Rumors say Verizon laying off sales reps

15. Big Red (Posts: 101; Member since: 12 Dec 2008)

Haha they fixed it

4. *HOVA* (Posts: 564; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)

I'll be nice this time but you know what's up..

6. Legion (Posts: 397; Member since: 12 Dec 2008)

What, that you are starved for attention?

7. DonLouie (Posts: 594; Member since: 22 Dec 2008)

Verizon isn't immune, that's what up

8. *HOVA* (Posts: 564; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)

Yea, remove the VZW wang fanboys. It's funny you have no problem arguing with me, but the second I argue with you I'm starved for attention, how convenient.

16. Legion (Posts: 397; Member since: 12 Dec 2008)

No, I am saying you are starved for attention becuase the Spartan made a perfectly legitimate comment and you immediatly start flaming him simply becuase you dont like him from a previous thread, which makes you starved for attention.

17. vzw fanman (Posts: 1976; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)

circuit city has to screw up everything for verizon!!

29. The Spartan (Posts: 98; Member since: 27 Jan 2009)

Touche, Hova, Touche. Def not going to fight you on this one, and thank you for being nice. Honestly, he's not really trying to argue here, he just stated a point. (Did I just back Hova? Whoa...)

34. LessthanZach (Posts: 106; Member since: 29 Apr 2008)

And I thought that I made a bad choice moving my employment to AT&T (with the recent strike threats the union has been throwing around), I guess the entire industry is starting to shake in this economy. I suppose no regrets is the moral of this story. I really hope this economy gets better. My wife and I have been hanging by a thread for a long time now and it would be nice to have some security.

42. *HOVA* (Posts: 564; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)

It's all good. I never really mean to start anything, sometimes things just get outa hand quick here! lol, but I can't help but try and back myself up. I hope Verizon keeps rockin otherwise who would I have to argue with here??...

11. SellPhones82 (Posts: 569; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)

@dphins82...did you work at a CC or in the Gulf Coast area? I'm not suprised that layoffs occured do to all the VZW people at CC since it would be difficult to tran all of them to new stores and over staff them. With CC and adding Alltel you have to know there are going to be too many people and not enough openings to fill them with regardless of the economy.

18. dphins82 (Posts: 16; Member since: 10 Feb 2009)

I was in a store then a CC and then BJ's. When I went to our corporate offices where these layoffs were taking place I was there with people who worked in a store as reps and an assistant manager.

39. MetroPCSGorilla (Posts: 8; Member since: 11 Feb 2009)

I'm not sure about the Gulf Coast but that's not the case in the Midwest. Those who VZW employees are being added to standalone stores and not left without a job

25. The Godfather (unregistered)

since when did sprint have ANY professionals?

35. LessthanZach (Posts: 106; Member since: 29 Apr 2008)

HAHAHA, that is the funniest shit I have ever read in a reply! I think Bill Engvall said "The funniest jokes aren't made up, they're real stories". As a consumer and an experienced sales rep in the wireless industry, I would NEVER choose sprint as an employer or a phone carrier. Their reception is piss-poor, almost as bad as their customer service and they underpay their reps. Plus, you shouldn't make a mockery of the people who are losing their jobs in this economy.

37. phoneguy (Posts: 193; Member since: 08 Jan 2009)

First, before you make any snide comments I have to say that VZW has a horse shit culture. I was a top performing rep for them and the fact that I didn't kiss ass kept me from making even a lateral move to a Higher producing store. I worked in a top ten volume kiosk in the country and was advanced data certified for 4 consecutive quarters. I know the ball game. All I was saying is that of all people to be cut, it is horses hit that they are cutting their sales professionals. I want to meet you face to face and see how well you really sell..... or should I say take people to the cleaner. If you new anything you would know that although Sprint has had a rocky past they are climbing out of a whole that past management left them with, similar to the hole the enitre country is in due to the last guy...... Get informed oh and btw spend the next six years pining away for that next promotion that you will never get no matter how good you are godfather, because unless you kiss some big red a** you aren't going anywhere. I have never in my life seen people in management that have no business in management, like I have seen at Big Red.

44. The Spartan (Posts: 98; Member since: 27 Jan 2009)

No offense, but reading your reaction was like reading a first grade assignment. Spell check is your friend man!

47. t-won50 (Posts: 25; Member since: 18 Jan 2009)

at least sprint is not planning a strike any time soon sucks to be u lessthanzack soon to be lessthanzackonstrike

49. *HOVA* (Posts: 564; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)

Yea who needs strikes when Sprint is just laying people off. Not sure where you work but if you're a Sprint employee you should know that.

50. t-won50 (Posts: 25; Member since: 18 Jan 2009)

i do work for sprint and i know that they are laying off people not in the retail side of things though so i have nothing to worry about working in a high volume store its the coustomer care people that have to worry but they worthless anyways we always have to fix there problems in the store

55. LessthanZach (Posts: 106; Member since: 29 Apr 2008)

t-won, you are an idiot. First of all, it just isn't classy to celebrate lay-offs and strikes. Second, I am not sure where the need for personal strikes comes in to play. All I said was that the reply was funny and that Sprint has garbage cust care and reception. I am not a fanboy, just a Sprint anti-fanboy. I went to training with a former sprint rep who was worse than most of the car salesmen that have helped me. He had no real product knowledge, was pushy, and seemed really shady. After visiting a couple of your stores, I have to say that I get that same feeling from a large amount of sprint reps. And FINALLY, you have no idea if we are going to strike or not. I don't even think you know what a union is, but I am just judging that off of the fact that you never use punctuation or capital letters. Just in case you do, though, the CWA has stopped the clock with AT&T for 30 days past the date of contract expiration. So hopefully we won't even strike.

19. dphins82 (Posts: 16; Member since: 10 Feb 2009)

Like you said if you hit your numbers but then why was I let go. I was hitting and exceeding my numbers every month and was on no disciplinary action at all. Try to figure that one out.