This leader does everything in a self serve way that brings a lot of harm and strain to the team, especially with less people now. Makes life and work miserable for employees and partners and good people are constantly leaving the team. Somehow still continuing with the behavior after a lot of complaints.
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HR’s primary role is to protect Verizon from labor suits, while they pretend to protect and support the individual employee. Every decision they make is for what is best for Verizon. They will only jump in to support the individual employee if the claim is so egregious that is risks a law suit by the employee. Otherwise, they are there to protect the VP and Verizon.
*HR is only here to protect management when individual contributors complaint about management treating them bad.
@1rwh+1vd5mpmG HR is only here to protect management when I divide also complaint about being bad.
HR only takes complaints of s-xual nature seriously or any business favors to third party because of conflict of its where Verizon can be taken to court and pay millions of dollars in settlements.
If you ever complaint to HR about management you will make it up th RIF list next round even if your team wasn't being. And they open the same job 6 months later or if you get rif end of October (last year it was November) as early as January following because of new year it's easy to add head count that was riffed prior year October/November.
HR is not here for Individual contributors problems.
And suppose you tell all this in exit interview when you leaving they will gas light you that would have done something if they had known about it Verizon slogan: "Today we are bad, tomorrow we will be worse" :)
Phil Argabright
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I compare notes across different parts of the organization, with colleagues at the same level - the little guys. Invariably, we've noticed that people with the term "director" in their title at 2024 Verizon are the worst kind of bottom feeders. They might seem human because they still remember what it is to have coworkers you respect and try to have each other's back. They still remember what it is to have morals and a sense of right and wrong, truth vs. total fabrication. Again, the word is "seem". Something happens at the director level - and our guess is that you get close enough to that mystical, magical "VP" level to really smell the insane-money and lose any humanity that remained. At Verizon, people talk about VPs like they are rock stars. They often are referred to only by first name, like they are friggin Brittany or some such person. It's disgusting. Those VPs mainly contribute almost nothing, have terrible recent track records of success, thrive off Verizon's "stupid enthusiasm distraction train", care most about internal-totally-unuseful-metric-nonsense like competing for the most volunteer hours or the highest Pulse survey score in some category like "Pulse Survey participation". But - BUT, THOSE GUYS MAKE BIG BUCKS. Every director is so close, staring up the hind end of some VP that represents the dream of being one of THOSE GUYS, that directors never look down anymore. They simply FEEL down BLINDLY to step solidly on the little guys to get a better boost. Verizon has been cleared of most competent, talented management, but even people who seemed passable a short time ago will surprise you once they become directors. They will sell their mother and eat their own. Gee, I wonder why this place is circling the drain while fueled by the stupid unscruplous enthusiasm of "yes men" and the blood and sweat of the few smart, capable people that remain...?
there are tons of sh---y/useless "leaders" in VZ. replace them with AI
This is 1000% Robert Lee. He has all sorts of people jumping ship for the past several years and has had several complaints filed to HR and Ethics yet nothing has been done. The even more ridiculous thing is the more people you talk to in different departments of Ops all don't like him in that he's a "yes man" and bulldozes over everyone and burns bridges to get his 5 seconds of fame in the limelight.
If something doesn't benefit him, he doesn't want to deal with it. If his team does something great, he takes the credit. How is HR not doing anything about this?
OP. how xactly you mean, "...in a self serve way..."????????????????
You could honestly be describing 75% of leadership in VBG, VCG, GTS.