Its amazing to me how its become normal to treat people like so terribly. Putting families futures in question, delaying medical needs or cancelling college plans. People getting laid off has a HUGE cost mentally and emotionally. This can WRECK a family. Yes, a business can do what they want. Fine. But to hire people and then push them out the door like "waste" or "excess" is completely unacceptable. Hire people with integrity, hire the people you need. Respect the futures of employees and their families, they are not yo-yo;s. Run your business in a way that does not "cancel" hundreds or thousands of peoples livelihoods. Businesses should be able to get away with doing this to families.
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1opl+1tSRge4M This is capitalism corporate greed culture: You are relevant as long as you bring value. Company doesn't value loyalty over skills. It's what you can do for the company rather what the company can do for you.
If you don't have value be good at management rear ki$$ING to stay or even get ahead at vz.
A RIF can return. I’ve been RIFed multiple times and either returned or found something else before I left. It is a temporary you don’t fit right now.
A VSP person is gone forever. I supposidly will never again be an actual Verizon employee. Maybe they feel that is worth a bit more to never come back. It really makes no sense to have a VSP for alot of reasons but it was great timing for me.
Verizon was once a great company. That has changed. Employees are expected to barely get by. The mindset of leadership is that every single person is replaceable and that they don’t bring any individual value. There are times you hear one of situations where they countered a competitor offer or did a market evaluation and increased pay. In reality it has been years of decisions that immediately make it harder for their front line to live. The constant layoffs are one piece of an ever growing list of concerns within the company. The culture is gone. Now leaders openly talk about daydreaming of terminating employees alongside VSP, rebranding, and additional RIFs. The last two years there seems have been an escalation in their behavior as they grasp at a dwindling market share. The desperation in leadership, in my opinion, has led to behaviors that have crossed into the realm of abuse on a grand scale.
""...Treating people like this should not be allowed..." - @1ewt
It's not - in a union."
Yeah. BS. The neglect just comes from the local instead of the company.
"...Treating people like this should not be allowed..." - @1ewt
It's not - in a union.
Upending people lives by constantly laying off people should not be accepted as a regular business practice. It should be a last resort, and unavoidable. It feels like the employees, and their futures are fodder and scapegoats for bad decisions, inconsistent management and no concern for other people. Treating people like this should not be allowed. Laying off people seems like a symptom of another problem, that is not the fault of the employees.
How do they moraly justify this: the people who have decided to leave VZ get an enhanced package, but the people who feel loyalty to the company, who want to be part of its success and get RIFed get a substantially less package? I understand they want to incent people to leave, but they are actually punishing people who want to stay.
Like the lines from Taken: "It was all business. It wasn't personal." "It was all personal to me."
They preach integrity. They promise a pension and retiree medical benefits when I was hired, then eliminate them along the way. They preached diversity, not because they care about diversity, they did it so they could eliminate high paying jobs in the US to hire low cost employees in India. It all comes down to reducing cost. Now they’re reducing costs without considering the quality of work. It’s catching up with them. They no longer have the expertise to implement projects anymore.
That is how it has been all my life so it seems pretty normal.
Spot on! Godspeed to all the employees that are taking the VSP offer and leaving Verizon.
Welcome to the new world. https://youtu.be/4JkIs37a2JE