Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

Reason for layoffs at wells

comparison between wells and chase:
In 2023, chase made 49.6 billion with 308k employees where as wells made 18.9 billion with 235k employees. What do you think?

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Post ID: @OP+1qXgaSy0

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No comments on the fact that we need double the risk folks due to leadership mistakes from 2008-16.

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Post ID: @1bpw+1qXgaSy0

... And yet they continue to spend billions on things that have zero relevance to the company's performance. Gee, I wonder who's fault that is.

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Post ID: @1jra+1qXgaSy0

Do you think you just discovered this fact? The efficiency ratio (the amount of money we spend in order to make money) has been a metric that the c-suite has been talking about for 6 years.

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Post ID: @1gjo+1qXgaSy0

So many directors with no direction.

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Post ID: @1ljj+1qXgaSy0

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Sure, but I don't see a lot of evidence that Hudson Yards cares about cutting costs. There's a TON of other low hanging fruit that they aren't even considering cutting.

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Post ID: @kzx+1qXgaSy0

Now when we have issues with all the sh---y WF build infrastructure, we need to wait for some du----s in India to look into the issue, or a month long SLA. Id--ts.

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Post ID: @kzr+1qXgaSy0

it is no secret that our expense ratio is too high and that layoffs are about reducing it. c-suites was saying this even before Charlie came, he is just accelerating it.

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Post ID: @etd+1qXgaSy0

@mfj you remind me of a former WF coworker who always complained about how busy he was and having to work lots of overtime. I did the same amount of quantifiable work he did but it took me less than 4 hours a day. Stop confusing efficiency for laziness and entitlement.

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Post ID: @idu+1qXgaSy0

If you think the problem rests solely with leadership then I'm sorry. Just read this board where you see person after person bragging about how little work they do, how they avoid following job guidelines, etc.

Leadership definitely owns a significant chunk of the problems the bank is facing but employees are far from blameless.

On this topic, I don't care if the bank continues to downsize. What I do care is that their approach does not seem to be carefully considered. People are given a number and any pushbacks are not listened to. The end result is cuts are being made in places where they shouldn't and other employees who absolutely should be let go end up staying.

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Post ID: @mfj+1qXgaSy0

“Inefficiencies” are the fault of the C- Suite and the rest of Senior Leadership, not the employees. And yet they are eliminating employees as if we’re the problem.

Technology is outdated requiring manual intervention, bureaucracy has gotten worse under Sharkf and we waste way too much time on bs that has nothing to do with the work at hand. Plus it takes 2 to 3 offshore employees to execute the work of each trauned US employee eliminated.

How much time do you waste on employee engagement projects, volunteer projects, de&i, ridiculous repetitive compliance training, check-the-box procedures that dont address the deeper issues, the whole employee review process, go-nowhere meetings, etc??

I could increase profits and productivity by 30% by eliminating this current leadership team and bringing in someone who knows how to keep their eye on the ball.

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Post ID: @hhy+1qXgaSy0

Wells Fargo is bloated with employees compared to its peers. CEO needs to RIF and improve efficiency.

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Post ID: @rkv+1qXgaSy0

But we have more managers, directors and coordinators and recycle more information than them.

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Post ID: @ajl+1qXgaSy0

The comparisons aren’t valid because JPM and BoA are way ahead of WF in some of the high revenue areas like CIB.

Both of those banks have been historically very Wall Street while WF had been focused on Main Street.

Shart is all Wall Street. So he is gutting the Main Street side of the bank and has not succeeded in building up the Wall Street side.

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Post ID: @rhd+1qXgaSy0

It is no lie and I understand the layoffs. However what has actually improved since Shart got here? We are still under the asset cap, only bank to be unionized, still haven't gotten out of OCC and new stuff keeps popping up. We do have to get thinner but Shart isn't really improving anything.

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Post ID: @jcr+1qXgaSy0

Bofa made 25 billion with 200k employees and they are also looking at staff reduction.

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Post ID: @vyl+1qXgaSy0

npu+1qXgaSy0

Actually it is a perfect comparison.WFC rev per head is terrible compared to peers. It's been that way for years. It was discussed back in the Sloan days. We over hired all the time and never got rid of people instead of investing in IT.

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Post ID: @tgy+1qXgaSy0

Not a good comparison bank.. do the numbers with BoA.

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Post ID: @npu+1qXgaSy0

Lube the chainsaw Charlie!!!

Leatherface

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