Lately, it seems like more people are just being let go. They're not calling it a layoff, and there's no severance. Just, quietly firing folks, I guess?
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@458 Illegal firings ate what? Where they hungry? Nice failed parallel. 🤡
@3f6 Correct. No more Directors of Product Management with 2 direct reports. Cummings' A&A teams are gonna get thinned out of their ineffectual 'leaders'. Cr-p is getting consolidated under Member Value.
A loud one, big round of layoffs, is coming to P&C. Everyone is holding out their breath right now, and you can feel the tension in the office air and Zoom meetings…
@32p yup. Jason Van * was all talk and no action in his double secret meetings. What a let down.
They’re finding ways of letting people go, even going back 4-5 years to see how many credit and debit card disputes you filed or insurance claims you made.
I don’t think it’s quiet. This place is a he-l hole
@320 more people have been fired this year for cause than have been laid off under the guise of violating the code of conduct.
We should have unionized back in 2020.
It’s been happening for the last year. Ever since units had to pay for severance.
My area also quietly let go of an analyst, no announcement no nothing just through Slack that the person has left USAA…I mean who would’ve done all the job changes over a holiday break, especially in this economy and the fact we are just a month away from bonus…
What area did the EMG have to reapply?
Major layoffs in Q1 and Q2.
Yes, they are. Several EMGs in my area had to re-apply for their positions and not all of them survived.
Come year end review time (mid to late February), expect quite a few people to be let go for bogus reasons, just to avoid paying severance.
@1jy this is true, I know of 3 people in my area (bank) who were let go for those reason early last year (2025), 2 of them for filing debit card disputes and one for floating checks using the mobile app. This wasn’t recent activity either, happened 3-4 years ago.
I don’t know if it’s “quiet firing”, but dozens of employees have been fired for fraud related reasons. I know of one coworker who was let go because he was floating checks for several years.
I mean, it’s not THAT quiet. It seems to be happening pretty regularly. What makes it so obviously an exercise in reducing headcount is that almost none of these people get backfilled.
@125 this is why I screen shot every convo with higher ups and HR. I take pictures with my personal phone. Protect yourself. They won't.
@OP in ~2021-2022 I remember a hrbp talking to directors to normalize pips as a way to 'help employees'. All BS. If a pip happens to an employee their careers will be limited at USAA at best, and internal job transfers difficult.
Has the board of directors ever considered just firing themselves to fix the compliance problems?
Ever since they started making the units pay for severance out of their own unit budgets (making it nearly impossible to terminate and then repost/replace the next day like they’ve been doing) they now have been needing to get creative with letting people go while meeting budget targets. Enter in fun investigations, not adhering to employee handbook or the USAA way/standards and other fun accusations.
Let the 2026 Hunger Games begin. May the odds be in your favor.
Bank D+A is the most obvious answer. Messy data, infrastructure, and lack of any privatization since there's a skeletal crew.
I want to leave so badly, but waiting until my kid doesn't need daycare anymore. My coworkers who left are much happier and remote.
They’ve been doing this all year…
yup left a nice bank job to come to sh-t dumpster fire during covid with the promise of wfh which was pulled back eventually let go in '23 due to some BS reason. glad to be out of there.
In short, yes they are.
Last year, my director was let go during his end of year review, he was told “your position with the company is no longer secure” then HR joined the call and he was let go. The ED brought over his “friend” from the bank he came from (US Bank) to be our new director and she had no clue what she was doing, she was a call center manager in her prior role at US Bank. Half the team left by end of summer because she was beyond awful and always placed blame on the team and never on herself.
Can confirm. was in bank D+A. they fired the avps, then my director had to apply for a significantly lower title just to have a job. It's messed up.
I jumped to another company and am a million times happier - I think I have some level of PTSD from USAA since I'm noticing everyone else is acting normally and I'm acting somewhat paranoid, which according to my therapist is a hallmark of people who leave toxic/abusive workplaces.
@fw what group is this analyst pool? HR? Bank analytics team? We know HR had minor league analytics talent. SWP can't get off the ground because every two years they fire that org. Bank fired a fifth of their analysts.
The awful culture promoted by the hrbps executives leadership then they say it was the analyst fault for doing something petty. Who is there for the 3 million dollar mistakes? The d-mb executives? Or the leaders? Hahahahh. It’s the analysts that are not getting written up making those mistakes but USAA doing their bu iiit work and going after petty mistakes. I can’t wait for another consent order on USAA. That will be coming because there is no talent in the analyst pool. And from what I see, if executives have to resort to petty PiPs to save money, then they lack leadership skills and intelligence, along with influence. I’m shocked this has not hit the papers
Yes, there has been an initiative for about a year to place undeserving employees on a PIP to try and force them out. The substantive materials in the PIP are often created to make the employee look bad, using the employees own work as evidence, however it is overly scrutinized, more so than anyone else in the business unit. When they don’t leave they then give a verbal warning. It’s how we do things at USAA and it has been amplified lately to avoid severance. I see some of the most laughable PIPs, this needs to be exposed, very bad form by our organization.
Been happening for years.