Back in the day you’d have big kick off events with over 3k employees. You would see occasional territory wide events where multiple districts got together for a fun day. The reason you don’t see Verizon doing this anymore is because of the union scare. Last big kickoff was 2014… right around the time Brooklyn and Everett locations were unionizing. The front line employee had the platform for networking at these events. Before you know it the masses could have had contact with each other and taken the power that Verizon is abusing every day.
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I just assumed it was because they're cheap.
All these big events over the has been on thewireless side of the company,not on the wireland side.for years and years the company had big party's and event all a waste of money on the wireless side of the company.
When I started here back in 2010, the amount of money I saw being spent on employee events or “celebrations” were incredible. At first I thought this was great. As an outsider that came from a financial conservative company, I often wonder how this was sustainable. We had A list celebrities at some of our corporate events. They would close stores early and buss people in. Every team meeting we had was catered food. The contest we put together for the sales team was eye popping. We were traveling just to travel. We always had catered events at the suites. I saw Justin Timberlake at a private VZ event. We stayed at the Four Season one year for a summit. Then 2015 hit and it was literally a light switch went off overnight and since then it is a different company.
I actually saw how much one of those cost
It was unsustainable
So the share here is you feel that there is no way for employees to share their disgruntledness of verizon outside of VZ sponsored events. Have you tried layoff.com?
I’m in management and for basically decades pre covid they flew us to baskin robbins nj to have a couple annual meetings. They tried to do that again this hear and every group I work with has been told no. If it isn’t business essential then no.
Yeah, it is certainly not the cost of the employee's wage, flying people around, hotel, catering food, etc.
It's about the pennies, not the constant complaining of toxic employees that should be fired before being laid off.
Big red is just being cheap so they can pay the CEO their 21% yearly raise while giving the res a 2-7% raise.
Not just the union, mgt level as well.... no more big gatherings. Townhalls are nothing events - execs stay just long enough to come in, speak for an hour, then leave right after. 55 mins of that hour - repeating the same info we've already heard 5x before; then 5 min of Q&A. No attempt to make the rounds to meet people, to mingle with the common folk.
OG poster has a solid point! Whenever you see the employees come together and chat there are negative effects. Each time we compare stories we get scared and react. Knowledge is power and Verizon doesn’t like when employees share stories. The disparity in pay for people of the same teams is very prominent. The way leaders handle individual employees is preferential based on if they like them. There is also a history of retaliation even after an employee leaves. It’s is even more evident when we go to events with competitors and they are blatantly making 50-80% more for the exact same roles elsewhere. It is very well known Vzw is the LEAST paying of the telecoms.
Back when I first started with the company we'd have district summer picnics. Of course the company was a monopoly back then. Directors had upwards of 400 employees in their orgs. Don't see that anymore either. We also didn't have 4 layers of VPs. This ain't your momma's phone company anymore.
Right. It has nothing to do with the huge expense with little return.