I did this once before and I got hammered in the comments.
I am a longtime IT Manager. I’ve done well. Verizon and all the cellular companies before Verizon helped me achieve a lot of personal goals. I have no complaints. If it ends for me this year, it ends.
I’m writing this for the IT employees that I care about. I’ve built up relationships with a lot of you. I genuinely care about the people I work with. I knew that those employees that stayed after the VSP would be safe for a year. In addition to recovering from VSP, we had various third-party folks to deal with. As you all know, the last fourteen months have been a challenge.
The post VSP year has come and gone. COVID has actually changed a number of plans. Call Center, Retail, HBA, and others have had to adjust. IT will need to adjust as well.
For EUS/Desktop Support and other IT departments, please do a few things. If you have the opportunity to take a training class, do it! If you have the opportunity to learn a new IT skill, do it! Protect yourselves. Gather every new skill that you can. Changes are coming. Layoffs are coming. At the very least, acquire something new to add to the resume. If you were recently moved to a new manager, update your resume and LinkedIn profile.
Again, protect yourselves. Start training yourselves now. If you are not on the list, then your current manager will be happy you are looking to the future with Verizon. If you are going to be let go, then at the very least, you have improved your IT knowledge. Begin now. Do not wait. Do not procrastinate. Do what you can to help the person in the mirror.
I’ve given all the information I can. I don’t want to give myself up. Like I said earlier, I care about my employees and the people I work with. It hurts to watch someone doing work for me when I already know that their time is short. It is brutal. It is beyond painful. I know of one manager that broke down crying after a call discussing what is coming.
If you are an IT employee, don’t turn the comment section into the YouTube comment board. This isn’t about calling someone you don’t know names. This isn’t about some insecure weak need to troll others. This isn’t about Infosys, HCL, outsourced centers, politics, or anything else other than someone that cares about fellow employees. I want you to start planning now. Do what you can to make the transition as easy as possible.
I’ll post this on both boards.