Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

Apparently Charlie’s only talent is “cut, cut, cut”. An interesting article on McKinsey & Co.

We’ve talked about it here before but this is a good read about how McKinsey and Co — Wells Fargo’s business consultant — “routinely pushes profits over ethical conduct” and has a hand in su-king the life out of companies, communities and employees while negatively impacting customers and consumer safety everywhere.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/02/exposing-the-secretive-and-sinister-work-of-mckinsey-co

The following paragraph caught my eye and describes Charlie Scharf and his talentless strategy to a tee. (“Sc--w the customer and sc--w the employee to increase revenue.”)

“McKinsey’s #1 strategy is always ‘cut, cut, cut’. The easiest way to boost profits and the bottom line is to cut expenses. It’s much more difficult to actually produce a better product or invent something—that’s on the revenue side. That takes work, creativity, and skill. It doesn’t take any damn skill to lop off a quarter of the workforce and say, ‘good luck’, or to offshore those jobs, as they [have] over and over again. They were one of the biggest cheerleaders of offshoring, and that obviously has an effect on the families of these people who lost their jobs, but also on the communities in which they live. So, they have had a hugely negative impact in many communities in this country.”

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That is the easiest advise consulting companies can give and leaders can implement..expectation is employees will put in extra hours to cover and meet goals and won’t be pushing back…

transformational changes are hard and need very strategic leaders which we lack for sure.

Our modeling teams are a joke and we talk of AI and machine learning

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@1wwy+1uyYGBRu
Perfect story. I know of a case where they sc--wed up the model and so if you performed beyond the targets you actually went down according to rankings. So someone asked if they could go home after they hit their targets so they wouldn’t go down in ranking. Got a deer in the headlights look. In the old days consultants used to be seasoned professionals that knew the business. Now it’s almost an entry level job.

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Post ID: @2yxi+1uyYGBRu

Why are some of you pu----s afraid to say sc--wed?

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@1rob+1uyYGBRu

No, the biggest inefficiency is Chase Bro comp and their pet projects / Ivory Towers. Neither of these brings ANY value to the company. Doesn't sell a single product or win a single new customer.

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Post ID: @1xcw+1uyYGBRu

McKinsey once came into Wachovia back in the day and presented their findings on making payments processes better. Head of Payments let them present their results to other executives. One of their items was to try and clear checks faster Monday-Thursday (back then we moved paper around the globe) to match the much higher clearing rates that we had on Friday's. Payments leader stood up and asked if they were advocating closing the bank for 2 days after being open for one. The McKinsey consultant looked confused until it was explained that a higher % of checks cleared on Friday's because we had all weekend to move them to the bank they were drawn on to clear on Monday. Such a simple miss that we were never asked to implement any of their other findings.

They were the ones behind banks switching to post transaction in dollar amount order starting with the largest. It was to make sure the customers most important items were paid like their mortgage supposedly. It was really to create more overdraft revenue when 4 small items ODed instead of one big one. We charged per item. The FED had to eventually tell banks to stop that practice.

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Post ID: @1wwy+1uyYGBRu

I’m all for it. Biggest overhead is employees and the cost for coverage keeps going up so the balance is not always pretty but necessary. It’s called Big Business. Get over it

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@1kcp+1uyYGBRu

"A new anti-greed training course will soon be available for employees which must be completed before they are laid off"

Funny!

The worst part is that he would not even care

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Post ID: @1lgb+1uyYGBRu

Wasn’t McKinsey the group of geniuses that told NYC they could get rid of rats by using garbage cans with…… lids! Just a bunch of assembly line MBAs that think they are smart because they were told that growing up. The emperor has no clothes.

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Post ID: @1mau+1uyYGBRu

Charlie just responded to this accusation, indignantly stating that he is only purposely sc--wing employees and communities. He added that if he is sc--wing customers, it reflects his own unconscious money-grubbing greed for money and power. A new anti-greed training course will soon be available for employees which must be completed before they are laid off.

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Post ID: @1kcp+1uyYGBRu

"...inequality is one of the most divisive issues in America today, and McKinsey has played a significant role in helping to make that worse than it should be."

Interesting - and shocking - article. Just downsize for a quick rise in profits...such a simple and stupid idea.

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Post ID: @1zgb+1uyYGBRu

McKinsey are the same unethical people who played both sides of the opi--d crisis. They also just reuse other clients work and tries to cookie cut everything while charging ungodly amounts of money. They never stake their reputation on outcomes .

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Post ID: @1teu+1uyYGBRu

Boeing (and their employees, customers and shareholders) is paying for taking advice from McKinsey & Co. Their stock is in a death spiral. All the “efficiencies” have only led to maintenance issues affecting plane safety.

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