Hello All - a former Circuit CIty employee here - I think I might have an opportunity to land a job in one of Verizon stores (LA area) - can someone chime in about any gotchas or if you have any pearls of wisdom to share. I am in school right now but... — read more 

A. Shareholder Value B. Leadrship effectiveness to make company relavent for next 10 years C. Employee friendliness D. American

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Who will be hit the most?

We are yet to see VP, and director level layoffs in Shankar, Radhika and Ajay orgs.

Rumors running rampant that the announcement is imminent. Anyone else heard anything? Is it all of RA or just certain groups. Will we be made to apply for our jobs or be offered relo assistance?

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts

Soaring CEO pay while average workers get pay cuts, insider trading on Wall Street, misclassification of employees as "independent contractors," and corporate criminal behavior that never results in jail terms for executives.

Buy Wireless for CEO Ego Boosting $130B (we should have just paid $150B and bought Vodaphone, then sold everything except Wireless). Now we are destroying the rest of the company, just to save Wireless. Wireless is clueless how to actually survive a... — read more 

http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/verizon-likely-wont-sell-wireline-assets-says-analyst-firm/2015-11-06

Kevin Service- a big joker. I will be never be able to understand how this guy is heading thousands of operations personal. VZ has deceived all the city governments with its small print language and keeping the definition of "homes passed" open to... — read more 

So if we want to change carriers, what is the best one? I heard T-Mobile is inexpensive but service not so great. I don't know anything about att quality. What's the general consensus out there?

Verizon Wireless agreed to neutrality and card check recognition waay back in 2000. I'm surprised the Unions are not out there card checking the wireless locations. There wasn't much interest in 2001, I'm betting that has changed.

There is a talk that Accenture is going to setup and manage the call centers in Manila for all of the VZ Wireless. Accenture has successfully setup and managing the VES centers for a while in Manila.

The layoffs will continue until morale improves. Management

For all of you getting rewarded by Verizon for your loyalty don't forget if you have FIOS or Verizon Wireless you lose your discount. Another gift from Uncle Lowell.

Contractors don't need advance notices like employees do. Work them till the last day and let them go on Christmas day. It's all about greed.

Seems we're likely to have 39k people picketing in front of the wireless stores just in time for Christmas. 39k people that are just trying to NOT have their pensions and 401ks taken away from them by a company that's making over a billion dollars a... — read more 

Looks like one can publish a book of epic proportions on nepotism in IT. In Dallas CMB IT- there is an AD who was a contractor in FL until recently. He was brother-in-law of an infomus ED who got fired by ethics committee for harassing a female... — read more 

I see most of the teams have been trying to create work and pretend to be busy on several routine calls a day. Whatever the maintenance work needed to keep the systems up and running is mostly done by offshore India team and most of the onshore team... — read more 

I hope everyone is looking forward to the holidays. 8k wireless workers being laid off by the end of the year and 39k landline workers on strike. Can't wait to upgrade to any other carrier!!!

I pray VZ has the gonads to fire everyone who won't work, who makes fun and causes trouble for those who do work. We have a huge bunch of spoiled brats in my age group and if I said this out loud to them, the pack of mad dogs would turn on me. I do... — read more 

I am crunching numbers on the RIF which I expect to receive. Has anyone heard or know if social security and medicare deducted from severance, vacation and/or STI under a RIF scenario?

With the company beginning to move forward on negotiations and offer their best and final offer. They will most likely force a new contract on union members and force them to choose, between striking or working under imposed contract. Pretty, much... — read more 

Is there a round 2 for RIF on Nov 19? Is this going to be IT again or other areas?

By the time he's done, Verizon will be on it's knees, thousands of good hard working Americans and their family's have been ripped apart and he has banked enough money to last him many generations; yet he chants "Integrity is at the core of who we... — read more 

For several years now Management has made the work environment in Schaumburg very very stressful. Finger pointing is the number one way to start to address a problem. Micro-manage all the employees, Over load employees with work and then limit number... — read more 

http://fortune.com/2015/11/06/report-verizon-weighs-blockbuster-sale-of-its-enterprise-business/

Possible that VZ is targeting those with production and/or personality issues. Caught up will be many others, and the families of all. Toxic mix of business reality and greed.

Many of the current socially accepted and tolerated behaviors were, few dacades ago, seen as medical conditions or birth defects. Likewise, Executive compensation no longer looks abnormal in the society. Another unfortunate social acceptance... — read more