People are outraged that a huge bank doesn't care about them as employees. Where have you been working so far? No bank, or any corporation for that matter, gives a damn about you and your wellbeing. All they care about is how to use you as much as they can for the least amount of money. That's it. Thinking that a business should care about you is idealistic at best and ... you figure out what it is at worst.
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Agree all banks behave the same. A few layoffs here and there would be understandable but Truist is at a phase where it needs to layoff a large number...that makes the whole situation terrible.
Corporate cultures are a very real and unique thing from organization to organization. I think what a lot of people are touching on isn't that BB&T was some altruistic, utopian corporate paradise with benevolent, loving leaders - that's absurd. We know it was a for-profit institution, and we all dealt with our fair share of cr---y, selfish leaders and occasional poor management choices (at least for the employee). However, the mix of cultures between BB&T and ST has created this crazy culture clash which is leading to a new culture of, as someone else noted, "distrust and paranoia." This is the problem, and this is the very thing that will lead to SunTruist being far less successful than Kelly and Bill hoped for. It's also the thing that's making many employees miserable. It's not going to get better anytime soon so get out while you can. I did and it was the BEST decision I've ever made.
@1ark+1aPD9sfv is exactly right. There is such a high level of distrust and animosity not to mention some of the most over burdened policies and procedures that do nothing but stifle innovation and the ability to get things done.
Speaking as someone who was neither HBBT or HSTI....c’mon, I agree all companies are profit making enterprises, but I honestly feel sad for people who justify Truist as “the real world” - it is absolutely not.
There is a level of distrust and paranoia at Truist that I have never seen before - it is laughably bad. I have worked at 3 major banks, Truist being the smallest of the three - and I have obviously seen some “corporate” things happen. But I have never seen the absolute absence of teamwork that I see here - the current level of animosity and distrust among coworkers is simply unsustainable and will weigh this company down - this bank is in real trouble.
What you talking bout Wilt? I been here my whole career. Not afraid to say it......I LOVE BBT
"From the BB&T perspective these kinds of sentiments rarely existed..."
As a now ex-hBB&T employee that came to banking for the first time, I agree. Those sentiments did not exist. However it was very clear to me that BB&T employees felt this way not because it was utopian love session, but more because they were living in a bubble of delusion. So many 'lifers' around pining about how this was a 'small town bank'. It was a fantasy, not reality. It was only time before it all caught up to you.
What you are experiencing now is not some one-off 'hellscape'. It is how most, if not all major corporations work in the 21st Century. You're just late to the game.
From the BB&T perspective these kinds of sentiments rarely existed prior the merger. For many people there was a true sense of job security (relatively speaking). Managers were good people who did try to help their direct reports with their career path. All that is gone now with no real positive outcome of the merger showing itself over a year and a half later.