I’m now thinking that VZ leadership is so devoid of reality that they believe the work is getting done by itself. How else would anybody explain all the layoffs, complete indifference to attrition, and zero effort to fill vacant positions? We can pick up the slack for now, but that won’t last for long. They are in for a major rude awakening one of these days.
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There are so many groups tracking things and not enough actually knowing enough to look at the details of the business and save the company money.
Send some H1Bs from Bombay to clean it up. No wait. 99.9% of them can’t find their a-s with their own two hands.
The code of conduct is the biggest pail of s*** ever.
The illustrious CEO departed Ericksson while under investigation on corruption charges. During his tenure Ericksson conducted business with ISIS and bribed officials in Djibouti, Syria, etc. For those unfamiliar, Djibouti is a small north African country where the U.S. has its only naval base on that continent.
Ronan charged with collusion to put a British retailer out of business.
No charges with Manon, just a head scratcher. Previous employer had 11 to 50 total employees. Her other previous positions were with Videotron, which is touted as the 5th largest wireless carrier in Canada. The top three wireless carriers account for ~90% of subscribers which total ~30 million. Never understood how this background qualified her to become a VZ leader.
As far as layoffs and who will pick up the workload. The VZ philosophy has always been to eliminate someone being paid $110,000 per year and replace with someone making $65,000 because they have never felt that one person without job knowledge can negatively impact the company as a whole.
Never question the code of conduct bs and especially not with HR. A confidential discussion with HR to them means they must wait 24 hours before relaying the discussion with your manager.
Understanding that government requires code of conduct, ethics, etc. training but a succinct code would be four words.
DO YOUR FN JOB
"This is not an American company, stop thinking it is."
Actually, it is, and that is the scary part. Almost none of the revenue comes from non-American sources. Despite that fact, the company is led by non-Americans who instead of trying to understand and sell to the US market, are attempting to change the US market products and services into more of a globalist one. Typical World Economic Forum trash from Blackrock, which was the impetus for the 5G failure from Sweden.
American consumers are waking up and smacking down the woke who broke their country. Hans is one of those people.
This is VZT. The senior leadership are trying to make the company look good on paper only.
This is not an American company, stop thinking it is.
Every Ponzi scheme fails eventually.
Everyone needs to RTO. Why not?
India. All they care about is replacing American workers with Indian workers. Because the many India-born, VZ Execs (sammy, shanks, etc) get huge kickbacks from the government of India and/or India IT Contract companies (ex Indy) for every job they take away from an American and give to their countrymen
There is a huge is such disconnect between the customer-facing people and the managerial ranks in Basking Ridge, Lake Mary, and elsewhere. Most of the jobs in Basking Ridge and Flordia have almost no reality to the customer and are therefore expendable on whiteboards in board rooms, and easy to layoff until there is a crisis.
The people in the garages and construction will keep closing out their tickets, the NOCs will keep tracking and managing traffic and the money will keep rolling into the remittance processing centers. So the cash flow is mostly set but the back offices are looking mighty superfluous, especially after all of the BR, Ashburn, and Lake Mary folks were presumably working from home for so long - or not really working in the thinking of some at the top.
So I would expect to see another 'scalping' of 10-15 percent of office workers being pushed out. If you are not adding to revenue or are too far from the king reporting or geographically - then I would be updating a resume and preparing to get backstabbed before the end of 3Q, and depending on 3Q another round before Thanksgiving.
Based on previous actions and the situation we are in.
Yes, I’m tired of working out of title, when nobody else does, it’s getting very old. Management doesn’t g a f. Guess I’ll have to let code of conduct group know. They want us all to rat. That what I got out of the code of conduct training.