Bella-ze-bub

where do we thing RJ will be 6 months from now? or a year from now. Will IT still be in St. Pete or will it be in Russia. Maybe they Bella is guiding us to take over the Russian Stock Exchange...ha! Go Bella Go, not many true RJ employees left with... — read more 

where do we thing RJ will be 6 months from now? or a year from now. Will IT still be in St. Pete or will it be in Russia. Maybe they Bella is guiding us to take over the Russian Stock Exchange...ha! Go Bella Go, not many true RJ employees left with... — read more 

Finance is reporting to Scott Zebra now, he might be good at kissing PCG's ass, but that's about all he's good at. Just another example of who you know versus what you know. It's only getting worse, not better.

This is total BS, another VP out so that Bella can make room for yet another one of her groupies from UBS. Run Jennifer B. while you still have a fighting chance.

Does anyone know if there's any truth to the David Linington rumor? Nice guy, one of the only few left, but lets face it, Jennifer B. has always been the brains behind that operation.

Tim thing is interesting. Have you ever seen his license plate on his truck "Denver" While all other companies in our business move closer to the exchanges.....we move further away and spend 25 million to do it. So you are right...Tim gets to retire... — read more 

Tim thing is interesting. Have you ever seen his license plate on his truck "Denver" While all other companies in our business move closer to the exchanges.....we move further away and spend 25 million to do it. So you are right...Tim gets to retire... — read more 

All I know about Denver is that Tim Itel got a very nice golden parachute while peons got peed on.

Anybody still at RJ care to give us an update on the Denver data center move. I heard it is being broken up into a number of individual moves and that there is nobody truly leading this project. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing... — read more 

That one is a good one...but can you think of anyone else. Think about someone that has been working working on a IT project for 1.5 years has not delivered anything to date. It seems like there may be more than one Senior IT manager that has this... — read more 

To Anonymous 9/17 (" Anyone know the recent unqualified senior manager that can down from Tenn"). Yes...Joey Bozo!

MEC got her daughter a job in the compliance area. I will never forget during a meeting with MEC that I mentioned to MEC that it was great that her daughter got a job at RJ. MEC took my comment the wrong way and became very defensive and stated "they... — read more 

Comparing MK IT to RJ IT is not a valid comparison, however it is interesting to note that MK really did not have a QA group and was able to deliver high quality code

MK did all its own software development. It was rare for them to use contract labor or outsourcing...at least until RJ ran all the competent developers off.

I think comparing RJ IT to MK IT isn't a valid comparison. MK, if I understand correctly, used services such as sungard to do a lot of its processing, which is a lot different than supporting homegrown development. Different -- not better or worse... — read more 

I think comparing RJ IT to MK IT isn't a valid comparison. MK, if I understand correctly, used services such as sungard to do a lot of its processing, which is a lot different than supporting homegrown development. Different -- not better or worse... — read more 

Wow. This has turned into a crazy bitch fest. If you hate your job so much leave. If you like what you are doing, work hard. You cant change other people but you can improve yourself and maintain your standards, ethics and morals. Post encouraging... — read more 

Incompetent? Really? Which company did nothing but hire contractors so they wouldn't have to rely on their bloated workforce to complete projects? Give me a break. Several of our IT employees would run circles around you people. It's easy to call... — read more 

Memphis IT was and is utterly lazy and incompetent. Memphis is a haven for slackers in every department; please do not believed the writer who called them proficient. The only proficiency among those of Memphis is their keen ability to be overpaid... — read more 

And by then, most, if not all, of the knowledgable and hardworking IT (and other) employees will have moved on to greener pastures by then. If you look at people that have left the firm on their own accord, most, if not all, of them are the ones that... — read more 

Problem is ...Senior management are the people making the decisions and they are not going to call out their own. They always think it is the lower level people they need to let go...but what about the Senior level people that are not doing their... — read more 

It is not a St Pete verse Tenn thing. It is a management thing. There unqualified senior managers are in both locations...sad part is that the seem to be the people that RJ is keeping. Anyone know the recent unqualified senior manager that can down... — read more 

MK’s IT was 150 people. RJ’s IT was 900 people. MK’s IT was small yet efficient. RJ was not 6 times larger than MK. Yet they had 6 times the IT staff. The difference is MK’s IT staff was skilled and proficient, and RJ was bloated and underpaid for... — read more 

Let's be honest here, if St. Pete/Southfield view Memphis IT as useless, then they very apparently don't know what Memphis thinks of them.

MK’s IT was 150 people. RJ’s IT was 900 people. MK’s IT was small yet efficient. RJ was not 6 times larger than MK. Yet they had 6 times the IT staff. The difference is MK’s IT staff was skilled and proficient, and RJ was bloated and underpaid for... — read more 

This company is being made very lean. It makes our quarterly numbers look better. We are setting ourselves up to be bought/taken over. If it's in the works, investment bankers have been planning this entire strategy with our executive management for... — read more 

This company is being made very lean. It makes our quarterly numbers look better. We are setting ourselves up to be bought/taken over. If it's in the works, investment bankers have been planning this entire strategy with our executive management for... — read more 

You can't blame Memphis for their wages, you can bet RJ hasn't given any of them much since the merger so whatever they make is legacy. I will say that it does appear to be a site of little value, if I was working there I would find a job while I... — read more 

The current setup shows what disdain RJ management has for its St. Pete worker bees. You've got Carillon people working 6/7 days a week literally getting physically ill from work overload, while their counterparts in Memphis are taking 2 week... — read more 

Now SQM management is throwing silly team gatherings with salsa and chips - like if this stupid gesture would change people's mind about how messed up the department is.

Why blame Memphis employees for the poor management of RJ? If RJ doesn't give former MK employees anything to do but chooses to pay them more, whose fault is that? MK employees (the good ones, anyway) were more than capable and willing to work. Great... — read more 

Why blame Memphis employees for the poor management of RJ? If RJ doesn't give former MK employees anything to do but chooses to pay them more, whose fault is that? MK employees (the good ones, anyway) were more than capable and willing to work. Great... — read more 

That is what is do outrageous; Memphisians are paid twice as much as St. Pete associates and they do nothing. That's why they don't leave; they know no one else will give them what they get for doing nothing

You sure can't accuse the majority of St Pete employees of being overpaid. I think that honor is reserved for certain managers.

Unless you are looking to learn how to be overpaid for doing nothing, you really don't want input from Memphis.

so what us it like for "new" rj employees in memphis?

I'm in Memphis and would be glad to offer any insight I can provide.

That's a big jump from "bad manners" to First Amendment.

Anyone from Memphis able to talk about the Ops and IT situation there?