Seems like no one knows what’s going on…why is US bank always the last to do everything? Literally just wait for all the other banks and follow their lead. I guess US bank doesn’t give two shts that people need to rearrange their schedules only to be dragged into useless in person meetings. Is anyone in the mood for making small talk around the water cooler when they have actual work to do?
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I don’t see the benefits of going back, my team is all over the US. But our senior vice seems to think we need the fellowship of others … when there are no others on my team in my area. Yeah, I’ve vacuumed and unloaded a dishwasher on the company’s time, but I’ve also started at 6:15am in pj’s to get ahead, worked through countless lunch hours as well as worked past 5:00pm. Having that flex time is important to me, but sadly didn’t make me “exceeds expectations” in the eyes of my boss. So if I’m required to go back, I won’t be answering my phone on my commute in or from the office and it will stay on my desk when I go to lunch
I was one of the early WFH users who had to have a proven track record of being a self-starter before approval. The issue is not whether or not individuals are capable of getting work done from home. It is the fact that in order for WFH to be successful, managers must adopt new strategies to build a cohesive team when the workers are remote. Only one of my managers during the last 10 years of my tenure at USB was open to having a daily meeting (for example) so that the team members would always be able to ask questions in an open forum. They all felt that one meeting per week was sufficient and wondered why no one spoke up or asked questions. So much happens from day to day that after a week goes by the priorities have changed and topics are old. One of the main tenets of Agile is the Daily Stand Up meeting. How can USB be Agile if they aren't willing to follow that basic rule? I'm not saying that going back to the office will magically change inept managers into good ones...I'm just saying it's easy to blame your failures on it because WFH is an easy scapegoat. USB managers always find some reason for their ineptitude; it's the way they keep getting promoted. I still can't figure out how the company stays in business with all the malarkey I observed in 24 years. Seriously...I am amazed.
When there are prominent management types farming out their work to an array of underpaid assistants, we get warped mindsets that have comparatively little to do except view their jobs as simply showing up at an office. Tragic thing is, these are the types of people that get quoted by big publications like the Wall Street Journal as being over the moon that WFH is being trimmed or discontinued. Why wouldn't they, because to them showing up at a physical location for a preordained time IS their job — and little else. Jobs that can be done at home or outside an office, should be. What a day it'd be when CEOs and their ilk quit projecting their insecurities, their fears of being seen as a fraud, onto the rest of the company and content themselves with their personal Frogger high score.
At this point USB could care less about employee wellness. I bet they’re praying people will get fed up and leave. Leave those positions unfilled and pile work onto the rest of us, so Andy and his goons can line their fat pockets just in time for bonus season.
Honestly those who are and were working remotely the last 21 months should never be forced to go back to the office. Countless times we were praised at staff meetings for getting things done and being productive and flexible for nearly 2 years working from home and now because someone wants forced interaction we have to go back… Speaking to some of my peers nearly 85% could care less about returning. No one wants people gathering near their desk chatting away, wasting valuable time. No one wants to sit at the office cube all day either. We are not living in the same world that we had before covid and we adjusted our lives to work for us during this time and are not about to cause upheaval in our lives just to go back to the office and spend hours commuting back and forth because someone said so.
Management at USB can't wait to end WFH. They know how little that they are working. Some managers are lucky to be available 6 hours a day when they WFH. They assume all workers are as lazy and useless as they are. They need everyone in the office so that everyone is miserable.
WFH has proven that USB is top heavy in managers and the old, useless, managers need an office and people to feel needed and important. A significant RIF through middle management is what USB needs. Let productive people WFH forever.
Completely agree with you. And updates are hard to come by when you reach out to management with questions. Only two weeks out from Jan 10th and still no answers. I am not surprised though, nothing runs smoothly at this bank
Couldn’t agree more! You’re spot on. They do not care period point blank.
After postponing its return to the office three times, Wells Fargo has delayed its return to the office yet again, this time indefinitely, the bank said in a statement Monday. “Given the changing external environment, we are delaying our return to office plans,” the bank said in a statement to the Observer. “We are continuing to closely monitor the environment with the health and well-being of our employees as our priority.”
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I don't think they really care what you are insulted by and it sounds like if you have a problem with going back to the office you should find another job because you seem to think it is pretty easy! Maybe if you actually provided some value and had to work with customers/bring in revenue instead of generating reports they would pay you a little better! Lenders bring the money into the bank not the people that work from home sitting in their sweats
It’s an insult to those who can work from home to be forced back into the office because apparently we can’t be trusted to work remotely even though we’ve been doing it just fine for the last two years. If US Bank wants to retain employees then they’re going to need to get with the times because many companies are allowing remote work and US Bank has some of the lowest pay in the industry so why would people want to stay?
This "work from home" thing has really turned people like the author of this post into entitled people! You think the people that have been forced to work from the office want to have "small talk around the water cooler"? Is it because you don't have the flexibility of doing your chores around the house on company time? Maybe try to create a good work environment and be a better go coworker instead of complaining about an inconvenience for yourself. Maybe we can just find a computer program to do your job since you are to good to come into the office like everybody else. Hope you get forced back to going into the office and are miserable which should hopefully cause you to quit
LOL it’s a sad day when even Wells Fargo treats their employees better than US Bank
Wells Fargo announced last week they’re not returning to the office and pretty much every other major bank has lol but what do you expect from a bank stuck in the 80s
Ge-z, give them a break. Banks several times the size of US Bank are in the exact same boat.
Guess what? This is an unprecedented time in history. Nobody has all the answers right now.