Check the timing, fam—they chopped key DEI programs that had the important folks in place, the folk who actually knew what they doing. Now everything glitching, services down, and yall out here surprised? Nah. You cut the squad that kept sh-t running... — read more 

I know there’s a lot of noise with the outage but anybody catch that last call where Liane Lanier was selling us on indirect locations? Did anyone else leave yesterday’s East call feeling patronized and frustrated? It felt less like a strategic... — read more 

Dan, you have taken the pledge, have an obligation, thus to be resilient and NOT RUTHLESS. Outage, valuable 2026 lesson(s) learnt, difficult as-is, thus formulate a to-be "savvy and realistic" turnaround strategy. Mission (make it better):... — read more 

I’m calling bs on offer for New York. There was just an offer in December for operators, clerks and reps. It didn’t include field techs or cots. Why wouldn’t they just have made an offer in December to include more titles across all faa’s? Doesn’t... — read more 

Meanwhile, on the T-Mob layoff site, they are talking about the 10k layoffs they had today

It is long past time for accountability in this sinking ship. Whatever loser or losers and their incompetent management team and/or cross functional teams internal and external should be made known. This place reorganizes so much that nobody knows... — read more 

As an employee....My medical insurance is more expensive and my prescriptions dr-gs cost much more now in 2026....I am barely getting by now this.....I guess they had to figure out a way to pay Hans and the executives on the backs of the... — read more 

Dan the SippingMan can't keep the stock up above 40; he's gonna be leaving millions on the table unless the rest of us help him out. $39.37 today's close, down 1.15%

Verizon's massive nationwide network outage on Wednesday may have been caused by a failure in just one East Coast state. Officials believe a network server in New Jersey going down was the likely trigger of the day-long network crash, according to... — read more 

Customer loss over 500,000 for the year Blame Apple on phone availability hindering sales. Cite the RIF as an OPEX cut and indicate there will be more change Gloss over the outage and blame it on something rather than take ownership. -... — read more 

I know someone here knows? I'm reading something about a "new jersey server failure" in some news articles.

Verizon’s Recent Outage Exposes a Deeper Problem: Treating Operations as a Cost Instead of an Asset Verizon has long positioned itself as a leader in network reliability and resilience. However, the company’s most recent network outage has raised... — read more 

Our network is our product. Schulman maximizing profitability at the expense of our product will quickly drive customers away in mass. He doesn’t understand how the network really works, and everyone in the room with him is telling him want he... — read more 

I have to give credit where credit is due. T-Mobile leadership made a smart move by getting rid of phone subsidies and acquiring Sprint but the rest of their strategy was very straightforward. They waited until the 5G standard was finalized then... — read more 

People here are acting like something like this never happened before, to anybody. People will talk about it for a few days and it'll be forgotten. Move on, everybody.

What's the Vz USA policy , is porting out of corporate cell numbers our allowed at exit? International employees are told that it's policy that numbers can be ported out if you can prove you ported your number in when you joined.

“In 20026 don’t be afraid to cut everybody” off. Verizon

How many customers will defect??

Seriously, GN&T employees, you need to pay better attention to what dear leader is saying!

This place post RIF has become a toxic nightmare. Where does upper management get off threatening employees with being fired on the daily and refer to us as mentally handicapped and cant get the job done. Upper management needs to realize sitting... — read more 

Verizon won a ruling yesterday that allowed them stop unlocking phones after 60 days. If. an update was pushed to lock all phones that had been unlocked prior to the ruling, could that have caused the supposed authentication issues that are rumored... — read more 

Dan, we pay for the phone to always work. It’s a cell phone company. You had one job. People likely passed away today without taking to their loved ones for the last time because you failed as a leader. There is a human consequence to inept... — read more 

at least I hope so. This is a complete and utter s*its-how. What is going on?

I wonder how many delighted customers have forever cut us out of their lives today? Real hard to regain trust once the cord is cut. When will this downward spiral end? Will it take even more layoffs, off-shoring, and brain-drain to right this...

our customers, maybe not so much.

They said - things are going to break - thats okay - dump 15k employees. Perfect example of how to destroyed a great company. I remember back in 2001 - how Verizon was such a great name

I will not use any identification or identifying names. If you want real info bargaining ask. If known, it will be answered: no grasping. Surpluses etc are unknown. Across the board requires an agreement and none exist. Chances of a surplus?... — read more 

VZ is under immense pressure at the moment but Danny boy needs a cuppa coffee so he can make the next move, please go more leaner towards the leadership this time

Yo, his palms are sweaty, thumbs weak, signal's heavy There's "SOS" on his iPhone already, mom's spaghetti He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready To drop bars, but the bars won't drop, network's dead-y CEO Dan Schulman, new boss in... — read more 

Guys I need everyone to hop on for an emergency meeting. My boss needs a 200 page deck tonight to meet with their boss at 8am tomorrow morning to discuss today’s key pivotal critical learnings from the massive network outage. Please use corporate... — read more 

I did not think this is what Dan had in mind when he said we were going to be Customer Centric. https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/meltdown-for-verizon-wireless-network-255989829924

Where are all the wireless people who tell us how much better they are than landline today? Working to fix this outage I hope

Plenty of tenured engineers on this site. What’s largest outage of this magnitude, you recall? I’m at around 6.5 hours.