7% raise spread out over three years.

And what would you have had to do during that raise?

Huh?

So you left over money?

Oh no, it had nothing to do with money. They wanted me to pay an extra five dollars a week for their Cadillac health insurance.

You know, or employees pay 50% for a bronze package. But then you did leave her money?

Oh no you got nothing to do with money. They wanted to stop paying for my college tuition.

I didn't notice a degree on your Job application.

Well I didn't finish it but I was three years into a four-year degree in interpretive dance and they want to stop pain and only pay for degrees in management and technology.

So you really did leave over money.

Oh no it had nothing to do with money. There was this call center where only one person worked and they wanted to close it and make that person drive an hour and a half to their job and they only offer them $2000 for their problem or 5000 if they wanted to move.

And that person was you or someone close to you?

No, I have no idea who it was. But that wasn't all. They wanted me to work on the town whenever they wanted.

Did they offer to pay for a hotel or Per-diem?

They used to give me both of them they said I'd be home every night. But the real reason I left, was job security. If I had stayed they could have laid me off at any time.

Well, that is the definition of employment at will.

But I didn't work at Will, I worked at Verizon!

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Sad but true. Most of these union people would come back in a heartbeat if not for the pride of the leaders holding them back. So soon they will be looking for a new job. It's really sad. Lots of good honorable people being led astray by selfish idiot leaders who just care about how they look to everyone else. But they don't care because the leaders aren't on strike. They still get paid.

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Post ID: @hcy+Hk4qKOQ

I didn't get a cooking degree, but I did get my captains license. I also learned Spanish, it can't be all fun and games,educate yourself.

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Post ID: @aos+Hk4qKOQ

You mad bro? We're sorry to hear that you think less of yourself to not find a job with good union benefits but not everyone is a winner and has to survive by licking boots and cleaning executive rimholes. Maybe one day, on your deathbed, you'll confess to us all - "I got played!"

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Post ID: @dzt+Hk4qKOQ

Wait a damn minute. They get free tuition for cooking classes. Are you telling me that they don't at least have cooking degrees?

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Post ID: @tqi+Hk4qKOQ

Lol

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