Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

Wearing pants was not part of my employment discussions.

Telecommuters regularly work 50 hours, and 60 or 80 is not unheard of, because we are working projects and on calls at night, weekends, or on call and working nights and weekends.

And since many of us are salary, we do not get overtime pay for working those hours.

There are some great things about telecommuting and those can offset the bad things, but folks thinking telecommuting is some picnic are uninformed.

And probably a little jealous of something they don't understand.

Good luck with the relocations all. I hope everyone lands on their feet.

When employees are more often than not, or frequently, required to work 60-80 hours per week, telecommuting or not, that employees instinct is to want to leave that job and find a job where they can have a "normal" 40 hour per week work schedule and some sort of personal life experience. The internal employees who work over 40 hours per week are not compensated for such overtime work. They may not even get any bonus money due to some performance review stating that they were not capable of meeting the unrealistic project target dates that were set, while requirements for the project kept changing.

Lot's of really experienced, highly technical, very knowledgeable, long term employees are quitting their jobs at Wells Fargo recently to move forward and work at other companies. That is a great loss for Wells Fargo, it's customers, other employees and share holders. Wells Fargo should work hard to retain their experienced, loyal, honest, trustworthy, previously dedicated hard working employees. Not to be easily replaced by contractors or newbies.

I guess if I have to start commuting, it's time to start wearing pants...:-(

The hub locations are tough to implement because they may not have enough cubicles to accommodate everyone. lol.

You do not work 60-80 hours a week. You will have to commute. Cry about it.

I am not going to be able to work anymore 60-80 hrs per week that I have been able to do working remotely, including weekends, if the new requirement is to put in the 2.5 + hour per day commute to a hub office every day. There is only so much time in a day that a Human can work and still survive.

Even when there (typo before as their) are inexperienced employees who need assistance from more experienced co-workers those co-workers are often not even in the same office location and the instruction can be given via phone and shared screen sessions.

There really is totally no difference these days between working in an office and working remotely. There are the Skype communications, etc. where people from remote locations can do screen sharing and see what others are viewing as if they were standing next to them. No one would really even know that a remote worker was at their home logging in versus in the office logging in. No difference at all in internet connection speed, communications, etc. Unless someone actually takes the time to walk over to your office desk and communicate in person. Like I have stated previously I have had co-workers sitting in the office with me, a few feet away, and they STILL just communicate remotely, using Communicator, Skype, etc. and do not even bother to take a couple of steps from their desk to actually speak to me in person about their topic of concern. Even when their are inexperienced employees who need assistance from more experienced co-workers those co-workers are often not even in the same office location and the instruction can be given via phone and shared screen sessions. Things have changed these days due to technology advances. People in India do not share an office desk with us in the USA but we still work with them effectively.

Clearly, OG poster is a catfishing troll.

I know many people who work from home 100% and 60-80 hrs per week. It's not a pretty picture. No work-life balance these days.

Why the f$ck would you want to work for this company. Wtf is wrong with you?

Mortgage Customer Service, Mortgage Collections, some technology groups (all over technology), and some project managers are ones I know that can sometimes work from home. To be a work from home call center rep you have to be really seasoned

They'll let them work from home in India and Phillipines.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Jobs/Wells-Fargo-telecommute-Jobs-EIIE8876.0,11KO12,23.htm