#worklifebalance

So, now people have six weeks. No carryover to next year.

Lots of people lost a lot of accrued PTO, which would have been paid out.

Btw, starts 10/1, and if you’ve already used six weeks, but have more time off scheduled, your manager has dispersion to take it away.

VBG. Not hearing anything about anyone getting laid off yet.

This week Sep 21-25 is International Week of Happiness at Work. How ironic!

https://internationalweekofhappinessatwork.com/

How is it working for other primes such as LM, NGC, etc vs L3Harris?

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.

Every call is about AI and how it’s not replacing our jobs, just our tasks or how it’s not doing our job better, just making us more efficient.

It’s the same thing every call. Don’t we have other things to talk about that are more important?

What do you think about today's USET Connect or townhall themed "Lead to One" : Work Faster, smarter with less.

I have a question. Since we are a Global Bank and I am based in NAM but deal globally, would I be able to go in the office on a holiday and have that counted towards my 3 day requirement. For example, we have an upcoming holiday in October. If I go into the office that day would that count?

My department was recently told we’re being moved to another Wells Fargo location within the next few months. I currently live about five minutes from my office, but the new location will be roughly a 25–30 minute drive each way.

I’m trying to figure out the correct process for requesting a location exception to remain where I currently work. I’ve heard different things — some say go through your manager, while others say HR.

I’m not exactly optimistic about WF accommodating it given the direction they’ve taken lately with RTO, co-location, and flexibility, but I’m going to pursue it and at least make them explain why it makes sense to send me 30 minutes away when I currently work five minutes from home.

Has anyone recently requested a location exception? Who did you go through, and were you successful?

Serious responses only, please.

Or anyone wfh still wfh plan late meetings that impact us on the east coast?!!
It’s rude and self centered. Like get some sense of wherewithal. Would you like our early meeting be 630 am for you?! Oh no? Ok then use your brain and not your 🫏 to book meetings it’s bad enough I’m going broke on the commute and food coming in everyday. I don’t care to be late for the one home cooked meal called dinner waiting for me. 😡. Stupid waste of time effort and money but but it builds collaborating! B S 🐂💩

I know I need to leave this place, but I have no idea when I'll finally get the chance.

The workload, uncertainty, and constant pressure pushed my stress far beyond what I could manage. I ended up on short term disability after experiencing blood pressure over 180, chest pain, and other physical symptoms. Please, be kind to yourselves and don't allow the same thing to happen to you. Pace yourselves. You don't need to work 60+ hour weeks, no matter what your manager says. You don't need to lose your weekends and holidays to work. They just want us to think that.

I've started thinking my below market salary might actually be protecting my job. That's a pretty depressing thing to feel grateful for.

I truly do. It's making my life a living he-l. But I desperately need a job due to a health issue so there's literally nothing I can do about it. Fu-k my life.

This is still one of the better places to work. Yes, there are issues, but some of you can't see the forest for the trees. With everything happening in the world, I'm willing to overlook a lot for good pay and benefits, and I still get that here.

Or is that just me?

Work has started affecting how I feel about everything outside the office. I need something to change before the stress follows me into every part of my life. Work should be about providing for me and my family, not about turning me into somebody they might want to walk away from.

They really conditioned us well, didn't they? To the point where knowing there won't be layoffs during a given week seems like something out of the normal.

Some people talk about sixty hour weeks as if they're proving how committed they are. I don't see it that way. If you're spending that much time working, you're giving up a huge part of your life for the job that will most likely reward you with even more work and nothing else. That's not a lifestyle I envy.

I'd give anything to be let go with severance. This is not the same company I joined (obviously) and I have no interest in staying here long-term anymore.

hey everybody, so I know a friend who walks dogs with a person that has a casual friend that they get coffee with sometimes who once went on vacation with somebody but they’re now friends who knows someone who became a VP at fidelity and they were talking about P shares. They said the P shares cash-in in June, but that was very confusing. How do they award shares in December and then they cash-in in June most all the other shares cash in on a yearly basis and payout in March, can someone help me understand that?

please, sarcastic, off-topic, humorous responses only

I currently work at State Farm in claims. It is pretty draining. Most of the customers are ok but some just endlessly talk to where I can't even ask them questions or explain things to them lol. I like State Farm. The pay and benefits are great. I just don't know if I can see myself staying in claims long term. Is underwriting a good area to work in? How safe is underwriting from A.I. eliminating jobs and layoffs? I know claims is very safe because customers want to talk to a person but I don't know if I can continue claims lol

Yes sir. After trying other opportunities and nothing clicking, I have decided to move for the company. I hope it will be a good one for the family, as we will get a lot of social life, good housing and better opportunities than where I stay. I still got 20 years to retire. So let’s see how it goes. Wish me luck!

While comparable US employees reporting elsewhere are not, these are the violations:

National-origin discrimination — Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2
If the different scheduling is because of national origin.

Adverse working conditions for U.S. workers — INA § 212(n), 8 U.S.C. § 1182(n)
Particularly relevant if other employees doing comparable work receive better hours or working conditions.

Overtime violations — FLSA, 29 U.S.C. § 207
If the overnight schedule results in more than 40 hours per week without required overtime pay.

It's another head scratching exercise that only exacerbates employee angst. Forget layoffs for a few minutes, consolidating offices is an effective strategy to reduce staffing without filing. Uniondale NY was leased for 30 years, at its prime it held 5 floors and over 600 employees. When it was shuttered (8/30/26) there was one floor for approximately 100 people. That's a big reduction in itself. Now that it's shuttered approximately 50 people have 'retired' or found work close to home versus commuting into NYC. Another big staff reduction. In 6-12 months the models show another 20-50 of these people will tire of the commute and leave the firm. Several people who lived close to the Uniondale office chose to interview at competitors and accepted jobs in NYC with a 25% pay increase. BNY took zero action to retain them, zero action to offer compensation to those who stayed in order to bring salaries into the range of NYC pay versus LI, zero action to offer a small increase or bonus to help defray commuter costs. So the corporation is ice cold, as is the American trend. Before anyone attacks that understand that many of those people on LI felt like family to each other. There were weddings, births, funerals, celebrations, ad hoc picnics, golf, softball, bring your kids to work days...so many little things that bring people together and help forge bonds. Sure BNY will have "events" that state are to bring us together, but it's a cold environment in NYC, similar to a train where you sit next to someone who doesn't know what your job is, comes and goes the same way someone on a train sits next to you and leaves at their stop. Maybe pleasantries but no bonding. I can't tell you how many times I stop in for a cup of coffee as other people come and go but exchange nothing except hello. They're gone in a flash, just like a person on line at Starbucks. And house people keep? It's a ghost town after 4, too many people running for an early train in order to get home so they can actually enjoy a bit of life. So office closures do little to bring people closer, little for collaboration. Is it to save money? How much are the renovations in Greenwich going to cost? How much does it cost to sublease WTC during the renovation? Instead Uniondale could have had its lease extended so those jobs remained intact as well as offering Greenwich staff to work on LI during the renovation. How many of those people would have greatly enjoyed the opportunity to reverse commute to a suburban location - how many of the people already lived there? There's real world examples of this being a success during a period in mid 2000 teens. How do those of you in Pittsburgh feel to see that once proud Mellon name be essentially erased? How about Boston?? The corporate word is that we're cared for by the firm, that we have excellent facilities to work in, that we are one BNY, we're commercial, we're a leader in AI, we care about marginalized groups of people, we have book clubs, town halls (with canned softball questions). Every few days we get emails from new executives telling us how wonderful we are and how much better we will be after whatever the new project they were brought in for takes effect. It's tiring. As you can probably tell I'll be leaving in a few months as soon as something else is lined up. I don;t have all of the answers for what my gripes are but I do know current affairs don't have the answers either. May robin continue to smoke the wall street analysts and keep the stock price up. Oh yes, so he can continue to tout that we're all owners. Did (hose 5 shares make a big difference to anyone reading this? Check the annual reports to see the # of shares owned by the people telling you everything is going very well.

There’s been a sea-change in the cellular industry since the introduction of the iPhone. Years ago the industry was profitable and growing. Feature phones were roughly equivalent, cheap to make and none of the vendors had pricing power. If Motorola tried to overcharge, companies could strike a better deal with Samsung or any other competitor. The vendors and the employees benefited from this rising tide.

Fast forward to today and smartphones have impressive capabilities but are much more expensive and brand loyalty means companies like Apple have pricing power. At the same time the increase in data consumption has required much larger investments in cell sites and spectrum. As a result, service providers are squeezing their suppliers and their employees as hard as they can to remain profitable. Sure, Lowell, Hans, and company made huge mistakes but the overall change in the industry is equally important if not more so.

I don’t foresee an improvement in this trend and I think it’s no longer worth it for those of us who aren’t ED, VP, or CEO to remain in this industry.

Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

Is there going to be one. Hold on this could be a ruff ride

Has anyone heard anything about flex days l?. My rms told me we get 2-3 per year along with your PTO and 5 paid sick days . Has anyone ever used them ? Do we loose those Flex days if we don’t use them ?

Will the new $1.3 billion campus have any lodging for those who have longer commutes. This would be great as it would provide an option to stay on campus during the week.

Better than Casetext Cocounsel? Did they sc--w up letting JH go?

Who here believes that they want us to build AI agents so that we can focus on “higher thinking” work and not so that they can cut jobs?

Disclaimer: I will not be doing it.

That said, I am itching to know whether a couple of the old standard questions, and the ones they really got beat up on last year, are even on there anymore.

IE (paraphrasing but these 2 particularly) :

“My company cares about my well being”

“I would recommend AT&T as a great place to work to family and friends”

I read that uniforms designed by some goober are being released for stores, are they going to (try) make us wear uniforms? LOL

Comrades, do just enough to get paid and nothing more. This place is a sinking ship and they’ll throw you to the sharks long before you are given a seat on a lifeboat. Spend more time with your family. Take long walks before the sun goes down. Medtronic will not take care of you. Only you can do that.

Guess I am no longer reachable outside work hours. Nice.

I honestly can't decide if that's a good or a bad thing.

Takis posed the following in the townhall regarding this topic:

Do you enjoy coming to work every day?
Do you enjoy the people you are working with?
Do you feel that you have a future here?
Does the company value subject matter expertise?
Am I getting paid fairly?

The answer to all of these for me is a resounding NO! What about the rest of you?

To be fair to the people I work with… it’s a small handful of peers that are impossible to work with, a few that aren’t contributing nearly enough, and the VP and up leadership chain that is making work life miserable for everyone

too many of you are stressing over stuff you have no control over. This place is on a death spiral. Thats it. Try to enjoy what you can and absolutely dont go nuts with work. The only way this place changes is when its gone and fully liquidated.

the market it brutal now, so stay on the ship for as long as you can, until your name gets called. while the severance is pathetic, its something and you will be able to collect unemployment.