Its clear they could careless about their employees well being and mental health. Not only did the su----e on campus occur but a friend of mine that worked at USAA for many years went through a depression at the begginning of the year. Instead of the company helping him they just ended up firing him although none of his work actually suffered. Really sad and scry to be apart of this organization that claims to care about military service members and peoples well being.
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Bang your head. Metal health will drive you mad. In this quiet riot.
I am actually worried about the mental health of some of our leaders. Which doesn't bode well for us. Some of the slack postings have crossed the line from garden variety performative bs, through the valley of cringe, and into full on "cry for help" territory.
We have directors literally tweaking on Adderall or whatever other legalized me-h they are on* so they can sit through 8 hours of meetings and then work 8 hours. Cue, Adderall comedown induced rage spirals.
Not great, people!! I would like to see USAA get better.
- I hope it's legal but I know it's me-h.
It might be a good idea to review fmla options as well if you are treated for mental health concerns
It’s no surprise the the culture team was let go - nice people who made 6 figures and did nothing to move the company forward. Nothing remotely strategic came from that prior team. Exit gracefully and stop creating false narratives. Let it go… you were ineffective at best.
Gonna move this here, from another thread:
Former HR (Culture) here: This isn’t new. They put you on a made-up PIP to get you to quit on your own. It’s how they signal that they’re going to try to fire you unless you quit first. HR calls it “performancing them out” and they’re actually really proud of how vague, broad, and subjective they can make the PIP. They laugh about it amongst themselves. If it doesn’t work in getting you to quit, they will work with CLO to assess how much trouble the mandatory arbitration would be, depending upon who you have as a lawyer and what your other performance has been like. If your performance has been solid until the PIP, and your lawyer has a good track record against them, they might decide to throw you a bone. They arrive as a dollar figure of what it might take to settle with you, and offer that during the arbitration. USAA HR is as sleazy as it gets, and even more so under Tamla. I was relieved when they laid me off instead of putting me through all that. Just know hat HR treats it like a game, and they are laughing at you. The more upset you get, the more they tell other HR and CLO the story. Culture was never able to do anything about it. Sickening.
If you want to make a difference and help implement change, then report your incidents to U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission / The Department of Labor. The documented cases will increase the probability of investigation / findings
It is sad to see the leaders continue to care less about their employees and still treating them like trash. The issue on campus should have been a wake up call to the current mental health status of our employees. Instead it is business as usual, don’t discuss what happened, and be happy you have a job today. I am hearing more team members stating they have started taking some type of anxiety or depression medication just to get through the day. Working one day at a time not knowing if you will be let go is taking a horrible toll on employees. The changes and unrealistic exceptions set by the EMG and above have started to greatly impact employees. Now the EMG’s latest strategy is throwing out PIP’s like Halloween candy. One new tool coming down the HR pipeline is the PIP or severance out option that should be a real morale booster for the organization. Tamla has found a faster way to throw employees out the door. Thank you for showing how much you really do not care about employees.
USAA inflicted emotional trauma on me as a member and I can empathize.
Full story here:
https://www.dontbankwithusaa.com
You can listen to the recording on June 9th - I was literally crying in despair when they blocked me from 50% of my life savings that I just transferred over, as I was moving cross country and no way to get it back for 60 days.
Thankfully, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau exists, and I filed a complaint, and USAA facilitated a review of the lockout and overturned the person that had no oversight in their actions to cancel me.
You want to gauge my mental health during that period? USAA almost caused me financial ruin.
I went through a tough time at the beginning of the year and my manager was very supportive.
He also made sure I was aware of company resources, including the employee assistance program, benefits in the medical plan and short term disability so I could better understand what was available.
I ended up pulling together a plan that worked best for me, leveraging a range of available resources, some through USAA and some unrelated to USAA.
Physical activity was the surprising one — getting 30-45 min a day of exercise ended up being a game changer for me in terms of enhancing my outlook and emotional well-bring.
Everyone of different though. What worked for me might not work for you. But know that you are not alone and resources are available to help you get started on a path to wellness.
Please make your mental health a top priority! Whether USAA (or any company for that matter) is actually helping or hurting you, there are free resources out there. One that helped me tremendously was Recovery, Inc. For putting a dollar or two in a basket, doing the program (involved getting a book and reading sections of it during the sessions; I was helped so much by the program that I read the entire book), I learned how to help myself. I have been using the program now for 25 years, and it has always helped me.
I am not trying to minimize the impact of what is happening to your friend, yourself, myself (yes, USAA treated me shabbily), or others.
But I am saying, "Keep going! You are worth it!"
USAA fed their employees some lines of how great they are, blah, blah. Bottom-line is that you are great, regardless of how a company or employees of that company treat you.
Look, y'all need to stop expecting so much satisfaction from a job. Set boundaries and start living. Have goals outside of work - you are not your job.
@1csh+1ox8lpkK You know, there's this thing called GOOGLE. You should try it sometime. Hope that helps.
USAA provides a ton of resources to the employees and family memebers. The power is in your hands to get help. Or remember this: you can quit if it's affecting your mental well being.
What happened to work life balance? Your at work posting on company time? Or your at home thinking about work? The only thing constant at usaa is change, maybe you should change before they change you.
Sr Leaders seem to have redefined "servant leadership" as micromanagement. Think we're saying we go back to employee centric approach, and Sr leadership needs to do better modeling behaviors to serve employees as employees should serve our members.