Dangerous crime strikes again very close to PNC HQ. A stabbing in market square around 5PM Wednesday (9/23). There was no PNC notification sent out alerting us of increased police activity. A time when many of us were leaving the buildings. In typical PNC fashion do not expect executives to mention a single thing about employee safety in the coming days. Would be really cool to ask the CEO in a town hall about what is going on to ensure employee safety. But nope we get to learn about the CEO’s recent book read. Because priorities right! Take a moment and ask yourself this. Is it really worth risking your safety every single day amongst the unruly teens, crazies, dr-ggies and mentally ill to bust your a$$ to a desk to work in an obnoxiously loud environment to do the same thing you were doing (more efficiently) from home for years. While fighting the ever growing monetary cost of life and commuting to and from. We don’t get executive safety. We don’t get awarded huge bonuses. We don’t get a huge compensation increase. We are lucky if we even get above a 1% increase. We get reprimanded because we made a minor non-critical mistake for the first time in 6 months. Our reviews can be tainted by the timeliness of our time sheet submissions. Guess what, the time sheet is the same as everyone else’s and you already know what hours we will input. Thank goodness the surveys are coming so we can voice our frustration and in three months we can hear “We read the employee feedback and will do our best to ensure ‘fair this’ ‘competitive that’ ‘the latest tools’”. Only for the cycle to repeat itself. This is what morale has turned into.
For the brown-nosers who say that is a city problem. You’re right. But the company mandated us to navigate into this criminal arena. At least give a sh!t and provide communication about increased police activity and tips and discussion about employee safety. Nope! Work from home to avoid this crime and/or at the very least be able to fully defend yourself on your own property.