I’ve heard that required return to office 3 days a week will be communicated today or tomorrow. Has anyone else heard anything?
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I’m pulling out of the employee stock as a protest . Will dump all of it as soon as I can . Have been told over and over again by management no plans for more that two days . Cant believe a word they say . Time to get out
I’m a Wells employee eavesdropping here since I’m considering moving over there. If it makes you feel any better at all, they have been strictly enforcing, monitoring and tracking RTO here. 3 days in, but soon moving to 4. Same BS over here, same feelings.
I think WFH is just dead for us all in the banking sector.
At least y’all don’t have the baggage we do and the regulators running the bank. It’s super duper fun.
Well, keep on keeping on fellow bankers! See you in the office!
@6rgz+1n0fPjar
Yet another reason for the timing - new grads to exploit, plus student loan payments are restarting.
The point is to make you quit so they can hire a younger, more naive worker and reset the process back to what it was pre-pandemic.
Set your own policy - You will work diligently while in the office. You will not work late, and you will not work weekends. If projects are late, that's their problem - They have a resource scheduling / management issue. That's a battle for them to fix, not one for you to make up for. Always be prepared to move on based on their whims.
They about to get the energy they give with me if my team is switched to hybrid. The hours that were put in during the pandemic and the merger all to get this in return - no thank you. Remote workers having to continue to work when buildings were closed and everyone sent home with pay to be cleaned when a positive Covid case came up. On-site workers being paid more than those of us that worked countless hours to make up for these closings as “hazard pay”. We still work when locations are closed for weather. No more. If I am forced to be hybrid - if it will be an “in office” day and the office closes my bu-t won’t be working at home - you can’t have it both ways. Devalued, disgusted and know that no one cares. They probably hope lots quit so they don’t have to pay out any packages to cut their costs. But hey they care about us. Yeah right.
"We believed them when they said they cared and valued our input."
Thank you for your service!
: @3fxh+1n0fPjar Nailed it. Even worse many of these empty suits are managing groups from hundreds of miles away. You really think their a-s in an office?
Sorry you folks are being ordered back into the office. One thing I've noticed about these types of leaders is that they talk a good game, but they lack empathy. They could care less about your childcare, or your illnesses or recovery, or how productive you were during the pandemic. You are a transaction to them, a line item in a data table. "What have you done for me lately?" is their motto.
Notice that many of these so-called "Leaders", are big-headed empty suits; cutouts, ideologues. They get up and announce some ideas to make you feel good, but they don't live by any of these things. Few of them have to cook dinner, arrange for camps, do emotional labor. They have a support person, such as a spouse for those things. The support person frees them from these obligations and manages their lives so they can be at the office non-stop pretending to be a 'mover and a shaker'. In reality, they are hollow people, holograms which lack any depth. It's unfortunate that these folks rise to leadership.
Got to make sure they have arses in seats when the new tower at Battery Park in the ATL suburbs opens and I’m certain it’s embarrassing to have the stripper building sitting empty. Imagine nobody playing in the tree houses that is heart breaking.
I feel used and discarded. We adapted and PRODUCED during the pandemic. We worked with tremendously low efficiency ratios. We have done our jobs without complaint and have found some joy in the flexibility and balance that working from home allows us. But we have also worked ALOT of extra hours because we were home that would have been spent commuting or recovering from commuting. We believed them when they said they cared and valued our input. They could have given us this one thing. Just left us alone because we ARE doing our jobs. BUT they chose glass buildings and some pact CEOs have obviously made to save the office sector over people and employees satisfaction.
Curious where this falls into their caring and happiness values. Clearly everyone doesn’t matter and good luck with positive energy. Few people are positive right now.
As someone else mentioned about the RTO being a "sausage party", if Truist really cared about closing the gender gap at work, they would not spring such a big change during summer with no notice. I know a lot of families with older kids who've arranged half-day camps, thinking they could pop over and pick up their kids during lunch. Can't do that if you're all the way across town. Full-day summer camps fill up by March. They could have had enough respect to give employees proper notice to prepare. This puts parents in such a pinch. The FAQ answer about childcare really did feel like a slap in the face. It did not read like a bank that "cares". Disappointing.
Did you folks honestly think that WFH was going to last forever? Silly worker drones! Management always wins, don't you know that by now?
You people in wealth should be in the office five days a week. You’re the smartest and the brightest and are carrying this corporation to staggering new heights. Get back in the office and collaborate and create the synergies that define yours and our purpose.
Yeah, the child care is also my issue. After care for fall fills up immediately, so since they waited so late to release this I don’t have a spot. Guess I’m leaving at 2 pm every day for pick up!
Springing it during the summer with no time to make childcare arrangements is cruel. The line item in the FAQ is a slap in the face to ever parent while they hand-wave the issue. RTO is going to be a sausage party.
Just cool it with the anti-Semitic remarks.
So, I have to come back from Montana?
Complete and utter BS. They care more about saving the office sector and the dying downtown than their employees. Employees who have been productive and worked even more when they were remote. What a way to say thanks. The remote designation will be applied unfairly and on the low to select people. I hope they lose a ton of good talent and are left with the brainless seat warmers who will gladly show up 3 days a week and spend most of their day socializing
Looks like you got the early leak! What a shocking email. Wealth returning 4 days. I’m just wondering how many people will be considered fully remote? My group has had record sales each year post Covid, don’t believe what they say about productivity lacking. Half my group will quit.
Yes. Your manager dictates whether you’re 3 days in office or full time remote.
We can't call our grand new building an "innovation center" if people aren't finding novel new ways to stay productive and employed while jumping through our latest hoops! Get yourself back in the office, we miss seeing you!
Sincerest Regards,
Your Most Valued Assistant Vice President
I can't wait to slide into my new "hot desk". Can't wait to feel a still-warm-from-the-previous-occupant's-bu-t seat cushion on my posterior, and to savor the crumb-covered texture of a sticky desktop! Also looking forward to the stench - er, I mean aroma - of my diverse co-workers' microwave meals! Also hoping to sit right across from my PM so "zhe" can interrupt me a thousand times a day for status updates! This is gonna be great!
They care so much they want to see you and make sure you’re okay
What if they sold the building?