I find it interesting that these cuts are more secretive than ever. I'm not saying that they were too transparent before, but now somehow everything happens behind the scenes. Did you notice that too? Why so much secrecy which negatively affects all of us? People are rightfully nervous and anxious to the max.
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The risk is way too much sabotage. You could get some rif'd technician, knowing he's got nothing to lose, crawl into a vault with a pair of cutters, and walla! Or a service rep just start adding services to customer accounts. It could go very bad very quick.
The RIFs are always secretive. HR probably spends 6-9mos/year working on RIFs. Then, the entire RIF is executed in 3 hrs on a Thursday morning in July or October. Finally, employees are told to go home and come back their last day to turn in their equipment... talk about sweeping it under the rug.... almost impressive if not so depressive. I'd rather have more advanced notice, but some people would become a very serious insider threat risk and bring down the company.
Everything with Verizon is "Cloak and Dagger". That is the way Hans operates.
But the Swedish Meatball said they would be "transparent"....
Do you actually believe that it was? Hans addressed it in the quarterly. I’ve never seen any other leader answer a question about lay-offs. The economy sucks, our stocks also suck, im not sure how this is a shock except to those who are still here and trying to figure out what is happening now
Yay for negative pulse survey prior to the layoff!