I want to lay this out because I read a lot of comments here from WF employees and at times I feel that there is some misconceptions about your managers. I have been a manager for a long time with WF. Like most of you, I have also experienced a significant shift in the overall "happiness level" of our company, and not in a good way.
Of course I can't collectlvely speak for all of our managers, and I will note that we have some really awful leadership (especially at the mid and executive level). But as a lower level manager I also share in others concerns about where we are at as a company. I am forced to sit in meetings every single day where my manager and other mid level managers try to pound into our brains that us and our teams that we manage su-k.
Basically we are told that we need to micro manage our teams. Many of my manager peers are disgusted with the direction we are given by our so called "leaders". But guess what, we all have bills to pay too so we go with the status quo not because we want to but because if we don't we are in the unemployment line.
My messaging is simple. If you think your manager is a "company man" or "company woman" and only cares about a promotion and appeasing their managers, you are wrong. Of course there's always going to be handful of those worthless tools, but many of us have same sentiments as many of you do, WF has lost its way and is a sinking ship. Hoping to get offered severance soon. BTW my manager is a corporate owned tool whom I despise. She sold her soul to the devil IMO