I am used to stress and I have never complained about it because the work I do involves almost everyday stressful situations. However, the stress level here has risen to the maximum and I am considering quitting because I am afraid my health will start to suffer.
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Life is short, so you should “spend” any stress wisely. Stress is ok if you are personally achieving growth, or you are helping an honorable management team and company achieve greatness. Truist is laughably bad on both counts. My advice is to get out of this mess (while the job market is strong) with your health - there is absolutely NO scenario where this ends well for employees. Not one.
Taking care of yourself is more important than your job or career. I’d recommend a leave of absence to take care of yourself. Even if you have to use vacation/sick days. FMLA will protect your job. A psychiatrist might sign off on sick leave which could give you a couple of paid months off to give yourself care. No one else will do it for you.
I just turned 60 when they terminated my position 1 month before they announced the merger, I only had five more years to retirement. I did receive a severance package after 20 years of service. I’m definitely not the same person. I lost trust in company I believed in wholeheartedly. My inspiration was my team, each of them different but all shared virtue, compassion, and superior work ethic. Life is not the same now, and how can it be? They have ruined what was once a reputable company. You could say I’m a disgruntled employee, and there is some truth to that, but what really peeves me is no one asked why. I’m not alone, many that were given severance or voluntary retirements were considered exceptional performers, in BB&T’s terms, “The Best of the Best “. Many having tenure with BB&T, gone, and no one from management had the common decency to say no, this isn’t right. Now after two years of terminations, a burgundy bloodbath, all this talent gone. I feel for everyone who is miserable because I went through it.
Life is good now, but it took me a while to trust again.
Courage, my friend! Many years ago, a young colleague, after suffering several light strokes, left banking. She later returned to the branch for a visit, glowing and happy, proclaiming, "There is life after BB&T!" She found a new niche in another field she absolutely loved. Another decade passed before I gathered the courage to do the same. You will not realize how stressed you really are until you leave, but these are some symptoms: banking nightmares, thinning hair, high blood pressure, insomnia, digestive and ur----y tract issues, the Sunday blues. THERE IS LIFE AFTER BB&T AND IT'S PRETTY DARN GOOD! Godspeed.
Stress is ever increasing. ET has to work all weekend and Monday holiday. Nobody dare ask for any time off to compensate.
How do all you “Suntrust now SunTruist teammates “ manage to handle stress. Yes I see, talk about it, spin it as stress is incredible for you and the bank, oh and then do nothing and move on. No one will know you did nothing because they don’t know what the f they or you are doing. Just talk in a circle without actually saying anything. That’ll work for a couple of years then move on!
Just anecdotal; take it as you will:
About 2.5 years ago we had 2 hard workers in our dept. Both stressed to the max.
One had a heart attack, was out on med. leave, returned and was shortly thereafter Riffed.
Same story with the other one, except that individual had a stroke.
Both were middle aged and were career employees.
Perhaps the moral is: if you don’t take care of yourself and Instead you overwork/injure your health for what may be an ungrateful co., you may be kicked to the curb, because the co. needs healthy minions and has no loyalty. Maybe quitting, downsizing, etc. is better.
Just one ex-ee’s opinion (those experiences of others helped me wake up from that nightmare. )
I hope this will be helpful, who knows, maybe even inspiring. I really had to think about why I started a career in banking. A desire to help people, a drive to learn as much as possible to be the best at my craft all while having an opportunity to earn a decent living for me and my family. I know the past few years have been awful so I thought about all the great years prior. Then I took all those warm memories and suppressed them so deep they will never rear their ugly head again. I became laser focused on my vision; to be the most mediocre teammate possible without getting fired. Then I honed in on my purpose; to earn the maximum compensation for the least amount of work. Then I discovered my why; because I really just don’t give a #%@$ anymore. Let me tell you my friends, once you know your why, well…you can overcome any how.
Same here. Not only my health, but I can tell I’m getting irritated a lot easier because it is a 24/7 job right now. I’m sure our execs will make it all worth it come bonus time, right?