The WFH Exception application is open today 4/8 through the 19th. Wonder how this will go.
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There is a lot of fear in this thread. If you are afraid you will be fired for applying to work from home you probably should be fired anyway.
If you do solid work at a fair compensation level the worst they will do is reject your application.
Apply.
Sign up and you are asking to be laid off. If you can't make it to the office, I suggest you start applying elsewhere. Or else go to the office and "trip and fall" down the stairs or on the floor. That should buy you some time at the company until something better comes along.
Apply and you will be denied. Or maybe accepted. Nevertheless, HR will start the process of a plan to get rid of you. Just wait. Schwab is no longer in the business of investing but terminating employees. Must have an army of HR folks working on this one.
You'll be rejected, not given a reason and likely be told to seek a medical exception.
This process is absurd. Six months, no criteria, no disclosures, arbitrary decisions, random capacity. And all for an objective that doesn't exist and hasn't improved.
Seriously, are we more cultured now? Or making more money? Greater productivity?
As the cesspool turns.
I applied for mine. Initially my manager told me he had to deny it. I pushed back and pointed out all of the discrepancies between what Schwab says, Schwab has done, and Schwab is doing. He reluctantly agreed and pushed it up to the Sr. Director, same story, same BS, but in both interactions it was implied that the executives have instructed these to be denied so as not to bother them. I'm sure the next step will be denied, but at least it gets on their desk. The more people who push, the clearer the message.
My Manager Rejected my exception.
Just don’t go in. Quite a few aren’t.
The approval process is undefined. It’s very likely fewer will be approved this round. Seriously, they rejected and haven’t finished the window for applications?
At this point we need to call them out. Protest en masse and make it an embarrassment. See if the media will play it as a climate and pollution story. Few empathize with a white collar worker enduring the absurdity of a commute, but an unfair process that adds to local pollution and failed to achieve culture objectives? They still don’t care, but they don’t care just a little less.
My Manager Rejected my exception. She is fully remote so is her boss the director and his boss the managing director. I am the only individual contributor driving 40 miles one way to be on calls on Microsoft Teams all day. I will start looking for other jobs. There's nothing to look forward to here at schwab. No Growth, No new technologies to learn, just red-taped bull$hit environment where some get to dictate rules for others.
Just to help build up their layoff list and select layoff applicants quickly and more efficiently. Then add each name to a termination template showing reason for termination based on their job title / role. Schwab HR got this one down.
I would definitely seek a medical exception. The renewal period for it is yearly which is better.
Is it the same cluster as before? Six months, no criteria for approval, some oddball arbitrary percentage?
Strongly recommend people seek medical exceptions. And it’s clear that after all the first round nonsense quite a few aren’t going in.