My goal was to learn as much as possible here and leave for a better company. However, I am not very satisfied with how much I have advanced my skills here.
How successful were you at that?
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Use the TAP! Graduate and bounce
Get a life!
One could instead say use education/training and get more skills to prepare for the always present threat of being laid off.
Please this is a site for layoff discussion not how to advance a career through training.
Ummm skills? I just took required training courses on how to sit in a chair. “Body ergonomics” it’s a joke
Try changing your name to:
Amir
Syed
Virag
Hasan
That should do it!$
I learned to volunteer and do blue jeans videos getting paid $210k
Verizon pays for your school and requires no strings Attached. Verizon may suck but they have good benefits, best in class in some cases. That's all on you to not get a degree and bail as soon as you graduate.
OP, it's ironic you wanted to play vz but vz played you. You should assume you have whatever skills you have. Then, you need to get a promotion, not a lateral, every 2-3 years. Once you go 3-5 years without a promotion, either accept 1 lateral or leave for a promotion or lateral. The 'skill' you acquired was the title. If that's not important, I recommend just leaving now.
Regarding other skills, just get the books and read them. For 300 bucks you can take a community college class that will get you a college email and you can buy all the software as a student for like 100 bucks vs thousands.
But for clarity, vz does not provide/mandate that you take training, even to do your own job.
You need to learn this. If your not going to kiss your bosses a-s your not going to go anywhere here. And if your a Caucasian male, your chances are slim. Even if your African american, you need to change your name to Patel or Singh. Sorry but those are facts. Start looking at the org chart Indian nepotism runs rampant here at verizon. Another reason why it’s going down the tube.
During your job interview with Verizon, how did you answer the question, "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" ? Did you say, "I plan to learn as much as possible at Verizon and then leave for a better company within 5 years" ?
It is a shame that US corporations don't care about their attrition rate anymore.
Seems like there is a correlation between attrition rate and stock price. As the attrition rate rises, the stock price drops.
The question is:
Are you here because telecom is in your blood, or because this was your best opportunity (at the time) and now you have a greater calling?
“Learning as much as you can” - about what? There are at least two distinct routes, here:
- Learning as much as you can about major telephone companies, and working your way into the good ol’ boys club
- Learning something technical that takes you beyond Verizon or even beyond telecom as a whole.
There’s a caveat to #2 - where do you think you will gain all this knowledge? That’s a tall task for one job, one manager, or even the sum of all communication you have with your teammates.
Maybe you have to use the tuition assistance to maximize that benefit. Maybe it’s self study on INE courses.
We have to use lots of qualifying language to get a quality answer…
Think - REALISTICALLY - can you get a SATISFACTORY amount of PERSONAL growth from OJT (on the job training) alone? In your 40 hours? Answer honestly.
This is a layoff site, not your Facebook.
Molly, you in danger girl!
I recently started using some stuff I learned in seventh grade. Maybe someday I’ll put that degree to use.
Of course I have learned alot about surviving whatever you call this culture but any company heck any vp group in VZ will be different.
Skills…. We don’t need no stinking skills!!!