It has been months since RJA has had job postings less than 500 and it has been weeks and weeks with over 600 open positions. Word on the street (I've spoken to a number of employment agencies) is that HR at RJ is extremely hard to deal with. The brain drain is not stopping, as fast as someone is hired someone else leaves. Paul Reilly did this and deserves all the credit. It is amazing that there hasn't been a major incident that crashes the systems. Sure wish some investigative reporter would do some digging on this company. Yes, I was one of the 550 and no I don't care to come back.
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We are feeling the pain and I mean extreme pain in IT. Bella, Vin and Andy are still collecting huge bonuses, while the rest of us are working nights and weekends. The level of fighting between IT and the business is the worst I've seen it since I started in 2015. Yes the financial advisors are angry (really angry) from all the outages and how long it is taking to get projects done. All the pressure just comes down on the worker bees like me. Hopefully candidates are reading these posts and staying away from IT.
Very interesting to read some of these posts. You almost don't know who to believe. Again, I said almost. We all know that HR trolls these postings. HR was completely in the loop with doing the layoffs. They might not have been the decision makers but they had to be involved in putting all the paperwork together, reviewing employment records, assist in determining severance benefits. Of course the biggest blame belongs to senior execs such as Paul, Vin, Bella and Andy. They knew this was in the works for weeks, if not months and they played on people with their promises that nobody was going to be laid off. I hope these 4 eventually can feel some of the pain they inflicted.
HR doesn't make any decisions. If you got fired, laid off....however you want to spin it, it was because your boss chose for you to be one of the sacrificial lambs (or you were a poor performer to begin with). If you are mad at HR, then it just goes to show how easy you are to manipulate. People like you make the lie work, and is exactly why businesses have an HR dept. To fool people like you.
Recruiting is glad there are lots of open positions. This is called job security. The problem is filling the jobs is hard because the business leaders won't approve a competitive salary, because all the existing employees are underpaid. So the positions they do fill, get filled with low performers, or people are inexperienced. Most of these 600+ positions are back office roles, so the support for advisors and clients is going down the toilet, but as long as the assets under management are still there, Paul doesn't care. Also, RJ benefits are horrible. Low pay, poor benefits, meager vacation allowance. Unless you are a revenue generator, stay away from RJ.
I for one am interested in hearing over and over again the failings of RJ HR and RJ itself. I wish more would post especially those still at RJ on how bad things are. The brain drain is enormous.
I like echoing especially when it puts RJ hr in a bad light.
Is it just me or is there an echo in here?