I've seen so many recent graduates let go just a couple of months after starting at Verizon, and it makes me feel bad for them. They receive little to no training and they're thrown right into the deep end. It’s no wonder they struggle. You’ve got to wonder if management ever regrets pushing out the more experienced employees who truly understood the roles.
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This is what happens when people that have 0 experience in communications hire people with even less experience. The idea that you can hire someone straight out of college and just shoehorn them into any position is as just plain incompetence. I yearn for the old days when people were promoted on true merit and experience. Those days are long gone.
As soon as the employees that accepted or were forced to accept the first buyout during 2018, they were barely out of the door when recent college graduates with zero experience were hired. These new hires in our area arrived around 9am, logged in, walked to the cafeteria for breakfast, back at desk for a little work and texting, back to cafeteria for coffee, work out for an hour, lunch for an hour, a little more work and texting, stand in Starbuck's line 45 minutes for coffee, a little more work, and out at 5pm.
As employees were promoted to maintain the >60% diversified number, and not based on job skills, a friend in another department would bring employees in their late 20's to my desk. These employees wanted to work, learn and seek promotions. She would introduce them to me and say, "ask any question you want, he has been around long enough to know most employees and is the only one that will tell you the truth". Most of them already had more knowledge and experience than their manager/director, and everyone I spoke with had been promised a promotion at the time of hiring. I am proud to say that at least six of these employees left the company and are all doing much better.
There is definitely an issue with the majority of the young workforce. They have accomplished nothing yet, but want to change everything to fit their needs. They also feel the need to explain your job to you without knowing what the h**l you trying to accomplish. Full of ideas, but not work.
When I first started working at BR, I would see and say good morning to 20 or 30 people by name and they knew my name in return. My last few months during 2018, I would see zero to 3 people.
The destruction of VZ started during this time period and is becoming close to the grand finale, which will not be pretty.
I wish those remaining with VZ the best, but for me, I could care less what occurs with the place. Not many, but some good hard working, knowledgeable employees remaining, led at the top by egos and id--ts
Fu-k the youngins'
First off, there’s a hiring freeze and no one’s coming in new. Any college grad I have seen is an intern or gets peanuts.
“ They receive little to no training and they're thrown right into the deep end.”
Sounds like every new hire I’ve known and any new work I ever got. Nothing all that new to many parts of the business and other companies.
Fake! I have seen many incompetent recent college graduates starting at Sr. Mgr positions and they are completely clueless..
worst part is that they want experienced people to report to these newbie’s.
Also see nothing but old friends in every group I work in. People here longer than me everywhere I look...another BS response by the 1st reply.
Been here almost 20 years and I have NEVER seen a new hire, graduate, etc let go "just a couple of months after starting at Verizon." Complete BS.
The churn and burn/ employee turnover rate is the worst Ive ever seen. I wasn't there that many years and it seemed like there was a constant revolving door of people in every department. Regular, contingent, whatever ...... it never made sense how they did not prioritize keeping competent knowledgeable people onboard but rather preferred the high turnover rate over keeping their staffing costs low. The toll it took on everyone else involved to train, then retrain, then figure out what the last person did - put so much more grief, headache and delays into getting anything done. Sounds like nothing has changed, but Fortunately the millennial work ethic will also show them that lack of Loyalty is a two way Street - these kids wont hesitate to jump ship for better opportunities elsewhere.