I worked for them, well, a company that eventually got bought by them, and then...them...for almost 19 yrs doing IT stuff for the finance branch of VZ Business.
Verizon, after the CEO (can't remember his name) that was around when we were bought retired and left, was run by the usual good old boy network C-suite morons. That guy had worked his way up from laying cabling under the streets of NYC for Bell Atlantic into the top spot. He's why VZW got access to the iPhong when it originally was only sold through AT&T. The new leaders were all just degreed idiots who all were on each others boards, etc at some time.
Doesn't surprise me that they're getting left behind in their own business. They wouldn't allow us to WFH much because "how do we know your work is getting done?" when we sold all of the tech for companies to offer their employees WFH capability. Not to mention that we had shown that we were capable WFH employees for about 6 months after the 2008 flood wiped out a lot of the downtown area where our building was in CR, Iowa.
Sounds a lot like it's their wireless side bringing it all down. Hopefully, it's just THEIR employees being hit and not all 3 branches (Verizon, VerizonBusiness, VZW).
