If you are looking at VZ from the outside, all is glittery, shiny, attractive. However, after you spend a year here you figure out that you are just a number, a small cog in a large money making machine that serves one purpose: to line pockets of the... — read more 

today. I started with wireless 25 years ago. It's the only job I've had since I first moved to California. I worked in IT for most of it, but moved over to CS when they all went to VDSI about seven years ago. During my time here I've worked for some... — read more 

Don't forget this hurt and betrayal. Don't let this heal. Show the management that we are consumers and we can influence consumers. Hit them where it hurts. -Take away your business to other providers Influence your family and friends to take their... — read more 

been told there is another national webcast early in january. anyone else been told the same?

Thank God we were RIF'd and Thank God we have our pension money on it's way to us before VZ is totally under water....thank you thank you thank you for the awesome severance package and for paying me to not work - My husband and I both got RIF'd and... — read more 

I've read through the board, didn't see a direct answer to my question. Will laid off employees as of 12/31 actually get their STI awards? In other words, while you will certainly get severance, how will you know that there will actually be an STI... — read more 

I was wondering how vz doesn't have a liability issue with workers RIF'ed and told to stay home. How is vz NOT liable if someone gets hurt? Always told if you were being paid and got hurt doing personal business you needed to take the day off. If... — read more 

I heard a ton of rumors, so take this with a pinch of salt as it can vertainly be just a rumor, and we had a few of those on this site (I've been here since October and I've red some crazy stuff - but I saw a ton of stuff here too that turned out to... — read more 

Can the union make this right and come clean before its to late, the information is out there, DO THE RIGHT THING YOUVE BEEN ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THIS FOR A WHILE NOW, WE WILL WELCOME YOU BACK! Call for the strike NOW!

Replacing citizens (or recent green card recipients) with H-1Bs raises serious discrimination issues, as you see here: http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/policy/2015/OSC-TALrequest.pdf This is true even if the replacement is done through a contractor. If... — read more 

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizon-downgraded-btig-due-tame-competitive-environment-and-conservative-w/2015-12-15 Stock downgraded, we will see how leadership likes being put on a performance improvement or else plan by the board!

All VZ needs/wants is the fiber running to the cell sites. (For now) Everything else is going to be off loaded/sold/decommissioned asap. Centurylink, Google, Frontier will buy it at a discount while it is still worth something. Lowell demonstrating... — read more 

The union is concerned with their well being not yours, they are in on this face the facts this couldn't happen without the unions cooperation. I will have all the info next week, and then they will have to answer to membership. GOOD LUCK CWA! This... — read more 

Ho, ho, ho! There seems to be some growing concern in Oz about a union job action over the Christmas holidays, when the company will be particularly weak because of their massive layoff. The company spent a fortune training thousands and thousands in... — read more 

Anyone hired after 2003 has a target on them now. The birdie has said that the company knows it's bad for business but more heads need to be cut. A surplus will be declared then an EISP offered. No dollar amount yet. Simultaneously a sweeping RIF... — read more 

delete them. I figured it out, so can they. What's even funnier, is I came up with the processes the other three areas used, but I'm the one that got rif-ed.

You are exactly correct. One of my kids is about to enter the workforce in a few weeks after graduation, the other has been in it for a few years. I have told them to NEVER give all of yourself to the company, EVER! The slackers, ass kissers and... — read more 

Loss of Brother Hare print icon Email Icon Posted On: Dec 15, 2015 Share The Local is very sad to report that one of our members, John Hare, aged 51, passed away yesterday after suffering a severe injury while on the job. John was Cable Splicer who... — read more 

Spoke the truth about layoffs in CT. How seniority personnel lost job, earned bonuses, insurance. Bonuses only paid if you are employee on 12/31. So they lay off the people that helped them build and let them go, kept the new employees. All this in... — read more 

I'm really surprised that no one has commented on the Webcast today. Or is it that no one is shocked by the information that was shared. I foresee lots more people getting let go. Starting with highest tenure. Even call centers and stores will be... — read more 

Schneiderman, the NY attorney general is crowd-sourcing speed tests to see if Verizon is scamming customers - VZ is not the only one that's being targeted, they will go after Comcast and TimeWarner Cable (good luck with that) - yet, this is very... — read more 

What is a corporation? Do employees have any role in a corporation like VZ? If not why did I completely dedicate myself to just VZ in the last 2 decades with no other means to survive? If you are working like me please wakeup now. Never be a... — read more 

Verizon is seeking approval from the City of Irving to build a 157-acre corporate mixed-use project near it's current campus. (Full store found at dallasnews.com) Verizon is seeking approval from the city of Irving to build a 157-acre corporate... — read more 

Then, when vz is accused of failing to support the copper wireline infrastructure, it can show what appears to be factual evidence of how unprofitable the wireline business is. But a far more important reason to cook the books is the Q1 2016 results... — read more 

Every year around November, my project lead gets sick but keeps coming to work. He always ends up giving it to a couple people. Since he doesn't take sick day, no one in the lab feels safe to take a sick day, and the lab quickly turns into a thick... — read more 

What will. VZ do when they can not get help anywhere

Has anyone else noticed in "about you", that now that they are RIF'ed their profile shows assigned to Wireline? Is this a one off? Could this be a way to show expenses all on the Wireline side? Seems strange.

Noticed Stratton financial transformation call appeared on Monday at 1pm: Any word on what's that about?

This is kind of what's happening to us right now - the top layers are extracting more and more money while wages are stagnating and people are bing laid off in the middle - In 2014, the median income of these households was 4% less than in 2000. In... — read more 

Our Millennials Want To Send Troops To Fight Terrorists and ISIS, But They Don't Want To Serve http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459111960

In the past 6 months I have seen numerous wireless employees brought over as Managers to the lan line side of the house. They are paid much less than the loyal.....hard working NYNEX, Bell Atlantic employees that have 20 plus years.... I was riffed... — read more 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/exposing-one-of-the-large_b_8767256.html

I couldn't believe the reviews of VDSI. Read them if you want to have good laugh. Bottom line, it sucks to work for Verizon everywhere!

Millennials love this kind of stuff, after all, our special snowflakes deserve a good bonus... OK, how about a 100K bonus for every employee - here is the thread on Chevron's board @ESMCHMc