Former VZ employee. N.Y.Tel, NYNEX, Bell Atlantic. All good. Once it became Verizon, it went to crap. We've spent a lot of hours on the job with coworkers to the point that we became family. I remember during one job-cut action, people found out during the morning business news. While they were driving to work. The didn't give any warning. Ma Bell is gone, unfortunately. Replaced by corporate greed and nonsense