anyone else think this trimester update is stupid? the behavioral model is just word soup. how about talking about why our 401k profit sharing contribution was so low?
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Do u think they will make the exceptions for “talent” outside the HQ? I keep hearin someone is going to make cases - for reel, how likely is it gunna be? Why no hire the dedicated contract folks
@b5 As a leader, if I had an associate that was actively trying to get their peers in trouble or throw others under the bus, that person would jump to the top of my Needs Improvement list. It a leader's responsibility, not an associate's, to ensure the right work, right quantity, and right quality are being delivered - and that associates are adhering to firm expectations.
You have every right to be upset about firm policy changes, even I am, but stabbing your peers and other associates in the back or adding to the negativity that is occurring hurts everyone at a time when we should all be leaning on each other more than ever to navigate this new Edward Jones.
@e6 think this was supposed to tag the jealous tattle tale person
@b0 You've lost the script if that's the way you think.
@dh did you really begrudge in office people for needing to use the restroom during the work day? Ironically most days are so back to back that we barely can do that. Cool.
@dh 100% this. Some of the laziest people I've ever seen were in the office. Lazy people will always find a way to be lazy. Also, if I'm HBA I don't care if someone wants to be in the office. I'm not going to force them to be HBA. On the flip side, notice how people who like being in office want EVERYONE to be just like them and enjoy the cubical hellscape? The pro RTO people are nothing more than busy body control freaks who want to micromanage people because they can't do any meaningful work. Ie They are d-mb.
@b5 give me a break. Just because you’re salty you don’t have a medical reason to WFH you’re goin go to try to ruin it for others? Grow up. You act like there aren’t time wasters in the office too. In the office you actually waste more time. All the bathroom/coffee/smoke breaks, talking to people in the hallways, lunch room, etc. most people are less productive in office. That’s why RTO is mostly about micro managing and wasted office space, not actual increased productivity.
@d8 They want us to quit, and there is no limit to the stress or damage they are willing to cause to make it happen.
Flabbergasted by the comments here. Division: Is that what ELT wants? If so, that’s so disappointing.
@b5 ableist piece of trash
@b5 Wow. You are a miserable person.
@b9 they will do after we RTO. They will give warnings about being too casual or something, then by end of summer the guys will be wearing ties again. Because culture or something...that meeting was the final straw for me. These people are tone deaf mo--ns who have no clue what they are doing. They hate us, they hate our kids, and they need us to quit.
@OP , I'm 100% positive the dress code will change out. They said it won't, but they like to lie.
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@b0 I agree with this! Those who work from home should be monitored and held to the same standards as in office employees. I swear I’ll call BS in the middle of a Zoom if I see someone pet a dog, go off camera to answer the door or any other luxuries we’re missing out on.
Also those who are allowed to work from home because they have a medical condition is complete BS!! We have a person on our team who works from home because of her “immune system” but comes into the office when there are social gatherings and of course little miss sickly is all excited because she won tickets to a concert….WTF!
@b3 If you are home and your young kids need support then you need to take a sick day. HBA does not mean you get to watch your kids. Many associates ask family, friends, etc to help or pay someone so they can focus on work as if one was at the office. That’s the fair way.
@b0 that's the type of "culture" they want ding do-g. They want us divided and playing hunger games with each other like it's north korea or something. Where kids snitch on their parents for extra scoop of food that week. Don't be like that. Remember, it wasn't your coworker that broke this sh1t.
@b1 Yes! Girls didn't have a southern accent but everyone still did the ya'll schtick like pantsuit does to seem more "relatable"
Did everyone catch the “y’all” from the first presenter (responsible for colleague experience)? They are robots. All of them. Insert coins and ticker tape spits out of their mouths.
Who can’t wait to experience the firm-wide AI Guild? Buehler? Buehler?
These people are a DISGRACE. I wanted to throw up the whole update.
The Lord of the Flies is going to kick in. If I’m in the office on Zoom and I see my HBA coworker babysitting during the workday, I’m running and telling.
I encourage others to do the same.
9 hours at the office (including lunch break) + 1 hour commute, draining your time and energy. 8 hours of sleep for good health. In reality, we would only have 6 hours left. And those 6 hours are allocated to cooking, eating, bathing, entertainment, exercise, childcare, and socializing.
@ax I missed the update meeting. What exactly did they say about our kids?
Summary: The beatings will continue until morale improves. Because we love you...your kids though? F- them kids.
@aq I honestly could not have said this any better and it’s exactly how I feel.
@a3 I mean, ELT's core values of greed, self preservation and crony capitalism haven't changed. So maybe Susie Q is onto something.
That was the most low energy pointless, stupid AF meeting I've seen in a while. Even pantsuit dipped. Conclusion, AI is the power bi. Power bi was the new excel. It's the new shiney object, but ELT has no clue what we do here. These people are d-mb, malicious, and should not be trusted to run a lemonade stand.
Translation: Yes, I used AI for my first post, which you correctly identified as such. Does this follow-up post of mine which I initially wrote myself, but then ran through AI to have it appear to be more "human inspired" fool you yet? I left off the period at the end, for that extra added "human imperfection" air of "authenticity".
@ap That's another quintessential problem I have with GenAI writing. Simply being well-versed in sentence structure (oh gasp, knowing how to use a semi-colon, and moreso an em-dash?!) and being grammatically correct has conditioned people to associate proper writing as "AI". Thankfully, I didn't use other corny signs like "it's not just x, it's y" and random triplicate structure "the x, y, and z" and keywords (e.g., "delve" "pivotal" "landscape" ). I hate having to read a leader email with AI-slop (e.g., Milestone Worth Celebrating) and immediately identifying the overuse of em-dashes, rule of three, (full stop sentence > a question > but insert answer here) riddled all over
I’m done going above and beyond. I used to work hard to make an impact and to make things the best they could be. I genuinely wanted to make a difference.
Going forward, I’ll be doing what is required of my role, no more and no less. When compensation sits at the bare minimum, the colleague experience is underwhelming, and more recently has started to feel negative, if not outright toxic, it becomes difficult to justify the extra effort.
The joy and passion I once had for this work have largely disappeared. What remains is simply doing the job.
What’s especially frustrating is seeing more pressure placed on employees while leadership continues to emphasize our Core Values. It’s hard not to notice the growing gap between what is said and what is experienced.
Ironically, your post itself reads as if it were "written" by AI.
@ag The do want the HBAs to work a straight 8. Part of the communication that went out regarding HBA's is to have them more "engaged" which means they need to be online and present working and not doing their house to-do items. They already have the software in place to monitor HBAs and how they are working.
@aj Do you really expect ELT to take $5-10 million less/yr collectively from their $200 million+ in annual compensation to give everyone an extra $500-1,000/year towards their 401(k)?
Think of poor ELT! Stop being so selfish!
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If they want talent as an edge, well open up budgets. Pay more, get with the times. Increase the $500 401k match (that's pathetic btw, always has been), profit sharing has been getting lower despite record profits. We're a financial services firm whose sole goal is to have clients achieve financial success. Since we have to be clients, why are we exclude? If they pay us more, we invest more, which drives more revenue to the firm.
Thank your for the transparency that you don't give a fu-k and you're an id--t
If the 4-day in-office was truly in the best interest of the firm, they'd have the data to support it - they don't. It's about control and positioning themselves to punish those that don't adhere to the expectations/rules.
@a8 those AI efficiency gains have to be used elsewhere, like your commute time and less flexible work hours :) And that extra 4th day that no one needed, and of course regarding efficient "consistency," work we can't have family obligations for flex-work hours either. That's "unfair", and would provide less stress but that's okay because we aren't human-centered anymore, but outcome driven
Go in early because you need to pick up your kids from school at 3 PM???? Come on, just let people come in and leave and stay as long as they can. But this whole be there for 8 hours or longer is so strange. Just microchip us.
The firm just said fu-k them kids