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HipChick

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41. too add , many of these companies data centers are located in Russia

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Fri Oct 5, 2018, 05:28 PM

Oct 2018

due to Russian data laws..

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Verizon is outsourcing its IT. Sent early severance letter offer to 44,000 workers. [View all] Honeycombe8 Oct 2018 OP

Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! Initech Oct 2018 #1

In the long run it will cost them more money. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2018 #2

as a career IT worker, I concur mnmoderatedem Oct 2018 #8

As long as the executives get a bump in stock nothing else matters. n/t retread Oct 2018 #18

I was with a previous AT&T company HAB911 Oct 2018 #49

We tried Infosys. roamer65 Oct 2018 #3

Really? I guess Verizon doesn't care. It surely did research on others who have used them.nt Honeycombe8 Oct 2018 #28

Already replaced Verizon TV, wifi and phone with Spectrum. democratisphere Oct 2018 #4

Um spectrum wireless is wholesale Verizon dembotoz Oct 2018 #10

Why?! democratisphere Oct 2018 #46

To be competitive spectrum needs a wireless play dembotoz Oct 2018 #48

It's what repugs (corp. CEOs) do. They outsource jobs to go cheap. brush Oct 2018 #5

The CEO is Swedish oberliner Oct 2018 #16

Hence the heavy investment in Ericsson infrastructure. retread Oct 2018 #20

WTH does that have to do with it? The jobs being lost here aren't Swedisn. brush Oct 2018 #25

They don't care if it doesn't work. Yavin4 Oct 2018 #6

MAGA! Hekate Oct 2018 #7

Yes, all those sweet, sweet tax cuts are really trickling down, aren't they? smirkymonkey Oct 2018 #9

The telcos are betting the farm on 5g dembotoz Oct 2018 #11

Yes, I think so. AT&T is gearing up big for 5g, too. Honeycombe8 Oct 2018 #29

"Me & my KGOP republican cronies take full responsibility." - Dirty Donny* (R) Achilleaze Oct 2018 #12

I'm not seeing any YUGE tweets on the Verizon loss of jobs by him. No surprise there. Honeycombe8 Oct 2018 #30

Yep. Things are going great. nt leftyladyfrommo Oct 2018 #13

It's not just IT JustAnotherGen Oct 2018 #14

Wow..that sucks.. HipChick Oct 2018 #15

Not just "management" either. When in our 20's, 30's, and 40's we are raising families and paying retread Oct 2018 #19

What Is RIf? n/t erpowers Oct 2018 #21

Reduction in force JHB Oct 2018 #22

Were you in the Basking Ridge Office? Le Gaucher Oct 2018 #24

Yep JustAnotherGen Oct 2018 #36

Makes sense. I have no idea how many IT personnel it has. Honeycombe8 Oct 2018 #32

One of my friends who is a Senior Manager JustAnotherGen Oct 2018 #37

The workers are always the ones to pay. The economy is SO great, right? Yeah, right. nt Honeycombe8 Oct 2018 #40

For now - it is JustAnotherGen Oct 2018 #43

+1. nt Honeycombe8 Oct 2018 #44

I bailed in 2013. 919 Hidden Ridge, then 600/700. Spent time in BR, too. X_Digger Oct 2018 #45

This is how they're paying for their 5G upgrade DeminPennswoods Oct 2018 #17

I think it's related, at least in part, to 5G. Honeycombe8 Oct 2018 #33

Not so certain JustAnotherGen Oct 2018 #38

So much winning and swamp draining! BSdetect Oct 2018 #23

I love the smell of winning - shithole. Iliyah Oct 2018 #26

You want personal info getting out there to the internet. Well, this is how you go about it. Afromania Oct 2018 #27

Scary. Very scary. Honeycombe8 Oct 2018 #34

too add , many of these companies data centers are located in Russia HipChick Oct 2018 #41

spike quarterly profits for half a year, get a nice stock bump, then sell out 0rganism Oct 2018 #31

Then comes the recession. We've been to this dance before...in the yrs preceding 2008. nt Honeycombe8 Oct 2018 #35

Yeah, why didn't jobs savior Donald Trump get involved in that one? Zing Zing Zingbah Oct 2018 #39

You got that right. He can't even relate to a person who works for a living. He's never had a job.nt Honeycombe8 Oct 2018 #42

Make India Great Again Merry Sunshine Oct 2018 #47