I have been following this site for a few years with never commenting. I recently left voluntarily. Never forget the bank will never appreciate the sacrifices you make for the institution. They will grind you up and sp-t you out without hesitation. And it’s only going to get worse in the coming years. Don’t let them take advantage of you and hold their feet to their fire and never forget they are your adversary and not your friend. Take advantage of them before they do it to you. You have been warned.
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@14r People in branches were hired to work in branches. They weren't LIED TO by the bank about their work location. So your argument does not hold up.
Wells Fargo - https://www.thelayoff.com/post/@OP+1m62qt0q2
Stop whining and be grateful. A lot of people are being let go or have to be in 4-5 days. It’s insulting and insensitive to complain about having to come in especially when the branches have been doing it all along and the risk team is being laid off.
@11w You don't speak for "the rest of us". Have a seat.
@wh good luck to you. Let us know when you’ve changed the bank’s stance. Meanwhile the rest of us have moved on.
Here's my message to US Bank: Don't worry, the feeling is mutual. I hate you also and am using you temporarily until the time is right to move on. Unless I am terminated, I will stay to collect my 401K match in Jan, annual contribution to cash value pension plan in Jan, and bonus in March. Then I may decide quickly that you, US Bank, no longer are meeting my needs as my employer. I will not hesitate to resign effective immediately at any time, just like you lay off people immediately with no advance notice in many cases. You use and abuse employees for however long it suits your needs, and guess what? We can do the same to you.
@s0 the fact that you left this company and are still lurking around in this forum says a lot about you as a person
@vy Yes the bank can do whatever it wants, including firing YOU for any or no reason. And working from a home office is not "working" in quotation marks, which you intended to imply is not "really" working. It is work just as much as your ridiculous self sitting in a chair located in a bank office is working. Your are either a troll or just plain stupid. It is not 2001. It is 2026. The world has changed. You obviously are stuck in the past in your closed minded approach to working. The exec leadership of USB is dishonest and not to be trusted. If you can't see that, the problem is within you. And who the fu-k cares what "most banks" are doing? Good leadership means innovative thinking and doing what makes sense, not blindly following what McKenzie consultants tell banks to do and copying what other banks do. That is WEAK and pathetic "leadership".
Where in this specific post was there ANY mention of RTO?!? Not every post on “The Layoff” is about RTO. Some of us want to discuss subjects effecting US other than RTO.
P.S. If you need an employer to support “working” from home go find it since it’s employment at will. But good luck since most banks are going 5 days and have a min number of hours in office. Point being is 1. A LOT of us are sick of RTO talk after 6 years since it’s not changing. (try being thankful that WFH is still 3 days and you still have a job). 2. The bank can do whatever it wants and if you don’t like it find something that works best for your needs.
- People are hired all the time under certain circumstances and then an organizations needs and objectives change… one consequence is returning employees to the office and another is being laid off… and here we are on the site called “The Layoff”.
@s0 And yet here you are posting in a thread where RTO is a central topic. And you are WRONG. Many of us were specifically hired for remote roles and have offer letters that state this. It was designed to be our status forever and that fact was specifically discussed. RTO is a bullsh-t failed strategy being pushed by an incompetent Exec leadership team who do not have the skill set to manage a large diverse workforce.
Same here! I also left a few months ago voluntarily. I echo your thoughts.
All stop talking about the RTO and move on. None off what was posted is about RTO. Nobody promised us it was permanent. Find another org that supports your needs. Many of us are sick of listening to the complaining and whining about RTO.
@f1 Yep. The BIG push for RTO started in spring of 2024. It had started before that but that was when the biggest group of employees was told they'd be sent back in late summer. Gunjan became CEO in April 2025. That doesn't excuse her awful behavior in any way but Andy was a doofus and he got that ball rolling.
(And yes, employees who never worked from home, we know you exist, thank you, if you never had to return to office because you never left the office then this does not apply to you obviously, you are very special, we all owe you a debt, you are heroes, you are the best of us, nobody has had it worse than you, grab a cookie and so on.)
For the people not believing @a6 you need to go back and look at Andy's pledge to "revitalize" downtown Minneapolis with the RTO policies. We were going back to the office with AC at the helm. Gunjan was already president. The policies started before Gunjan was CEO, and Andy helped her.
Oh hey SB.
Elcio. We see you in here downvoting people. Buddy, you really need a hobby.
@b5 McKinsey is the real problem. Gunjan and other leaders are/were just brainless cult members who follow the McKinsey playbook. Not an original idea in their empty heads.
@a6 it would have gone this way with AC. Mckinsey had their claws in and were the reason for RTO. Regardless of who was at the helm, we'd still be in this situation
@av so, something not a lot of people know is that we receive a significant amount from the associations for marketing like that.
I'm not saying that we didn't spend our own budget, but visa/mastercard pay for a lot.
This isn't to say our decisions aren't gone deaf as fu-k and that Gunjan isn't a horrendous waste of oxygen but there's another side to it
It’s crazy to end a call saying “we care about your wellbeing while offshoring and not giving COLA/ raises. Then you cut to Jessica Alba which we paid out the a-s for.
Never thought I'd miss AC
I have been telling this to people that refuse to use their 80 hours of sick pay.
It’s part of of your benefit. Stop coming in sick and use your benefits.
Bank don’t care about your. Use your 80 hour of sick pay before they lay you off off, especially if you are remote