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SILENCE THE ETHICAL
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(Verizon - also known as NYNEX, Bell Atlantic, NY Telephone)


 IN MY OPINION, AND THAT OF MANY OTHERS, VERIZON IS THE MOST UNETHICAL CORPORATION ON THE FACE OF THIS PLANET!

 

  •  In May 1990, a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. indicted NYNEX on one count of criminal contempt for violating the consent decree that broke up the giant Bell operating system.
  • From 1984 to 1988, NYNEX  held "pervert conventions" in Florida, where employees and suppliers partied together. Awards were given at the convention: one NYNEX employee won the "Procurement Award" for three consecutive years for "arranging for women" to appear at the conventions; others included the "Most Valuable Pervert Award" and the "Moon Over Miami Award."  There were hookers, drugs, booze...
          

A number of other whistleblowers within the company faced the silencing treatment for wanting to report unethical and/or illegal behavior:

  • Michael Burkhart was discharged by NYNEX  after he questioned the use of illegal, one-of-a-kind contracts to give unlawful discounts to certain large corporate customers.
  • Robert Zirkelbach was fired by a NYNEX subsidiary after he questioned markups as high as 1,004 percent that the NYNEX procurement subsidiary, MECO, was charging.
  • Tobias Squitieri was fired after he complied with a New York state employment discrimination administration subpoena regarding the discharge of another employee.

 

  • And, in 2001, I was part of a force reduction after threatening to call corporate security on an employee who physically attacked me and other workers!

AND THERE ARE MANY OTHERS!

 

  Many of the ousted employees have brought legal actions against NYNEX.  I could not for several reasons:

1. All the people at Verizon who are supposed to act on complaints (My boss, My Boss' Boss, The Union, Corporate Security, Ethics Department, etc.) did not want to get involved against a union employee.  It was much easier to get rid of a manager than a union employee.

2. If I wanted the measly lump sum pension or the nine months severance pay, I had to sign a waiver stating that I would never file any law suit or charges against the company or its employees!  THEY KNEW they were guilty and wanted to protect themselves! 

3. It was my word against my boss!  Plus, the company waited (and kept me out of the picture) until they were having a major force reduction.  Then, when they laid me off as a result of this reduction (as they claimed) it would look like I was just part of a business decision and NOT the RETALIATION it really was!