Is seems like company has had a diversity event, message, or story every day. It is as if the company PR is run from the Huff Post. The hiring and promotions of minorities seem to be way out of proportion to the population. It does not bode well for the company when they are not hiring or promoting the best talent, but have an unstated quota system in place. It is so blatant that I wonder if it carries over into the RIF decisions.
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As a WM who was laid off from VZW yesterday, I saw who else left - it's clear to me there was no racial component to this. Really need to see people reject the race baiting. It's poison that some people choose to drink. Don't drink it, flush it down the toilet.
Yes...if older people are being RIF’d of course most of them will be white males because when that generation was hired, it was only white males that got all the jobs.
In my dept, 3 were gone and one was a minority. In my friends dept, 6 were gone with 5 of them being minorities.
75% RIF in past five years are white males over 40
It sounds correct about this post. Atleast 7 people from about 5 different teams in Network got letgo today. Guess... what was common??
ALL WERE ASIAN (Indian or Chinese)
Rest peope jn same team....your guess...WHITE.
The RIF should be going to Lowell McAdam. The stock has essentially been flat over the last 10yrs which has been the Greatest Bull Market in the History of the world !!! I can't believe VZ shareholders have put up with his horrible LEADERSHIP. VZ and GE are in a race to be the next company to get kicked out of the DOW
He overpaid for buying out Vodafone's interest in the company, bought internet dinosaurs Yahoo and AOL at huge premiums that are not even relevant and oh yeah paid Melissa Mayer a Record Golden Parachute.
Very sad, I worked for VZW Network for almost 20yrs from 1994 to 2013. Thank God I left and work at Amazon now. Denny Strigl and Ivan Seidenberg built an amazing company only for Lowell to run it into the ground. The only lever his has left is LAYOFFs to reduce OpEx. There will be annual layoffs on the horizon for years as the landline - cable is getting crushed by cord cutters getting their content on Hulu and Sling at a fraction of the cost. The wireless business is in a zero sum price war game where nobody will win.
I worked Verizon as an Asian American employee who got RIF'ed by Verizon back in May. My co- workers were all white and I was only minority worker RIF'ed.
Affirmative action at work. If you think otherwise you are living in a pipe dream
Everyone chill please.
IGNORE THE TROLL. HIS OBJECTIVE IS TO INFLAME!
Let's move onto posts that have value and substance.
we are all the same buddy - no matter what color of skin.
we will stay as one and this will not become a racial thing.
we are one.
Watch for WARN notices, if filed, they have to disclose ages. Not sure about other stuff (e.g., gender) but when it comes to age most states are tough on this.
Wow. Blaming the minorities for RIFs, man? That's pretty low.
It's about money. It's always about money, and it always will be about money. It's far more likely that they let go of people who were doing a job that a younger person with less tenure and experience could do for far less- and that younger person is far more likely to belong to a minority.