#morale

That’s what makes all of this so hard. I actually like what I do. Watching what’s been happening here, and seeing a place that used to be great get systematically torn down piece by piece, really breaks my heart.

Bring back DF, majority of employees would agree, it would improve morale and the productivity would go back up. I am not sure we can continue like this any more.

Employees with a meets expectations or higher on the year end scorecard were offered a retention bonus if they are still employed by December of this year. 1.5 % of your annual salary is hardly a reason to stay until December. What an out of touch and insulting incentive.

Schwab and Lone Tree didn't make the list. Hmmm...

https://www.denverpost.com/2026/05/13/top-workplaces-2026-flexible-workplaces/

Another failed holiday with hardly any merchandising support. My RMS is so useless

Anyone who thinks there's a real plan behind all this, with every detail figured out, is kidding themselves. We've watched the same pattern play out, mainly cuts based on the bottom line, while bad managers and useless roles sail through. The only difference afterward? More work for the people who stay. And yeah, it's always worse.

I have noticed a pattern that is driving me crazy. The people who are best at dodging work and shifting their responsibilities onto others seem to be the ones getting promoted. At the same time, the dedicated employees burn out and leave, and eventually nothing gets done. Is anyone else seeing this, or is it just happening in my corner of the company?

Do they not realize that happy workforce equals profits and unhappy one brings major drops in productivity? It's been proven again and again. What's their aim here? To keep making us more and more miserable until what? We quit? Is that what this is all about?

The work life balance is so toxic it feels like they're trying to ki-l us off slowly. You either burn out or get pushed out. There's no in between anymore.

I can't think of a single reason to stay here, but I can think of about a hundred reasons to leave.

Thank you for your service :).

Pay attention to these Middle Managers causing alot of these issues.....This is conservatively 30% of Fiserv issue. These manager don't even want to manage. It is for money or sponsorship. How is this fair to the reporting worker. I really no longer care but for the recent college graduates adapt and get creative. It will only get worse. Fiserv has some really really really really really really bad managers and they lie. The bad out weighs the good use to be the other way around.

Zero or paltry raises for employees while executives gorge themselves and continually inflate their compensation year over year.

I've been around long enough to remember when this place was actually decent, when working hard got you somewhere and meant something. The money was never amazing, but you felt valued. Leadership wanted to keep good people. It's now just a sweatshop that feels like it's falling apart at the seams.

That’s all.

Whatever happens, don't blame yourselves. This isn't about you. It's about greed and poor leadership.

Makes you wonder if the goal is just to burn the place down. Specialists, veterans, people with actual skills, the ones who held teams together - they're all getting cut. Any leadership that cared about the future would be doing everything to keep them.

To reframe an old adage for the ongoing disasters being inflicted on our companies:
“We the unwilling, led by the uninformed, guided by the blind, are kept busy by those incapable of recognizing value-adding results.

I am a bit surprised no one has posted or discussed this yet here. A serious question for those familiar with the Albany IBM site and the broader Anderon situation:

Do you believe this ultimately benefits or harms Albany IBM over the long term?

From the inside, the process has not appeared especially transparent and, at times, has seemed remarkably improvised. Basic questions regarding leadership structure, governance, and operational accountability remain unclear. Who precisely is leading the organization? What does the executive structure look like? What is the strategic vision? At moments, it feels less like a carefully designed transition and more like an initiative being assembled in real time without sufficient planning, vetting, or institutional coordination. It is odd this has not been communicated yet.

At the same time, the situation has clearly created significant anxiety internally and has already had visible effects on morale, trust, recruitment, retention, and the broader reputation of the Albany site. There is also a growing perception among some that this may function less as a meaningful corrective effort and more as a mechanism for diffusing accountability or relocating longstanding institutional problems elsewhere without fully addressing them.

That said, structural disruption is not inherently negative. In some cases, it can expose deeper cultural or governance issues that genuinely require reform.

Curious to hear others’ perspectives: is this a necessary and constructive reset, or does it ultimately risk causing more long-term damage to Albany IBM than improvement?

I’ve come to realize how much worse things have become here following the recent layoffs and changes. People are incredibly deceitful and backstabbing, praising others one moment and then criticizing them in the next meeting to gain favor or serve leaders.

Is there anyone honest left, or did we eliminate them all? Perhaps that’s why we let good people go. Conform or be dismissed. This isn’t the Nike I’ve known for the past 20 years. It’s disheartening.

Place your bets on how long we have to put up with this loser.

Do you guys not see what happened when Dan Schulman was installed?

Dan was on the board of Verizon for years. That means he saw the profit loss, the bad decisions, the damage to the company image, the lack of innovation, the failed investments, and the growing disconnect between leadership and the people actually keeping the company alive.

He saw the damage being done to customers too, especially long tenured customers who stayed loyal for years only to watch service, support, and consistency deteriorate while prices continued climbing.

None of this happened overnight.

What happened next was a corporate coup.

The old guard and leaders who could advocate for employees, customers, and the necessity of certain roles were removed. Thousands were laid off. Fear was injected into the workforce. Then a new class of leadership was installed, leadership whose loyalty is upward to the executives who promoted them, not downward to the employees carrying the business.

People who spent years chasing titles like Senior Manager, Director, Senior Director, and VP are not going to risk those positions fighting for workers, customers, or the long term health of the company. Their mission is survival within the system.

Meanwhile experienced talent leaves, morale collapses, customers grow frustrated, and the company keeps pretending it does not understand why performance and public perception continue declining.

Never forget what they did and who they did it to.

This was not some random restructuring. It was calculated, coordinated, and executed with precision.

Couldn't care less about Meta or this job.

So that Bill Ackman can make 5 billion instead of 3 and so that do nothing fat cats can get their multi million bonuses.

Costs are on the rise and there is plenty of work in West Texas. What will
Devon do to retain their talent? News of Houston and OKC retention bonuses will only further ruin field morale.

Anyone else think corporate surveillance has gotten completely out of control?

Badge swipes trackd... VPNs tracked. Teams status tracked. Meetings in Calendar tracked. All emails scanned. Fu--ing Productivity Metrics... AI note takers in meetings nobody ever asked for.

Then leadership wonders why morale is unlived and nobody trusts mgmt anymore.

At this point I just assume every company laptop is basically a monitoring device with some work tools installed on it.

To all the outstanding employees and those exploited by this company have a wonderful long weekend.

To all the executives, and their concentration camp commandants, the hr hall monitors,

You don't deserve it. When your kids cause a scene somewhere and you get exposed for your incompetence as human beings, in that moment you should realize that your work persona is fake and your perceived competence only exists inside the walls of us bank. Nobody respects you inside the company either, but they are paid to pretend.

Paying $7 a gallon for gas, to spend $40 a day for parking, to sit in a cube and speak to no one in person. Meanwhile, other people in comparable roles, living slightly farther away are forced to work remotely with impact to their raises. This is nothing like pre-COVID because no one I work with is in my walled-off neighborhood, and everyone in my neighborhood is incredibly bitter to be there. Not too hard to see why, when this week there was an armed guard overseeing the parking entrance, asking people where they worked prior to being able to take an entrance ticket. How is this effective or responsible - fiscally, environmentally, productively, strategically, or in regard to safety? Why even have salaried employees if you intend to treat them like hourly employees? It disincentivizes them from being in the field or going above and beyond in any capacity that isn’t tracked by IP. What happened to, “We put people first,” in a culture of “do the right thing”? If the MC thinks this is the “right thing” it does not speak very highly on their behalf. Obviously, we all know they don’t really care about their team’s actual lived-experiences, but they could do a much better job of making their mandates make sense. The Talk to Us Surveys, employee banking, and PAC solicitations, in an iron-fist culture, are ironic (if not insulting) at this point. By the numbers annually: approximately 440 more hours of commuting and nearly $6,000 spent on parking alone, for a job that can be done more effectively remotely, with zero reasonable reasons given other than, “because we said so.” Bonuses are very nice, but after taxes and annual RTO hard cost expenses, the math is not mathing on the take home pay. At the bare minimum the bank could negotiate fair parking contracts in all HUB markets - public transit is not safe for many.

It won't change anything, and there will still be the associates who still want to do everything by the book in hopes that ELT will spare them. But, what if June 1st the home office was damn near empty and everyone either called out sick or WAH for some emergency reason. Imagine the signal it would send to those d-mb bags of sh!+ that sit in the corner offices. I'm sure we would all be collectively punished or lectured, but we outnumber them. They can't fire all of us, and they need us more than we need them. The 80/20 rule. 80% of the GPs and directors could take a month off and nobody would notice. 20% of home office associates who actually do the work could walk out that door and the whole thing grinds to a hault and would make a media headline. So glad to be driving 4 days a week during and energy crisis, I thought this company was all about the environment and saving the planet?

Strong story doesn't save companies. Strong work do!

I like that and He's correct—companies survive on output, not narrative.

But that's a principle for stable times.

When the house is already on fire, "just keep working hard" starts to sound less like wisdom and more like a way to keep people holding the hose while the roof caves in. It won't save anyone.

...but CVS can't afford to give a cost-of-living increase to their employees.

https://www.moomoo.com/news/post/70410806/cvs-health-cvsus-director-sells-us-317-47-million-in?level=1&data_ticket=1779459073784388

https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NYSE/CVS/insider-trades/

Trust me, after doing it for over 25 years for T just to be kicked out the door...don't do ANYTHING over the bare minimum for T, they won't recognize nor reward, they don't give a S about you, just remember that.

Staff at Southern Berkshire schools received layoff notices on May 19. Superintendent Brian Ricca confirmed 21.3 full-time-equivalent positions are being cut. The district faces a budget deficit exceeding $1 million for the upcoming fiscal year. The teachers union president reported widespread anger and a sense of betrayal among staff. Ricca plans to propose rehiring some laid-off staff using available excess funds.

Sheffield, Massachusetts

https://theberkshireedge.com/layoffs-deepen-crisis-in-southern-berkshire-regional-school-district-as-mood-turns-really-really-miserable/

Just from an ethical perspective. People who feel entitled to clean out the snack bins are demonstrating the quality of their character. It is like the wait staff test - how people treat wait staff is telling you a lot about who they are.

Some Senior Managers were laid off today.

They are cutting deep, one deserved to go.

No point in investing in this place. Look at who they cut - nobody is safe, and hard work clearly doesn't matter.

I'm kind of sick of my department, it's a constant rush to new ridiculous deadlines every day all with the threat of being offshored, it's exhausting

Comment on how you feel being isolated, while others wait their turn for next round. This happens every round, laid off employees dropped off the bus, while ELT preaches Cisco impressive leadership, AI prowess and caring for employees.

Nice touch. Great empathy.
Announcing 4.000 people being fired, while wearing a 250.000$ Richard Mille watch

I found Robin Vince’s LinkedIn post last week… fascinating. He calls it a “full circle moment” with his Goldman buddy Lloyd Blankfein, yet it plays like another round of leadership cosplay. It might even be touching if BNY employees weren’t here describing a workplace stitched together with fear, offshoring, and corporate theater. Nothing says “excellence” like inviting a billionaire mentor to discuss humility lessons learned at Goldman while thousands of his BNY employees beg for clarity, stability, or even basic honesty.

Vince praises Blankfein’s lessons on uncertainty and values — meanwhile BNY’s workforce is drowning in ambiguity, morale is on life support, and “risk taking” mostly means gambling with people’s futures.

He talks about embedding values “every day,” yet avoids the very public concerns about layoffs, offshoring, collapsing trust, and a workforce treated like expendable inventory in a never-ending transformation cycle.

The real full circle moment won’t be a photo op with a retired Goldman titan. It’ll be when Vince realizes that inspirational quotes and curated leadership moments don’t fix morale, don’t slow attrition, and don’t rebuild credibility.