Thread regarding U.S. Bank layoffs

The “new coffee machines” compete against Minneapolis skywalk coffee vendors.

RTO (and in my case it never was ‘return’), was theorized as a way to get people to quit and in increase economic activity in the urban cores.

So, scratch the economic development part with the nice coffee machines or something.

Adding plaza consolidation, I smell $ panic.

Offer voluntary enhanced severance and I will sign the nda and “no sue” in 30 seconds!

It's all the upper management calling in line. I was not on this call but a similar one with our upper management and he basically kissed the CEOs a-s, saying essentially that we are all whiners and she's great, to look forward to more layoffs, and with a weirdly accusing tone said our department is overstaffed. His reasoning? Because people are shuffled around to different teams all the time to help out and you can't do that unless you have overstaffing. Which is entirely mo--nic because we have massive backlogs due to recent massive workload increases and previous layoffs leaving some teams with barely any staff at all, so they just look at who is less behind that another team and let some people try to catch up the most behind teams. It's a sign of understaffing if anything. A fully staffed team doesn't need to borrow and move people because of constantly slipping out of timeframes. Every time a single person takes a few days off we fall behind again.

Big b@11s out here sock puppeting like she doesn't have specific tells in her writing that may as well be a signature.

Whining is bad, complaining is bad, we all learned that in kindergarten. If it’s so bad here, let your feet do the talking and try not to let the door hit you on the way out. There are dozens of well qualified people who can easily slide in, do you job, and not bring negative energy to work every day.

She’s an incredible leader, just incredible.

@e7+1jvczhn2h
I'm completely with you. All the complainers who haven't stepped foot in the office meanwhile others have been doing it for years. I hope they do let them all go because they're doing nothing else other than dragging down their colleagues and not doing their job and other have to pick up the slack. Imagine how tone deaf you are complaining about working in the office for 3 days a week meanwhile there's so many other jobs that you have to come in the office at least 5 days a week.

@e7+1jvczhn2h

You're not worth acknowledging.

I'm ready for all the whiners to be let go, they are so obsessed with being wronged that they don't even realize they are their own problem and are creating the negative atmosphere. There are a small handful of people at the Plaza and Nicollet in RM&C that are actually trying to be friendly and have some sort of in-office community, everyone else keeps there heads down without even acknowledging humans around them. Enough with this nonsense, RTO has been here for a long time, go find something else that makes you happy instead of thinking you can complain your way out of this. You are in charge of your own morale, decades of participation trophies have created some weak and whiny people.

I laughed when she said it’s not the leaders and managers jobs to help with morale. It kind of is lol. You’re supposed to set an example for your employees. Instead you have the CEO during mental health awareness month belittling employees. They live in their bubble there is no changing their views on anything. This place doesn’t mean anything to me beyond the paycheck.

For some reason, anytime someone dares critique JR or GK on this forum, you get one or two shills who come out the woodwork and play the race card, s-x card or talk about how they are so wonderful. Been going on for at least several months

@a3+1jvczhn2h anybody can say they're anybody on this website. So someone could literally pretend to be a senior leader and post under their name in here and nobody would know any different. Idk what the point of this ask is.

Yes, disappointed but not surprised. Gunjan has set the new cultural tone and senior leadership has fallen in line. I've never worked for a company where layoffs are the reward for solid financial performance.

Does anyone have intel on which departments will be hit with layoffs and when they are coming? I'm updating my resume and putting up my Linkedin flag this weekend, will need as much of a head start as possible in this economy.

Sounds like typical Jodi. She will never change. Last year she told people on a call that we’re all adults and need to stop complaining and if we didn’t like the changes we could leave. From then on no one listened to anything she said. She’s just a sr manager who only cares about her bonus and the millions of dollars worth of stock she offloaded before the layoffs started last year. She’s disgusting and does not care about her people. She should never be in a position of leadership because she wouldn’t know how to be a leader if it hit her in her smug face.

Sick of the fact that Jodi thinks morale is solely tied to RTO. From looking at the written comments it’s not just the act of returning to office that people have a problem with, its the increased costs with doing that (parking fees), its the fact no one has a personal workspace where you can have your own da*n trash can or even personalize to feel more at home. It’s the fact that “collaboration” is still happening via TEAMS meetings anyway. Do I like being in traffic for something I can easily do remote, no! Do I go anyway, yes but Jodi and upper management need to acknowledge the ACTUAL problem.

@am+1jvczhn2h

Grow up, child.

@ag+1jvczhn2h
Ok buddy, surprise you have any friends or colleagues that would want to associate with you with that poor attitude.

@af+1jvczhn2h

Sorry buddy, about 90% of the people I've talked to in person or on teams for the last two years has expressed opinions like the people you're saying are in the minority. That doesn't sound like a minority. Sounds like you're either spreading misinformation or you're willfully ignorant, to the same effect.

It's funny because this website is only for the few complainers who hype themselves up thinking they're the voice of the majority lol.

@a5+1jvczhn2h

Calling people cowards for hiding behind a screen while hiding behind a screen is hypocritical. They can put their money where their mouth is or get off the site.

This person repeatedly asking for people to post their names is a deranged lunatic. What would it ever matter? Anyone could pick any name of their favorite stooge off the directory to say that so you could enjoy reporting them to HR.

Just a continuation of what Jodi's been saying all along. The last several quarters she's been saying that she expects engagement to drop due to RTO, but it'll rebound as people get used to it. Surely the rebound is coming! Nothing to do about it but tell people to su-k it up. The problem with this kind of attitude of course is that the actual work at the company is done by the people whose morale is low, and if their morale is low, and there's no career progression, no raises, no benefits to doing a good job, why would they put in the effort? All this talk about "lower cost geographies" is laughable too, every company that outsources eventually realizes that quality matters, and goes back to hiring professionals in 5-10 years. Not that the long term matters to these people, upper level management in the US has over the last 30 years has been nothing but pump and dump scammers that sometimes succeed, and sometimes fail spectacularly.

@a2+1jvczhn2h

Prove you're not a coward. Post your name and location.

This is what you get for complaining about rto and not doing your part. RTO is a privilege it is not a right. There's low paid fast food workers who drive to work everyday just to make ends meet. You are a coward hiding behind your screen posting as anonymous person bashing and complaining about someone who's doing their part.