#promotionfreeze

Feels like Mortal Kombat after today's call and GK effectively telling us remote people we have no future.

We knew we had no future when they told us no more raise, no opportunity for promotion , etc.

But today, she just told us we will be all layoff.

And the reason is stupid, we do our job fine.

How is sending all the remote job to India making us a better Bank?

Why does she treat us like garbage?

Last year zero people in our group (25-55 people) received promotions. These are people who ‘exceeded all or most’, met deliverables and in previous years would have been a shoe-in. Given the hole we as a company are going to continue digging out of, does anyone see any reason top performers should think DW won’t completely give us all the shaft again?
True, nothing is guaranteed, but I can’t even pull the energy to write the damn things when they are shown year after year to be utterly meaningless unless you got him in your DMs.

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If your only career path here is the management track and they are removing management layers to flatten the organization...so how exactly are people going to get promoted then? They aren't doing any kind of career growth track for SMEs. You might get to a senior level as an SME and that's it.

Just heard about a couple more including hipos.

That’s 7 (or 8?) in last couple months and many are strong performing mid career. A bunch more almost out as the ones who left are recruiting others to go. As well several people just waiting for confirmation of disappointing news in December (no salary , no promos even with outstanding or excellent performance.)

Will be interesting since GP doesn’t have the people to do the upcoming projects and it’s only getting worse.

Do you think GP SLT recognizes this or will do anything? Or maybe this is exactly what they want!

Anyone in Houston have some insights?!?

Management are actively trying to suppress promotions; and trying to plant the idea that lateral moves are "just as good" in terms in career advancement.

The target is to reduce PSG 24+ by 30-40% over the next 3 years. This will be mostly natural attrition. However, it means that there will little, if any, promotions to these PSGs.

Management are exempt from these rules and will continue placing into PSG 26,27,28,29 are per usual.

Technical Career Ladder employees are doomed.

No raises. No promotions. PTO requests denied. Such a great place to work.

The kiss-as--s, the sycophants, those with relatives and friends in high positions... Skill and experience need not apply. Wells Fargo was never the best place to work, but it was certainly better when we had some chance of progressing our career based on merit. We're nothing but a joke now.

Screenshots are getting passed around from HR about RIF and compression of senior level roles.

Say goodbye to sr level managers and senior level directors. This is why they 'froze' promotions!!

Or is my manager just gaslighting me?

Permian has become a place hipos have to punch their ticket. This means the rest of us no longer have opportunities for career advancement as the roles for higher CL are all being taken by hipos cycling in and out. If you are in operations forget ever being able to get that promotion. You deserve it and would do a better job than the clueless hipo but you will never get the job.

Anyone else read the corporate jargon email from Mr. Tractor today? The ELT wants us to build on three enterprise skills….which will lead to us being rewarded with what exactly? No one can be promoted anymore because of our terrible new HR model. What is the incentive to improve exactly? Don’t say VCIP either, that is turning into a total joke and has become essentially whatever the leaders want to pay. If we can’t be rewarded, what is the point of continuous improvement? That only works with companies that actually reward performance. This company is doomed until we have a real leader in HR and someone willing to stand up to the CEO and CFO.

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I can't think of a single thing. Take away the paycheck and the fear of being laid off, and there's nothing left. Why invest effort in a job that could vanish tomorrow, no matter how hard you work? Promotions are a thing of the past. No rewards for anything. Just constant threats hanging over your head.

That was two years ago. Still waiting. Promotions are clearly frozen forever. Just wish they'd say it instead of dangling the carrot. I'll probably be gone before it ever happens anyway.

There are now no more PDRs? What does this mean? Is it just another nail in the coffin of getting a new position/career progression? I guess there won’t be any need for them if there aren’t any jobs to post in a PDC.

This has been said before, but leader gave me the heads up that senior leaders met with GPs today and each part of the org has been given a count of associates that can get a promotion for 2026.

I won't give my org, but it is probably around 300-400 associates. The number of promotions that will be given for these 300-400 associates is 2. The number early in the year was 0.25% of the associates could be given a promotion. These values will vary from org to org.

Time to start looking around people... Keep an eye out for promotions if you are hesitant, they won't happen.

Just heard it from a leader in RMC that JR in RMC doesn't believe in inline promotions anymore. You have to get a new job in the bank to get a promotion. Of course that only applies to people who are not remote. The only people getting promotions in her area this year will be a very extreme small subset of what used to get approved. No more midyear off-cycle promotions anymore either.

The old days of treating employees like people are long gone. New culture is here to stay.

Just got word from a friend who is a manager that only 0.25% (1 in 400) employees will have the opportunity to receive a promotion in 2026. This is supposed to be very hush hush and hid from employees. If offered a promotion, you will get 4-7% of a bump in pay.

This might have already been said before, but I couldn't believe it. If I get exceeds every trimester, I will still not get a promotion is what this manager said. It might have to get approval at GP level.

I might have been naive with everything. Time to start looking at other jobs.

Heard from my manager that promotions aren’t happening this round. Is that true?

Does anyone know what the current status about internal promoting this year? I heard that they aren’t promoting anyone this year.

Does anyone know the pay band for Sr. VP’s?

One problem Nike has that doesn't get discussed enough is how they are so reluctant to promote people anymore. The promotions wave after this round of layoffs is hardly what it should have been when you stretch that over years of time that they froze nearly all promotions.

It's a self-defeating circle: do nothing to advance people, let them get TOO expert in their roles that they get bored, productivity suffers, now they have a case to lay you off because you deliver "poor quality work". Sure, not everyone gets a promotion, but we routinely see people complain on here about how few people ever got a promotion, and how many talented hard working people have left over the past 5 years.

Did any of these incompetent imbeciles ever stop and think about that spiral of enshittification? They must know this cycle is of their own making and is a key reason why talent that remains are in such a weird place.

2.7 COLA; no corporate factor; no promotions; everyone gets meets expectations.

For supervisors, when planning promotions for AF personnel, is the system indicating anyone for promotion, or are promotions currently on hold?

I couldn’t sleep all night last night as I realized the lucky ones just got laid off with nice, little severance packages. I can’t do all this work alone on my team. I have no chance of job satisfaction with looming layoffs in the future. I’ve been set up to fail. It’s become obvious that there will be no promotions anytime soon let alone one every three or four years. We all just got neutered. Ironically…that’s what we thought just happened to all the guys who just got laid off. What a dumpster fire.

Don’t even think about putting in for a promotion for your staff members because of the “economic climate”. WHY are Canon’s executive leaders not investing in our people??? We seem to have $$$$ to spend (see: SPHERE). Talented, hardworking people are resigning daily (or just “quiet quitting”…). Our TOP talent is leaving- fast & furious! Yes, there are some people leaving who have been dead weights anyway, and for them, good riddance - but not everyone. Either way, when your employees are the walking brand of your company, you NEED to make sure you treat them well, so they can spread positive word about the company. For example…Look at this layoff site. It’s supposed to be a site to talk about layoffs. And this page never existed for Canon until the major layoffs last year. BUT the conversations continue here to this day, even when the company is not actively laying people off - because of the way our people are being treated … so they come here to vent because no one else listens or does anything to address their concerns. Pretty simple really. The negative PR is not helping with sales.

My management structure has not allowed me to move forward. I've had top performance awards.....but it doesn't matter. My current manager has put in bogus evaluations on my mid-year that I didn't even work on in 2025!
I filed with HR and they basically found that my claims were "unsubstantiated misconduct". Oh boy, do I have a ton of info on that one!!! To be sure, HR, is not your friend and they'll say "I'm sorry but due to confidentiality reasons, we can't say" to ever question you might have.
My advise? HR will not help you. As the victim, I've not even heard what they did, who they talked to, and what came of it. And yet, here I am.

Just heard that unless you land a placed positions through the wave 1 or wave 2 selection events at a higher PSG, there will be no promotions this year.

Great news all around. 4 days in office, and no merit based promotions. Really makes things motivating around here.

Sampath strikes again with his favorite sport: talking down to the workforce while pretending he’s discovered management philosophy. Translation of his post: “We cut middle managers, slowed promotions, shrank the talent pool, and guaranteed attrition… but hey, decisions move faster!”

This isn’t leadership, it’s narcissism with a LinkedIn filter. Only a CEO at Verizon could brag about hollowing out the company while admitting it leaves employees with fewer career paths, worse pay equity, and higher churn. Then he pats himself on the back for “fewer layers.”

It’s not strategy, it’s shrinkage dressed up as innovation. The BSG boy is just narrating his own PowerPoint slides.

Toxic environment, no promotions, outdated payscale by years,periodic layoffs, fake survey results, barely any a-s grinding work, clown reality show midweek. Life at TU.