#wellsfargo

For 5+ years, Wells Fargo has run an ambiguous layoff machine under the banner of “efficiency,” with quarterly severance accruals ($750M–$1B in 2023 alone) and global headcount slashed from ~268,000 (2019) to 217,000 (2024)—a net loss of ~51,000 souls. Meanwhile, India/Philippines ops ballooned: ~10,000 hires during the pandemic, VP-level Risk/Compliance roles offshored (requiring FINRA licenses), and threads here scream “All India Project.” U.S. employees train replacements in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Manila, then get the axe. Identity theft teams to Manila, compliance VPs to India—classic knowledge transfer before the pink slip. RTO mandates, hub consolidations , non-backfill policies, and location strategy force quits or relocations, masking the real goal: cheap offshore labor. It’s the account scandal 2.0—unethical cost-cutting, abuse shifted from customers to employees. No genuine restructuring; just coercion in “wagile” clothing. Signs it’s failing? India hiring freeze + 400 cuts in 2025, Chennai shutdown—optimization after U.S. displacement backfired with expertise loss (EPL flops, SSIS relics, cloud messes). Psychological safety? Zero. Teams? Ghosts. Innovation? Dead. Ethics demand shareholder scrutiny—until the next crisis exposes the rot. Document everything, join Wells Fargo Workers United, file EEOC if biased. Upskill (tuition reimbursement for certs and training), quietly quit, job search—JPMorgan’s building fearless AI teams (30% costs down, 20% sales up). Read The Fearless Organization. My mission: fearless workplaces. There’s a better option! #WellsFargo #OffshoringFail #FearfulBank

So, it took me 5 minutes to lay out a simple, transparent, and long-term strategy that would have hypothetically saved $6+ billion since 2019-2024. This topic is what the privileged 1% refuse to talk about. Who wouldn’t want a transparent, effective, Cheap CEO that effectively mitigates risk, and provides a simple strategy(which is more than what is currently being communicated today). That’ll be $29 Million Dollar’s”

“Hypothetically, as a virtual CEO of Wells fargo, what are some of the things that you would do or done to save costs since 2019 based on doing a history trend analysis and “Trending Sentiment Analysis? Please provide a hypothetical answer.

AI CEO plan
“As a virtual CEO of Wells Fargo, hypothetically focusing on cost-saving strategies, I would consider implementing several measures:

1. Enhance Digital Transformation: Accelerating the shift to digital banking can significantly reduce operational costs. This includes investing in AI and machine learning for customer service, operations, automating routine transactions, and enhancing online banking platforms. A focus on digital channels can reduce the need for physical branches, leading to savings in real estate and, non-customer facing roles are used to support across the business, reduce senior and unnecessary senior leadership which tend to lead to inflated personnel costs.
2. Branch Network Optimization: Review the branch network and consider consolidating branches that are underperforming or in close proximity to each other. This strategy can streamline operations and focus resources on high-performing locations.
3. Workforce Management: Implementing more flexible work arrangements, such as remote or hybrid work models, can reduce overhead costs. This could also involve a strategic review of staffing levels and roles, aligning them more closely with the bank’s operational needs.
4. Invest and Up skill existing employees : Invest & up-skill all employees and senior leadership. Form strategic partnerships, especially in technology for all employees to utilize and increase their efficiency.
5. Process Optimization: Streamlining internal processes through Lean management techniques or similar methodologies can increase efficiency and reduce costs. This includes simplifying workflows, eliminating redundant processes, and improving supply chain management.
6. Risk Management Improvement: Strengthening risk management and compliance can prevent costly fines and legal issues, as seen in recent years. This involves investing in better compliance training, enhancing internal controls, and adopting predictive analytics for risk assessment.
7. Sustainable Practices: Implementing energy-efficient practices in physical locations and investing in sustainable technologies can lead to long-term cost savings. This also includes reviewing and optimizing travel policies and operational practices for environmental and cost efficiency.
8. Review and Renegotiate Vendor Contracts: Regularly reviewing contracts with third-party vendors and suppliers to ensure competitive pricing and terms can result in significant savings.

Each of these strategies should be carefully evaluated for its potential impact not only on costs but also on customer service quality, employee morale, regulatory compliance, and the bank’s long-term strategic goals.

Based on historical trend analysis with a focus on the past “Five Years” varies. Hypothetically, it would translate to over $126.7 million dollars in savings should the current CEO be replaced by an AI Virtual CEO being utilized for the company CEO role in 2019 beginning in 2019

Hypothetically, The most probable total net cost savings average $5.7 Billion dollars from 2019 through YTD. This analysis includes meeting and completing all existing regulatory orders by due dates and the roll-out of the “AI Virtual CEO. One of the most overlooked aspects of a AI Virtual CEO is the AI CEO becomes more knowledgeable and is proactive all the time. (last refresh on 01/18/2024).“

Time for the off-shorer to become the offshoree muahaha

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Layoffs to the US workforce will continue until the December freeze goes into effect. Until then, More cuts will hit mortgage, CB, Auto, branches, corp risk, technology, and others in remote rolls and non-hub locations. They will also be hitting hub locations for individuals that are not compliant on the RTO policIES. The justification is to offshore for the cheap labor! This is the only way that C S knows how to cut costs. Pretty pathetic.

Now for the my rant of truth: if it’s TLDR, then don’t bother, I am only speaking the truth.

The current CEO is failing miserably. Meanwhile the Board of Directors continues to drive a false narrative that he is making progress and being a successful CEO while at the same time The company experiences, faulty systems, Multi billion dollar fines, and serious impacts to our customers due to all of these glitches that pop up on a monthly basis. it just goes to show how much the CEO actually understands repetitional risk.

The truth is the bank continues to be a habitual offender and meeting its regulatory obligations. CEO continues to cost the bank billions of dollars in fines and additional regulatory action. he is an overpaid CEO that cannot show any milestones or successes, or even how far along he is in whatever strategy he pitched to the board upon hiring him.

The Sharty CEO cannot maintain the stock price. in fact, it consistently is getting lower than when the bank came under extreme scrutiny and was outed for the false account scandal. Can someone tell me why this CEO continues to receive multi million dollar raises, unlimited access to the company jet for personal vacations, And insulate himself with his most recent hires of all his deadweight cronies.

The only way to turn this bank around is to find a CEO that actually understands both banking and technology. If Wells Fargo CEO was truly looking for this to be the year of efficiencies, he invest in the current employees, along with allowing everyone to use an AI assistant, such as Microsoft copilot. You would think that since he’s on the board of Microsoft, he would actually understand this. Unfortunately, he is a dinosaur and defaults to his 1980s playbook of offshore US domestic talent to hire three qualified offshore individuals. Any id--t could come up with this strategy.

If you really wanted to invest in our risk and controls he would be looking at technologies that not only automate these controls, but also allow the bank to be proactive in their risking control environment.

This will never happen under a dinosaur CEO. Let’s look at an example real quick. I’m no fan of musk, but if you look at Tesla and his other companies, there is a reason why he has become the richest man in the world coinciding with profitable companies. I understand his companies have had their ups and downs, but so has Wells Fargo.

The point I am trying to make is, without a younger CEO, Wells Fargo will never make any significant changes better their efficiencies. The CEOs, lack innovation, long-term strategies, and knowledge in what technology can do to assist workers do their jobs and be much more efficient. There is a reason why musk is the richest man in the world in such a short amount of time. I just named a few of those reasons.

It’s time to get rid of the senile dinosaurs and bring in some young, knowledgeable, and motivated employees

The only thing that our dinosaur CEO can say, is that he cut headcount by offshore US jobs and reduced costs by paying cheap labor. This reminds me of the barons back in the day who were building the railroad. They made sure to capitalize on cheap labor, regardless of equality or ethics.

If you look at their earnings, call, you can see that they’re big topic. Was they cut headcount which resulted in reduce expenditures. I’m glad they can pat themselves on the back.

If you look at the CEOs history, he has left every company with a bad taste in its mouth. Just ask the BNY melon folks about how he tried to implement a return to office policy. They gave so much pushback that he could not get it through and moved on.

This guy is deadweight! If the board is too senile to notice this, then they are deadweight too. It’s only a matter of time before this fragile house of cards comes crashing down. This is why the CEO has recently insulated himself with his cronies and has a golden parachute waiting when the time comes. Just take a peek at his offer letter on the SEC website. It is public information and you would probably be shocked. And for those who say that he is compensated based on compensation at similar banks. Well guess what, Wells Fargo is nothing like other banks! Can anyone name a bank that has been restricted to grow due to regulatory orders? The answer is no. Are there any other banks that have Paid as much and fines as Wells Fargo? The answer is no. This makes Wells Fargo nothing like any other of the banks. Don’t even try and compare it. I have still yet to see a milestone, or how far along our CEO is along on this smok and mirror journey.

The baby boomers are greediest generation, and history will judge them for that. They are nothing but ego maniacs, who refuse to step aside, and let young talent turn the bank around.

Offshore US jobs is not the answer. Capitalizing on both banking knowledge and utilizing technology will create efficiencies right out of the gate, and mitigates significant amounts of risk posed by offshore American jobs. These chumps should be ashamed of themselves.

If this was any other employee performing in this was they would have been fired years ago. It sure gonna be funny to watch when instability erupts in the regions are dinosaurs CEO decided to offshore American jobs to.

Biggest proof that our CEO is completely completely out of touch is the fact that he just spent a half billion dollars on space at HY. What kind of mo--n buys commercial real estate right before the bubbles going to burst? This was a terrible investment and could’ve been purchased at half the cost come 2024. he just needs a place for all his recent NYC hires that he has insulated himself with.

All of this is public knowledge and public information. If this is too long to read my bad. At least I’m providing the inconvenient truth. What a terrible CEO Who? is too old to even come up with a long-term strategy, and make sure that he can capitalize on his short term plan a.k.a. when is five years is up. Take a peek at his offer letter and you’ll understand what I mean.

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For those impacted by October layoffs. Tell’em why you mad! And details on layoff please.

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IGNORE ALL TROLLS THAT SAY A LAYOFF EVENT IS NOT HAPPENING. It is happening. Sorry to all those impacted.

NOTHING BUT THE FACTS!

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Layoffs on 8/8, 8/15, and 8/22..

Now for my rant! What is this mythological “Area Differential Pay”? And why do cities south of NYC Get Shafted?

Is the policy just a myth aka phased out? The latest economic data for over 3+ years shows how the cost of living has increased significantly (10%-25% since 2019/2020 Most employees who are in the “HUB City's” are far far overdue!

The details are in the data. No wonder they are outsourcing HR. Area differentials should have been updated….. Oh why, oh why do we allow these candy b-ms to use us troops as cannon fodder.

We have lots of power in numbers. Why is everyone allowing this nonsense? Maybe someone should take a look at the policy on this. Everyone is getting hosed. There is no reason why a Hub city should be paying 4 or even a 3 in area differential pay to employees. Hubs city’s should be no less than a “2”!

Meanwhile the Ivory Tower yokels enjoy their “0” area differential (highest paying rating). The risks senior leaders are creating is nutts! No wonder Charles has insulated himself with 90 new executive roles. Seems like he is getting ready for the large amount of info that is going to come to light.

“The path to the righteous man” is not working for charles in charge! He has you insulators primed and ready to be thrown under the bus that Charles is driving.

Inequality at it’s finest!
#WellsFargo
#Inequality
#WellsFargoProblems
#WFC
#WellsFargoBank

///Layoffs will continue as they have been and pickup.///

///After falling victim to Charlie's unoriginal strategy of offshoring American jobs, and H1b. The reason stated was my role was offshored to India & Philippines.

It put alot into perspective for me. Especially since I was compliant on the RTO policy’s, and never received below a “Meets” rating. Thanks ya chumps for laying off a family man who plays by the rules, and wife just so you could hire 2-3 incompetent offshore individuals who now have access to lots and lots of data. Sounds risky to me. Enough of my son story. Here is some cold hard public facts!

If the BOD and silly overpaid senile captain really cared about the bank or had an actual vision for the this banks future sustainability, a plan would have been shared. IT HAS BEEN 4 years ya chump! Speak up shareholders / stakeholders! Be madd! The stock price stinks! It was higher even after the 2016 accounts scandal this jabroni of a CEO was brought in specifically to fix! You would think a simple question to our brainless CEO, such as “how far along have you come on your personal journey at the bank? Can you speak to what you have completed?” NOPE, HE CANNOT! How pathetic is it that the CEO cannot even gauge his own progress or share any accomplishments. I think we all know why right? Because he has none At all! This is no exaggeration.

He should be embarrassed. How do you spend four years at a bank and literally not be able to gauge your own progress or comment on any kind of milestone? We all know this Jonny wisenheimer CEO likes to toot his own ho-n but it seems he has no ho-n to 2, because he literally has nothing to gauge in terms of milestones or progress!

How are shareholders still taking it on the chin from these Jabronis. Just think about it. What has this guy been doing for the past four years to where he literally cannot speak to a % poiny of progress. How is this CEO, getting seven figure raises the same year that he publicly announces he will not be accepting a raise? Also, is getting rid of a property at a $60 million loss really a win for the company? I’m not sure if the majority shareholders have just gone as senile as the BOD and crazy captain and just don't realize the risks that are being taken to maintain a cr-ppy stock price.

So let’s talk about what we know. we know after four years there have been no successes or achievements in any of the areas that were the captains focus point in the first place. I don't think a company has a more toxic atmosphere than this place as well.

I'm really surprised that the shareholder support this guy when we could be doing so much better. Instead, the same old baby, booming playbook is brought out to reduce headcount and offshore. what happened to rebuilding our brand? We need to win back the trust of our customers and be allowed to grow. does anyone really think we are reducing the banks risk by offshore to countries that have extremely lax privacy laws. this is a recipe for disaster! It is extremely shortsighted, does not support the American economy and goes against everything being stated in the news by these Gibroni when they say “We are better when we are together”.

I don’t know how anyone can look at that statement any different other than a straight up lie! If this were true, and we were better together, why are thousands of jobs being offshore? Why can the CEO not even speak to any personal milestones or progress that he has made with the company?

The truth is, the only thing these Gibroni can speak to is continuing to incur multi billion dollar fines, continuing to tarnish the brand, and destroying our relationship with the state that we are headquartered in. Does anyone have the kahunas to speak up and take some action?

Everyone knows that a CEO who is brought in to fix something is typically around for five years. Any of you think this guy isn't going to take the money and run in my opinion , you are all fooling yourselves.

How about this company actually steps up and supports this country and our communities instead of using that baby booming playbook of offshore jobs to show short term progress in terms of efficiency and costs. Just don't forget, you are opening up yourself to a whole new world of risk, and the regulators have made it pretty clear that we are a habitual offender.

Any leader, with half a brain would have focused on the issues or tasks that they were hired to do in the first place. The board can only drive in narrative of having a successful CEO in place for so long. Anyone that can read between the lines can see that no progress is being made especially when the commander-in-chief of the company cannot even speak to one item or personal accomplishment at the firm he is proud of.

Shareholders, employees, and anyone else with an interest should speak up and let it be known that this is unacceptable. Maybe the senile old fogies that are running the bank really don't care about the sustainability because they don't have much time left on this earth. Seems to me like are, taking as much money as they can and will retire leaving the company exactly where it was, or actually even worse off than before.

Everything mentioned in this post is public information, and opinions. There is no reason for this post to be taken down for speaking THE TRUTH.

HEY CHARLES! GO GET YOUR EFFIN SHINEBOX! YOUR A JOKE! PUT’EM IN THE BATCHROOM! Just ask your employees. Or, are you still too scared to virtually address all the employees you are eventually putting out of work . Way to practice what you preach….. Not! YOU DO NOTHING RIGHT. Just take it look at all the legal fees and multibillion dollar fines on your watch. Mic drop.///
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Shareholders should be so PO’d that the company ia doing so poorly. The BOD keeps portraying a successful CEO, yet an asset cap remains in place 5 years later(Meaning we cant grow!) and we continue to incur multi-billion dollar fines and embarrassing lawsuits. Yet they increase the captains base salary by a few million(when he publicly stated he would not accept a raise this year).

Shareholders should seriously call a vote of no confidence (IMO). This so called “multi-year effort” is a sham! guess what senile BOD, it has been almost 5 years since your golden boy was hired! What has been achieved? And by achieved, I mean when has the bank correctly remediated an order without paying billions in fines.

I am sorry to those who lost there jobs. You troops know the truth. Fact is, we keep losing real talent, and important mentors due to the current practices and toxicness caused by this CEO. Who just hired a bunch of people so he can insulate himself in my opinion.

Someone Fire this guy. The company is being run in a short sighted manner. BOD, DO YOUR JOBS! The stagecoach is out of control and the captain clearly cant save it. He has had hod histime, and plenty of compensation to fix the issues. The asset cap should have been lifted by now if this guy was delivering. He is not!

He is Mr. Shortsighted. Wells Fargo’s captain (CEO) reminds me of the id--t cruise ship captain who brought the cruise ship to close to the coast for a closer look. Well guess what, he crashed so badly, herolled the ship over. Then he was already in the lifeboat before the “abandon ship order was given”. Took years to cleanup the mess. Wells guess what, Wells Fargo is “already at the coast people”. The short sightedness by Wells Fargo’s are resulting in the same due to incompetence. Demand action, and pull back before it is too late!

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adding this for posterity

Let's Talk Wells Fargo 2022 Raises and Bonuses
Type away

January 6 by Anonymous | 6216 views | 4 reactions (+2/-2) | 34 replies (last February 9)
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Compensation Grade
Does anyone know what this means in the job profiles on workday?

January 1 by Anonymous | 3459 views | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | 20 replies (last January 3)
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Recalibrating Salaries
Anyone heard about the new "recalibration of salaries" effort that is supposedly starting at Wells tomorrow? I was talking with an internal person today. He had an interview with an HR person and she let it slip about the 'recalibration' effort when they starting talking salary.

What the heck is that and hopefully it won't be detrimental. Maybe it's to ensure everyone is UP to where they need to be...yeah right. Well we can hope anyway!

September 30 by Anonymous | 5774 views | 10 reactions (+10/-0) | 14 replies (last October 4)
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Wells Fargo Pay / Position Listing by PAYSCALE
There you go, source below... About 400 different position with Low/High dollar amounts:

November 3, 2020 by Anonymous | 3765 views | 12 reactions (+4/-8) | 15 replies (last November 4, 2020)
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Salary Range
Hello,
I am looking at an internal positing. I see a pay range (say: 100K - 150K), how much base should I expect or target? Does this pay range include bonus amount?

February 8 by Anonymous | 1958 views | 2 reactions (+1/-1) | 15 replies (last February 10)
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Wells Fargo India salaries

March 31, 2021 by Anonymous | 2233 views | 5 reactions (+4/-1) | 16 replies (last April 3, 2021)
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Is your salary keeping up with the inflation?
I got my 2% raise, folks on social security got a 5.9% COLA for 2021 (cost of living adjustment).

So, I am almost 4% down.

Should i start to work about 4% less?

18 days ago by Anonymous | 1131 views | 9 reactions (+7/-2) | 19 replies (last 16 days ago)
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Salary
Applying for Digital Consultant 5 role (IC) Product Owner. Does anybody here know what base can one expect? I know this is not regarding layoffs but I thought somebody may know if this is worth my time

July 23 by Anonymous | 1673 views | 8 reactions (+4/-4) | 15 replies (last July 26)
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At least the pay is good
Not sure about the newer hires but for those of us who've been here for a while there's one main reason to stay - the pay. I'm willing to put up with a lot if I have something to show for it at the end of the day. I've looked at my position at other banks and we are still at the top when it comes to compensation. If that changes, I'll be the first one out. Until then, I do my work and they pay me. I can deal with that.

April 13, 2021 by Anonymous | 2645 views | 16 reactions (+9/-7) | 16 replies (last April 15)
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When will the bonus be paid out
Just wondering so I can plan.
Thanks!

December 24 by Anonymous | 3140 views | 6 reactions (+3/-3) | 18 replies (last January 8)
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Compensation changes
December 15 by Anonymous | 1956 views | 10 reactions (+10/-0) | 6 replies (last February 15)
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2021 ICP/Annual Bonus
Has anyone heard about changes to annual bonus/ICP that will be effective for this upcoming performance review period? Rumors are that things are changing and not for the better? If this was talked about before, just let me know and I'll go review that thread.

September 29 by Anonymous | 5108 views | 5 reactions (+4/-1) | 40 replies (last October 17)
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Wells Fargo doesn't have to pay severance

January 14, 2020 by Anonymous | 11922 views | 23 reactions (+11/-12) | 16 replies (last July 9)
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Total Variable Compensation
Does anyone have more details on this and it will work?

December 1 by Anonymous | 3276 views | 3 reactions (+2/-1) | 11 replies (last January 28)
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Wells Fargo Considering Reducing Severance Package by half in 2021
November 20, 2020 by Anonymous | 17197 views | 19 reactions (+7/-12) | 31 replies (last November 3)
Post ID: https://thelayoff.com/t/181xczW1

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