#toxic

I’d rather x than work at BNY another year.

I’ll start…
I’d rather insert my arm into a bear trap and gnaw it off with my own teeth than work at BNY another year.

I went from really liking my job to dreading it. And it happened in six years I've been here, which is not that long for such a drastic change.

Can BP do a proof of concept and identify those toxic personnel who benefited from the BL era and were artificially promoted in an effort to detoxify bp?

Also identify middle managers who’s claim to fame is making more process and hurdles…identifying just 20 of these operatives and discarding them would do wonders for productivity, profitability, and safety..

I wanted to share a serious concern regarding the toxic work culture and ongoing mismanagement within our organization.
Over the past three years, we have been trapped in an unsustainable cycle. Leadership consistently chooses underperforming vendors who fail to deliver on their commitments. It is an open secret that these vendors are missing deadlines because they lack the capability, and many suspect that commissions are being funneled behind the scenes while the internal team is forced to pick up the slack.
Because of these poor strategic choices and mismanaged feature implementations, we are constantly being thrown under the bus. We are forced to work consecutive weekdays and weekends to cover for failing vendor deliverables. Specifically, leadership figures like sen*il, SD OMR, Rjt, SD Arn, and their directors foster an unreasonable environment where everything is expected immediately, with zero regard for employee burnout or the root causes of failure. It is the same cycle across the board—giving contracts to vendors who will later benefit them personally.
This mismanagement is now severely impacting our products. Visible is one of the best digital prepaid brands we have, but as part of the NSA migration, they are currently migrating the legacy Visible system to postpaid NSA. That system is fundamentally flawed; if it goes to production, heaven knows how many customers will face issues. Additionally, our VXP platform system is also flawed, and provisions are not even working.

I hope Dan see this post many because all of theses fat leadership our VZ brand losing the market share

I want to leave the toxic env.

Is applying for FMLA tge best strategy ?

want to leave the toxic env.

Is applying for FMLA tge best strategy ?

want to leave the toxic env.

Is applying for FMLA tge best strategy ?

We can't go a single month without hearing about more people being shown the door. That's not a healthy working environment.

no one cares about this company. If you do, you’re a cuck.

Do you all remember what it was like 10 years ago? We had the staff that we needed to get our jobs done. People were friendly and didn’t cause drama for the sake of it, and we didn’t hire toxic people. There is this culture now of toxicity where people will lie on each other in hopes of getting the next promotion. That promotion does not exist, however, because AI has replaced that rung in the ladder.

Why is this all so toxic???? I’m to the point where I come in and just do my job and go home and I talk to the minimum amount of people possible. I have never been more burnt out and depressed in my life.

how many people’s bosses does this describe? how many of these bosses are perceived as likable despite being rotten to the core?

I’ve been a part of Citi since 2018 and it felt like a completely different world back then. Maybe Mike Corbat wasn’t the best CEO and the organization struggled a lot back then, but at least it felt like working in a normal, non-abusive and non-toxic environment. We might have resolved the reg consent orders, but at a cost of sacrificing the human capital. Shame.

At first, people still try to make things work even when the environment is bad, but eventually the constant stress starts taking something out of them. They stop bringing ideas and stop putting in extra effort because they've learned it doesn't make a difference. Before long, getting through the workday becomes the only goal. And that's where we're at now.

Give someone impossible workloads, constant criticism, and no sense of security. Keep it going long enough and even a happy person will start dreading work and consider quitting.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate our workplace culture in terms of toxicity?
(1 = not toxic at all, 10 = extremely toxic)

For those who’ve been around long enough to see BD at its best, do you think a change in leadership could bring those good days back? Does anyone think the incoming CXO can shake things up, cut unnecessary VP positions, save money, and get this organization functioning again?

Be careful with what and with whom you share your personal details related to rto. There are snitches and try hards everywhere, complaining that it’s not fair people leave early, some people they never see come in, one guy left at lunch and didn’t log back in, blah blah. These same people are also submitting suggestions to HR to track ip login time, implement timesheet system, etc.

As a manager, I have had to tell these ICs to chill out, hr is not enforcing to that extent, nor are they privy to people with medical accommodations, personal circumstances, etc. These are usually the people that have been at citi for 10 years plus.

It’s like these folks have nothing better to do with their time other than to invent new ways to make other people miserable.

Takis says one thing about retaining SMEs and HR does the opposite.

This place is toxic. Signals sent from the MC should actually mean something. They don’t.

leaders who cant take feedback should be fired immediately. these are the AD and above who are scared of pulse and send pre-pulse surveys their entire team is afraid to fill out.

these leaders hire other leaders who cant take feedback which makes for a TOXIC culture.

most of these “people” (if you want to call them that), have smiling faces and dont hold bad workers accountable

At this point, whatever happens, happens. For about a year now my manager has been slowly cutting me out, from questioning why I'm in meetings to giving opportunities I asked for to newer coworkers. I used to get furious about it, but I've realized staying angry is only hurting me. I've put in years of hard work here, and I'm finally done letting their behavior consume me.

You see how the scandals are not unique. Wrongdoing is not punished. Bad actors are protected and encouraged. They lie about everything, even about their employees at review time. Lies Lies Lies. You will need a strong support system to deal with all the backstabbing & wrongdoing. Once you are here, you need to devote a lot of energy towards defending yourself & just dealing with it, vs looking for a new job outside the company. The best solution is never to come here in the first place.

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• Source: TheLayoff.com, board: Thread regarding Edward Jones layoffs
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Posted May 31 by IndiaJones, post ID @OP+1kt0n0jhf.

Here we go! Day one of ELT's move to get more of us to quit. Post your concerns, complaints, funny stories, frustrations, etc in this thread so we can keep the comment section active for our neighborhood ELT trolls who love to lurk here (they are useless anyway, so might as well give them something to do today). Good luck everyone, and enjoy the collaboration this week! 🤡

PS. r/st louis (edward jones) has a post from a few days ago that links this site if reddit is more your scene.

Reply 1 of 43, post ID @bc+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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Severe thunderstorms in St. Louis should make the commute challenging.

Reply 2 of 43, post ID @be+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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@bc they wouldn’t care if someone crashed. might like it too

Reply 3 of 43, post ID @bj+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
• In reply to: bc
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@bc Breaking News! It does rain on occasion!

Reply 4 of 43, post ID @bk+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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Will penelope show her face today?

Reply 5 of 43, post ID @bv+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
• In reply to: bk
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@bk probably took one of our private jet rentals to some ribbon cutting ceremony she thinks she needs to be at

Reply 6 of 43, post ID @bx+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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Look at all of those downvotes from the ELT crew and their cronies. They're at least doing something today.

Reply 7 of 43, post ID @by+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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Guess who goes into the office 5 days a week, our colleagues in India! If you hate your job so much please quit. There are plenty of unemployed people who would love to drive to work this morning even in the rain.

Reply 8 of 43, post ID @c2+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Curious (self-chosen pseudonym)
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How is it going? Us HBA are wondering. Parking good? Everyone find a seat? Any welcome back gifts for HBA that now come to office for first time on a regular basis?

Reply 9 of 43, post ID @c3+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Stop it (self-chosen pseudonym)
• In reply to: c2
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@c2 Speak for yourself. No. Us HBA are not wondering. We are scared for them. Concerned. Sympathetic. Hoping they are all ok. But not wondering by any means… HBA = we don’t get the scoop. And we don’t need to feed their misery and make them feel worse.

Reply 10 of 43, post ID @c6+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
• In reply to: c2
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@c2 i take this as a genuine q from curious hba and will answer. No welcome or acknowledgment of RTO. Gifts? No. There’s a sign at the parking garage saying to try the other if full. I parked fine but arrived on early side.

Reply 11 of 43, post ID @c7+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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@c6 was there an expectation for gifts?

Reply 12 of 43, post ID @cd+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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@by Absolutely do not quit. Make them fire you or lay you off. The market is terrible and they should have to cover unemployment and severance if they are insistent on replacing humans.

Reply 13 of 43, post ID @cp+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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@by Do you enjoy boot leather for every meal?

Reply 14 of 43, post ID @cq+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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Who was actually responsible for managing this RTO?

Reply 15 of 43, post ID @cr+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
• In reply to: cq
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@cq If (and when) it goes poorly, nobody will claim ownership of it.

Reply 16 of 43, post ID @cv+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
• In reply to: c7
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@c7 I don’t think so but hba asked about welcome back gifts so answered the q. Mayne like a mug, desk supplies. Stuff people get when they start

Reply 17 of 43, post ID @cy+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
• In reply to: c3
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@c3 what the he-l happened to people in the last 5 years? Having to go into the office after working at home does kind of su-k. But good grief! You aren’t going to war. I commuted to work for decades before wfh. Took trains, cars and, hold on to your hats, buses to get to the office in each city I lived in. Sometimes the weather was inclement. Sometimes there was traffic. Sometimes I had to watch out for pick pockets on crowded trains and buses. It’s called navigating the real world and you will get through it. It’s character building. Once you conquer driving to work, there will be no stopping you! You might even get up the nerve to go to the post office. Let the down votes rain down. Oh sorry! I didn’t mean to trigger you by mentioning rain 🤣

Reply 18 of 43, post ID @cz+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
• In reply to: cr
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@cr oh so you're familiar with Suzie McDemon?

Reply 19 of 43, post ID @d0+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
• In reply to: cy
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@cy Another sad post from an ELT member or professional bootlicker that just doesn't get it.

Reply 20 of 43, post ID @d5+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Raging Against the Machine (self-chosen pseudonym)
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Did anyone else just not go into the office today? I did and my boss who is HBA said he didn’t care.

Reply 21 of 43, post ID @d6+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
• In reply to: by
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@by JFC you people and your obsession with your 3rd world slave labor is disgusting. You have completely exposed yourself as a complete out of touch mo--n. You must ELT or GP status to come up with such brilliant statement! You know why there are so many unemployed right now? Because d!ckheads like you and your ilk layoff 1 american and replace them with 3 dodgy indian contractors so you can pad the bottom line record profits some more. A special place in he-l for ghouls like you.

Reply 22 of 43, post ID @d7+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
• In reply to: cy
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@cy Take my downvote and my response to your short sighted boomer mindset, you absolute walnut. The only thing missing was a story about walking to school in the snow...Do me a favor, turn your A/C off tonight and dont turn it back on. Your nasty hateful menopausal a-s will not last. You know why? Because AC was invented to help make life easier and once you take it away after having it, life su-ks. Once you see a better way of doing thing, you dont go back to the old ways if the new way works! That would be insane. Maybe you having some heat stroke will build some character, am I right?? The reason you had to take trains and long commutes was because you had to. There was no other way to work, we found a better way to work with remote work and the only people who hate it are micro managers and commercial real estate. HBA was benefit that offset the cr-p pay and cr-p health insurance. It being taken away is now a paycut for us with nothing to offset it with other than threats of layoffs. Then, you factor in everything else this nasty lying POS group called ELT has done and it is the final nail in the coffin. A great betrayal, and you think it's just about driving in the rain? This is how I know you are a d-mb person, you couldn't even take 5 seconds to look at the big picture. You mostly are ELT now that I think about it. Every study done on this RTO topic shows it as a failure, and ELT has decided to move forward anyway. Dummies

Reply 23 of 43, post ID @dj+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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@by Are you serious, you absolute Troll? Our "colleagues " in India do NOT go in to work 5 days a week! Many work from home a couple of days and yes they are handling sensitive client information in their kitchen half the time with family chatting all day long in the background. ELT you outed yourself by calling them colleagues. I hope you get the company fined with the lax protocols you all put in place.

Reply 24 of 43, post ID @dt+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
• In reply to: dj
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@dj The sad part is they really think they are "winning" and on the right side of history. Or, they know they know they have wrecked this company and now have to go into panic/attack mode as this ship takes on more water.

Reply 25 of 43, post ID @en+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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I've worked late at night, I've worked weekends. I've gotten up at 5 am and answered questions from India. Yes, it's summer break and I took my kid to lunch and then worked longer at the end of the day. Or I took a break and volunteered in my kids classroom and worked later. I have loved this company and stayed loyal without good pay because of this family oriented approach. In the past Edward Jones has given me time with my child. Time I will never get back and I appreciate beyond words. In return I gave you my loyalty and hard work. My dedication to getting the job done no matter when or what time because I believed in the company. I referred family members to Jones because I was confident they would be served well.
You horrible ELT people getting $20 mill a year clearly don't value loyalty or knowledge. To say I am devastated is not enough. I want you fu--s to know I have enough money to retire right now. I came back to the office to make you fire me you stupid fu--s. I am literally doing this right now to pi-s you off because you people don't have a conscious or sense of loyalty. Bring it.
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Reply 26 of 43, post ID @ey+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Curious (self-chosen pseudonym)
• In reply to: c6
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@c6 thank you.

Reply 27 of 43, post ID @ez+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 1
• Author: Curious (self-chosen pseudonym)
• In reply to: cv
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@cv exactly. Was a real question. Example for 100 year celebrations they had shirts, hats, etc. was wondering if they had something like that. Thanks.

Reply 28 of 43, post ID @h2+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 2
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
• In reply to: dj
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@dj and Edward Jones is not their only employer. They work multiple full time jobs at once.

Reply 29 of 43, post ID @hb+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 2
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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Honest question: Has anyone seen a positive outcome from a single ER initiative?

They touted faster speed, less layers/bureaucracy, more culture and collaboration, efficiency, etc., but I have not seen a single positive result. I'm trying to look at it objectively, but I just don't see it.

So, if there wasn't a single public/enterprise benefit, it's a private benefit (to them and their own goals/agenda).

Reply 30 of 43, post ID @hh+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 2
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
• In reply to: hb
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@hb Every single thing they have touched has turned into a dumpster fire. Not one thing has improved for this company because of them, we are moving in the wrong direction. This RTO thing will be another giant fail when not enough people quit and they have to go back to classic layoffs. Our reputation around st.louis is tanking and the only thing we have going for us is an AI market bubble to hide all the damage.

Reply 31 of 43, post ID @hj+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 2
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
• In reply to: en
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@en Everyone in the office looks tired, checked out, and annoyed. Even high up leaders I see try very hard to put on the fake coporate act, but they also look like the pressure and stress is getting to them. Something is horribly wrong with this company and it's being kept a secret.

Reply 32 of 43, post ID @hv+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 2
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
• In reply to: hb
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@hb You know what is funny? We rip ELT to shreds here (because they took away our surveys) and demand answers or even sometimes honestly ask them to defend their positions. I'd be willing to have a civil debate with them, but they can't even do that! Like a petty dictator, they want to shut down all the people who question things or use logic to debate them. All they have is either some boomer talking point like "we worked 5 days in office back in my day, you need to do it too! Or "Stop complaining, quit if you don't like it!". That is it, that's all they have! They hit the down vote arrow and scurry away like a little rodent. It's annoying and down right pathetic. So I say again, where are my ELT fans at? Tell us what great things you have done here that make you deserve the millions in your paycheck?

Reply 33 of 43, post ID @jg+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 2
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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@hjn, I give this place 6 months then a BIG bo-b to drop!

Reply 34 of 43, post ID @nb+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 3
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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Anybody in office get the free breakfast this morning? How was it?

Reply 35 of 43, post ID @p0+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 3
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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@nb nope. I'm not eating their slop for a photo op. Breakfast was still paid for us out of the bottom line, not like penny used her own bank account for those powdered eggs lol

Reply 36 of 43, post ID @q3+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 3
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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@nb It wasn't a breakfast. It was 3/4 cup yogurt with several toppings and up to 4 mini quiches the size of a quarter. It was a poor attempt at bribery.

Reply 37 of 43, post ID @q7+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 3
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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@q3 and probably gave everyone that had it the sh!ts. Nothing works correctly around here, even breakfast we find a way to sc--w up

Reply 38 of 43, post ID @r9+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 4
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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We are going to be late and leaving early..fire us all but we will fall into old patterns and so will you. The poor TLs are now hallway monitors and supposed to drive production?

Reply 39 of 43, post ID @ra+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 4
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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@d7 sound like the author grew up near NY in my opinion

Reply 40 of 43, post ID @xm+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 5
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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@ra and if given a choice between having a horrible commute and cr-p work environment VS Work From Home (back in their day) I bet a million dollars all these people would have taken the WFH option. That's what makes alll this RTO so damn stupid. It is counter intuitive to human nature. If you find a better way to live/work and increase happiness, why in the he-l would you go back to the old way that 99% of workers hate, and have the data to show that it isn't more productive to RTO. It is the opposite!

Reply 41 of 43, post ID @zf+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 5
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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The whole goal of RTO is to make people so miserable that they quit. Less future layoffs if you just quit. I feel for everybody who did not get out. I also realize the job market is very tough for all of us. Praying for the strength that you all will need to keep doing your job.

Reply 42 of 43, post ID @13x+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 6
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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@zf Amazing that ELT and pEnn3y really think they are on the right side of history with this "transformation". Everyone I've talked to the last few weeks about this place are horrified that our squeaky clean down home mid western value company is being destroyed from within by people who think it's funny to make single parent households lose sleep over their ret@rded @$$ backward sinister policies these last 18 months. Will someone from ELT (or one of the bootlickers) please show me the data where a company has had success by sh!tting all over the people that work there and gutting the entire culture that made the company unique? I'll wait...

Reply 43 of 43, post ID @17p+1kt0n0jhf

• Date: June 7
• Author: Anonymous (site default byline)
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Definitely burning some sick days this summer and doing bare minimum work while job hunting. This place is nothing more than a toxic shitho!e run by mo--ns and hateful nasty women

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This place has been toxic for so long that the bullying is just baked into the culture now. Same people, same nonsense, year after year.

Who’s excited?! gag I can’t wait to hear what bullsh-t they tell us this time

Listen up—this man speaks the truth! Verizon don’t give a rat’s a-s about you. To them, you’re just another line item on a spreadsheet

https://www.instagram.com/p/DcmvBcrTG4J/

Now that One Cisco is dead and the era of "Cisco is not a family" is upon us I have to wonder what Cisco could have been like if we had kept our values. The amount of backstabbing and sabotaging and general toxic shittiness that has become normal in the last year or so is baffling.

We were so much more productive and collaborative in the One Cisco era. Instead I'm hearing my management chain talk about cutting certain teams out of the development process. I'm seeing managers lie about agreements in their EC decks in order to steal headcount from other teams.

We're in a cultural death spiral and I don't see anyone fighting the good fight anymore.

Looking at recent threads, I couldn't help but notice everyone turning on each other—SF vs. MF vs. Tech, hybrid vs. remote, first line vs. 2nd vs. 3rd line, people of a certain ethnicity vs. others, you name it. Meanwhile, the people actually pulling the strings and causing this mess get a free pass while we tear each other apart.
I was curious if there’s an actual psychological or organizational term for this dynamic, so I ran it through AI. Here is a quick breakdown of Horizontal Hostility (or lateral violence):

“When a toxic leader or broken system holds power, self-preservation ends up destroying group solidarity. Because confronting the real source of the threat feels useless or risky, people turn their frustration inward on their peers instead. By scapegoating colleagues or hoping someone else absorbs management's wrath, people try to buy temporary safety. This dynamic is often fueled by leadership using divide-and-conquer tactics—keeping everyone fearful, fragmented, and fighting amongst themselves so no one unites against the actual problem.”

Classic divide and conquer. Let's stop taking the bait and keeping the heat off the people who actually caused this.

In organizational psychology, cronyism is directly linked to "ingratiation"—the practice of employees using flattery or sycophancy to win favors from a boss rather than performing high-quality work.The Proof: Peer-reviewed regression analysis indicates a massive positive correlation (β = 0.553, p < 0.001) between organizational cronyism and toxic ingratiation strategies. When an anti-cronyism policy is instituted and paired with objective, merit-based metrics, subsequent employee tracking shows a sharp decrease in sycophancy and a measurable rise in overall objective productivity.

The environment is tainted with toxicity, fear and ugliness, including the behavior and communication from the leaders and colleagues.

It’s maddening how toxic this place is. So many layoffs, no budgets for promotions raises etc. everyone is just so burned out in my org. Layoff after layoff, doing more with less. Meanwhile, record sales and the company livestreams GSX to all of us poors. Sales, product and engineering are all crutial parts of a business but it’s clearly a sales-over-everything business.

The saddest part is how a few toxic individuals in each department (in addition with the few HR bad apples being the glue) create this horrible life changing experience for the employees there and it’s totally acceptable.

U.S. Bank use to represent the happiest and best part of my life. Now it’s a dark cloud permanently over me.

Just keep yourself clean and do what’s right.

Stay strong until you make it through the other side for a better whatever. Because you will get there if you understand that karma is real.

Don’t let these sad individuals change you. Don’t let them take away the light and good instilled.

Don’t join the toxicity by ignorantly and blindly hopping on the toxicity bandwagon with a hunger games mentality, feeding off of the clueless “one on of us” mentality hopefuls, where every single person who joins, ends up with regret and filth that will forever leave a stain on your karma, energy, personality, and character.

Say no to living in a world where your everyday work life is spent by pretending to like toxicity in favor of being apart of the “one of us clique mindset” thinking you are playing it safe by being a “boot li---r of toxicity instead of nobleness” or a “teachers pet” falsely believing this attitude will save you from being a target of misery since you are “liked” by the ones who are deeply involved in this toxic workplace culture…. and who sadly hate themselves deep down unknowingly or not because of the decision they made to morally compromise in their choices along the way in their careers.

The likely destination joining the toxicity band wagon to see if you are a fit to have a place among the bad apples is a fools one.

Get off or quite literally jump off of the toxic bandwagon asap.

Sooner the better, your karma will continue to dwindle the longer you stay on, and becoming costlier with each stop.

Don’t sign up for a ride that ends with a destination of finding a clown costume when you arrive at the end of this trip career trip from he-l. Voluntarily or involuntarily.

Don’t waste or spend your indispensable life energy working in a place that creates literally hellish like conditions…. Or at least don’t do it voluntarily.

At the end, you will be left holding the short end of the straw, rudely awoken by being played like fiddle from the toxicity you were aware of, but foolishly thought you would be excluded from.

If you are one of the many good people working here… stay strong and find success by not being a sale out of the morales and values we all have when starting out. The world is a cold place. And right now, so is the work culture at U.S. Bank.

You cant control most events that take place in life, such as getting stuck in this he-l hole… and trying your best just to get by and provide for your family, while at the same time, trying to not become a target here and struggle for your job security in such a toxic time and toxic work place.

Please remember this most important takeaway.

We have control on how we react to events and situations.

Don’t fall for the toxic workplace bait and sign up for a one way trip for your exclusive U.S. bank clown costume.

Don’t sign off your legacy tainted with regret thinking the finish line prize was anything but a clown suite.

Don’t morally compromise and it will somehow work out. Seriously it really will. Have a conscience.

The pendulum will always swing the other way remember that.

Right now, you could be the force tilting the toxic workplace culture pendulum to swing the other way.

The simple formula to advance yourself and change things around in every aspect in life, including dealing with the toxic workplace environment here and exceeding in it at the company by driving your own vehicle to a fulfilling destination of a clean rightfully deserved promotion or advancement in your career.. Instead of foolishly making your way to become a clown.

The simple formula is do good feel good.

Believe in the good of other people.

Hold onto to being a good person knowing that even the smallest of kind acts can make a ground breaking difference in the day of your peers.

Make sure to be real with yourself. Seriously, don’t be a fool lying to yourself about how great of a person you truly are, but in reality you know that clown suit is waiting for you.

Be a good person with good intentions to advance yourself in life….. Advancment in the career latter….. or any kind of initiative in life.

This is proven to work and not a fairy tale or hippy loving vibes.

Plenty of people have reached their rightfully deserved destinations of happiness with this simple understanding of karma.

You will make it through working in such a toxic work environment at U.S. bank and ultimately it will turn out to be a win somehow someway.

Hopefully the ones who don’t have an acquired clown suit in their closet or ones who are not waiting for their very own, can speak up and spread basic human decency, dignity, and respect over the toxic culture plaguing US bank today.

Ending with a note of realism -

Sometimes you can’t soley rely on believing in the good of others.

Sometimes action is required to swing the pendulum back to the correct side.

You have to stand up for yourself and others.

Get a backbone and create an online account using the EEOC public portal and file a complaint if justified.

If you have documented proof of the easily recognizable patterns HR and management make to target and wrongfully treat you then file a complaint with the EEOC.

It is incredibly easy to create an online login in the EEOC portal and file the complaint.

Don’t fear retaliation. I know there are bad apples employed here who are such a liability to the bank because of how clueless they are when it comes down to it.

These bad apples have gone so long without being checked, that they lose touch with reality of how and what they are legally obliged to perform their role at us bank.

If you are a target, know of other people being targeted, you have documented patterns of bad apples, etc……please check and remind these bad apples because the rot is just to dam strong.

It’s really the only tool we have that can make a difference here. Dont be afraid to use it.

Start with googling “EEOC public portal login” and it’s self explanatory from this point.

Key Signs to Leave
Chronic Burnout: You feel totally exhausted even after a full weekend or a vacation.
Constant Dread: You experience deep anxiety or the "Sunday Scaries" on a regular basis.
Toxic Culture: The workplace involves bullying, gossip, or a complete lack of psychological safety.
Bad Leadership: Your boss micromanages, demeans you, or blocks your basic needs.
No Growth: There are zero chances for promotions, new skills, or lateral moves.
Unfair Pay: Your salary is far below market value and requests for raises go ignored.
Value Mismatch: The company's core mission or actions conflict with your personal ethics.
Health Impacts: Work causes physical symptoms like headaches, stomach aches, or sleep loss.
Mental Check-Out: You no longer care about the quality of your work and just do the bare minimum.
Better Options Exist: You are qualified for and see realistic, healthier roles elsewhere.

When will the toxicity and poor leadership end? This constant cycle of abusing workers with fake reviews can't end well. What will be the next big scandal?

Where do I even start? Management is terrible, culture is toxic, everyone's terrified of layoffs, performance reviews are a joke, technology is outdated, suggestions are ignored, nothing ever improves, managers are rude and inappropriate, processes don't exist, leadership is absent, cronyism is rampant, employees are unheard, and raises are insulting. That about covers it.

I have a supervisor who has some form of NPD and he routinely loses his mind over petty things. Every colleague we have seems to dislike him. Does Micron have systems in place for employees to work through issues caused by a supervisor with a personality disorder? Is jumping ship the only real option? Has anyone who used the available paths to deal with a truly bad supervisor had any success getting out of their situation without retaliation?

Good luck, BA. Starting October 1, you’ll all be reporting to one of the worst leaders at Honeywell. JP is incredibly toxic, and there’s a reason so many leaders under him have cycled out—they’re desperate to get away from his behavior and constant blowups.

BA has delivered consistent growth. Don’t be surprised if that turns into a revolving door of leadership, with people jumping ship rather than sticking around to be JP’s next tantrum target.

I just Effin love how they delete questions.

Whoever that HR woman is, you give absolutely no warm and fuzzy feelings to everyone who feels unsafe or unsure in this environment.

Maybe I wont take severance.

No severance, no non disclosure to sign.

A big fat book on the toxic Wells fraudo

Laid off yesterday after 15 years in retaliation for not wanting to take on even more work after basically taking on the work of three other people with no consideration for my capacity at all. It was definitely retaliation though I can't prove it. It su-ks that senior executives promote the global culture especially providing psychological safety but it doesn't actually exist and in fact toxic environments thrive. Don't know what my next steps are but there's freedom in not being stressed out about being behind in everything because you're overwhelmed with an ever-growing list of responsibilities and a leadership that doesn't care. Hopefully another division will scoop me. Nowhere to go but up from here

He-l would be better than working for this boomer dinosaur company compromised by contractor corruption and Israel.

Come in the office 5 days a week to talk to Indians on teams, so Stankey makes more money when . Soul su-king.