Had a team meeting today where the VP felt the need to tell us that employees who are mediocre but have a good attitude and kiss the bank's a** will make a better impression and be rewarded over the ones who excel at their job but don't show a positive attitude and promote the bank. You can't make this stuff up.
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That manager must have been a holdover from Countrywide....
@MsO4b0i-hogw, that's sound advice. There really is no future on Wall Street. Doing great work and expecting to move up in the ranks is a pipe dream from a time gone by - you're more likely to hit the next layoff list to make way for your H1B replacement whom you will have to train. Or you will at least have to pass on your knowledge to your new Diversity rules, Indian manager who will do that.
BoFA is no different than any place on Wall Street. Perhaps a bit more exaggerated but the same nonetheless. Wall Street is a dead end unless you are fortunate enough to be a deal maker or rare trader that contributes to the bottom line.
The days of the regular guy working hard and playing smart and being a great success ended years ago. Kids - leave Wall Street to the H1B techs that are flooding the market and driving salaries into the crapper. It's a dead end and the sooner you realize that the better off you will be.
That's right, the "How" means - you have to kiss the manager's a$$ while you're doing the "What" and if you don't then you didn't do it correctly or you didn't do everything that you were supposed to do - ie your performance is lacking. Manager's with ego issue display this kind of behavior and use it to hide their known incompetence - known means they know it and are trying to hide it from everyone else. Overall this place has no future.
Two reactions: 1. Your VP is a bad manager, but there is no shortage of them at Bank of America. 2. That is why you are evaluated omniscience's the What and the How. The latter parameter is easily manipulated by any manager with half a brain. It really gives managers the ability to stack rank employees in whatever way suits their needs.
Sounds like the VP was actually trying to help and tell you like it is even if you don't like it. Sad as it sounds, the VP is right and the sooner you accept that the better off you'll be. Get your resume in order or practice your pucker.
I work for a large division of BAC in the northeast. Over the last 4 years I have trained "kids" 25 years younger than me, who basically didn't know the difference between the stock room let alone the stock market, some of them thought an "executor" was someone who cut people's heads off in medieval times, and so on. When it comes to learning anything, suddenly there is this freakin attitude of "why do I have to do that" ,doing the job half assed is perfectly fine according to them .What s---s is several of these obnoxious under educated kids have gotten promoted. However, they drink the cool aid and s--- the you know what. enough said!
LOL. That's pretty much the way it is EVERYWHERE in corporate America.