Were you RIF'ed or volunteered to take a package?
Verizon has much more than the former GTE and Bell Atlantic Companies.
NYNEX, MCI, UUNet, Cybertrust and soon to be Alltel are just some of a host of companies ultimately merged into Verizon.
Neither. I was working for Government Systems Corp., the government contracting portion of GTE. Govt. Systems was purchased by General Dynamics, for about a billion dollars. On a curious side note, at the time of purchase, Govt. Systems actually had more employees than GD did. At the time, everyone thought that GTE sold Govt. Systems to finance the merger.
When GTE and Bell Atlantic merged to form Verizon, there were only the two in the new company. Any others came later.