We care about your mental health but you better get that A-s in a seat to be on zoom for 3 days a week.
Aren’t you excited about Frisco? You get to deal with the fallout from Denver, picking up the slack, and force-hiring lesser talent in Texas at the expense of years and years of proprietary knowledge.
You worked extra hard, worked extra hours, went above and beyond, but was awarded a 2 or 3 because leadership does not understand your work because they aren’t that smart. But, if you repeat enough “Wow Amazing look at this” communications you can trick leadership like a toddler that needs to eat their veggies into giving you a better rating.
The company is broken. Apathy is rewarded, while hard work and talent is trashed or misunderstood. I have seen some of the most talented and hard working people completely shift their mentality to do the bare minimum because TIAA has not rewarded what should be rewarded. It’s hard to not get bitter or depressed when you get blamed for the company’s expense issues, when you work your a-s off but see yet another clueless new hire have to have to hand held and ultimately underperform. But that underperforming manager goes unnoticed because they just manipulate metrics and pat themselves on the back enough and loudly.
The company has an insane amount of non-work related programs, meetings, emails, support groups, extra events, and other complete waste of resources and time. Get rid of just half of this and suddenly our labor expenses are less of an issue. But no, let’s fire a bunch of senior and tenured employees and keep hiring more levels of management. Fire 3 people who actually work and hire 1 mid level manager for the same price. Make it make sense!!!