So I received an email from CPG addressed to employees that visit/occasionally use the Ballantyne Brigham building on the south side of town, which I do. Apparently they are closing the Fort Mill SC buildings and attempting to relocate those employees to Ballantyne. So now we are prohibited from visiting/using the Ballantyne space if our team doesn’t have a designated space there…even if we only used the unassigned Connections space as I did. They said they would delete our access if they find we are doing this.
So basically if you live in SC or south Charlotte your only options are an hour commute to CIC or uptown. Mind you, in all the years I have worked here there has never been enough space for everyone to be in the office at once but now they want to close a large location and not allow those of us in south Charlotte to use the Ballantyne office anymore…my team didn’t mind that I would go there, we just aren’t officially assigned there. This company just doesn’t make any sense!!
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@2aml+1oU7eShq….I wonder how on earth they would possibly know that you are there for meetings or events versus taking an open desk and working in the Connection space? Are there going to be hall monitors? I don’t think they could know with badge swipes alone. I would like to know when the official date is for the Fort Mill people to move there, I am betting that after 6 months they won’t be monitoring this anymore.
What's ridiculous is I drive past that building every morning on my commute to take my laptop from my home office to my assigned desk at 550 S Tryon.
We were told today that we can meet in Connections space but cannot stay and work in Connections space unless it is our assigned location/building.
Our mgr's mgr checked and was told that, by doing so (using Connections space to work), we would have our badge access revoked. No exceptions.
Old news about Ft Mill office closing
Reach out to the Connections team, they may be able to assist. They are usually pretty helpful. Just not a lot of space there, especially with the construction. The space is supposed to be for everyone. I wouldn’t squat there everyday but once or twice a week I don’t see how that would be a problem.
I see that now about meetings. Sorry to hear that for you.
@doh+1oU7eShq…I think it said if you have a meeting or event in Connections it’s ok but I emailed them to ask about just working in Connections and they said not unless I get an accommodation from my manager and CPG. So I guess not.
So great to see gentile Southerners infighting. Grabbing my popcorn!🍿
I think the article said connections space was still allowed, though if memory serves there isn’t a lot of it and it will probably be that much more full now. Just wanted to make sure you saw that part though.
At least you might get a choice on where to go. In tech at Ballantyne we were told it was CIC only. Nothing like a 38 mile commute vs. the walking commute I had at Ballantyne.
When asked in a town hall about this, the spineless corporate bobble head SH said the answer is to leave from home early and stay at work late to beat the traffic. Yep, work harder and longer peons while we ship you an hour away for no reason.
Oooo, my mgr is gonna' be p!ssed! She's been working the office location buffet hard.
If they pay my parking, I’ll go to Uptown. I’m not paying $1800 per year for the privilege of parking in Uptown
that was a great email. Stay in your own yard!!!
Welcome to the HUB folly. Roll the Wells Fargo shitshow music.
@xwa must be nice being high enough on the food chain that WF will pay for you to travel.
Maybe I'm doing it wrong but I've never seen a completely full WF office space, and between travel and the backgrounds of other people's teams meetings, I've seen a ton of them.
We're all in a vice and the sc--w tightening will continue until each of us voluntarily quits.
WF execs are sadistic.
@otf+1oU7eShq….I don’t take anyone’s assigned seat, I go to the Connections area where there are open seats.
Or…there is a ratio of employees to seats for the corporate strategy of locations and when you don’t go to the right spot, the people who are budgeted to be there do not have seats to sit in.
It's all a scheme to get people to quit. Forcing the SC folks to this office will get rid of a bunch, then surprise surprise everyone will get consolidated to CIC, and a bunch more will throw in the towel. Then, surprise surprise, they will start closing the big hubs. They are just trying to get out of severance by creating situations in which you "resigned". That's all this is. Hudson Yards and I&P are the only hubs that will survive.
Another way to start pushing people out the door
makes sense to me. go to where you are assigned and where your group is paying for seats. I'm getting tired of all the squatters in my office and am glad they added a flag to the rto reports that indicate if you are using an unassigned location >50% of time. We will see more and more of this across the bank as we close and consolidate locations.
Seems obvious though that the Fort Mill people and those already assigned to Ballantyne have priority.
Same here. I've been using Ballantyne for months and there is more than enough room, perhaps because no one seems to stay there all day. I see some folks leaving as I am arriving at 9:00 (which I don't begrudge them at all!). It will be interesting to see the landscape once the dust settles. None of the folks in Fort Mill are interested in driving even to Ballantyne. But the technology folks from FM are being sent uptown. So, their commute is even worse than ours will be!