Thread regarding Fiserv Inc. layoffs

It's not necessarily the RTO, it's the context on how they sell it and the real motivations. They preach "co-location means collaboration = awesomesauce" and yet they backfill roles for all offices in only one or two locations. So they aren't practicing what they preach. Plus they monitor everything you do so forced RTO just feels like ultra micromanagement. The whole thing is absurd.

Don't sell me chicken sh1t and try to tell me it's chicken salad. C-suite thinks all the people below them are dopes, but they aren't.

Currently interviewing for all local and remote positions. I went to an onsite interview two weeks ago and just being around happy people made me feel good. I saw this and remembered how a company I loved to work for once functioned. I talk to people in the office and remote and it is all gloom and doom. The environment of working like this is set from top down. OPEN YOUR EYES AND EARS FRANK!

Loud key, can I volunteer for the next RIF? I feel stuck in this former shell of a great company. This place is on fire and they just keep adding gasoline to the blaze.

Honestly I don’t even think it’s the remote part that gets me about fiserv. It’s the fact that they ask people to be in an office when they obviously DO NOT have the capacity for. Then make fun of remote workers when the remote workers are the ones who are working longer hours since they do not have to log off to beat traffic or get constant interruptions from people who traveled or people who always need help. I am just not sure what Frank’s logic is with this, but it’s is obvious to me he does not know how to manage people. Client Services, implementations, tech writers are all gone to cr-p! Management are too busy goofing up their progress to show that they are good managers even though the house is burning. As long as you live in BH you will get promoted even though you are the LESS qualified candidate. they are playing stock numbers by laying off people last minute to meet their quota but eventually this will run it’s course and he will no longer have people to lay off, clients will leave in the masses, and tenured employees will go to competitors to bring greatness to their companies. Leaving fiserv losing its competitiveness it had before all the mergers. The stock will rise but it will go down once reality hits. Merchants are complaining about CARAT and it will just take one competitor to come in a sweep them away.

August 21, 2017 - Solar Eclipse. In Alpharetta, sun glasses were given to everyone so we could go outside and watch - and families were told it is OK to drive home and share this once in a lifetime event with them. THIS would never happen today. And I still have my sunglasses from that day in my desk. Fiserv is much changed to a shadow - an eclipse - of the once fine company it was.

And no time off for time worked outside "normal business hours". The majority of my work is done in a maintenance window yet I'm still required to be in the office 4 days/wk 8hrs/day. Indeed here I come!