They were closing my building and moving the jobs out of state.
A Director said to me "Thank God I saved money!" She ended up leaving a year later for a different company.
We saved a lot over the last 14 years and are in great shape financially. If you're young enough, forego a few things that you don't really need. Invest and you'll be fine
Wow, what a sh--load of babies. I hope some of you are mot raising children because they will be future crybabies! I hope everyone ends up making the best decisions they can in uncertain times. If you have been living paycheck to paycheck like us in the northeast than im praying for all of us. To have some id--tic Swede come in and tear the company apart is f---ed up after he already destroyed Erickson. So good luck to everyone. Stop being whiney b--ches. We are stuck because of Verizon making piss poor decisions .
I wish I could say the same. Life hit me hard at age 32, when my newborn daughter got sick. I've been struggling financially for years. But once I join Verizon, things stabilized. I bought a house and have some money in my 401k. But haven't been able to save extra money, and live check by check. Now I'm 43. I have read some folks who are about to pay off their mortgages, and with spare money to survive. I do not have that luxury and still owes 200k+ in mortgage. And I haven't work as long as many, so my VSP is not that great compare to others. SAD! That being said, I am not bitter. I'm simply nervous and frustrated. Regardless, I wish everyone the best. Good luck in your journey. I will keep fighting for mine.
1bpf, have you ever had an original thought?
Really, NOC?
You dupes are such lemmings.
“What Is NOC, the Pro-Trump Internet’s Favorite insult - The New York Times”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/us/politics/npc-twitter-ban.html
Whatsamatter, “snowflake”, your old “code word for f-gg-t” lost it’s punch?
Your copying of others ideas shows your inability for independent thoughts or ideas.
Open your mouth, Sean and Rush are about to feed you your baby spoon of “independent” thinking.
chuckle
@1bpf, like you, I do not take anyone’s words at face value either. That’s wise.
I instead look at what’s occurring around me and, if what I’m personally witnessing unfolding before my very eyes both walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I’m not gonna morph into an ostritch and place my head in the sand but, by all means, feel free to continue to do so yourself.
I am a eational, thinking person with historical perspective who can draw conclusions from blatant things that I have also witnessed.
If you think upward mobility and a family’s getting by easily on a single blue collar paycheck, and tvat that lone salary will lead several beneficiaries to upward mobility is still a reality, like in the 59’s, 60’ and 70’s, I’d like to know where this is happening.
You seem to be a Trumpeteer, a mouthpiece for the rich, who ignores what’s right in front of his own eyes for either self gain, or a delusional agenda based on false premises.
@VFcN9Ji-1nqz @VFcN9Ji-1nqz "Winnah winnah chicken dinnah!" You are exactly right, and the people were once again exactly wrong. Investors, some long dead, and their living relatives appreciated the wealth transfer of women entering the workforce. Think of the extraordinary output in the economy from doubling the labor element. One would think that would have surely resulted in the long fabled '4-day work week' and tripling of the standards of living. Have you seen any of that?
I just read an interesting statistic that the top 2,500 income earners in the US pay more in income taxes than the bottom 70 million combined. Now think for a moment, while paying taxes for them is a good thing, who is better at spending money, you or the government?
There has been a dislocation in wages, income and output for some time. A lot of it owes to women entering the workforce and the transfer of wealth from households to investors. The married couple did not double their standard of living or savings with both in the workforce. So where did that gain go?
From what I understand, YouTube is apparently down all over the world currently but, once it’s restored, one can learn alot about the current state of affairs if they’re willing to give a listen to the Gospel of John, John Lennon, who foresaw this whole perversion of working peoples lives in hos song
Working Class Hero
@VFcN9Ji-1nqz do you really believe that ideological nonsense or is that just your NPC backstory?
Things are out of whack today for the working-class, and getting worse.
When I was a kid (60’s - 70’s) my blue collar immigrant Dad’s lone salary allowed him to afford a two-family home, as well as to put the whole bunch of us through Catholic grammar and high school, while Mom was always there for us.
Today both my wife and I wirk our butts off, miss far too much of our childrens lives, and, even combined, are not achieving the upward mobility of my Dad’s lone salary.
Something is not right.
My guess, we’re working harder, both Moms and Dads, but we’re getting less, while our family lives disintegrate because, the wealth we’re supposed to be achieving via our toiling is instead trickling up, to tight-wad, already financially-sound, business owners, stockholders, executives, hedge fund managers, and day traders.
Many of these folks can point to nothing concrete at the end of the day that they have accomplished that is physically recognizable as an accomplishment, or that has aided anything or anyone.
At least, at the end of my day, I can say, “those 25 people have Internet, phone, and TV, and they can continue to be entertained, make money, or continue their studies because of my efforts, because of something I did today (unlike my day-trading or hedge-fund managing neighbor societal leech).
I find myself complaining too often. and I feel ashamed in admitting its an easy out, to vent in such a way, and that doing so makes me feel better.
I, like most Americans, stress about financial uncertainty, about my kids futures, about my economic demise, about a world that’s changing, an Earth that’s changing.
I will admit that I look upon some doomsday preppers with dismay, as their prepping is precipitated upon the assumption that their friends and neighbors will morph into some type of cut throat unimaginable monsters should the sh-- hit the fan, whereas I have, perhaps foolishly, retained a faith in the goodwill of people, even in trying times, to help lift one another, rather than stab each other in the back for temporary gain.
I’m going waaayyyy off on a tangent here.
My original thought was simply that many of us here are stressing way too much about our economic demise, yet I witness every single day people who are truly struggling and that forces me to take stock and to realize that, compared to many, some who do not know where their next meal’s coming from, maybe I’m pretty okay with the state of things.
I do not mean to infer that I believe that life is fair, as I do not.
I believe there are very wealthy people that game the system, and benefit by maintaining their status’ as Queens, at the expense of the rest colony, while the majority of us remain disposable worker ants, or social bees, who’s sole purpose in life is to remain mindlessly conditioned to ignorantly put our noses to the grindstone in order to maintain the status quo for the chosen few.
We've been saving. Putting torwards retirement. Have enough of an emergency fund to last a year if we are layed off. ( Budget projection assumes no unemployment insurance or severance). In a way it s---s to have so little time with the company in comparison to most of my team. They came in and rode the wave of bonuses and building a great network. I come in and layoffs start and Verizon is on the decline. I came here looking for a job. I'll leave doing the same thing.