Thread regarding Bank of New York Mellon Corp. layoffs

Survival Mode Activated

Day 1,342 in the corporate wasteland.

Communication are ghostly whispers in the dark, never reaching the frontline.

Leadership? Vanished. We wander through endless corridors with no map, no guidance, only the echo of “figure it out.”

Attrition isn’t natural here, it’s engineered. Colleagues disappear one by one, not from monsters, but from policies designed to push them out. The older survivors are the first to be hunted, marked as “obsolete” by forces we can’t fight.

Every meeting feels like a boss battle with no we-pons. Every email is a trap. The objective isn’t growth, it’s endurance. And the only reward for surviving another day? Watching the next teammate fall.

BNY Mellon isn’t a workplace. It’s a horror game where the odds are stacked, the exits are sealed, and the players are expendable.

Press X to try and escape… if you still can.


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@fa - I get welcoming an analyst cohort into the bank with certain perks and a bonus, but treating us analysts better than people who’ve been here for years is not right at all. We have close to zero working experience, and we make more than full time employees. After this program I am hitting the road, maybe even beforehand! Once the bonus is vested I might say see you never BNY!

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Post ID: @hq+1kahq4nzt

@es - The answer to your question is yes. And take into consideration that all non-campus analysts lack the nice perks (like $10k raises, bonuses, recognition, etc.). So if we seem a little extra miserable, you know why.

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Post ID: @fa+1kahq4nzt

Do they intentionally try to make this place miserable? I started not too long ago in an analyst position and I have yet to hear one good thing about this place from anyone.

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Post ID: @es+1kahq4nzt

I did press X and escaped. And super happy that I did. I don't know how anyone is still there.

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Post ID: @dw+1kahq4nzt

Super sad right now, like finding out the OPS team is getting chopped in half next year. Feels less like a “sword of Damocles” hanging over our heads.

Basically I’m just sitting here waiting for the corporate Grim Reaper to hit the snack button on his way out and take half my friends with him. Fun times. 😂😭

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Post ID: @ah+1kahq4nzt

This was poetic. I felt that beat, lol.

Jokes aside. As a BNY survivor, note you need to see yourself more as a sociologist / psychologist more than anything. If you play more this role while doing the tasks asked of you, the healthier you will be. Otherwise, it is torture. Because that place isn’t humane. Mistake number 1? Thinking you work for humans or they see you as human.

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Post ID: @ae+1kahq4nzt

May the odds be ever in your favor ✌🏻

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