I was hired as an employee with Alltel in 2006 and Verizon ended up purchasing Alltel and we became Verizon employees. Back in May 2009 my wife was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer at the young age of 29!! I was on FMLA from June till October and when I came back I began to go through hell!! I am one of about 100 maybe black men in our 60, 000 population and the only black employee for Verizon in this part of the state and probably the entire state if my guess is correct. When I came back to work, our old Alltel store had been closed and... read full review »