Every single person I worked with liked their job couple of years ago. Now none of them do. We are talking close to 100 people, not 5 or 6. This place REALLY messed up morale. Everyone is either too overpaid to leave, trying to find a new job, gone, close to retirement and sticking it out, or completely checked out and doing the minimum.
Any serious ideas on how to turn this around as a grass roots movement?
This timeline tracks with the people I work with, I mean collaborate with in a commercial team. We have 10-15 years experience and most not near retirement. But we are zoned out AF and it went from 0 to 100 so fast. Thanks Gunjan
@b4 is correct. Our participation in the surveys in my group went from 90%+ to 30%+. Our manager asked why it was down so much and we algreed we didn't feel safe giving our opinion. It was NOT because they were too frequent. They are confidential not anonymous. She took it to her manager and he said that was true, his manager could see the details including who did and did not take it.
So now the participation is back up in the 80% range and people are lying they are happy. No trust, no safety.
GK will be gone before you know it....she isn't capable of doing anything positive in the long term for the bank. Laying off tons of people is a short term move. Just to bump the stock a bit upwards.
@b2 The employees know that even thou they say the surveys are private and management does not see them it is not true. How can my manager know that there was 100% participation and that everyone in her group participated. Employees are not explaining how they feel with the fear thar their answers will be used somehow against them. And honestly I agree with them. So you cannot take the answers from the survey to get a clear picture on morale.
Guys you are very wrong. If you listened to her, she listens to the employees and they say that they are all happy. The results of surveys are very positive. The morale is just fine. We totally don't have "yes men" here. They just aren't seeing any of this negative morale that you're all talking about. They would hear about it if it did exist. Do we need to put a little sign on the door saying don't bring in negative energy?
(sarcasm obviously)
Pizz poor leadership more concerned about themselves than the people they manage or the company that we all purportedly work for. Most will agree the wheels came off with the purchase of a bank that wasn't affordable, the savings from the acquisition never materialized and the time to close allowed the talent, the deposits and the goodwill to be lost.
I was the same way. Enjoyed most of my job up until the Union merger. It has nothing to do with the employees of Union the ones I’ve worked with were pleasant people. Since then my morale fell off the cliff. This company’s attitude toward employees since then has gone so far downhill since the merger.
Yep. I’ve been here for over 10 years. I wanted this to be my long term company. Now after shattered promises, tone deaf and needlessly opaque leadership, and a never ending onslaught of layoffs… I can’t stand it.
Grass roots? Sure. Be a leader for and to the people around you. Check in on them, remind them people they work with are thinking about them, and look for ways to work together and share the work load. That might sound trite or obvious, but it's the only thing you can do until you figure out how to leave for something better.
@OP 100%. It’s a complete mess. I have nothing left to give here.