Thread regarding U.S. Bank layoffs

RTO 100% for Locked laptops (kensington T-bars) powered on at various hubs

It is an open secret that many employees across major hubs—including Hopkins—are navigating the RTO mandate by doing the bare minimum, coming in person for few hours/two days a week, leaving laptops on Monday locked with Kensington T-Bar laptop Lock ($15) at or under a desks overnight to simulate presence, and take them off on Thursday or Friday. They all got 100% RTO compliance for last 4-5 months given RTO enforcement uses IP address tracking which is also our OFFICIAL "Talent" and "Performance" Metric for year 2026 (no other company or bank has this metric).

It’s an open secret that most employees hit 60-100% compliance while they were actually working from home, just by using U.S.bank Teams (attend meetings from home) and Outlook (compose reply emails) all from mobile phones at home or elsewhere (Hawaii vacation). I myself tried last month at Knoxville and yes it worked, but made sure to just get 60% RTO compliance so I do not get caught, but surprised to see many doing it without any fear.

Question: Why did Gunjan approved this ineffective 60% RTO compliance by our D-MB SEVP-HR with IP tracking as performance metric? What were she thinking? Is Gunja equally D-MB - like the CXO suite mocks her?


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@nh that's going to require to to spend BIG $$$$ though. What they pay for equipment is insane. They're not going to buy like 40k desktops. They'll take away our ability to access VPN before they spend more money.

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Post ID: @t9+1kr7e20t9

@nh Nope. There are not enough desks in many locations if 100% of the population is in office 5 days per week. That and nobody does desktops anymore. There are more reasons but I’ll stop there.

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Post ID: @qs+1kr7e20t9

There is a easy fix and keep this sh-t up and they will just take away the laptops and go back to desk tops.

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Post ID: @nh+1kr7e20t9

I have had my laptop locked in the office since 2022 and only come in once a year. Guilty??

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Post ID: @j0+1kr7e20t9

Only Scrum Masters could get away with this. They don’t do much anyway except go to meetings and check email and Teams

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Post ID: @h6+1kr7e20t9

Gas at $7/Gallon + Doubled Car Insurance Rate + Kids, Family and the 2+ hours traffic, but a bare minimum salary..this is majority of us 60,000 employees vs. Goonjan and CXO suite making Millions a year,Luxury travel to and fro paid and expesned to the company. They are the to set the RTO policy but do not have to worry or comply it, its the 90% of us who have to bear the brunt.

OUR (60,000 employees) Necessity is the mother of this invention (leave powered locked laptops at work in secret places), given no other company demands or measures Talent and Performance by the Timestamps and not actual delivery or management of aspects. STUPID and Du$B Goojan and CXO suite

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Post ID: @e8+1kr7e20t9

@dz I think it's intentionally fake but will be used as pretext to get us in the office for five days a week.

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Post ID: @e0+1kr7e20t9

And this bullsh-t is how we end up back in the office 5 days a week with some kind of tracking to make sure you're actually logging in from a laptop in an office.

Posting stuff like this is idiocy and literally hurts everyone. What is wrong with you people?

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Post ID: @dz+1kr7e20t9

@cp Is @cp SEVP of HR Or Gunjan posting anonymously who may have got shocked how employees cut short the ineffective and stu -pid ,d mb 60% RTO IP based policy as the official Talent and Performance metric for year 2026, when no one else did it.

@cp SEVP of HR Or Gunjan you guys better spend increasing the morale of employees and customers than demoralize by creating these Slavery mindset policies - Employees will find creative ways to cut short you Slavery enforcement policies.

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Post ID: @dg+1kr7e20t9

@cr Sorry to hear you cannot or do not want to do this. Everyone does this now and then. Well, unlike Gunjan, SEVP HR and CXO suite that expense their Uber trip from Home or 5-star hotel to HQ or wherever they are, we have to pay $6.50/Gallon at pump drive for 2-3 hours round trip and pay huge car insurance bills.

For Gunjan, SEVP HR and CXO suite there kids are in college so they got nothing to worry just increase the front digits of their 7 Figure salary, but for most of us (50,000+ employees, whom Gunjan considers as Slaves we have to pick small kids, pay bills, take care of elder parents, while still making less than 6 figures)

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Post ID: @df+1kr7e20t9

@a8 It is and every 1 in 2 does it, if you never have to meet anyone in person at work - all remote meetings: U.S.Bank Enterprise Mobile App on Iphone - Teams for meetings and Outlook for emails and all files are in One Drive, for most this is more than enough to get their jobs done, unless you have to meet someone in person, for that they come attend the meeting in person leave/lock the laptop come back again 2 days later. It is OPEN SECRET, Sorry to hear some did not know this

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Post ID: @de+1kr7e20t9

So you do nothing else all day long other than respond to emails and join Teams meetings? Must be nice! A lot of us do more than that in a day. It's impossible for me to leave my laptop in the office if I'm working from home. Are you for real?

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Post ID: @cr+1kr7e20t9

OP is trolling, probably works for HR, and is hoping employees are d-mb enough to come on here and share openly the ways in which they get around RTO compliance. No one is d-mb enough to blow up their own spot. Also I highly doubt that the situation described in the OP is real. You are able to go almost a full week on your just using your phone alone? All you do is join teams meetings and reply to emails? Lies!

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Post ID: @cp+1kr7e20t9

@a3 Privacy lol. Stop cheating.
Your angry coworker would snitch on you anytime.
You're scared that the company will ask you to return your salary for cheating before going to courthouse.

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Post ID: @c5+1kr7e20t9

Hang on, are you saying these people can work solely from home WITHOUT their work laptops? So just emails and meetings? If that’s the case wtf are they doing, they should be lucky they are even employed if they’re doing so little. The reason I hate RTO so much is that I legitimately have so much work to do that commuting eats into that and I am already working 9-11 hours per day so I don’t feel the need to commute on top of that. You’re telling me you and these other people have such little actual work to do that you can not even use your work computer for multiple days at a time??? GTFO I hate this company as much as anyone but come ON! That is some peak laziness and you should be seriously grateful to have a job if you’re doing that little work to begin with. Your days are numbered if you add so little value in general, not just as the bank but how are you gonna find another job if you’re currently useless?

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Post ID: @b6+1kr7e20t9

I have never even heard of this...and I doubt it's legit.

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Post ID: @a8+1kr7e20t9

we request thelayoff.com to delete this message - for privacy reasons

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Post ID: @a3+1kr7e20t9

Please remove this post, if HR or my boss finds I will be caught - please delete it.

  • a disabled parent with 3 small kids
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Post ID: @a2+1kr7e20t9

Please do not post these secrets - most of us cannot come to work 3 days so yes we did it for last few months. please delete this post, else if HR sees we can no longer do it. Please delete it (a request by many of us with families, small kids please)

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