In the year that I've been here, I've realized a few things about Truist. It fosters no teamwork and collaboration and instead leaves you alone and completely lost. Learning something is nearly impossible, between no proper training and endless meetings that achieve absolutely nothing in the end. Any employee input is strongly discouraged. This is more than enough to make me start looking for something else.
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While not really a “heritage” BBT or SunTrust employee, all I can do is compare Truist to the other two banks where I have worked. This place is absolute insanity, I have never seen anything quite like it! There is zero teamwork, and a cloud of distrust and paranoia hangs over every meeting you attend. It’s like we have been transported back to medieval times, with a ruling class that doesn’t even view us as humans. I keep waiting for someone to pop out behind a trap door and scream “surprise, this was all a big joke, you are on Candid Camera”! It is literally that crazy!
I see they've making a lot of people work "dress rehearsal" all of Labor Day weekend.
Yep, I am one of them. We have to work all weekend and Monday. No mention of any time off to compensate.
I see they've making a lot of people work "dress rehearsal" all of Labor Day weekend.
You know who doesn’t get enough on this board is HR…they are such a dishonest group. Smile in your face then stab you in the back…Knox, Drury,Fleming. All same
You left off it is impossible to get access to systems you need without going through 5 different people and 2 requests being rejected. Want to see where your request is hung up in the process? That requires a phone call to the help desk. Good, so you got the name of the person you need after the phone call? Guess what, they reject the request after you send a follow up email to get it approved.
The heritage suntrust people are by and large very unhelpful and unfriendly at best, incompetent and hostile at worst. The heritage BB&T people are primarily old and just counting down the days until their pension vests, good luck getting them to do anything 'new' or ad hoc.
The CFO plays Christian music on every single one of his team meetings, if you aren't of the faith that's too bad you heathen! He also forced us back into the office before the 'official' RTO date was. You'll also love his daily 'motivational email' with whatever the latest meme is from the hipster megachurch. Don't trust that guy. He's a snake wrapped around the Bible.
So I guess this is all to say, I agree. This merger has gone terribly and morale is in the tank. There's nothing in the near term or even in the long term that gives me hope any of the above changes soon. If anything things are going to blow up with all the system integrations scheduled to occur in the next year.
The grass is greener fallacy is definitely true at Truist. Here's your warning.
I left about one year ago so it sounds like you're saying absolutely nothing has changed! Ha! I do feel for all of the folks left behind. Things turned bad after the SunTrust takeover. BB&T had it's flaws but it definitely was a pretty decent place to work for.