Verizon

Competitive pay.

Competitive benefits.

Essentially a foreign-run company.

This information is not for Verizon Wireless. Even though Verizon is supposedly one company, it is split right down the middle with all kinds of different policies and benefit differences between the two halves.

With the ever-increasing culture of sending as many jobs offshore as possible, it's getting harder and harder to stay employed.

Verizon absolutely does not care about people. They are very top-heavy with management, but it's the workers that get laid off twice a year. Verizon has at least two layoffs a year. One is always the last payday before Thanksgiving. You can mark it on your calendar if you work there.

If you manage to survive the layoff, you can breathe a little for the next six months, but you can never feel like you are valued.

Now Verizon has sold its IT department to Infosys. Most everyone that worked in IT will either become unemployed or an Infosys contractor. Ugh...

Morale is the worst ever. The joke in the office is that we all got the 'shank' (the face of the decision to sell IT to Infosys is a guy named Shankar).

Even if you take the contract position at Infosys, you will likely be looking for a job in another year. Infosys has stated point-blank that they intend on offshoring as many jobs as possible. Infosys is an Indian company with a large Indian workforce.

The work environment is getting ridiculous. People are expected to work in an environment where there are rows and rows of tables. There are so many distractions. Nobody can concentrate. Meetings are held at big tables sitting in the aisle of the rooms. Ugh...

It's the most ridiculous thing. I have been in telecom for many years; Verizon has been the worst employment experience of any of my prior companies.

Fire Hans. Fire Shankar. Fire Lowell. Get some of that big money back for their outrageous and undeserved compensation.

Treat people with respect. Value your employees. Value the knowledge of your employees. Stop making rah-rah gestures and do some real good to improve things in the company.