Let me describe how this place works. First pillar, punishment. Make a small error and they'll remind you for months. Second pillar, fear. Nobody feels safe. Everyone's waiting for the other shoe to drop. Third pillar, favoritism. Certain people can do no wrong. They get the promotions, the good projects, the protection. Everyone else gets the scraps. That's the culture. That's how they run things. And it's not just unpleasant, but also abusive. It wears you down until you don't even remember what normal feels like.
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@h9 "Normal," for me was full time WFH, because my piece of the business doesn't exist in the region I live, so I'd LOVE to go back to "normal."
@ex My family member left after many years and went to a smaller bank, got a raise, loves their co-workers, feels like they matter, no fear, no rash decisions, no taking until it destroys employees. I watched this and now I am leaving as well.
@h9 if you cannot listen to all the complaints then how about you quit?
@aj Agreed! I worked for a leader that was pushing me out. I had always been a top performer, exceeds expectations, and loved my work. I couldn’t figure out what her motive was or why she would try to push me out. I didn't understand that her own discomfort in her skill and experience could make me seem like a threat - until it did.
@h3 Stop complaining and quit if you are not happy. We no longer have room in this company for non stop complaining. We have been overly flexible with everyone for the past few years, time to su-k it up and get back to normal work.
Let me rephrase this: The Three Piles of Sh-t of U.S. Bank are: Gunjan, Elcio and the rest of the incompetent committee of a-s kissers.
I'd add the words PIVIOT because they change directions like a windsock in the wind. I would also add Reorg, keep moving people around so no one ever becomes an expert in anything. Experts have power and cost money. They don't want that.
@f1 I wouldn't give the title of "leadership" to a group of managers just sitting and waiting for weak/incompetent employees to leave, while complaining about them. That's passive, and weak. Leaders turn weak/incompetent employees into good ones, or if that's not possible they fire them for cause. None of this rolling layoff stuff. Be better.
@f1 Actual leadership would be removing unhappy and unproductive people without pi----g everyone else off and continuing to make effort to keep this place being a great place to work.
The current leadership strategy is to make everyone miserable enough that enough self-select to separate their employment to hit their metrics. That works in the short term, but it's a terrible strategy in the long term. Those willing to do so will often be our top tier workers with other options and the most marketable skills and relationships, and those that remain will be those... without that.
This is very basic business strategy (and even ethics). The fact our leadership doesn't see that does not cast them in a good light.
Don't forget the fourth pillar, weak and/or incompetent people who remain and complain rather than leave. You prove leadership right every day.
I've also left the Bank, and have a bit of survivor's guilt as I think about coworkers still there. It's bonkers how bad that place got in a relatively short time period. To those of you still there: keep your head up. The current USB culture isn't an example of how the rest of the business world operates.
To our competitors, USB, particularly Elavon payments, are completely broken, primarily because those business lines are being operated by broken people, operating under broken leadership, such that the best relationships are easily moved away from broken companies.
Yup that was my experience. I had to leave to advance.
The favoritism is blatant and shameless. If you try to call it out in a professional manner you will be gaslit and targeted. Much of the management views their employees as threats and not assets. It’s sad.
Unethical behavior, corruption and retaliation sound like the 3 pillars this bank stands on
This is 💯 how I feel at Elavon. Well said