You will not grow your career here. Instead you will drown in confusing political games that make no sense. The work environment is so toxic it is genuinely damaging to your mental health. There is nothing here worth staying for. Nothing.
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So many competent, authentic, selfless, and warm-hearted leaders who truly care about members and workers
USAA has traumatized me and I’m working on healing everyday
@an I mean this is the same place that permits a former manager to go to your potentially new employer and lie about your performance. Luckily, I kept copies of my performance evaluations. It’s one thing to be the titanic but when you have malicious, vindictive and a self-agenda driven management culture, you attract bad apples with little to no leadership skills.
Sign of the times I guess.
This management only quantifies your effort by the hours you enter in your timesheet. If you dont work but just add a s-b story of how over worked you are and enter 70-80 hours a week then they think you are working hard. Its as stupid as that. Also talent is measured by the number of jira points completed, but unfortunately no one looks at the outcome. If you had a 100 story points irrespective of what was done as part of that 100 you get kudos. Anyone can play the system and the folks who dont have ethics just play this game over and over and there you go, those same folks are now managing you 😀
No worries friend. Soon it’ll be Mental Health Awareness Month and USAA will remind you how to understand the signs and symptoms. The utter irony is that USAA is the actual cause of mental health issues. Their latest answer to the crisis: a therapy dog.
I never faced a mental health crisis until I worked there. At least I am more aware now.
Good luck
Layoff is a blessing for those that received it. Utter confusion, indecision and the worst kind of C suite leadership. High performance is impossible in this environment and it is an insult to my intelligence to continue working here. All super star /hardworking colleagues were let go, and we are left with the not so bright, who are made to believe they are the 'A' team (Hispanics, military etc). The whites are playing the supremacy game and being standoffish against the rest. The very few blacks are taking their diversity advantage to get promoted or stay in their role. Asians are fleeing and the ones left are here to manage the contract workforce. Don't waste your precious lifetime by working for USAA. You can make a better impact on the military community elsewhere.
Fully agree. Having a career at USAA is serious brand damage on CV. The CEO & leadership team have created extraordinarily bad hostile work environment which has made this company laughing stock in the industry. The amount of mental pressure & trauma employees have is extremely unhealthy for employees. Unfortunately none of see any hope or light at the end of road other then changing jobs which is also very bad out there. However so many people I speak are considering changing even if paid less just to get out of this extremely toxic, a-s su-king & seriously passive aggressive work culture.