WF wants b*tts in seats ASAP, even those that successfully were WFH for over a decade prior to pandemic, to cause pain and resignations to save WF severance and unemployment insurance payouts $$$.
Employee response once back in office? PULL FIRE ALARM EVERYDAY.
Juvenile? Yes.
Awful for fire depts.? Yes (short term)
Effective message? Yes.
(And, yes, there are ways not to get caught using remote setup.)
Note: This is a joke. Not encouraging anyone to do anything.
@1aub challenge accepted.
@1juc+1cXfaqCF. Ok you lead
I honestly want to see mass resignations if they shaft us on bonuses this year.
Multiple years of 0% annual increases when the CEO gets his compensation approved in what was essentially a vote of no confidence from shareholders is a joke. This company deserves to be left high and dry if Scharf is willing to shaft us for keeping him in business.
They need to tread carefully here. Corporate America and its overlords are pushing the proletariat away from Capitalism. Corporate Feudalism is not going to last.
I think OP is brilliant. Look at the message, not the method.
If CS and other leaders can be so petty about WFH policy, then so can we.
We.have a lot of options at our fingertips, so let's use them. Time to take our power back.
Go in every bathroom and empty every soap container.
Tell corporate properties there's no soap and it's unsafe to remain on-premises without being able to wash your hands.
Leave and go home.
Repeat as necessary.
Option B:
Bring a pair of pliers/wire cutters. Sit at a different desk every day and discreetly cut the network cable when you leave for the day. If you get the chance to cut two cables, do it.
Make them hate having employees in the office.
WF employees are humorless and, one by one, jobless.
@yot+1cXfaqCF like OP, you would also bring the Fire Department.
He tried the same sht at BK.
Employees revolted.
He quickly changed his tune.
I swear he's a 1 trick pony.
People at this bank need to grow a pair of b@lls and stop working for a few days to remind him who is actually important (us) and who isnt (him)
https://www.post-gazette.com/business/career-workplace/2019/03/07/BNY-Mellon-work-home-Charlie-Scharf-layoffs-England-email/stories/201903070119
Bank of New York Mellon is scrapping a recent crackdown on working from home while it re-evaluates the decision following a backlash from employees.
“We have listened and learned” and “have decided to immediately hit a pause on implementing any changes to remote working arrangements,” CEO Charlie Scharf said in an email dated March 6 and addressed to all employees.
“We did not fully appreciate the level of impact this would have on those employees with existing arrangements,” he said.
The move by BNY Mellon to cut back on working from home bucks a trend among large and small companies alike to offer more flexible working conditions.
Employees in England reportedly were so distressed over the matter that several were considering legal action, claiming that flexible working arrangements were part of their contracts.
One employee there slammed the move as a “massive step backward for diversity and inclusion, which hits our most vulnerable demographics including careers, working parents and those with mental health issues,” according to a story in the Evening Standard in London.
The financial services giant employed about 7,000 people in the Pittsburgh region as of Sept. 30, but has undergone layoffs since then. The company declined to provide an updated employment figure.
BNY Mellon, with some 51,000 employees worldwide as of year-end, will take the next several months to reconsider its approach to working at home, Mr. Scharf said in his email. In the meantime, employees can revert back to their previous flexible work schedules.
Mr. Scharf — formerly CEO at Visa Inc. who took the reins at BNY Mellon in July 2017 and has made cost-cutting one of his key focuses — had backed the decision to curtail working at home as a way to increase collaboration and enable quicker decision-making.
But some workers pointed out that as part of a global company, staffers routinely interacted with colleagues remotely.
“While we believe that it is enormously helpful to have as many people as possible physically together working collaboratively, we also realize that changes can affect personal lives in many ways,” Mr. Scharf said.
“To be clear, we did not intend to eliminate the ability to have remote working arrangements,” he said, noting that management’s “principles” hadn’t been communicated clearly enough, resulting in “inconsistent implementation across the company.”
The United States is again reporting more than 2,000 COVID-19 deaths per day, a level not seen in more than six months. (USATODAY)
Another tactic is to put a bag of popcorn in the microwave - for about 20 minutes.
It'll stink up the entire building!
Plausible deniability, too. "Gee, I thought it was for only 2 minutes! And then I was distracted when my phone rang".
OP trying to be funny and failing miserably.
OP- Must you be so lame too? Grow up.
What does this have to do with layoffs?
OP, you're a m0r0n. Just leave already ... please.