A Japanese company and a North American company decided to have a canoe race on the St. Lawrence River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race. On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile. The North... — read more 

What Degrees do I need and in what field.

They started firing people for no reason. I guess severances are too expensive these days...

Chime in... Keep it civil.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/12/tim-armstrong-out-at-verizons-oath.html

I heard some markets are about to try home delivery of phones. Anyone?

Not really layoff related but an interesting article. https://www.livemint.com/Companies/aOf9slNRxIOGn8Jd9M3xqN/Hiring-picks-up-at-TCS-Infosys-Cognizant-Wipro-and-HCL-Te.html

It’s been so long since I heard of any EISPs I thought they were over with. The active Special EISP now being offered in Pa. gives me hope that more will be coming in the future. Good Luck to all in Pa. that are in a position to take it.

D-day

I saw a posting on VZW's career site for a Client Service Coordinator position - do you know what's this? I have never heard about this position and I am just curious what the execs have in mind here?

Is the saddest thing I’ve ever seen. Consistently selling more, making less. Isn’t that wage theft?

So, there is no money for proper raises, benefits are getting scaled back constantly, people are getting laid off left and right because - again - there is no money, and yet there seems to be more than enough cash to raise dividends. Anybody else... — read more 

Special EISP being offered in Pa. to several titles. Some are clerical, Senior Clerks, Payroll Analyst. Maintenance Administrators, Fiber Customer Support Analyst. Also Switching Equipment Technicians mostly Pittsburgh area. Volunteer period begins... — read more 

Heared rumor of a buy out for managers

"State governments can charge wireless providers for the costs associated with reviewing small cell deployment, but the FCC's rules will prohibit what Carr described as excessive fees. The FCC provides specific amounts below which we presume the... — read more 

Well, it appears that Tim Armstrong is not the only one hitting the road. Two other senior officials (CFO and CCO) are also departing. We all knew that it would come to this sooner or later and that Oath was a ticking time bomb just waiting to... — read more 

Gee Grandpa can you tell us again about how go90 was created? Well ok little grandchild ... You see go90 wasn't always the raging success it is today, in fact at one time little kids like you didn't even have go90! No go90!? But Grandpa how could... — read more 

https://www.fastcompany.com/90233553/report-verizon-may-be-showing-oath-chief-tim-armstrong-the-door

Its the same company! 90% of what is on here is from the wireless side anyway jackass.

Can anyone shed some light on when the remaining wireless call centers are going to close? I believe there are 7 left. Rolling Meadows, Alpharetta, Charlotte, Murfreesboro, Tampa and not sure of the the other two left. Wilmington? Charleston? Any... — read more 

I know this has nothing whatsoever to do with layoffs, and I risk this being censored. However, things here have become a little bit stale on our segment of this site with the constant complaints, and I’m hoping to, maybe?, have some memories jogged... — read more 

LOOK, I KNOW THIS ISNT THE RIGHT PLACE BUT IM A HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR THATS TRYNA GO TO COLLEGE SO PLEASE BARE WITH ME AND ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS, SORRY TO THOSE WHO ARE OFFENDED AND LOST THIER JOBS How much do the following positions make in... — read more 

Anyone hearing details related to 4Q Rif or Management offer targeting senior management? If offer is more lucrative than the Rif off payroll 9/7 how can company execs sleep at night riffing right before an offer? Anyone know of a good class action... — read more 

I know somebody said more layoffs are coming, but do we know anything about stores? Are we looking at more closings this month?

I’ve been with Verizon for over 8 years, and the last 2 years have been something else. Absolutely zero integrity from executive leadership down to retail. Slam b---s--- hum at all costs. Oh yeah here’s an awesome product called One Talk, it doesn’t... — read more 

They don't want corporate stores anymore. They're trying to push you out. They don't care about you nor your stupid quotas. First, they got rid of the Experience Specialist, who at least took some of the heavy lifting of customer issues off your... — read more 

When a call center closes, are employees given an option to transfer to other call centers if there are openings available? And how does this affect severance?

Thats the news im hearing

https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/verizon-silent-reports-wireless-chief-dunne-could-leave

Being recently employed means nothing when it comes to layoffs. I know it's usually older workers who are targeted, but in the last two rounds I saw two people who were employed less than six months prior laid off. Just want to emphasize how... — read more 

...and shares keep slipping. I'm wondering how soon will we hear of more layoff to mitigate the situation. Nothing bumps shares up as quickly as getting rid of some employees... — read more 

Verizon Wireless Retirees only benefit was half price cell phone service for life! That has now been whopper chopped to 25% ….funny Wells Fargo employees get 26% off. This probably equates to $800 a year...for their overpriced service. The lies this... — read more 

for some perspective: apart from hourly, a typical new hire is guaranteed $1,292 in commission during ramp up. with the new "phones only" quota, it doesn't matter if you are good at sales or not... getting the combination of customers that will buy... — read more 

Do us all a favor and please close the remaining call centers asap and move them HBA. The company is wasting millions of dollars keeping these centers open. Most reps would rather go HBA anyway.

This sh-- is ridiculous. Last year in September, the quota was 62 devices (THIS WAS ALL DEVICES, including tablets, watches, jet packs, etc) with a bucket of $5,800. Now? It’s 102 phones, PHONES ONLY, with a $11,300 bucket. In one year, with less... — read more 

Any word on the position going forward?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/28/att-earns-record-profits-layoffs-outsourcing-continue

I stand ready to accept a special EISP and leave the service of the company in order to make the situation more sustainable for my fellow employees that remain. You’re welcome.

Hearing a lot of talk over the past week and wondering if anyone has heard anything? Usually this time of year it happens anyways but hearing more talk than usual about it.