#culture

Don’t forget to spend your measly little paycheck that doesn’t keep up with inflation on the all NEW BNY (no mellon) Swag vending machine located on floor 3 of Ross Street in PGH. Branded merchandise, whenever you need it :) I hope whoever came up with the idea loses their job, significant other, big toes and cat in the foreseeable future

After seeing it happen to so many dedicated people around me, I'm really questioning the whole point. You watch colleagues who got top reviews and decent raises one year get let go the next. It makes you wonder if going above and beyond actually protects you, or if it just makes you a more expensive line item. I’m starting to think the smart move is to do good work, but keep your energy and best ideas for your own life outside of here.

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Is it just me, or does it feel like you have to be the loudest person in every meeting to get noticed around here? I keep my head down, hit all my goals, and still feel invisible compared to the people who just talk the most. I really shouldn't have to broadcast every single thing I do just for a bit of recognition from management. It gets exhausting playing that game all the time.

what is something out of the norm that they’ve never done before that you’re noticing that’s happeningy? Is this something out of the norm for you and this time of the year?

In speaking to others during my lunchtime, we all agree that technology is going to be the biggest area that will suffer. And when technology suffers, the customer base will suffer. No one, and I mean no one is going to bend over backwards, work evenings, or weekends anymore without work/life balance. A lot of good talent will leave. And remember, even though we are replaceable, good talent takes time to find and bring up to speed. We are talking months! Who is going to pick up the slack? The managers? They can only do so much. They are already over stressed and overworked putting in so many hours.

The worst thing as well, is the media will get wind of this confirmation of a 5 day return to work requirement and PNC’s reputation is going to suffer. Mark my words. It will make them look bad. Why couldn’t we just be a leader in the banking industry and keep it at 3 days a week? Why do we always end up being the follower? Can you imagine the talent we could bring in with a good life/balance plan? At the end of the day, when employees are happy, they tend to go above and beyond for their employer. That’s a known fact.

Were you honest with the latest Glint Survey that came out today for the all staff meeting next week?

I was, and will it impact me future? If it does then I know for sure this company is not the last place I will ever work.

To ATT Execs about closing down Atlanta.
Nobody told them about Badstreet USA!

Grab your life vest, and jump ship. You heard it straight from the CEO.

For the better part of past 2.5 years, my manager has been "dangling the carrot" in front of me as a promise to give me opportunities but reality is I have to find my own ways to showcase my work.

I have noticed this snake keeps shutting down my thoughts / ideas in group calls.

Apart from that, there's a pattern I noticed of finding ways / excuse to invalidate my work as well as giving a new joinee in the team more opportunities, asking team to reach out to them for assistance (if any).

Is this normal at Fido?

So no flexibility for me??? Great, no flexibility from me when there are system problems. At 5pm, I’m off the clock. I will leave my laptop in my locker. That’s all folks!

I think managers are already telling their people. It’s so fu---d guys. My coworker got switched and they aren’t even near a major hub or my team. LITERALLY WHAT IS THE REASON??????????????

I am remote, but still waiting for confirmation.

Good luck and godspeed today. It’s the end of the company we know. Already have friends and family closing their accounts.

Oh gosh, what does this mean?!

It's the top story on insidesas today. They're making commercials for it? There's a dedicated online store, they have pop-up shops around campus.

Why?

Let's wait and see instead of deciding this is the day or this is the week. It's not good for anybody's mental health.

Thoughts on the townhall with Pete?

I’ve been at Honeywell 10 years(multiple SBGs). This is BY FAR the craziest and most chaotic time I’ve had a HON. By far. Really trying to see the light at the end of the tunnel for IA, but the light is dim. Leaders present the pretty slides and visions but nothing ever trickles down. The climb has to be so massive to really turn the IA ship. Every function has a different priority. No one has resources.(and more RIFs are coming) No one has funding. Light at the end of the tunnel is dim.

Trying to stay positive but it’s tough.

Dont trust anyone do what u can and move on this place is crumbling from within. All the executives suites fault but everyone pays for there clueless ideas.

As long as there are those around who remember what was, there will be people who will resist what will be. We are in the endgame folks, he means to wipe us all out and he’s got the stones to do it.

I genuinely want to deliver a good service to our customer, but I’m constantly blocked from doing so. At this point, I’ve more or less given up trying.

The client wants something relatively simple, yet getting it done feels almost impossible. I don’t have the access, authority, or trust needed to make the required change.

Even with an agreed task, every individual step has to be re-approved by someone else — often with different interpretations or priorities. Eventually, someone may action it, but more often than not it’s done incorrectly. I then can’t see what’s actually been changed, so I’m unable to diagnose why it still doesn’t work.

The end result is that I often have to resubmit the same ask and hope that next time someone different both understands it and implements it correctly. It’s an incredibly inefficient way of working, and it makes delivering a quality outcome for the customer far harder than it needs to be.

What’s most frustrating is that management appear to see this as acceptable — even desirable — because we charge by the hour. The more friction there is, the more time is spent, and the more the client ultimately pays.

There has to be a better way, but I’m surrounded by people who insist there isn’t. We’re not keeping customers happy - we’re not keeping customers at all. They won’t be won over by a new logo or rebrand — they want the way we work to change. And while people continue to feel undervalued, it’s hard to see how that change will happen at DXC.

Let the rumor mill run. I've always liked him and his candidness as a leader.

Waters come in 75th on the happy place to work list and that's only in Boston.in ireland it didn't even make the list.

Curious if anyone else is seeing or feeling the downstream effect of what’s happening at the top of the house. I don’t mean the obvious things, I mean the intangible effects of the changes and stress.

Is anyone else’s team acting differently? People more isolated? Less collaborative? People acting like aholes to each other? An every man out for himself feeling, where it didn’t exist before?

Because all the bad characters are still there.

I’m specifically looking for news about changes to Dunwoody/Ravinia and Bellevue… are they still serving free weekly lunches? Are the Data and AI teams doing alright?

There is no reason in the world that a full 5 day in office, no exceptions, for every employee mandate needs to be made. Much less so quickly AND during a bank merger. With all the money baby billy dimon is making he just wants more. mgmt likes to make it about collaboration and culture, but really they are just further ruining PNC's culture by forcing this on everyone. PNC already doesnt pay well and is now making everyone incur costs they werent before. PNC had a ton of remote workforce before covid and is now going back on all of that. A lot of people were hired as remote or worked as remote for years before all of this and they are told to go in.... for what? to make sad little billy happy to see people in his offices. The offices su-k! have you been to any of them? what is the incentive for anyone to come in? There is none! pay for parking, additional childcare, food, travel, vehicle maintenance, etc. PNC cant even bump pay a little to compensate when they are making billions each quarter.

Bumping this up for visibility. OP: @ea+1kes6rfnt

TRP is so behind our peers in so many ways. Those who have spent their careers here often don’t see the issues or aren’t willing to challenge them. It’s time to bring in more new blood at the top levels to turn the ship around. The focus should be on innovation and operational efficiency.

I expect conditions and requirements to get worse over time. It was never about productivity, in-person cooperation for efficiency, or god forbid the benefits of thriving office culture. It was always meant to push as many people out as possible on the cheap, making compliance so irrational, inconvenient, or impossible that we'd just quit.

If it's not going as planned, meaning not enough people are leaving on their own (which is understandable in this job market and economy), it will just become more inconvenient and unbearable. That's the playbook.

I laughed when I read the company's core values. The word hypocrisy immediately came into my mind. Changing your name doesn't dismiss all of your wrongs of the past. And your existing "leadership" was never held accountable for sinful deeds.

These fools know nothing. It is shameful.

I've be at NM for a decade, working in tech. Idk if it's just me, but I feel like the recent reorg emails and town halls have been more fluff-filled than I've ever experienced at NM. I've been genuinely shocked at how many words are said and written without actually conveying anything of meaning, or adding any clarity. I don't remember it being this bad. Is this a testament to the age of ChatGPT where we're now seeing our leaders convey purely AI-generated fluff? Or is this just a testament to new SLT members not being as personable as previous years? I know I'm not the only one feeling a bit unsettled by recent SLT communication, but I don't know how widespread that feeling is.

Wait…so we’re going back to a single performance category with “5” differentiated ratings? Like 1, 2+, 2, 2-, and 3?

Sound familiar?

I heard some rumours that we will be back for more days in the office since February even if you had some deal with manager about this. Do you have any more info?

The tone deafness is staggering. Come one, come all, even though 1 in 4 of you are on borrowed time. But no worries, you can retire on your 10 shares of Burger King stock. Come and hear our overlords drone on about P-M, AI, the analysts who will be running the company as we kick you to the curb.

Wealth and brokerage have been struggling with their strategy for better part of last 2 years.

Every couple months there's an org update email followed by period of radio silence and generic "We will get through this together" bs during AAM

Recent colocation posts have reignited the debate on how the new HR wants to proceed.

My takeaway is, if you're a executive CIO reading this post, what pleasure do you get in associates going through stress, anxiety throughout the year???

Why can't you let someone be who just wants to keep their head down and work?????

I call BS on the regular isp rumors. No one is leaving for that.

My friend told me that sick day frequency went way down to almost non existence level. Is this true??

Because it’s an American company, people will eventually boycott PayPal anyway.

When we book travel through DXC’s preferred system, we’re treated to a delightful spectrum of hotel options — everything from “character‑building budget charm” to “I could accidentally spend £1,500 this week and still not find the minibar.”
But the moment you try to claim sustenance expenses, the system suddenly becomes the strictest accountant in the Western Hemisphere. The £50 daily allowance is perfectly reasonable (unless you’re in a capital city, where £50 buys you a coffee and the right to smell someone else’s lunch). Yet submit a meal that’s even 1p over and the system reacts like you’ve attempted financial treason: flashing warnings, red alerts, and a polite suggestion to pay for your own dinner like a naughty schoolchild.
Personally, I rarely hit the daily limit — unless the hotel decides breakfast is an optional luxury, but that’s a separate therapy session. Still, if you’re away for seven nights, that’s £350 total. It would be far more sensible if we could use that flexibly. Some nights you might grab a McDonald’s for under a tenner, and on others you might want to try a decent independent restaurant, or just eat in the hotel without feeling like you’re committing an administrative crime.
Anyway… I realise these are very much first‑world problems. But still — mildly entertaining ones.