Thread regarding T. Rowe Price Group Inc. layoffs

New Performance Ratings

Are dogshit. I’ve been labeled a high performer for over a decade and even got ranked high in our old system before the previous one. Now all of a sudden I just “meet expectations” in the new rankings despite hours spent working like a dog into the late evening hours and on weekends, taking on even more work after all these layoffs to make up for the management committee’s poor judgment and lack of understanding of how their own organization works.

This is an obvious ploy to reduce bonus $$$ across the board because they are too scared to do more layoffs right now because they know morale has completely collapsed and so many parts of the organization are bare bones skeleton crews or outsourced.

They are banking so hard on AI clearing out their labor costs while not thinking about what happens when AI runs everything instead of humans: no differentiated investment perspective, AI slop marketing and ads, AI slop internal communications, AI “ client services” that are the exact same as every other AI at every other asset manager.

I truly don’t think TRP can dig itself out of this hole, it is way too far gone. And it will take a large portion of the Baltimore City and County tax base with it. Yet our government leaders have nothing to say about one of Baltimore’s largest employers becoming essentially a hollowed out shell? If I were the mayor I would be having some discussions with Rob Sharps right about now.


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Wes Moore cried and peed his pants when Federal workers were getting laid off. But in his own state, you'd think that he and Brandon Scott would have at least tried to work out some deal to save some of these jobs. I am not sure what that big HQ will be used for in the coming years. Soulless companies like this one are a net DRAIN on the community they sit in. And as more people get fed up and leave - or replaced by "AI" it will get worse. Less payroll taxes to feed our state and local resources.

And yes - it is obvious they are trying to cheap out bonuses AND limit merit increases. Work your a** off - "meets expectations". At some point people will just use their favorite AI tool for investments - why pay T Rowe for what you can do yourself?

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Post ID: @dz+1m76fd3sp

@d9 well said. I can’t decide if this person really has no critical thinking skills or is just a management committee or accenture plant here to attempt to further demoralize. won’t work with me , I am already demoralized but will be here until laid off or retire whichever comes first. fortunate to be in phase of my life where I can weather that out. I really feel bad for younger Associates that cannot and are treated with such distain by people like this

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Post ID: @dd+1m76fd3sp

@d0 literally no one said a single word about being a top performer having any correlation with “management knowing what it’s doing.” Management hasn’t know what it’s doing for nearly a decade.

The point is that management has done a lot of sneaky sh-t to try to push people out: keeping morale low, pushing RTO, rolling layoffs or outsourcing with no formal announcements, hollowing out organizations, etc. It’s incredibly obvious that the timing of instituting a new performance rating system under the banner of “increasing accountability” is another tool to drive people out and/or lower labor costs and bonus payouts.

Maybe you should brush up on your reading comprehension and familiarity with the concept of “logical fallacy.”

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Post ID: @d9+1m76fd3sp

Will the new forced curve lead to RIFs for those that fall into the "does not meet expectations" bucket? I've heard of policies at big tech companies where the bottom 10% are fired or laid off each year. It's already been a trend, and with the messaging from leadership, I wouldn't be surprised if they implement this as well.

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Post ID: @d8+1m76fd3sp

@d0 trying to decide which part of management you are… Do you really think people who solidly perform for your after year after year magically become a low performers the year that that management is trying to save money by outsourcing half of the staff?

critical thinking is your friend. But only if you don’t have an agenda.

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Post ID: @d2+1m76fd3sp

Funny how it works.

When I am a top performer - management knows what it’s doing

One year when I not - management is dogshit.

Ok

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Post ID: @d0+1m76fd3sp

@aj I think someone who had been marked a high performer and received the top bonus for over a decade probably knows how to not be an “underperformer.” Being ranked a high performer for years and years only to suddenly be labeled as “meeting expectations” while doing the same caliber of work, if not more, means that the firm has set a too-high bar for the top levels on purpose in order to reduce bonus payouts. Doesn’t take a genius to see that, and it certainly fits well within the framework of tricksy moves that the current management committee likes to use.

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Post ID: @cn+1m76fd3sp

@an do you mean the “regime “. telling way to ohrase it isn’t it?!

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Post ID: @aq+1m76fd3sp

@aj you must be one of those that are benefiting from this blind purge of Associates. A forced curve assumes there are always a certain number of under performers. Logically that simply is not always the case. So inevitably the it’s forcing high performers to “meets” and solid performers are insulted with a “does not meet”. there will always be some if the bell curve is religiously enforced which from what I’m hearing was the case this go round.

to add insult to injury, I can guarantee you many of the people that are being labeled meets or does not meet or harder, longer and more more dedicated this year than ever. i’m sure you’re a fan of the “strategic partners “but there’s strategic partners created a lot of extra work for the people you want to “get with regime. “ even using the word regime seems surreal. i’m guessing you are either with the regime or benefiting from it.

I personally worked under many “regimes “and there was a good stretch where you pretty much had be friendly with the right people tinget “exceeds”. all that did was inspire lots of very talented people to do just enough. and save me the lecture about how terrible IT people are. most are here working to earn a living , not live to work for the regime. which is how it should be.

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Post ID: @ap+1m76fd3sp

@aj

And then there are the bootlickers who come out of the woodwork to cuck for senior "leadership"

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Post ID: @an+1m76fd3sp

No underperformer ever thought they were underperforming. Maybe think about what you can do better? Are you saying there are no top performers in the new system????

Lose your entitlement folk- get with the new regime or get out

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