Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

Apple bitter spray is all I got.

Laid off after 20 years, age 52. I am enjoying the severance but worry about health care costs. You will be ok if it happens to you. I was able to refinance my home right before layoff and can enjoy this time between jobs since my mortgage is lower payments. Also thought of renting a room to make ends meet. I am also empty nester, gave so much all the time to Wells. I was excellent at my job, picked up slack for many because I enjoyed it!! Until about two years into the Wachovia merger when things cracked at the seams. I look back and don't know how I did it all and not get physically and mentally sick.
Know that you are a survivor! if you truly work as hard as you say, you will figure it out and will be okay. Since you mentioned the empty nest, you know having kids is unpredictable and you made it work. Just as you will make it work if Wells fails you. Keep your head up!!

I love my job. I love Wells Fargo. I really have nothing to complain about. I work with great people everyday and I have seen Wells Fargo HR do the right thing when it comes to protecting its people. That being said, I hope I can stay at Wells Fargo for a long time and I'm scared like the rest of you of getting laid off. It's a great family of people who work together everyday and suffer together. You will have some bad apples here and there but what family doesn't? None of us are perfect but let's learn to forgive and be grateful for those toxic people for making you stronger. Be blessed.

OP, for what it's worth...you might have a career as a writer. These posts are normally cheesy, angry, or vengeful. I found your post compelling and I immediately connected with you. I'm not sure what you do for WF but I think that your future is bright.
Hang in there – blessings.

I wasn't here that long but worked my butt off to do a good job and appease everyone and I still got cut. It just seems inevitable here. Keep looking while you have a job but I wouldn't feel comfortable staying on. My experience has been when you see massive cuts like this, you're now in a duck and dodge environment hoping and praying you're not next. Wells Fargo is too unstable.

guys changing jobs is not really starting over; for me I just got a new job with the promotion I should have gotten here. I look it as a promotion. Wells couldnt do it as they preferred unqualified personnel. Thats why they are having such a low stock price in the $30 range, pathetic. THats what you get with unqualified/mediocre employees.

Other companies you see with high stock prices, hire the best, they leave all the dead weight for Wells Fargo.

These weren't mere "mistakes" that you mention in your post. It was reckless unethical conduct. Period.

Someone should send this post to Charlie and let him know how it is like for people at Wells

Crazy cat lady posts 9 reasons why she doesn't actually understand how HR works. Number 4 will shock you!

Review your resume and tailor it to suit each different job that you apply for. Computer scanners most often are used on the job applicant's resumes looking for the key words given in the job description. Try applying for different types of jobs, other than HR, where you skills would be needed. Post your resume on indeed.com, monster.com, careerbuilder.com, etc. You can even google search for lot's more jobs sites that exist but are not so well know. See if there are recruiting agencies that you can use to help you find a job. The unemployment website lists open jobs that you can apply for. Agreed, now is really NOT the best time to be trying to find a new job, with Covid recession, so so many other people out of work too. Do keep doing a good job at Wells Fargo and you should likely be kept there in your current, well deserved job. Skip the 60 hours for Wells Fargo, going to the agreed upon 40 hours per week and spend the extra 20 hours job hunting. No burn out needed, that surely does not help. Been there, done that. Good luck.

OP, I am so sorry that you are experiencing this. I can almost totally relate I'm not HR but have had to make sure that those working remotely onshore and offshore keep their access, and reinstate it when it's lost. I really hope that you won't be directly effected and that your world will be alright.

I am interviewing internally and externally. It is brutal. I have been rated performing and above every year! And you constantly have to fight for even a lateral role here. It is suffocating! Just plain demoralizing.

I am only 42, and I feel sick. We feel your pain. Doing good work, busting your butt, and being committed gets you nowhere here!! And having this place on your resume is not an asset!

Everyone feels that way. You at least have a manager who appears willing to share what they can. I work in a group with a leader who comes right out and says she doesn’t want to be asked questions. No information is shared and anybody who fails to “be positive” is considered a troublemaker.

Walking on eggshells would be a major step up.

I’m sorry to hear that OP. You know it’s bad when HR is saying things like this.

Hang in there... I feel like I am in the same boat although recently Wells laid me off after 20 years of hard work for the company. Luckily I got a new job (more money too) but it is hard to start over. I miss my old coworkers and routines.