#jobsecurity

I just started with UP 3 years ago, im about to make the biggest financial decision of my life and im doing it because I have been promised a job for life!!!!

There’s no way there was an increase in the number of new jobs created this past month or for November. Especially with all the layoffs. Maybe they are part time jobs!

Comments????

30% of job postings are fake, per Forbes.

https://x.com/BarefootStudent/status/1991247655469740122

Is there any theory or knowledge as to how victims are selected. Presumably a role has to become redundant and then individuals in that role are selected based on length of service, performance and so forth.

Anyone notice (and maybe you’re one) PetroTechs are being parked in functions across the organization not related to their discipline (IT, Finance, Supply Chain). Park until needed? Waiting for an upturn in activity? I can’t imagine they are very happy with these assignments other than getting paid.

I survived but I don’t feel comfortable now. How long until I’m next? Executive don’t give a cr*p about us. I’m in network assurance and we were already thing with the VSP and bo-m! Hit us 15 more people in our market. What now??

It can’t just be me but does anyone see the logic in the random decisions? You know, the decisions to keep really unethical employees/leaders around because of favoritism or pure discrimination but let valuable employees go because they have opinions.

JM’s favorite is trying like heck to show value by trying to take other people’s work because she doesn’t have enough work to actually keep her team busy Remain hopeful that from these layoffs people will finally speak up and expose the truth behind the lies.

Might have just been some one-offs but I know two people who were...

Is it safe to assume that if your store hasn’t been closed your safe?

It’s a rough time right now. A lot of us are worried about our jobs, not because we’ve never lost or changed jobs before, but because the market is terrible. Everyone’s on edge. So if you share anything, make sure it’s reliable or at least somewhat grounded. We need to be mindful of what people are going through. This is the time to support each other, not stir up fear or spread bait.

Good luck to the rest of you. I just hope I’m not stuck out there jobless forever.

I was told yesterday that my job will be eliminated on January 2. Feels like Full Potential 2.0.

Anyone else?

This is sad for me working for almost 8 years just got laid off

Asm in Atlantic south need answers as to job safety for store level managers I know reps are affected but idk about ASM and RM

They just laid-off 13,000 employees. So sad. We did NOT think that this was going to happen a year ago. Some things, like lay-offs are out of the employees control. As they say: "Everything happens for a reason". Our family member is in shock. Been there done that, myself. There IS a light at the end of the tunnel.

All these years down the drain. Never once rated low and never written up. Told my job was being eliminated but yet they want to help train the supervisors taking my techs .

I work in GN&T in the BMET area. Two of my coworkers also notified

Hired out of college a year and a half ago, gone. Was a pleasure reading this forum with you all

What's with career development? Where are the jobs?

Say you get told in a few hours that you're being rif'd. What are you going to say in response to your boss? I know there's no options, just wondering how I'll take it if it happens and what to say in return, other than just sitting there d-mbfounded after giving them 18 years of my life.

I think my chances are about 50/50 of being impacted today.

I started at the very bottom and worked my way up over 28 years. In that time, I’ve held—and mastered—multiple roles. These roles allowed me to learn how everything works. I’m one of the few people who truly understands how everything works end-to-end.

I’ve built many systems and processes here that only I fully understand.

So if today is the day I’m “promoted to customer,” I take comfort in knowing Verizon is fu---d. I won’t be here to take anyone's calls, explain how something works, or why it was designed a certain way. I won’t be handing out contacts or filling in gaps or giving out recommendations on solutions to complex issues.

And I also take comfort knowing I’m not alone in feeling this way. A lot of people know where the bodies are buried—and they won’t be helping either.

Good luck.

Reading all types of potential nonsense talking about its going to be one of the hardest hit in layoffs and pressure to run the back office function even leaner, etc.

If i am on FMLA, am i gonna be saved?

Received and invite for tomorrow then it disappeared. Came from the VP coms person. Am I dead or am I safe?

Are any internal departments actively filling positions?

I’ve been with this toxic cesspool of a company for about 6 years. How much severance will they give me?

I try to keep up with the stocks and stuff and it seems like we did so bad this year then i saw the other day that we lost another contract in Fla and then the tax credits for our market place plans are going away. And then the medicaid cuts are gonna lose us more members. does it feel like maybe this company won't be around very long?

Just heard of a handful of long time employees that were let go.

Those earnings calls just dropped and… WHEW. If you thought things looked “meh” before, baby, we’re about to enter the Ugly Season™. ANOTHER round of LAYOFF is creeping up like a bad jump scare, so please — do NOT get too cozy in that ergonomic chair.

The corporate Titanic isn’t just sinking… It’s speed-running straight into the iceberg, Kmart style!

So instead of whining, here’s your survival kit — Update that dusty resume. Polish your LinkedIn glow-up. Tap your network like your life depends on it — because it might

Move FAST, fam.

Winter is coming… and so is HR.

Currently working in technical team think about a change to the sales team next year. Can I make more money ? What's its like working in sales in the UK, they seem to do well ? What are the managers like ? Can they really earn these big ote that's banded about?
Also how long do you get to get deals on ?

Dan sits high in the tower of glass,
Counting figures, trimming mass.
A whisper travels down the line
“Another round… this time it’s mine.”

He speaks of progress, polished and clean,
Of AI’s future and a workforce unseen.
Two years back he warned the crowd,
“It will leave many jobless,” he said out loud.
Now here he stands, the prophecy man,
Not stopping the storm..he is the plan.

People who built the network’s frame,
Names and faces..now numbers, just the same.
Their keycards flicker, the screens go black,
But profits rise, and no one looks back

Dan calls it efficiency, a modern shift,
But to those he cuts, it’s a stolen gift..
Security, dignity, years of sweat,
All erased in a corporate reset.

And when the machines finally hum in place
Where voices once filled a bustling space,
Maybe Dan will stand alone and see
That progress without people is poverty.

For a workforce falls not loud, but quietly
In email threads, and HR calls,
While a man in a tower signs and enthralls.

History won’t ask about stock or demand,
But who remembered the hands that built the brand.
And someday, far beyond Verizon’s span,
They’ll tell the story of a man named Dan
Who knew AI would hollow the land…
And led the march of the unemployed band

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"According to our information, Nokia France wants to remove 427 jobs using the collective conventional termination procedure. According to a union source, this represents nearly a fifth of the workforce, which amounts to about 2 300 employees at its sites in Massy (Essonne) and Lannion (Côtes-d’Armor)."

https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/11/17/exclusif-nokia-veut-supprimer-427-postes-en-france_6653798_3234.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nok/comments/1p07n29/nokia_to_cut_427_jobs_in_france/

Are we done finally? Can I wake up happily assuming my job is safe?

It’s been a while we saw a big one and I am getting a sense it’s right around the corner. Anyone have more information?

Waiting to find out whether I’ll have a job to go back to weeks after a traumatic delivery… while still in FMLA/STD… AND a colicky newborn… so fun!

The way they’re doing this RIF is crueler than usual.

How many others have pivoted from "oh, God, please don't let it be me," to "fu-k it, give me my severance" since this all started?

I've been told by a few people I have nothing to worry about because I'm one of the newer hires and this layoff will target those with higher pay, meaning people who've been at Verizon for a while. Is this true? I'd like to believe it, but I'm too scared to get my hopes up.

It was supposed to go live in February however, I guess sh!t didn't get done fast enough or something, and has been pushed back a quarter. I think it's May or something now, idfk... JC literally said "to be clear, this won't be pushed back further." - aka if it's not, heads will be flying.
At least that's what I've been told by someone who is part of the NDA thing, so i dont know how true this actually is.
but this NDA thing has been Dell's NUMBER 1 PRIORITY for the last year and so I'm worried because it got pushed back, this will affect raises, or even cause more layoffs than usual in Feb.

I see where the BRC union has signed the post merger job agreement. A question for anyone reading this that is an official in the union, what do these agreements say? What wording is there in these agreements that makes it worthwhile? Are the members voting on this? None of this is making sense. It seems strange to me someone that has cut about 10,000 jobs is interested in anybody’s job security.

Has anyone heard if the security teams will be affected, specifically those working under Mike Russo? Many of these teams are brand new teams build over the last year.