Nobody seems to care anymore. Most of the people are doing the bare minimum these days because they can't muster the motivation to give a damn. It's so weird to see this every day, to see it actively affect productivity, and to realize that nobody from management even sees it as a problem.
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Make sure to give an appropriate rating on Glassdoor. Too bad they don't have a negative rating option.
just move on people
This place is going down. There are many bad reviews on social media from customers and employees.
After much therapy and consideration I quit. Best decision in my life. This place is corrupt.
lol my therapist said the same
I resumed therapy recently for all the things everyone has shared. This therapist spent time asking about my workplace issues and when I shared where I worked, the look of recognition flashed across his face and he told me he had heard of issues with our company from “several” people. It’s a bad look for our “firm”.
Any possibilty of closing Minneapolis? Maybe moving the work to the new Dallas site? Wishful thinking...
They can't feed us a $hit sandwich for 2 years and then expect us to not actively hate this company. It would benefit everyone to offer voluntary layoffs instead of keeping those of us who take pleasure in watching things fall apart a little bit more every day.
Things are so hopeless that even activist investors say “no thanks”.
I think Charlie and Wells would be safe to Outsource Kerrins job to India. Someone there can do a better job than her and is most likely 10 times smarter than her. Besides if you are going to love more of those functions to India, it makes sense to have the leader there as well. Probably get more innovation than from the US leaders like Chintin and Tracy.
My good old manager used to say she didn't believe in management conspiracy theory and Sr. managers have good intentions. But she was set up to fail by the corrupt Sr. managers and she had to leave the bank because she was not part of the old boy's club. I was also set up to fail by the same corrupt Sr. managers. They actually lied in my performance review and I was never given an opportunity to rebut. I reported the incident to the ethics line, but nothing happened. I got laid off later. You see, this whole bank is corrupt, they have no more integrity whatsoever. They lie to the customers and they lie to the employees. Even when they commit crimes, nobody goes to jail (they should). This bank should not exist.
Why should we care when they don't care. India will be the tech solution. God Bless.
There's only so much we can do in management to stave this off when 99.9% of the decisions that negatively impact morale are being made by executives who's mission is to crush the spirit of domestic employees in order to drive attrition. In the old days, when mid/upper management still had some discretion, then maybe you could shield your team from these monsters, but not anymore.
Everyone is in survival mode. Conversation is dominated by negativity, and I don't blame the employees for that a bit. People used to be positive here. We didn't spend any time fretting about losing our jobs, we just wanted to do things well. Now no one cares, it's just a question of when we're all going to get fired, what friends have been lost recently, and how stupid the hack executives are.
Worker moods and productivity levels are directly related to the compounding effect of management decisions over time. I am one of those recently unmotivated types, here is my case:
- Erosion of trust in its own workers (micro-managing, fear is the tool)
- Years of layoff threats on a biweekly basis takes a severe emotional toll (sloppy execution of location strategy)
- Actual layoffs have negatively impacted my team dynamics and flow
- Hollow, ineffectual performance review system year after year after year
- Incentives. Try and name one thing offered. Next year's ~2% raise makes you jump out of bed? Promotion on the horizon stunted by a stupid HR formulaic approach to minimizing the pay increase? No realistic jobs out there to be promoted to?
- Management makes odd decisions, seemingly on a whim, expects workers to pivot at snap of fingers and rally without asking questions
- Tone deafness in all communications. Maintaining one's image is better than acknowledging and solving problems that exist in reality
That about sums it up. This is the reality whether we are happy at work or not.
Most co-workers I know and myself are doing what is called "quietly quitting". They are not motivated by the confusing and misleading tasks we are given. How can you get motivated? Oh, I want to document all my SOPs so they can be handed over to P&I? Yeah so much fun.
Also, the tools Wells uses are so behind the times. I spend the majority of my time learning new practices on my machine. Fortunately, my boss doesn't come to my office. I learn much on Pluralsight, Udemy, YouTube, X and other sites. The job is ME right now. I will get out of the h hole soon. Been here 10 years. I have joined local and BOK user groups (via meetup) to find who are the best companies out there. Also, I have found out that some companies are quietly reversing their previous off-shoring efforts.
The job market has to be approached differently now.
My non-core location work cycle. Tuesday after payday, I check for layoff notice. Ok, no notice, so I put in some effort through the week and taper off beginning the next until the next Tuesday after payday. Rerun cycle. Just enough to not be accused of job abandonment and die of boredom. After almost 30 years, pay me to leave.
I struggle with this at times but try to fight it all the time. I also feel this all the time in my entire department as well. It manifests in people showing up 3-4 mins late to Teams meetings to conveniently be too late to be expected to participate in the discussion, or people not responding to Teams pings for hours on end, or management/emps never pre-reading any meeting materials ahead of time & being prepared to add value to a meeting. People just being completely silent during team meetings. So many employees are so totally checked out that it's hard to get anything done well anymore. Everybody seems like they don't know what's going on.
the motivated types are long gone, this is the final act of the squid games; those unable to get new jobs versus the dead wood who havent had a resume in 5+ years
Management is also scared of layoffs.