Thread regarding Charles Schwab Corp. layoffs

RTO: Make it make sense

They keep selling us on collaboration and team work. Here’s the reality for many of us:

  1. Our teams are spread out over many locations. Some of us are now forced to work alone in a small 4x4 cube surrounded by people we dont know or work with at all.

  2. Being forced to sit in a small cube constantly distracted by loud employees from other orgs is not collaboration. It's distractive and annoying

  3. I waste 15 hours every week driving to a building where the quality of my work is suffering

  4. More sick days. I'm constantly surrounded by sick people. I never used my sick time WFH. Now I will use them to their full availability

  5. I used to work more than 40 hours WFH because it was convenient and I felt obligated due to being allowed to WFH. That ended with RTO. I'm not going the extra mile any more for a company that treats me like a child and babysitting service, while lying to me about collaboration and RTO

  6. I have spoken to so many employees who already have one foot out the door. As soon as the economy switches back to a more friendly employee environment, schwab is going to lose a lot of talent

Nobody likes working for this company anymore. I dont know of a single employee who happy at schwab now. Walt and now Rick have turned this place into a soulless, stale company that only cares about the stock price where the executives get fat stock options and bonuses.

#Collaboration #Executives #RTO #SickDays #WorkLifeBalance
by Anonymous
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@OP FYI; if you read the actual policy on sick days, you'll find out you really can't take them all. If your PL wants to crack down, you can't more than I think it's 3 in a 3 month period. I haven't checked the policy lately, but have known people who were written up for taking excessive sick days...even though they had sick time to use.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @kd+1kkpq5v6n

RTO is great! In 2 weeks we’ve had close to half our team out sick b/c some dum--ss came to work with Covid coughing and sneezing all over the place.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @g4+1kkpq5v6n

Also the emails going out mandating 8 hours minimum with RTO lmao. Such a fckn old-school way of thought. Guarantee these leadership positions work like 4 hour days and then tell everyone else to work 8. Fck this place

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @fj+1kkpq5v6n

RTO makes a lot more sense when you realize it’s about control, attrition, and real estate optics. Making people miserable pushes some to leave and teaches the rest of us to fall in line. Leadership wants everyone back in the building so they can be seen and remind people who’s in charge, while the rest of us are packed into cubes and tracked on badge reports. The rules clearly don’t apply the same way to the people who made them, who sit in their offices on the days they feel like coming in and work from their second home the rest of the time.

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@af

And be stuck around abrasive bootlickers like you? Nah, I'll take literally any other outcome.

Be sure to enjoy tasting that polish!

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @dn+1kkpq5v6n

Wow

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @c6+1kkpq5v6n

Quit asking the same stoopid questions and just go into the gawd damned building.

by Anonymous
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