I read so many hateful messages here. I don't get it. I don't hate my job. I do dislike some aspects of it and I do admit that things have been going in the wrong direction lately, but that doesn't mean that I am not satisfied here. I fear layoffs because I want to keep working here. That makes me wonder, why do you fear layoffs if you hate Schwab so much? If I felt that way, I'd be praying to be laid off. It makes very little sense to me.
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I did pray to get laid off and i lucked out. I got a big chunk of fun money to go try something else and have never been happier. Things taste better now, the air smells sweeter, the sun shines brighter.... I can understand a certain bitterness of those that didn't get the big prize. Looking back on the experience, it was a cluster and a waste of precious time. Many years wasted.
Confucious said "Every man has 2 lives. The second one begins when he realizes he only has one" i am on my second now and loving every single second. I wish the same for everyone.
I like my team, boss and 2 up. Everything else su-ks. I'm sticking around for my retention bonus to pay out or maybe a year or two longer but ultimately I'm not going down on this sinking ship.
What bothers me most was how great TDA was all around. Schwab destroyed all of it. I don't really have much positive to say about Schwab, and when I encounter people who like working here I often find that they've not been anywhere else, so they just assume everywhere is as bad as it is here. Not so.
No one else will hire me😭
Many people work for companies they hate. What do you think paychecks are for? To put food on the table and a roof over their heads.
Similarly, if people love the company they work for, why are they not working there for free?
You sound like a Walt or EC troll- I read so many hateful messages here. Go to your safe place snowflake. The vast majority of employees were dedicated, engaged, hard working and proud to work for Schwab until poor decisions were made by our CEO, CFO and EC. Who paid for it? The dedicated, engaged, hard working employees paid the price while the executives got a pay raise. Trust takes years to build and it can be lost in an instant; employees do not trust Schwab and the corporate elites and eventually the clients will lose trust s well.
Job market bro.
I came here from working in a sweat shop and thought I found the last job of my life. I excelled but not enough to cover $3billion in unwise choices (plus I signed up for the wrong job during the pandemic). The culture was pretty positive for the most part until the merger. At that point, I always felt pressure from leadership to cr-p on TD designs etc... it felt wrong and I am glad to be out of it. Some of the best folks I came in contact with were in the last few months at the firm and were on the TD side.
Not hate. Venting out of frustration that the company I once adored is going so strongly in the wrong direction. It's destroying itself from the inside out with a series of horrible missteps including the strict RTO and the people it chose to eliminate in the layoffs.
Why come to job board designed for open anonymous discussion and judge the content because it’s not the way you feel… I’m pretty sure people have answered this question 1000 times here and there are many answers.
I think the main one I’ve seen is that we used to love this place and think leadership is ruining it… mostly hopeful it will go back to the way it was.
Because it is hard to switch jobs in the current job market?
Why do people stay in abusive marriages?