Union Strong!!!! "CWA, IBEW and Verizon have reached an agreement in principle to extend the collective bargaining agreements for a four-year period. The current agreements are set to expire on August 3, 2019. If finalized, the agreements will extend... — read more 

As per ibew 827, contract extension to 2023, stay tuned.

RIF'd 11/17 VZers hang in there. There is life after Verizon - a good life! Trust/believe in yourself. In all the skills that VZ hired you for in the first place, and then go take those skills and do something new/better!

It’s a crying shame what’s being done to us on the frontline in addition to all the shady tactics, and phony leadership trying to devalue your worth to the company through fear tactics... — read more 

any news on the early negotions to extend the contract past aug 2019

I think it’s an interesting time to be here. Changes seem afoot. It’s kind of new and exciting. Makes me feel young and invigorated.

Wireless should do a Pizza-Hut-Like Mea Culpa, admit their sins of the past, and start over. People are so jaded with their mistreatment in the past. Let’s acknowledge it, get rid of the bad apples, and start anew. Fresh starts are good. Re-establish... — read more 

Verizon Wireless, ATT and T-Mo/Sprint have all been open with their investors that in order to maintain EBITDA and margins, they have no choice but to rely less on brick and mortar stores and more on the cheaper (digital) channels. None of the... — read more 

A rep at my store has over 112 accounts he slammed. He is sweating bullets today hahaha.

Location in PA went Union. Conference calls all day. Leadership and DMs . Propaganda

Much like the ant world Or the bee world There is a Queen And a number of worker bees, or worker ants (and soldier ants) exist solely to unquestioningly feather her nest, catering to her every need and, ignorantly providing for her every need, her... — read more 

Recent "Severee" here... Give yourself at least a three weeks buffer to get your agreement submitted. Be extra diligent and monitor that it has been received and accepted. I've been beating my head against a very hard wall for several weeks now... — read more 

Last month I made $2,126... so far this month I'm not even trending to make a paycheck (Same traffic/ same numbers from last month). I understand Verizon is trying to make more money but at what cost. Half of my district is leaving and college kids... — read more 

Question for you all. I know sometimes this site isn’t the best because you get a lot of negativity which I understand I was the same way when I was a former employer. Frustrations happen to everyone and there is always pros and cons. I’ve been... — read more 

Increased emphasis on sales dollar bucket has been constant since July 1. They want you to be a slave to the sales bucket and understand what it takes to fill it up (pretty much everything that makes Verizon $). It’s almost impossible at this point... — read more 

The cats already out of the bag. Several stores are already being investigated for reps who are processing doa/wfg accessory exchanges mutlitple times at once, or going as far as to even process exchanges when the customer isn’t even present in order... — read more 

Been hearing about more layoffs coming to Verizon later this month. Since this didn't come from the most reliable source, I was hoping somebody here would know more about it (and or or hopefully confirmed it is not happening.) I would really... — read more 

https://www.barrons.com/articles/apples-next-iphone-could-spell-big-trouble-for-at-t-and-others-1531245797

I could have sworn this subject matter was a no no I could be wrong?

Heard from a reliable source that there will be a enhanced eisp offered to many titles 4th quarter 2018. Anyone else hear this?

Lol what a joke. I refused to break literal federal law and sign random people up without their consent like other reps in my store and most people I ask declined to be entered into salesforce and get spammed by our texts (why would they?) so I don’t... — read more 

Gatt rate for July is 2.96....down from 3.13 at the start of the 2nd quarter. Predictions for the gatt rate for the rest of the year show it going down...all the way to 2.78 by December. My guess is that the tariff war that Trump is waging is looking... — read more 

Managers in our store are having us call customers from the past few years that have 3 devices or more on TMP. We explain to the customer no additional charges and some actually save money. One dude nailed 8 in one day over the phone !!! That’s 1,600... — read more 

Cutting pay and Overtime will make employees less motivated/ productive. You cant cut someones pay and expect them to work harder for less.

Good luck hitting your sales dollars bucket.

Has anyone tried calling compliance for these ?

I still have not heard what Oath is. It cannot be a Facebook or Google or Netflix.

I've been with the company over 10 years with the internal helpdesk known as the ITHD/NSC/LSC/ITSC, you name it. 5 years ago we had over 200+ young technicians learning and improving and supporting various commercial clients that made Verizon... — read more 

FLS2 here. Thank god for the new commission structure. You shady reps never deserved 80k+ to begin with. In fact you were all the inevitable death of Verizon, and the reason why honest hard working reps were always frowned upon by leadership as well... — read more 

I heard 3 year extension from two different sources. If this is true when do you think they will announce it? Would have been a nice 4th of July announcement.

I heard a lot of people suddenly retired with end-of-June retirement dates because of the change in GATT rate would make the lump sums drop. I heard some went down in the 50k range. Mine hardly dropped at all, I don’t know why. I don’t know if it was... — read more 

I’m just looking to gain insight into how this is being used in retail stores. Are managers setting a blanket commitment for the whole store and holding individuals accountable for the behavior(s)? Are the commitments collaborative/flexible based on... — read more 

Richard Branson — 'Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.'

I assume by the same annoying individual. Yawn. (BTW, the poor grammar is not my doing. It's a cut and paste of the triviality of said poster, the one who likes to say things like, "Everybody don’t speak at once!! GO!" I hope he continues to get... — read more 

Read an article that vz was thinking about buying xm radio,i guess we will be in the music bussiness..sing me a song vz.

It seems the com setup changes constantly and trying to see how its explained i feel like I’m learning a whole new math system again. Why not just have a set com amount per item and why have some kind of bucket and multipliers. Has it ever been... — read more 

More and more acting roles assigned to Assistant Managers to poison their minds into thinking they got a chance at succeeding as a GM. All to find out that the Corporate world (Dm's and above) have already hand picked the next successor and making it... — read more 

Everybody don’t speak at once!! GO!

Verizon hires new temp,and gives them brand new truck and keeps them separate from the regular work force..not too smart sends them out and tell them go figure it out..plus heared that they have no work for them,vz managers tell them to go out and... — read more