The only one I have at this point has nothing to do with Verizon itself. The job market su-ks and I don't feel like dealing with rejection, since that's most likely to happen a lot. That's it. That's why I'm not leaving just yet. Everything else about this place is part of the reason to leave.
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GTS has big telugu and tamil bias only hire and promote their own look at GTS org chart and say its a lie. then they bring in WITCH consulting cos on big contracts for kickbacks.
In a typical indian abuse of power fashion! All GTS leaders need to be rifed we should hire people with values that align with our customers. Most of our leaders can barely even comunícate or articulate properly. Huge gap!
Depends on your experience. I was rifd in December and on Jan 22nd I started my new job making more money (but lower STI/bonus).
Jobs are out there, just have to bust your a-s to find one.
Just doing what the execs are doing and milking this till I complete 5 more years.
Are you from India? Is your boss from India too? Are you trying to scare or intimidate your subordinates?
Cell towers for sale or rent
Employee salaries will be 50 cent
No spares or tools that work
No reliable signal on the road
In GTS world, Sxxxar is the only constant and single most reason to mess they are in
By education, he is engineer and very smart & intelligent but he has only provided operational leadership but being in same place for 25 years, he can not provide vision for transformation needed.
There is reason why top leadership normally rotate every 5-6 years including CEO and US presidents too. In world of technology, where things changes every few years, VZ has failed miserably to adopt for "transformation" and it is now point of no return
Use this as stepping stone to jump with or without VSP
Before the VSP closed Sam kept alluding to change being imminent. I’m of retirement age so I pulled the trigger. This is only conjecture but the VSP was essentially an open house to leave before the other shoe drops. In my view the next year will include RTO, consolidation, more up charges for business customers, increase in the number of positions being tied to MBO and less tied to STI, more off shoring of jobs and more contractual off loading of headcount to third party companies. As hard as Verizon has tried, most view the network as a commodity. Rebranding as a technology company won’t happen. With stints at other technology companies, Verizon is telecommunications company, period. Here is where I feel the company has failed: they continue to promote people based on them staying inline, versus creative and educated employees who have the credentials to execute a plan. They place 100% of the down stream focus on revenue and little to none on profitability. So a Director might hit their bonus number while zero profit was realized. Having worked at multiple companies most hired based ones expertise. Verizon is the only company where they want everyone cross trained on everything. Aka I might be in business sales but I’m forced to learn about eRate.. I may sit in operations, but mandatory PWN trading is required. From the execution of the VSP and now this second round of cutting people without any sort of real backfill plans, to buying Yahoo and AOL, or even paying celebrities big bucks to shill phones, Verizon will be just fine, but the career paths that many of us enjoyed may become a thing of the past.
We're in a depression??? The market continues to be red hot, housing is great where it should be, and my 401k is over $1M thanks in large part to VZ. If you haven't taken the opportunities to move around when needed and you believe talking heads who tell you we have to make the country great again, when it's perfectly fine right now, I really feel bad for you.
The country has been run into the ground, we're in a depression, houses aren't selling, and it's an election year. I'll continue to work at Verizon until Americans wake up and fix the mistakes of their past. This is NOT the time to make any moves. Hold.
Almost 20 years in and most weeks I feel great by Friday. This is a job, nobody is going to su-k your toes every day. Great pay and benefits if you don't sit back and be lazy. Anyone complaining is either deserving of what they get because they are a poor contributor, or have been too lazy to jump around and get the incremental expierence and pay that gives you. Get your a-s out if you can't figure this simple place out.
There is zero reason to stay. If Verizon will give you what you are making, so will many other companies.
It might take awhile, but that's what the VSP is for.
Don't spend another second on Hans' sinking ship.
@lbr+1uhyA9wv assuming you can avoid being RIFd in that timeframe. But I agree, it's a good paycheck with good benefits.
The reason I stay is, I get a check every week. Sometimes it’s a pretty good one. I’m gonna keep doing that for one to three more years.
The great thing about Verizon is that every two years they pivot. If you hate your boss, in you will have a new one. Hate your job - in two years it will change. If your quota is unattainable, in two years it will get worse. Happy with your job or leadership, in two years you won’t be. The only reason for taking the VSP was if you were ready to retire, ready to quit or ready for a new job with the skills and confidence you could find one.