“What can I do to improve, boss? “ asks a remote employee. “Well, I have nothing for you. Move to a hub and that should solve the comp issue.”
Compensation Accountability Clarity - Elcio
Wow!!! Blamed to managers .
Elcio...
What a tool
Does the NFL and Fernando Mendoza know how poorly USB treats employees?
No raises for thousands but keep millions for GK and her creepy MC? Cutting more and more benefits all the time? Worst RTO in the industry that shows they don’t care about families and work life balance? Failed corporate real estate strategy that... — read more
Town hall
Are all the questions being blocked? Nothing is coming through.
Anyone else got their GK bingo cards?
Let’s see how this goes!!
Horsham Office - More Mngmt Control
So let me get this straight… Leadership just rolled out a “neighborhood seating” plan to reduce coordination costs by literally assigning people to sit closer to executives. Because apparently the problem all along was… proximity? What did we do... — read more
What's so hard is we used to be amazing!
We were a smaller bank that loved its people. Like the year we all donated 2 days of vacation to save employees from being laid-off? Or the time we took stock options instead of a full bonus or when you could still volunteer at your church, helping... — read more
You shouldn't quit
We lost too many folks lately to quitting. Why are you doing this horrible leadership favors? They're overjoyed whenever anybody leaves because that means they save money on severance. Just wait it out. At this point, it's a matter of time before... — read more
Category 2 Bank - Real Reason for RTO
GK wanting us to be a category 2 bank is the real reason for RTO and offshoring more and more. Buildings give us more assets and offshoring more of a global footprint. Research to learn more. Not about collaboration, which we already knew.
Advice from fellow industry worker
I work for US Bank's competitor and out of curiousity checked this site. I see a lot of uproar about RTO...believe me, we also went through it in 2022. My advice to all of you is to be careful. If they aren't checking your in network office time... — read more
Let's have some levity
For those who worked through the late 1990, what's one thing you're glad younger folks won't have to put up with? I remember printing out hundreds of pages just to review a document and having to track changes by hand with a pen. The paper cuts... — read more
confidentiality and non-solicitation agreement.
Has anyone NOT signed their agreement? I wonder who all received this agreement- was it the entire company? I received a wonderful, threatening email today saying we have to sign by 6/30 or you will not be eligible to receive pending or future... — read more
The three pillars of USB
Let me describe how this place works. First pillar, punishment. Make a small error and they'll remind you for months. Second pillar, fear. Nobody feels safe. Everyone's waiting for the other shoe to drop. Third pillar, favoritism. Certain people can... — read more
RTO Scrutiny vs Cloud Leadership: Why Accountability Isn’t Equal at the Top
If RTO policies are enforced with strict measurement, tracking, and compliance expectations across employees, why doesn’t the same rigor apply to Cloud leadership (Head of Cloud and his directs)? GL17/GL18 leaders—many already significantly... — read more
Inaccurate RTO data
If anyone is negatively impacted by "not meeting the RTO goal" and is fired, you better run and file a case. Document that they admitted their data and reporting was inaccurate and inconsistent. They falsified reporting!!! Also, its a tad bit... — read more
Take your days off
Taking mental sick days is my new norm here. They fu-k with you to the point everything is not okay and I need time to calm my nerves. This is the first time I’ve felt like this in the 19 years I’ve been here.
Is it 4 hours, 6 hours, or 8 hours to count as 1 day in office? So confused
So Elcio today said a minimum of 8 hours a day in office in order for it to count as being in office, no exceptions. But also today, the guy in charge of Operations, we over 2000 people on a call said it is understandable if you have to work 6 hours... — read more
Can we please be done with town halls already?
Such a waste of time. The only measurable outcome is my rising blood pressure.
My manager is embarrassing
Oh, we finally got ourselves a middle manager, after over a year of blissful independence, purely so someone could tick the “yes, we have one” box. Never mind that our team handles complex fintech systems with intricate backends and high-risk... — read more
Aren't you supposed to be good at math to be working at a bank?
The amount of people doing d-mb math trying to "calculate" a 60% in this forum is both hilarious and worrying. Maybe it's because of then we all have to go back in. Gotta micro manage their excel sheet formulas lol
Now we have sick and contagious people in the office
Infecting healthy people, meaning more people will have to ask for PTO to recover and less and less people will be available to do the job. Well done corporate! Going back to square 1. Great leadership, very smart!
HRC Townhall today
Could Elcio have been more of a condescending a-s? I am just so done with him, he doesn’t listen. He is completely tone deaf. Anyone else?
Accommodation Renewal for Remote Work
Anyone knows if the renewal would be HR or employee initiated ? Thanks!!
Vacation and Sick time
Due to the new Formula, you will have to come in extra days if you have Vacation and Sick time if you want to hit the 60%.
Bonus Formula
My timing is not perfect here but I am curious - have they changed the bonus formula ??
70% completed Survey!!
All I ask is why? why are people still completing this and participating in this pompous management scheme? They don’t care about employees so why are you still participating in their bull cr-p? All it does is placing a target on your back to be... — read more
ISS DEI check boxes - A total waster of $ spend
Except a few gems (20%), ISS is a majority DEI Swamp (80%) - that gets nothing done, as they have no clue except to CHECK Boxes. They just focus on superficial compliance rather than meaningful action, as part of process checks (same questions asked... — read more
1Q 2026 Earnings
Another earnings beat. Feeling grateful his morning, go USB!! 👍
Here comes ....McKinsey!
The unehtical McKinsey folks ...our CEOs former employer, ready to fu-k us all over. Get ready folks, this is how far we've fallen from the most "ethical" company. https://youtu.be/K1cJqB0X_BA?si=V1X6W1X7DWt6vvwn
FAQ say we are responsible for 60 percent since January
How is this legal? So 11 days was good, but now they say it’s no good because new rule is 14 to 15 days, depending on the month. Applies retroactively since January since expectations was to be in office…but for 15 days????
So how long is it going to take them to sort out this RTO mess?
That's a rhetorical question, by the way.
Are there core working hours?
Do IP logs only count during certain hours?
U.S Bank is a Circus
Long story short: Our location out performs Portland and especially remote Tempe employees by miles. Everyone knows this including leads and managers. They just don’t do anything about it because the environment simply put is “someone else will do... — read more
6 days is 12 days if you leave computer over weekend
People at my area, secure, with same people , picking same desk are now coming in Friday. Leave computer on over weekends, come in early Monday. The 2 days on weekends count Brilliant system by USBank Earth day eh? They encourage people to to... — read more
Remote people too far from a hub being given notice
I have heard of a couple people who were impacted by this and told yesterday. Anyone else hearing this?
RTO Tracking For Weekend
Curious if anybody else works on the weekend and isn't seeing it reflected in the time tracking. I don't work weekends regularly, but need to be in the office for certain software changes/deployments. I've, with my managers acknowledgement, treated... — read more
Join me in seed ball making.
Just received an email from Virtual Development Network BRG - we can all join a virtual event to make wildflower seed ba--s. While I am all about supporting Mother Earth, thinking about the amount of money USB is wasting with these types of events... — read more
Government Contract
Is it true the bank managed to sc--w up enough that they lost a government contract for payment processing?