#leadership

What you're dealing with here isn't how it has to be. I went to another big bank and everything is better. Nicer people, working tech, and leaders who actually try.

Unique among banks, U.S. Bank measures success, merit, and performance using a singular metric: The duration employees remain seated for eight hours in non-ergonomic office chairs at hubs. This approach contrasts with traditional metrics such as:

• Business Process Improvements
• Innovation
• Project Management: Management of Scope, Time, Cost
• Reliability
• On-Time address of issues
• Net Profit Margin
• Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT)
• Revenue Growth Rate

The Top leadership do not have to worry about Child Care, Elderly Parents, Family Members with Special needs as THEY (MC - Senior Leadership) are rewarded and compensated with lucrative packages, including child care, luxury travel, and high-end accommodations near Minneapolis HQ.

Unlike an average Indian, Fun-an’s other half was born in a privileged class (called IAS) with ivy league education and background in mechanical engineering (worked at Caterpillar in 1980’s where it requires physical in person collaboration to manufacture and assemble construction, mining, and other engineering equipment to measure performance), but Fun-an’s other half strategy is not going to attract/retain/resonate with the average employee's challenges at a financial institution like U.S.Bank in year 2026, unless Fun-an wants to turn U.S.Bank into Caterpillar to manufacture physical goods or turn the bank into a sweat shop.

There is no follow through. There is always a new initiative being introduced. Big kickoff meetings, lots of excitement, and then nothing really happens. Within a few weeks, attention shifts to something else. How can anybody take us seriously when things are so dysfunctional?

Per LK

Platforms like Indeed and Glassdoor no longer allow truly anonymous comments—corporate agreements behind the scenes have made open discussion nearly impossible. At this point, Layoffs.com is one of the few places where employees can honestly share what’s happening inside the company, especially since leadership keeps us in the dark as much as they can.

This topic is staying. Why is the CL TV leader allowed to nothing for years?

Too many people doing close to nothing on this team and horrible morale. How long can this last?

Ever since Darcie Henry, AT&T's HR leader, joined HR there has not been one male announced in a senior role. This makes me wonder, does she hate men?

Stock went down to 126, and this momentum should continue. QC will keep to be the shithole for the next 10 years.

Thanks to QPOET. Your toxic culture and disgusting leaders were contagious, and put this company into a TRUE shithole! Keep up doing your job!

BNY Mellon’s significance on this forum is clear: the forum has become a real‑time barometer of employee sentiment, revealing a workforce that perceives the bank’s strategy as dominated by cost‑cutting, stealth layoffs, cultural deterioration, and leadership distrust. The volume, tone, and consistency of posts signal reputational, operational, and talent‑retention risks that BNY cannot ignore.

1. Stealth Layoffs & WARN Avoidance
Numerous posts allege unannounced, rolling layoffs, often tied to:

RTO policy enforcement

Performance review manipulation

Site closures (e.g., Pennington)

Employees repeatedly claim BNY is circumventing WARN Act notifications by staggering terminations and using “performance” as a pretext.

2. Labor Arbitrage as Core Strategy
Threads explicitly describe BNY’s operating model as:
“If someone, somewhere, can do it cheaper, that’s where the work goes.”

Offshoring, contractor freezes, and AI‑driven job elimination are recurring themes.

Employees see this as systemic, not cyclical—a permanent shift in workforce philosophy.

3. Leadership Distrust & Cultural Breakdown
Robin Vince (RV) is a central figure in discussions, often portrayed as:

Detached from employee reality

Focused on cost‑savings and personal compensation

Culture is described as toxic, demoralizing, and psychologically unsafe, with morale at “historic lows.”

4. RTO We-ponization
RTO dashboards, “red periods,” and inconsistent enforcement are cited as:

Tools to push out employees

Methods to avoid severance

Many posts describe RTO as a layoff mechanism, not a business need.

5. Operational Instability
Reports of:

Unresponsive or dysfunctional teams

Leadership churn

Poor communication around relocations and site closures

Employees describe the environment as chaotic and directionless.

What This Means for BNY Mellon

1. Reputational Risk
TheLayoff.com is heavily trafficked by job seekers, analysts, and journalists.
The persistent negativity shapes external perception of BNY as a troubled employer.

2. Talent Flight
High performers openly discuss:

Practicing interviews on company time

Planning exits

Warning others away from applying
This accelerates brain drain and raises replacement costs.

3. Strategic Execution Risk
A demoralized workforce undermines:

AI transformation

Client service

Operational resilience

Regulatory compliance
BNY’s own employees describe the bank as “McKinsey’s magnum opus of misery.”

4. Legal & Regulatory Exposure
Frequent references to:

Wrongful termination

Forced ranking

WARN circumvention

Discriminatory practices
…suggest heightened class‑action and regulatory risk.

Bottom-Line
Discussion on this forum portrays BNY Mellon as an institution in cultural and operational decline, driven by aggressive cost‑cutting, offshoring, and leadership detachment.

For analysts, journalists, and job seekers, the site functions as a candid, unfiltered window into a workforce that feels expendable, unheard, and increasingly hostile toward senior leadership.

Jamie Dimon is a naracistic psycho that runs around speaking from both sides of mouth. He is hated by majority of the puppets that work there. He is a disgrace to society in multiple levels expect for the billionaire wackos he takes orders from!

Leader here, do not expect anything this cycle. We got peanuts in the name of budget, not sure how to manage with this much generosity by Cisco

In all my years in consulting i have come across multiple fake leaders (aka.. A fake leader is an individual who prioritizes personal image, power, and self-interest over the well-being of their team and organization) but nothing like IBM consulting. Per my experience apart from a handful of leaders every other leader i encountered at IBM consulting is very close to a fake leader. seems like its very much engrained into the culture what have you seen during your time ?

Yeah, not gonna make that mistake again, that's for sure.

They want 50k employees almost universally making less than 6 figures. That means everyone making more than that and over 40 years old need to be made as miserable as possible until they quit. Performance and knowledge DO NOT MATTER. Leadership believes all this work can be done for pennies by AI and offshore. There are plenty of H1Bs out there to replace you in their little slave commune in Frisco, TX, right next door to the new campus. The more of you that leave on your own, the less of you they have to fire. That is how they sleep at night - they think they are doing you a favor by letting you leave on your own terms instead of just firing you outright.

Exactly what @aj+1kn7ewyd6 said.

Filtering on Japan and Australia show 0 jobs. Great job tools team on getting the query working! Way to go, VZ leadership export those jobs! I see positions listed that could have been filled by people that were recently riff'd. What a BS company (leadership, that is). Bunch of greedy sociopaths and bootlickers willing to do anything to fill their own pockets.

just WOW! I hope she will fire current HR VPs as most are useless veterans with zero impact

Title says it all. Some areas are far worse than others.

Maybe it’s because I’m just new-ish to Verizon but reading this article is the first I’ve heard of some of these talent initiatives…? Culture OS? Transparent career growth? Personalized development? Making it sound it seem like we’re some A-list people developer employer.

Am I just living under a rock or is this BS?

Manager double, triple booked, late for meetings, no clear direction to team, rude and condescending. How does one get a skip level meeting.

The personalities of slack at Nike:

1. JR - responds to every and each question in COP and AI channels

2. DM - pretty much has her own store in Alt Class

3. JM - posts every shoe drop in sneaker channels, the good and the bad

4. Van - everyone getting heart broken over drops that have a lower win rate than SNKRs

5. EV - daily complaining that people aren’t charging their cars or stayed over time limit acting like it will make a difference

Can’t imagine the amount of time wasted in some of these channels.

What else?

Imagine if EH is reportedly tired with his salary how tired the employees are. I imagine designers have a hard time being creative and most others are not doing anything from what I see, expecting layoffs that won't push the needle or address the real issue.
I would challenge the ELT to send us an email saying how many VP we have down to senior manager and take massive cuts and NOT rehire. There is little value in the layers of leadership.
This would immediately make the actual doers feel heard and increase productivity without the (in many cases) micro management based on ego fear (particularly in tech).
Take a risk. Another useless layoff with all weak leaders and many layers of vp to vp to vp or dir to dir to dir remaining will make no difference.
We still dont have a clear plan except go out and create but its hard to do that tired and unheard.

Literally every downfall is directly connected to the CFO. Margins, inventory, discounting and horrible guidance.

How does this guy have a job?!

I am in IT, but I heard that the ELT is so upset with HR that the CHRO has to layoff 2 LT members by the end of they year. If they do that, expect other layoffs to be cover for it. Hunger games at its finest.

Not sure which group is worse to be a part of. IT or HR?

For those working in tech, does anyone have the inside scoop of what changes are on the horizon? I heard they are cracking down on being in the office X amount of hours per day, new desks are being built on the tech floors, lots of leadership has left and the ones who have remained some have been shuffled around.

I’ve never seen this many people leaving at once. This isn’t normal turnover. This is a mass exodus, and everyone knows exactly why.

You forced a five-day RTO that nobody wanted, layered on tracking that feels like a maximum-security system, and created an environment built on fear instead of trust. People held out hope it would get rolled back to something reasonable. The notorious 8/1 email ki-led that overnight.

Since then, it’s been a steady stream of exits with a significant ramp in 2026. And it’s not random. The people leaving are the ones with options. The ones who actually drove results. The ones you can’t replace.

Who replaces them? Not “top talent.” It’s the bottom quartile of talent, whoever is willing to accept a five-day, heavily monitored, in-office model in 2026. That’s a much smaller and much weaker pool. That’s just reality. It’s the most desperate undesirable people with no other options. Nobody is choosing this model if they have a better option.

So what you’re left with is predictable. High performers check out or leave. Everyone else learns the game. Swipe in, sit down, do the minimum, go home. Because that’s what you’re measuring now. Presence, not performance.

This is a direct result of the decisions being made in the c suite. And it’s hollowing the place out in real time. Congratulations stink, you’re going to be the chairman of nothing. Your legacy is tarnished and getting worse by the day. Tick tock, time is running out.

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Heard from my leaders that Stock Together was approved. We'll be getting email soon (i don't know specific date) on details.

https://press.spglobal.com/2026-03-31-S-P-Global-Names-Firdaus-Bhathena-as-Chief-Technology-Transformation-Officer-to-Lead-Next-Phase-of-Growth-and-Innovation

Look at the faces in the crowd of the Employee Culture recap video and tell me that Business Leadership still believes the koolaid they’re peddling sounds delicious to the employees. What a joke. No clue

Our department has lost many members over last month, how are we supposed to handle the remaining workload effectively? Leadership in this organization doesn’t care about the people just the outcomes that they deliver for them to go to LinkedIn and post about. The culture has become so demoralizing that most of us no longer have the appetite to keep working without saying something.

To write a Charlie Scharf earnings call commentary, and co-pilot nailed it.

Replace Senior Management with ai, they're all just a bunch of group thinking robots anyway

One of the funniest things I’ve ever witnessed in corporate America happened last week. Our tone deaf executives stood in front of a room and shared a half a**ed set of things we should care about. Then instead of making their “I will” statements back to the work force they had employees “commit” to their ignorance by reading statements.

News flash: Read the surveys. Less than 20 percent of the company supports the leadership team. Rumor has it we are going back to the office because the biggest proponent of going back to office has a spouse he can’t stand 😆😆😆

The company is going through turmoil and more and more people will continue to leave, can’t blame them at all. Thank goodness I’m in the final round of interviews. Instead of making things better they are getting more erratic.

GEHC has fallen so far in recent years. Sad and upsetting to see.

Corrupt leadership that care only about themselves. Do they know it is their fault? Do they care?

We still haven't recovered from the last RIF. No technical talent left, they would rather have an army of project managers... Leadership would rather have us work on schedules than get real work done.

I'm out. Don't let yourself go down with the ship.

Nike started acting like Shoe King instead of a Shoe Dog, and that is the problem....Go back to your Roots and begin again! Don't try to correct. Start with a fresh outlook with the same thrive and energy as PK and Bill Bowerman....Do not RESTART! Rather STOP and RESTART FRESH!

How far does the stock have to fall before someone realizes we have the wrong leadership? The Ferriswheel sold worldpay to FIS and then became CEO of FIS. Spun it as a great thing to jettison it. Wow! She really is amazing for her own net worth. While the shareholders and employees keep losing, she wins. Let me guess more cuts are coming because that is all she and her BFF can come up with when they catch heat. If McKinsey was public, it would have been a better investment than FIS. Meanwhile go tell the banks these are great changes for us. Look at the pretty dolphin.

Nike’s entire board ought to be scrubbed at this point too. Zero accountability for failings of successive leadership teams. Waiting on evidence they take their fiduciary duties to shareholders seriously at this point. Activist and buyout the best outcome at this point to break cycle of layoffs and restructuring to hide lack of real strategy and leadership…

One bad idea after a other - so many to list but let’s take MEC for example - we spent hundreds of millions to build - the “consultants” and internal Verizon lifers in leadership said it’s going to be revolutionary and make us billions.

Results …. Squat! Yet these 30yr veterans are still walking the hallways of basking ridge touting their accomplishments.

When will there be accountability ability to leadership and not just the people under them who executed the orders.

We need fresh leadership and new ideas - period!

conviction and belief then
THEY SHOULD WORK WITHOUT COMPENSATION IN LIEU OF STOCK OPTION.

THEN WE WILL BELIEVE IN EVERYTHING THAT YOU SAY.

FCRM/FCM remote OR employees were told by executive team, they would be displaced in October 2025, 4th quarter. That came around and they changed the date to the 1st quarter of 2026. Now into the 2nd quarter of 2026 with more empty promises and no displacement in sight. Prevent Ai not working as planned 😂 buggy program and they need to keep senior staff around to balance out the cascading CPH metrics. Also changed to IPH and lowered metrics because Fraud Agents are underperforming with a rushed Ai product.