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Old 12-05-2015, 09:22 AM
 
Location: Rust'n in Tustin
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10,000 to 15,000 nation wide, I'd guess 750 or more got laid off in Irvine. They closed the call center there in 2014, now they hit CS Op's, Marketing, Legal, B2B...

It's ugly. Lots of good people are gone.
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Old 12-05-2015, 01:29 PM
 
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That's a lot of jobs lost and quite a few locally. I know T-Mobile has been going after AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint. This must be VZ's way of cutting labor costs in the name of profits, margins, and competition.
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Old 12-05-2015, 05:00 PM
 
Location: Laguna Niguel, Orange County CA
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10,000 to 15,000 nation wide, I'd guess 750 or more got laid off in Irvine. They closed the call center there in 2014, now they hit CS Op's, Marketing, Legal, B2B...

It's ugly. Lots of good people are gone.
I am very sorry to hear this. You will find something, I am sure.
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Old 12-05-2015, 06:57 PM
 
Location: Maryland
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That's surprising and unfortunate. Why are they struggling, I wonder?
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Old 12-05-2015, 11:49 PM
 
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Their rep is mud due to spying and sharing info with the government.
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Old 12-06-2015, 01:34 AM
 
Location: Corona the I.E.
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Sorry to hear. I know of a few of you in the general industry leave it at that. Expensive $$$ and quality are what I think of when I think of VZ.

It just always works even in Laguna everyone is dumbfounded yet in N Tustin OrangePA sometimes an extender

Worked well in Denver too, just work, just costs.
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Old 12-09-2015, 09:58 PM
 
Location: Dayton OH
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The Verizon news is not surprising. I have worked in the telecom biz (technology & engineering) for nearly 4 decades. All of the large nationwide (and international) telecom carriers have been centralizing, consolidating and moving jobs around to become more cost efficient. Verizon is taking 20 regional operations centers in the US and centralizing those into 6 regional operations centers.

Sprint, Verizon, AT&T job cuts: Who is hiring?

It is not shocking that Verizon would move jobs out of a regional operations center (like the one on Sand Canyon in Irvine) to a place with lower wages and lower overall costs. The place where I work has done the essentially the same thing and is still moving jobs out of California that can be done elsewhere (meaning lower cost places).

The jobs that remain local are the jobs that need to be done locally, those that build and keep the local network technology running (my area of work). Many local network technology jobs can't be "outsourced" to other cheaper places because some jobs need hands on technology experts. Most of those accounting, finance, legal, call center, planning, marketing and operations support staff jobs, those will eventually go somewhere else (less expensive than California).

Luckily, I am less than 2 years from retirement!
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