Hard to sell business enterprise 5g when there is no coverage. Any engineers have insight on 5g rollout? https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/verizon-ceo-hints-at-5-10-year-wait-for-5g-pay-off/2022/04/

Another acquisition bites the dust https://www.lightreading.com/iot/verizon-buries-skyward-its-drone-company/d/d-id/777358

https://fortune.com/2022/05/05/verizon-wireless-service-price-increase-inflation/ Hans Vestberg, Verizon’s chief executive officer, raised the prospect of boosting prices on an April call with investors, citing what he said was a 40-year high in... — read more 

Bad Q1 results, Hans is noticeably absent, poor stock performance, job openings aren’t being filled. The Board of Directors have had enough. We’ll have a new CEO in less than 3 months.

According to the stock price it appears that the progressive and globalist management that took over with the handball champ of Sweden have wasted billions in capex investments. Time for a house cleaning just about the time congress starts up its... — read more 

05.2022|Products & Plans|Mobile Plans & Devices Being on Verizon pays off big - new and current customers get a free 5G phone Trade in for new customers iPhone11 - $800 vs. Trade in for current customers iPhone11 - $700

Rates are up, lump sums are down. Feds expected to raise rates thru 2023. Are you staying or going?

management political/toxic culture the constant threat of layoffs management lack of proper raises and bonuses lack of communication complicated processes that take too much time to complete that could easily be streamlined to talk a quarter... — read more 

Do you think we really needed to hire an SVP level diversity executive? I feel like there has already been a lot of attention and effort placed in this area. Felt like we had moved the needle based on all of the continued we're a top employer for... — read more 

Drive meaningful change. Improve the V Teamers experience. Chance to snag our most popular Verizon-branded Ultra campaign T-shirt.

My manager mysteriously had to cancel midway to our staff meeting today due to needing to get to an urgent HR meeting? Anyone know what is brewing?

Save all the passengers before we go down with your ship and you take the golden parachute. Turn things around by having another VSP package and reduce the huge debt Verizon has. It is the only and fastest way to change the stock price trend now!! — read more 

Do we know if there will be more layoffs in marketing any time soon?

You guys love numbers look at them since hv stockbottom took the helm!!!! Now he gets 40 million to go away for bad performance again what a joke. Save the 40 million!!!!!! there's interns that will run this company better than all the previous but... — read more 

I have been working extra hours for free for a long time because I can't find another job that will pay my bills. On the other hand, I can no longer work extra hours because I am exhausted. How did you refuse to work all those extra hours without... — read more 

Union and Verizon are already talking extensions. This would be great as it gives the market time to bounce. Leaving right now is too expensive, look at the beating 401k and pension are taking… many who paused last offer are having regrets, and... — read more 

The Board of de generate s has been a political correct woke sinecure for the connected in crowd for more than a decade. Until this board is bounced, which will never happen because of Blackrock, the company will be stuck in the muck. The SEC needs... — read more 

Who should succeed Hans? Manon Brouillette Ronan Dunne Matthew Ellis Tami Erwin Samantha Hammock James Gerace Rose Kirk Kyle Malady Rima Qureshi Diego Scotti Craig Stillman Other

I'm not sure where all the people who're quitting are going, but I wish them all the best. I just wish Verizon would work harder to backfill at least some of the positions, since we're breaking our backs over here to get everything done. The upside... — read more 

New York (CNN Business)Stocks plunged Friday. The Dow fell about 980 points, or 2.8%, following comments about likely aggressive interest rate hikes from Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell. A poor earnings outlook from Dow component Verizon... — read more 

As hard as it may be to imagine given the S&P 500 returns of the last four years, but the stock is lower today than when the Swedish chef took over in August 2018. None of his leadership, selling, marketing, engineering, strategy or deal making has... — read more 

After executing a $10b expense reduction in 2018 - 2021, the company plans $5b-6b in additional expenditures related to the deployment of the company's C-Band 5G network. The bottom line is future expense reductions (RIFs for starters) needed to... — read more 

Schelling will lead Verizon’s DE&I, talent acquisition, learning and development, career planning and leadership programs. When she joins the company on May 2, she will drive DE&I efforts to develop a more unified approach within Verizon’s talent... — read more 

A price drop of more than 5% is considered a crash. When there is a crash because there are no new customers then there will be more layoffs, less customers, less sales, and even more layoffs. Stratton is snickering somewhere!

Is everyone ready to RTO?

I seem to feel a pattern happening. When something too good to be true comes around the corner with Verizon than not to much further down the road people start losing their jobs. I am really hoping that the company is true about doing this for... — read more 

Casa Systems (NASDAQ:CASA) shares jumped more than 40% premarket after announcing that Verizon (NYSE:VZ) will invest approximately $40M in the company's common stock, resulting in a 9.9% ownership stake. The company also won a multi-year purchase... — read more 

Verizon (VZ +0.5%) has boosted its minimum wage to $20 per hour for a large number of employees, part of a push for retention and hiring in a tough labor market. The company says new employees in Customer Service will receive $20/hour, and new... — read more 

Does The Drop In Verizon Provide A Buying Opportunity? +Play And More Apr. 11, 2022 12:23 PM ET Summary Verizon just garnered the 27th consecutive award for network quality from J.D. Power. The shares have trended downward since the end of 2020 and... — read more 

Most union people are happy, as far as I can tell. Though we joke how the New York offices are full of degenerates who are unhappy, I still think most like the company. Anyway, do you think a lot of people will take the 6 and 6 when it’s offered? ... — read more 

Verizon unit TracFone reaches $13.4 mln U.S. false claims settlement Reuters by David Shepardson, April 5, 2022 TracFone Wireless agreed to a $13.4 million settlement to resolve false claims allegations in connection with the Federal... — read more 

The Sunset of Copper POTS (“Plain Old Telephone Service”) Lines FCC order 19-72A1 (issued August 2, 2019) has officially granted telecommunications carriers permission to abandon outdated, degrading copper POTs lines. Per the order, carriers are not... — read more 

PBGC rate increased to .5%. Time to check your lump sum pension. Anybody think Verizon will make a change in the pension calculation to avoid an exodus?

I am approaching TMUS about having a plan for retirees from VZ, which would be quite a coup for them and the retirees.

Congratulations another transformation is amongst us. With the union strike around the corner Hans has decided to also roll out VZ 3.0 along with another VSP. As an HR leader I’m appalled and disappointed. Will happen in early 2023.

I'm not sure if hateful people find Verizon to be a great employer so they aim to get a job here or if normal people join Verizon and then the company and its toxic atmosphere turn them into hateful caricatures of themselves, but either way, this... — read more