So USAA is doing corporate investigations on lower level employees for RTO, yet they keep hiring executives to be remote, how hypocritical is that? I submitted a JAR earlier today once I saw on LinkedIn the new Chief Information Security Officer is remote. My reasoning, my director is remote in San Diego, ED is remote in New York, a girl on my team remote in Hawaii, and another girl remote in New Mexico and a guy remote in Iowa. Yet I’m the only one in office (Charlotte) and I live in South Carolina, but since it’s only 58 miles and not 60, I’m told to be in office.
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@OP I normally do not post here. But also, I am not personally invested in anyone's perceptions of my anonymous user name on here. So, please, downvote away if it helps your self-esteem or ameliorates any anger issues that my comment here causes.
But the fact is that USAA, or any company, really, only owes you two things, your paycheck and the benefits you have negotiated upon hiring you. They do not owe you any sense of fairness with the exception of those that are codified in law. That is it.
Oh, Johnny (or Jane) Smith - who happens to work in the same company but has a completely different set of responsibilities - was successfully negotiated a WFH consideration, but you did not? How sad. Well, that does not mean Johnny Smith is a better human than you. But it does mean that, for whatever reason, the organization felt (rightly or wrongly) that he is bringing in a capability that warrants the exception. You didn't get the same exception? Well, negotiate this with your current or next employer.
I worked in USAA for four years and was there just before Wayne (previous CEO) took over during that time. I saw a lot of things I did not like. I also saw things that worked fairly well. I have also been a USAA member for nearly three decades. Do I think the company has worsened? It has in my eyes, for sure. But, purely from an employee perspective (a former employee at that), I am also not 15 years old and I can understand that each person who comes into the enterprise has to 1) offer a certain value and 2) must negotiate their terms of employment. Most people su-k at number 2. Thus, someone else got something you didn't? Well, that's life.
@ye yeah knowing people helps
But being EMG is stressful - and lonely
They don’t get to check out on the weekends - it’s knives out 24/7 from within and no one under you appreciates anything you do for them
But feel free to keep that juvenile viewpoint that they’re all Scrooge mcduck swimming in piles of gold and clocking 3 hour days like ECIO grunts did for 3 years under Covid 😂
The EMG designated parking at the Plano location is a joke. I can understand EMGs at the San Antonio campus getting designated parking because of the size of the campus, but why do they need reserved parking at a much smaller location like Plano? These folks are already compensated very well—let them walk a little more and stay healthy.
Instead, designate more veteran parking spots so we truly live our core value of "Serve those who have served."
This year, what caught my attention are two reserved executive spots near the garage B turnstiles—one assigned to an ED and one to a VP. They are almost always empty, and on the occasions I see those leaders, they often seem to be in the office for only a couple of hours. It makes me wonder how they are meeting the same return-to-office expectations that apply to the rest of us.
If these reserved spaces sit empty most of the time, why not repurpose them for veterans or other employees who would actually benefit from them?
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@s9 this is 100% false, lol. You do realize that almost all executives are brought on because they already know the person hiring. My ED for example, he came from the same bank as the AVP, that AVP came from the same bank as the SVP, a nice Ally & PNC bank reunion.
@s9 then whoever is hiring the bank executives need to be replaced. I’m only a lead, and I shouldn’t know more than our VP’s.
Executives go through like 15 rounds of interviews and have insanely high performance standards or they get replaced by their competition
Leadership isn’t worried about them being remote and they have to fly into SA all the time anyway
@n3 Wayne was getting pressure from San Antonio city council, the mayor and local businesses around the main campus, a lot of the restaurants around the San Antonio campus, majority of their sales came from USAA.
60 miles was always an insane radius to set for the mandatory RTO cutoff. Especially for a company that still pretends to care about environmental causes.
Simple, USAA knows the job market is horrible for the mid level employee, so they’re using it to their advantage, hence the fear of layoffs and corporate investigations into RTO. Unfortunately, USAA holds all the cards here, including a few aces up the sleeve to stick it further to its worker bees.
@cn I heard at least 30/hrs. Eat the rich.
@bd for real? Wow, so CEO Juan isn’t making $22.00 an hour?
@br see, this is the USAA I love!! Employees bad mouthing others and hoping they get let go for expressing frustrations, when it’s clear USAA is one sided in favor of executive leadership.
And honestly, the only id!ot here is you.
I see OP’s point, all my team is remote except me, but I’m the one who gets to do the hour drive to and from office (Phoenix), just to sit on zoom (soon to be teams) calls all day.
No. 1 in hypocrisy.
The light rail won’t make sense since you live far out in SC. So you pay for parking too.
Rules for thee, not for me.
@OP I heard the execs get paid more too.
@OP Keeps us posted on it how it goes. Same boat here.