Any Employee Discount Referrals like Sprint?

As my post stated, Im on disabilty currently and not working so I dont qualify for any employer discount beause I dont have an employer. Sprint has an employee referral program. You provide them with the email address and employee ID of a Sprint employee and you qualify for a special plan and discount that is not available to the general public. I was wondering if ATT or Verizon had similar programs. Ive found the Sprint program discussed on many websites but havent found anything on ATT or VRZ. Financially, the Sprint deal is the best but I am concerned about a lot of reports of poor data network performance that makes the iphone unusable...but I also dont want to be paying per text if I dont have to or worry about data overages which would prevent me from truly using the smartphone.

Well they dont tell you. Thats the point. They dont want everyone to know about discounts because everyone would use the discounted program and not pay the full retail. I know about Sprint because its posted all over the web. I know other companies have discounts like you said with certain employers because I see people bragging all the time of saving 20% or more...but not being employed, I need the discount even more if I am to get the phone -otherwise the android prepaids are much less expensive.

I just was hoping that some ATT or VRZ employee would see this and if they did have that type of program Sprint has, theyd share it.

Im just scared of Sprint because of all the negative reviews. I cant believe Apple would have approved the iphone on a carrier that is obviously having massive data network problems based on all the complaints Ive been reading on Sprint Forums.

You obviously dont understand the point, but thanks for responding.