Hey Reporter, everyone would like to talk to you, but they really can't.
I'm still at Wells, so I'm not sure about how they work, but I've quit jobs and for a year or two after gotten a reminder letter via snail mail from some law firm reminding me that I promised not to talk to anyone.
Publicly traded companies do that. And they usually have something to hide. Both of the one's in my past did.
I'm not sure if they can actually enforce those NDAs, but in banking my understanding is you can be blacklisted if you work in retail. (I do not).
My job is not customer facing, and my dept is great to work in, I love my job, but my peers and I are sickened by how the bank has been treating employees and customers.
We're not involved, we didn't know, and now the work we do feels tainted by the actions of management.
It's depressing, no matter what people say in company surveys. People that read the business section, meaning most bank employees, are hoping the bad news will end, but it just keeps coming.
Reborn in 2018 or whatever is a joke around here.
We feel like enablers. Customers and employees have had lives destroyed, and we're behind the scenes helping.
And we're enablers with mortgages to pay and families to feed, which makes some of us feel even worse that we're still here. Trapped, at least in the short run.
We never really got over the bank taking TARF money then giving management bonuses while letting people go.
I used to joke around when people asked me about work, I'd say "I work for a big evil bank, so..." but I don't do that anymore.
Because Wells really is a big, evil bank.