In Penny's Page for October 27, 2025 Penny says great teams don't just work side by side, but they grow together so they can build something lasting. Is she serious? Does she think anyone is buying her BS anymore? This is something our first five managing partners could have said and it would be believable because those leaders lived those words. Unfortunately, our sixth managing partner does not live these words. She spouts these words out haphazardly and then lives a different life. How does our Edward Jones teams grow together and build something lasting by eliminating American jobs and sending them to India? How do you bring people out of COVID and back into the office because we need to do business face to face and at the same time send American jobs to a third world country on the other side of the world? Is Penny serious when she says these things? During the sixth managing partner search the candidates underwent psychological testing. If Penny is serious when she spouts out this garbage then she probably needs a more current psychological testing. She is losing it and she is losing it quickly. Penny, come to your senses and just step down. You have done enough damage already. I do not know if this company is salvageable or not. If it is, the next managing partner is going to have their work cut out for them. God save our firm.
9 replies (most recent on top)
Who is next in line to take the reins?
Penny is the least genuine and least inspiring leader I’ve ever seen. She’d rather spew BS full time than be real for 5 minutes. We can handle the real. We can respect the real. But not this BS. The only people cheering this on are here for the money. I’ll be here until I find a new job. Peace
Hopefully, the final act of this modern day Marie Antoinette would be to take the firm public. Then we, the internal witnesses to this multi-year s**t show, will take our years of accumulated knowledge, open a Schwab account, and short the stock. Simple, painless, and profitable. Now that, my friends, is “Enterprise Reimagined”.
@ep If there is a firm left to hand the reins over to after Penny is done dismantling Jones DC will definitely finish it off. The writing is already on the wall.
@a3 We all know who is being groomed to be the next MP. It will get worse before it gets worse.
Hungry, hustle, heart, blah, blah, blah. Very inspiring to the rest of us who have been demoted. We are now doing more work for less pay.
@a3 you assume that Chubakka isn't going to take the reins and accelerate the decline and gut this firm for all it's worth while he takes a fat pay day as the rest of us suffer.
Penny knows there is no "I" in TEAM. However, she knows there is an "M & E".
I used to be proud to tell people I worked at Edward Jones. Now I am not. I am ashamed at how Penny has totally changed 100 years of culture in just six years. The old gal turned 62 on Friday. At the most, the firm just needs to hold on for three more years. Three long years. Who knows how much more damage she will do in the next three years before she ages out.