Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

Part of the $10B savings plan.

No overtime for Network Ops

No pre-positioning of disaster recovery assets (COWS, COLTS, Generators, etc)

Verizon now reacts to issues. In order to save a buck the NOC is not allowed to call out Techs to fix the network. A cell site goes off the air? Fix it in the morning.

It always struck me as an incredibly kind gesture when our landline personnel were dispatched to give Bell South a hand in New Orleans, Mississippi, Texas... What a humanatarian thing to do, to run to a brother in need.

If Florida is now still in need of help, I have no doubt whatsoever that that hundreds, if not thousands, of landline linemen and fiber optic cable splicers are ready and equipped to answer the call to ease their burden by assisting if asked. We are all in this together, and are always willing to return the favors to communities that helped us when NY and Boston were down.

I don’t think that article, a hit piece IMHO, is a fair representation or truly represents the situation. However, I do know that landline personnel, specificallt cable splicers, were ready and able to greatly assist in New Orleans affter Katrina, spending months down there between 2005 and 2006, crews from Massachusetts, New York, and Indiana flooded the place, and eased Louisiana’s burden in their time of need.

Later, when Virginia was hit by a devastating storm, again landline crews answered the call. And set things right in short order.

I don’t understand why these readily available resources are not tapped now, especially when folks that may possibly have an axe to grind are taking mean-spirited damaging potshots at us.

They haven't even asked for help. Nobody can afford to leave anymore to go help

Maybe they can send the HUM team down there ... lol - what a piece of c-ap.

part of what happens when you show your employees they don't care about you

Nobody cares anymore. It's the new culture, sad but true