Thread regarding Truist Bank layoffs

@ag we love watching those laughing at Rogers like we were watching Mystery Science Theater.

@a8 I call BS on people “leaving without notice.”

@OP you have sick days to take care of doctor’s appts. Stop whining. Don’t like it here (and most large companies including in the financial sector ended their work from home policies a long time ago)? Easy answer. Leave. Go take your incredible skills and positive job attitude and go work somewhere else. Good luck.

@y6 REL, especially mortgage, is a ghost town by noon with only a handful of bitter teammates who are required to work a full 9 hour day in office.

@1fe I swear this is what one of our managers does as they can just answer emails and messages on their phone.

But now all of a sudden they are serious about RTO.

If you’re running errands, you’re not really working from home, are you?

Yawn. Management is weak. Our workforce is just as weak….entitled and whinny and way over confident in their abilities. Let’s get this GCC up and running. Although I will miss all the comments on this board when the work moves offshore….and stop with the we have to fix all their work. Remember, employees built all the cr-p we have in house now.

@q5 you must work in mortgage under Jeremy Williams.

@ef WTF is wrong with you? Disgusting comment.

My manager told me as long as I get the swipe in recorded, I can turn right around and go home, I just now have done it for five days straight instead of four. I get there at 7, swipe in and I am back home and online by 8

We all go to lunch, swipe back in and then pack up and leave. This is not rocket science.

@bc No, our manager (who works from home AT THE BEACH) says we can’t because that does not set a good example. Good example for who?? No one else is in our building after lunch but us!

@c5. I had my office to my self for 4 years... :(

@a7 Tip of the Day: keep your calls on speaker, especially with upper management on the call.

Let them taste “collaboration”.

The RTO 5 days is an attrition play.

They want people to leave without paying severance. There's no other reason, collaboration can be done with 3 days a week as you have a least one day overlap with everyone, 5 is supposed to hurt flexibility.

Yes there can be CRE reasons, poor management that are scared it will come out they are not needed, even tax break reasons from local government but none of that is the reason for 5 days.

Unless all the other banks move to this model, I give it 18 months before we reverse course.

My bank started making rumblings about RTO5 a few months ago. Now, CRICKETS. Wondering if our EL and HR are watching you all (and JPM, also RTO5). If mass resignations happen the first two weeks of March, I bet they reconsider. Sorry you’re going through this. I hope smarter heads prevail.

It would be nice to go back to 2 weeks in and 2 weeks out.

Empty building was so peaceful.

As a Suntruist employee now retired, thank goodness, you have aging leadership that can’t see the vision that the work environment is changing. Too old school. The need is a younger CEO with vision for the future in banking.

@bc In Charlotte people come in between 9:00 and 9:30 and go home at lunch. By 2:00 the office is empty. Coworkers in Atlanta say the same. This is an absolute joke. My friends at BofA said in a recent all all hands that people complained about coming in three days. The leader made a humorous comment about that bank down the street going in five. That’s our leadership. A punchline in a bad joke.

We're all just leaving at noon every day, right?

Obviously no one has watched this month’s Purpose Corner edition. After that 6min 24sec gripping inspirational message on PMV, our Champion mindset, and accelerating our momentum in the new year we should want to come in six days a week! We are unstoppable and have a huge 1% salary increase to look forward to!

Entire leadership staff is remote today. Jokes write themselves.

#AMPLIFY #5RTO

People are leaving my group without notice, including some of our strongest and most experienced contributors. Once AIP and LTI are paid in March, I expect many of the remaining high performers to exit as well. Backfilling these roles will cost more and take 6–12 months before new hires can contribute at the same level. If this is the intended direction, the long-term consequences for Truist will be severe. Clients are already frustrated with declining service levels, and I expect this will drive client attrition and weaken Truist’s competitive position relative to other banks.

Couldn't agree more. Considering the values are trustworthy, caring, one team, success, and happiness, RTO is blatantly anti-trustworthy, anti-caring, and anti-happiness. Probably anti-success too but we'll see. But hey I guess One Team might still be applicable - One Team that makes decisions based on the few, negatively impacting the many.

Vibe: Funeral Home, Morgue
Morale: Low with room to drop further
Environment: Impossible to take calls/meetings when you have ambient conversations and borderline yelling permeating your headphones
Collaboration: Still teams/web meeting-based...shocker
Office Perks: None - no coffee, no snacks, heck its a toss up if there are even utensils present

The whole thing has been a joke. Pi-s poor management at the middle level at its finest. How can a bank be successful if this is how something as simple as RTO is managed.

Great points. The worst part about RTO you still have several groups and teams that are still fully remote even though they are near an office.