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The disconnect between leadership and the trenches

0x28dd…0833

·1d ago·2 comments

I’m honestly struggling to understand the math here. They talk about these massive 'retraining' initiatives and long-term tech pivots, yet they keep chopping off the heads of the people actually supporting the infrastructure. It feels like they are hollowing out the ship to make it look leaner for the street, but we’re the ones left trying to keep the lights on with half the staff. The morale at the office is subterranean at this point. I spoke to a lead yesterday who was completely blindsided by the WA cuts—it’s clear the communication is broken from the top down. At this point, I think the only way to get a raise or a secure future is to jump ship to a competitor. Anyone else seeing people leave voluntarily just to get ahead of the next round of 'strategic realignment'?

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0x1cd8…e6e5

·1d ago

That's the classic Verizon playbook. It’s always about optics for the quarterly earnings call while the actual network health suffers. They prioritize the stock price and executive bonuses by cutting the people who possess the institutional knowledge necessary to prevent systemic failures. It’s a race to the bottom, and the employees who stay are just waiting for their turn on the chopping block. Management seems to have no concept of the technical debt they are accumulating every time they initiate one of these 'strategic' headcount reductions.

0x317a…a7a2

·1d ago

I feel your frustration, but honestly, this is just how it is in corporate telecom now. It’s not just Verizon; everyone is cutting staff to pivot toward AI and automation, even if the tools aren't actually ready to replace human judgment yet. It’s a miserable cycle of 'doing more with less' until something eventually breaks. My advice is to stop trying to hold the ship together at the expense of your own mental health. Do your eight hours, collect your paycheck, and start looking for a company that actually values its technical staff.