I left as part of the layoff and didn't have anything lined up because I wanted to take a short sabbatical and break. Oh boy do I regret it because I miss the peace and comfort at VZW and how I was fortunate to have a nice team. I wish I didn't leave. This job market is so bad and it is so hard to land any roles. Majority of them are all contract for any few leads that I had.
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The culture is sick and psychotic leaders are enabled and rewarded. One VP claimed that after being with the company over 30 years, her goal at this point was to build up others and that she cared about each and every person on the team. Instead she burned out the team with relentless overwork, intentionally failed to properly organize the team so that everyone would need to go for her to make a decision on literally anything, hoarded information, claimed to want efficiencies but demanded the the entire process change every month, talked about her team behind their backs, talked about her business partners behind their backs, failed miserably at convincing leaders to use her overworked team vs their well resourced in house teams, and more. So much strong talent was abused and wasted by this VP as she instead fed her own need to intentionally create chaos to hoard power and micromanage. She managed up well to get away with it and masked the large turnover as people pursuing other opportunities. The truth is they were abused and completely unprotected by HR who was also in the pocket of this VP.
I don't mean to downplay anyone's bad situation. I've been out of work. I know what it's like to lose your medical insurance and not know how or when your next opportunity is going to turn up. A counterpoint, though: I see Verizon people all around me who are ill - seriously ill. They end up having emergency room visits here and there, end up on multiple medications for chronic illness, and all-the-while docs are telling them to reduce stress, which they ignore because the financials around working at Verizon are like a dr-g they can't quit. The lifestyle becomes a bunch of expensive trips and little "gifts" they give themselves to try to make up for 75% of their time being spent miserable at work or thinking about work, since we are under constant threat of layoff without a good reason. Also attempts to make it up to family when we aren't there half the time. People are laid off and many report feeling relieved. Suddenly health ailments improve. Sure some miss the specifics of the paycheck, because we built an unsustainable life around a level of compensation not seen in other industries. It's questionable whether THIS industry can really manage it, hence the outsourcing. BTW - I think most of us could handle being fired for poor performance, but some of us bust our butts and perform at a high level just to get laid off, while watching low performers climb the ladder. So, anyway, we all have bills to pay, but the attitude that we can't do any better than this is precisely what keeps us all enabling a toxic, dysfunctional environment run by a bunch of clowns. We can do better than debating whether to lie on a Pulse survey or keep our job; say OK to working through the weekend at someone's sadistic whim or keep our job; keep our job or lose health insurance. It has all the makings of a trap. I wish more people would wake up to that realization and put up a bit more fight. We outnumber these bozos by a lot. Instead we aspire to get paid a lot and wear a red nose, ourselves.
Verizon is a garbage comlany going down in flames. See the Q1 numbers ? Is that a sign of a winning team ?
It sounds like you didn't have a choice in leaving, but I totally understand how you feel! I too was laid off 1 year ago from VZW & I agree, the job market is horrible! I'm still searching! I know it's all business for the company, but I often wonder if the executives think about the affect layoffs have in tenured employees. U hate to say it, but each year gets worse since the arrival of Hans. Hundreds of valuable employees lost !
Don’t live in the past. VZ may have treated you well, but don’t forget they ditched you.
Vzw is the pits
You poor thing. Nobody is missing you.
Signed SH
"ummm...but we were glad you left, chao!"
It's "ciao". You don't even work for Verizon do you?
Fake.
A high performing company wouldn’t offer VSP in the first place. They’d take the time like Amazon or Meta to lay off weakest links. Many scammers get away with doing little to nothing at Verizon since they know they can get away with it. It’s particularly rampant in the Lake Mary office.
McD is hiring
Sorry about your difficulties, it was definitely a risk, and one I considered but couldn't take due to the uncertainty and my family reliance on my job for so many things. Who would have thought the orange monster and the twitchy dork would have made it so much worse for Americans by tanking the market and flooding the job market with seekers. Hoping the best happens for you.
https://www.thelayoff.com/verizon-wireless.
ummm...but we were glad you left, chao!