#culture

IT is primarily focused on India, and I dislike this trend. They are the main reason for disruptions in US work culture, often exhibiting micromanagement. We had very great leaders, they were let go to be replaced. Any organizational announcements or changes were only meant to promote "birds of a weather flock together". Look at org chart and when you know budgets are tight, chop off the managed services. Additionally, leadership, including directors and VPs, seems to be accepting kickbacks from managed services to bring in cheaper labor. I'm uncertain about what the future holds for American workers and the next generation. US jobs and companies are for US people not for Asians.

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How our beloved institution seems to have lost its soul and senior talent.

At BNY Mellon, "strategic alignment" appears to be more of a psychological endurance test than a business principle. It feels like we're in a corporate escape room where the clues are cloaked in jargon, the exits are offshored, and the ultimate reward is a Teams meeting with someone fresh out of college who thinks "mainframe" refers to a type of Sleep Number mattress.

Let's start with our CEO, Robin Vince. His leadership style, characterized by vague declarations and performative empathy, seems to ignore the fact that our ship is sinking while they outsource the lifeboats and call the iceberg "cost synergy." His signature look—perpetual five o'clock shadow, freshly steamed suit, and a Rolex Platinum—speaks volumes. While he touts "free coffee in the office" as if it's a groundbreaking perk, jobs are quietly slashed, benefits reduced, promotions frozen, and merit increases become almost laughable. Anything with a cost is either stopped, frozen, or eliminated.

Then there's the Return to Office (RTO) campaign, which was touted as a bold move toward collaboration but ended up feeling more like a scavenger hunt for badge access in a haunted coworking space. Employees were encouraged to "reconnect," only to find their teams had been restructured, relocated, or replaced by someone in Wroclaw who thinks "Waterfall" is a Spotify playlist. The real aim seems to be forcing attrition without paying severance. If you're mid-career, have missed a few badge swipes, work from home, or your office commute now involves multiple transfers and a broken escalator, congratulations—you've been strategically unaligned.

The pattern of layoffs, or "realignments" and "talent redistributions," is another concern. It feels like we're constantly under the threat of being let go, with every "quick sync" or "just checking in" message potentially signaling the end. If you're a male over 40, HR may have already tagged you as "legacy talent"—a polite way of saying "low T, too expensive to keep, too experienced to promote."

Our globalization strategy, which involves sending jobs to India and Poland, complicates things further. The result is a tangled mess of time zones, miscommunication, and Jira tickets bouncing around like the timeline for releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files. Clients notice, deadlines slip, and deliverables vanish, but we're reassured by the opening of a new "Center of Excellence" in a country where no one has met the client or used the software.

The hiring strategy now mirrors a university career fair, favoring fresh grads over seasoned professionals. These new recruits are bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, and completely unqualified, but they're cheap and can build dashboards filled with cat memes and Sora videos. Meanwhile, experienced employees are nudged toward "voluntary transitions" or given roles so meaningless that early retirement becomes an appealing option.

Our product delivery strategy is another area of concern. It feels like a choose-your-own-adventure book where every path leads to a missed deadline. Teams are gutted, timelines are fictional, and clients are reassured with phrases like "we're in the ideation phase" or "we're pivoting to a more scalable solution," which is code for "we have no idea what we're doing."

Finally, when in doubt, we call McKinsey. Their playbook includes renaming layoffs as "talent fluidity," creating dashboards that track morale using emoji reactions, launching pilot programs that solve nothing but look great in slide decks, blaming the org chart and redrawing it using a dartboard, and hosting "strategic engagement sessions" with bagels and muffins, calling it transformation.

In summary, BNY's strategic alignment feels more like a slow, grinding descent into cost-cutting madness masquerading as innovation. The only thing truly aligned is the exit door. If you're still here, congratulations—you've survived another quarter of corporate performance art. Just remember, your resilience isn't a virtue; it's a KPI. Your reward? Free coffee and the privilege of watching your job get reclassified as "non-core" while waiting for your personal release date.

Any chance we’ll get a new CEO for Christmas???

No news from the NRB side, assuming it’s safe now?

Not burnt but nuked, crazy stuff.

It will be a shell of its former self. Brilliant strategy, wireless and broadband, the 2 most commoditized products in the industry, and supposedly a transport provider with the shittiest and smallest footprint fiber network there is.

Old glass doesn't cut it these days.

Good luck to all!

When will they realize that getting rid of the best people is only harming the company in the long run? The value of institutional knowledge can't be overstated and they just keep throwing it away like it's nothing.

The town hall today has been disgraceful as to how things discussed. Zero respect for people who have lost jobs and no clarity for employees. So so poor. A lot of shiny slides but no compassion for colleagues

until such time that the primary corporate emphasis of financial revenue quantity has changed to product quality.

Anyone who speculated that Lex Loofah would end up at 101 Productions so he could continue sponging off Taylor Sheridan was close, but apparently not quite on the money.

Kind of appalling that NBCU is going to pay him to continue riding Sheridan's coattails and declare himself a "hitmaker" despite not actually making anything himself.

Gross.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/chris-mccarthy-follow-taylor-sheridan-nbcuniversal-1236431266/

This company is absolutely mad. They're just throwing in the towel to T-Mobile.

Rotten from the top
Needs a change

The whole entire organization would be in a better spot if this was a safe and positive environment to work in.

Nasrin apparently thought it would be fun to fire a bunch of us on a group call. Classy

At the time it’s like “oh new center! It’ll be awesome”

And now it’s like “too much bloat, have to be lean and a miserable place to be with 75% of your team left in an already lean function” wtf?

Long term loyal employees are professionals and do understand the changing business environment. If the business has a need and decide to send them out, atleast pick a decent time to do it, well before or after Thanksgiving week.

Don't punch them hard in their face 2 days before Thanksgiving, they have to show their face to their family when they get home.

I’m currently at work checking email and nothing from the ceo but I am in wireline fios customer service but I thought that email would be sent out to all of Verizon I guess not.

Say if you are VCG, VBG, GNT or VGS

Sending prayers to our entire Verizon family.

Wonder what 15k negative regiews would do to future talent thinking about joining this place.

This says a lot about him as a person or leader..

Verizon will be sinking ship. Forget customer loyalty, I do not think there will be any employee loyalty.

I think I'll just sleep through the entire weekend once this is over.

been on flma leave. Has the employee culture survey results been released yet and how did HR do this year with changing the work environment for the better ?!?!?

Seeing all these sycophants “oh the C-some bullsh-t-three-letter” is doing this and that’s the right decision. So many fools running this place and there’s a halo because they get paid highly and therefore must be brilliant. Fu--ing mo--ns every last one. These geniuses had so much time to right the ship.

I am a new employee via contract and 8 months in my observation has been WTF since month 3, when I really got the lay of the land. Beyond the share price decline and lost market value, the organization lacks unity and accountability. There are way too many mid level people actioning work who are not great at what they do or have been told by their boss that they are not accountable for keeping to a reasonable level of standards for collaboration across teams. I’ve seen senior people refuse to collaborate and throw their peers under the bus. I don’t know the history of the company’s decline/ drama but when I joined I had friend at Amazon, Chase and other solid places say it’s a great company- these are good friends BSers. I am curious if anyone here would like to share WTF happened or if it’s always been kind of a mess.

I know many will dislike this post, but I really do not care. I am glad Verizon is dropping all DEI initiatives and going back to merit-based practices. Good luck to everyone tomorrow. Even if we don't get a call tomorrow, I have no doubt more are on the way.

because I just glanced quickly, but I think Stankey may have sent a Holiday email today where he actually didn’t berate his employees and encourage them to quit. Actually oops I deleted it.

There is no such thing as a good and caring CEO. All of them see us as nothing else but numbers they can play around with any way they want. That's our sad reality, and no new CEO or anybody else at the top is going to change that.

Thank you to all those in the know, (still on the inside), who have given what you could here.

Thank you to all those, (on the outside), who have chimed in with your experiences.

Thanks to all for the wisdom, the therapy, the venting, and yes, the laughs as we all collectively process through this.

Let the fires burn hot and the whisky sting on the way down. Rock on !!!

Just remember that your entire livelihood and career is worth about 1/700 or even more of the $74m discretionary executive bonus pool for 2025. This is split by 5 employees.

Your whole family and your dependents and kids futures are just a rounding error for the leadership team. Shoulda been a shareholder, su-ks to su-k 😂 😂 😂

https://investors.att.com/~/media/Files/A/ATT-IR-V2/financial-reports/annual-reports/2025/2025-notice-of-annual-meeting-of-stockholders-and-proxy-statement.pdf

Some people on here have shared some experiences and your reaction is to down vote it. I guess that makes you feel better? Burying your head in the sand?

I am sorry, but Verizon is going to be a horrible company to work for in the near future.

So go ahead and down vote people who post honest remarks if that makes you feel better. It won't change a thing.

Not everyone on this board is a troll.

Been with SAP 15 years. I am a women and experienced harassment my whole life, but the icing on the cake was when I experienced psychological harassment from a newly appointment manager who had no experience in management at SAP.

It was obvious to our team, he was problematic. I told my team we should report him, nobody wanted to report him.

I took matters in my own hands, confided with attorneys and played my strategy and reported him to his manager, and HR. 4 months later he was fired.

That said, I was appalled nobody would do anything including his manager until there were more complaints about him.

I had to escape like an abused woman from my incompetent manager at SAP.
I expected better from SAP.

All this to say, I hope SAP cleans up at ALL levels, because the ship is starting to crack.

Money is great Integrity is better.

For managers out there! Do better.

Intel’s workforce:

1. fat old guys waiting to retire and
2. Young Indian h-1bs waiting to get their green cards and bolt out to AMD or Nvidia.
3. Fantasy believers in Intel bubble su6king up to mgmt
4. High paid mgmt just sitting & collecting paychecks
5. Best of the best, leaving Intel one by one

I BETTER see some positive posts tomorrow!