If the answer is anything but 'very,' then why do you stay?
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I stay because overall it's not a bad place to work. I've worked at better places, and worse places. They're also paying me 20 to 30K more than I can make somewhere else. Combine that with benefits and PTO and it's not bad enough to leave.
Im fine, just bored. Ive mastered my career and duties essentially. I can do my wotk in 6-7 hours and i dont mind driving 10 minutes to the office two to three days a week. Its all highway! The office does not botherme that much. It has a quiet room where i go and chill on my phone for a half hour or so. I do this several times per day. When im done, i just leave. My lead is remote and team is in another location. Im free and here for my 100k salary!
I’m only here for a pay check and having them pay for my degree, which I’ll be done with May 2024, I’ll start planning my exit after the bonus is paid out next March.
If you are not happy, go find your happiness. Stop selling your soul for a paycheck.
My current role has been great. I am fully remote and have no career growth here at USAA. This has me extremely down because I was shown USAA was a pretty remote mindset company even before the pandemic. This change has basically pulled any motivation from me.
I would say I am not happy here because morale is awful right now. Bad morale is unfortunately contagious too.
My leadership is alright but have been turning a bit too micromanaging.
I know many bi--h about RTO but many of them were working a full week in the office before Covid. It seems like most companies are returning so don’t let that destroy you mentally. I get it if you were hired remote but now are pushed in the office. I think that is bullsh-t.
Because it is easy work. Work 10-15 hours a week, chit chat when I’m in the office, drink Starbucks, laugh while watching others try to make it a mission to drag others down in their personal misery.
It is simply a paycheck people, stop making it a moral, BS, contrived personal mission to fix the company.
I have not been happy with USAA for 9+ months. Things keep getting worse from exe level decisions. I'm only still here for the paycheck while I actively search for something new. The market (for my field) is not the greatest, which EXE's are keenly aware of and using in their favor.
I give it another year or 2 and USAA will close the Plano and Phoenix IT offices too due to all the tech talent in those areas.
I am not sure. I found myself having a nervous breakdown this week with everything expected of my job recently and my duties piling up and I realized that this just isn't worth it anymore.
15 year employee that thought this was going to be my career home and realized it's not going to happen unless I manage to take a antidepressant combination that completely numbs me of feeling and makes me a USAA puppet (sarcasm) It's NOT worth it
Don't advocate EAP to me, THEY recommended I find a new role too *crying laughing *
I think the answer to where the happiest people work is where their core values are not violated by the employer. Employment is an agreement of the trade of your services to the employer. It is not the selling of one's soul to the employer, or having your services underutilized or abused by overwork. It is a fair, honest agreement of employment.
When an employee sees that agreement violated or feels compromised (for example, backstabbing or sucking up to keep a job), then it is time to move on. The employee must keep a sense of self-worth by doing an honest day's job for an honest day's wages, playing fair in the workplace, constantly looking for ways to improve their services to the current employer and all future employers, and constantly looking for an employer for which they are proud to work.
I was shocked at how quickly the tide turned at USAA. This is why an employee must never get too "attached" to a company's "image".
Create your own brand, and know your own image. This will keep you happy in both work and personal life.
I’m not real happy, but I need a paycheck. And right now, all USAA is to me is a paycheck. Nothing more than that.
I have every reason to go, but I am taking advantage of the education benefits to get them to pay for my masters, which will be done at the latest by next spring.
USAA has did a great job showing their true colors by practically destroying morale through the fu----g up of our retirement, bonus, shift differential and the whole bullsh-t storm they called RTO.
My wife straight out told me yesterday she wants me to quit. I am working on my exit for sure and will be enacted the day after I graduate.
I would love to know where the happiest people work there, or anywhere really!
C'mon, this is a BS question.
We all came here based on the promise of viable employment.
Some moved here with young families and set down roots. Some were here already due to the university down the street. I was told by a manager that I would never get laid off! (I didn't believe him, and started interviewing before those lies rolled off his lizard tongue. Now, I am glad that I had!) Some of the promises seemed enticing (no thank you on promises; I take mine in cash).
The better question is why would a "reputable" company make such promises and then turn the culture toxic?
Wait! I have an answer!
They used staff, dried them up, and then threw them out. They did it in a very cold and calculated way, and they knew the end game and the end date. They wanted Bank to turn a profit, to get past all of their myriad of mistakes, and to rake in the cash.
So now, instead of doing the "right thing", the higher guys grabbed the bucks and cheated the engineers and other staff out of severance packages, unemployment, an honest work culture with something to be proud of, and work/life balance (how many were surprised at the blowback about taking PTO?). Finally, they actually fired those who didn't get the message that this would be their end game.
RTO is just one technique among many that is being actively used to push employees out. Read the threads here to see more that are being actively used by those who think that if they go along with the plan, they will keep their disgusting jobs (and they will be bounced too, in turn).
The peacock strutted all the way to his bank and invested his ample money. His parachute is solidly ready to deploy. He and his cohorts are planning to vaca in The Hamptons before they boat down the coast to FL.
What about you?
I guarantee you that no one is going to be left out of the party. Either you become a person who sells your soul down the toilet, one who will be overworked until you finally have to get out to have any kind of life, or one that sits in constant fear of being "noticed".
There is a better way to live. I found it. I left early in the melee. And now I am doing work that grows my credentials so I can continue to be employed until my kids are grown and to invest in my future.
The moral of the story, as I see it, is to always be prepared to move on. Don't eat the little blue cake or drink the Kool aid. Take all training made available to you, learn while you are in any position (no matter how rotten), live well within your means and keep an emergency fund and alternate income streams for that day when sh!t like this comes down the line.
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IDK what side you are on (insurance or bank) but if on banking, You are going to be surprised when you goto a larger FI if your only work experience is USAA. There is a reason they are under constant consent orders and scrutiny from the FED. Everything they do is a-s backwards and systems 10-15 years behind industry standards. USAA is a place where you go when you don't want to think anymore and just collect a check.
I just turned 60. It does not get easier.
I love the Members, the Mission, and the people I work WITH. The EMG I work FOR, all the way up to Wayne, are unethical. I care enough about the first to stay long enough to try to combat what the second are doing to them, like spending the Members’ money on frivolous personal travel and expensive resort retreats and misleading Regulators. When I’ve reported to HR I’ve been retaliated for it. When I reported to Ethics nothing changes, so I guess now I will have to go to the Regulators.
Because I’m over 50 so finding a new job is nearly impossible.
You know that’s why they keep HQ in SA, right? If it was moved to Dallas no one would stay longer than a year or two
It’s been over two decades since college. I’ve never been “very happy” in a job. Not even here, years ago , when this was a different company.
I moved my family to SA. All my children are in schools here, in one case a school catering to a specific situation. It took us a while to find a good one for her. My spouse found a good job (also in the 6 figure range). My kids and spouse have friends here. They do not want to leave SA. I am looking, but finding a six figure job in my field in SA isn’t easy. It also isn’t easy to find a job that is Remote and not likely to pull the rug out from under me like USAA has done by requiring me to go in to the office. I think that’s part of why I and others like me are so angry: the company made us move to SA, where there are very few employers large enough to support the specialties we have, and then started removing benefits. Six years ago this was a completely different company, but today, under Wayne and the corrupt EC he has assembled, every single day is utter misery.
No not really. I would give a 6 out of 10. But I need to stay bc im a junior here, I need to learn more about the work process, the technical stuff and etc so I can build up my resume. Why I only give 6? Mainly bc of my director, very micromanaging. It might be bc im new? But sometimes being judged on taking PTO is a bit too far imo.
I'm genuinely curious.