Based off the emails going around and the dissent at the in person meetings I cannot see this working out at all for every involved party.
There are zero benefits in it for any worker being rebadged, and it's weird that they haven't even attempted to spin it as a positive.
I'm not sure if they are just trying to avoid having to offer severance pay to older workers. The meetings I've attended were mostly full of people who have been with VZW for 20+ years. Those are the people who have the most to lose out on this when their severance packages would be hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I personally haven't worked for VZW for nearly as long as they have, but when the options are collecting a severance package and finding a new job or just finding a new job; one sounds far better than the other.
I've already started interviewing at other places. I'm not even sure it's worth waiting around the total cluster f--- for the few thousand dollars I'd get from the gutted STI and 220 hours of vacation pay. This might be what they want to happen.
I very curious how this will play out since it seems so poorly planned and executed.
Bumped from @VyG1h2A-1tjp .