Miami is targeting 18 years old as the future SMs or GMs LOL!!! not sure how other markets are but here in Miami feels like working at a daycare.... Kids straight out of HS, long ago we had reps with at least an Associate Degree, now as long as... — read more
One Talk and Bluejeans are horrible products
A lot of my MSA peers are looking to go or already went to BJN. BJN sucks and caters to a niche market now. Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet will always rule no matter how BJN reps push the product. Heck, most of the poor folks that have BJN licenses on... — read more
VBG Leadership, What the F is wrong with you?
Listen upper mgmt (B2B MPs, Directors, VP), you guys need to advocate for your B2B reps. Majority of you all carried the bag and know what it takes to be a successful B2B sales person (except for the folks that slid in from a GM at a store or R2B... — read more
Something has to be coming
In my territory there are several temporary store closures due to staffing. My store is running 3 reps at most per day, some days 2 (should be 5 minimum). Can’t imagine this lasts much longer. Verizon needs to do a reevaluation of what they are going... — read more
And corporate keeps saying it’s not against its store Employees!
Solutions Specialists! Stop being blind https://youtu.be/LBpaT7fjmpI
Pulse Surveys
Intrigued to see what the verbatim on your stores pulse surveys consisted of. Ours were ALL around the changes to the comp plan, systems working inconsistently and contribution standards and the inconsistencies behind them. How does one complete a... — read more
Verizon is mulling over temporary wage increases
I guess it would make sense for them to give most employees a temporary hourly increase and then review the economy every 6 months or so. I don’t agree that the economy will get better and prices will go down. So let them try it out because what will... — read more
Verizon was just dunking on tmobile
Now they are raising the prices on legacy grandfathered plans. L o L. Just like the $20 min base pay, everything they say is full of po-p. They will say one thing, mean something different and then change what they say the next day. Guess it doesn't... — read more
Removing flex time and ESN mid year is genius
What an amazingly well thought out plan. Taking away the ability to use these unless you have use ALL your pto is a great move for employee moral. Thanks Verizon!
Verizon AKA Blockbuster
You guys know what happened to Blockbuster right? Who knows the CEO that brought down Ericcson? Ok, I gave you enough clues... Good Luck! ps how is your billing system? how short staff is your store? how high and ridiculous is your quota?... — read more
OP&OO
What’s happening here? No new positions? I’ve heard existing ones were canceled?
Case display cabinets in NextGen suck
The retail merchandising team is d-mb. The next generation case wall cabinets are a multi-million dollar mistake! Every store for the next 10 years will have impossible to organize random cases floating in those monstrosity cabinets. Once again... — read more
B360 is a joke
Customer wanting to add 3 new lines to existing business account since we opened the store. I’ve encounter every error known to man. After 50 minutes I had to look the customer dead in the face and say “sorry I can’t sell you these phones because... — read more
VBG
Sounds off. How you all feel about y’all new Accts?!
After 2 month. No answers.
So after 2 months of trying to find out my individual targets are for my $200 "kicker", I still have no answer. Who in leadership can really think this is ok!!! Am I supposed to just be happy when I get my "kicker" or would you actually like me to do... — read more
Allego??
Any other retail reps get harassed on the daily to do their “ALLEGO” assignment? 😂 I’m just here to sell phones , sorry sir I will not be doing homework for this sh*tty job. You want me to do cold calls and homework assignments ALL while paying me... — read more
Left for T-Mobile Business.
After 15 years at Verizon I left for T-Mobile. I received a 20k salary increase, $10k target comp increase and an additional 10k a year for their version of stock together. The systems and reporting are not as good as Verizon but they make up for it... — read more
Verizon contracted door to door salesman stabs customer
not sure why this is being censored. He ded. https://www.nj.com/ocean/2022/05/man-stabbed-to-death-by-door-to-door-salesman-during-fight-authorities-say.html
Holiday hours
Why are we closing an hour later on holidays now? They pay more in operations and employee pay than what will be made by sales. Some of these summer holidays we shouldn’t even be open.
The second round of layoffs
Layoffs will be coming as doors transform to dealer doors. The first round was last year and they did them the first quarter. The second round will come sometime this year. It’s a surprise maybe 3rd quarter I’d assume. Verizon is bleeding and... — read more
I MISSED THE CALL FOR SLED VBG
I miss Ds call and my mp is out. Wtf did I miss?
This place is a Joke
This place is a joke at the moment up leadership is trying to do things from years ago that do not work. Stores are falling apart from leadership that is not present and out of touch. They think all of these changes are doing anything only making... — read more
Let’s not forget about the infamous shoelace bags.
These shoelace bags were literally designed to prevent anything from going inside them. You had one job. Fail. I’m guessing new bags will be introduced 2025. You talked we listened.😂🤣😂
Failure is now our culture
Verizon failed us. Leadership failed us. Verizon is failing its customers and stock holders everyday. Verizon rushed 5G home and its being returned left and right (Fail). 5G phones are slower than 4G and we are back to buffering or pauses in... — read more
Almost the same pay
Offering almost the same pay to newly hired employees compared to long-term employees is a humiliation for all those who have given their best to this company over the years. What will Verizon achieve with this, apart from the loss of experienced... — read more
Sm/ R2B union?
can SMs, or GMs for that matter, go union ? and can R2B? what is the limitations on that, is it a pay band or salary thing?
Third Party Everything
Is this the new normal within our company. It seems like every department is slowly becoming Third Party. IT, Every r department in customer support, maintenance, network…. Anyone figured out how to get answers you need from actual corporate verizon... — read more
Retail Managers going to join the U word
You heard it hear first folks the. People our sick and tired of being used as punching bags, and have to take the blame and make up for the short comings in other parts. Calls that do not do anything. Chasing ridiculous metrics. Also running multi... — read more
Consumer Economic Surcharge
New charge coming of $1.35 per voice line. I hope that customer service is ready to handle these escalations. It's not customers fault that Verizon leadership doesn't know how to run the business. Be ready for port outs people. My team is just... — read more
Tami Erwin out
Tami out.
Kool aid
Remember a time when we loved this company and drank the Kool aid because it was delicious and tasteful and refreshing. Who else is drinking oiss these days?
Verizon trying to stop people from Unionizing
https://www.thestand.org/2022/05/051222-news/
Economic surcharge for business accounts
Most new and existing OOC lines will be charged a $2.20 economic surcharge starting next month. What do you think they’re going to do with all that extra cash?
wouldnt let me keep my raise
i switched to telesales and they took my raise away, im a long time employee and a high performer, this company doesnt give a 💩 about employees or the hard work they do they just dont give a f**k
Contribution reporting fairness
How is it that someone who works at a store that does half the volume as mine and helps half the amount of customers that I do end up having a better contribution report then me.? Forgot about the quality of the sale ...I’m talking raw numbers of... — read more
Do stores still have team commission?
Heard stores recently changed their team commission structure again. Can someone please tell me how this works? Is it basically hourly or you get hourly plus a team commission check? If you still get team commission, what is the goal ? Thank you in... — read more
Any other stores voting for a union?
Please send some union reps to central and northern Connecticut please. Even though i know the union won’t help us at least we can make a louder voice.
Dividend Guy again
So I really want to thank the Vteamers for the dividends. I made almost $5000 this quarter. I also appreciate the person who corrected my bad spelling on a post I made. Once a person posts here it can’t be fixed so thanks for the criticism. ... — read more
A toxic culture costs the company in many ways
Hiring people and training them costs. So I think hiring new people who leave after a very short time because of the toxic atmosphere, while in the meantime doing nothing to fix that atmosphere is pointless. In my opinion, it's just a waste of... — read more
They can set goals as high as they want
However, the question is whether anyone will try harder to achieve them? It seems to me that the only thing they will achieve by setting their goals higher is to demoralize and encourage us even more to leave this joke of a company.