Thread regarding U.S. Bank layoffs

Ageism is very definitely alive and well at US Bank

What you people are saying about ageism at US Bank is totally true. I was making too much money when the TOS division was in the process of shutting down processing centers several years back. That was a long process that didn't happen all at once. I applied for jobs in several different departments in an attempt to find a replacement job, but I received really snotty responses from The HR Department about my lack of qualifications. I had worked for 45 years at that time. I was proficient in Microsoft Office, good typist, great on a 10-key, 26 years in the back office at 5 major banks, one B.A. degree, one A.S. degree. They began by reducing our hours. I had no choice. I had to leave Denver. I had to be in charge of my own destiny. I resigned one month before I turned 66. They continued to string the Denver staff along for one year and 10 months longer before the final shutdown happened. I am now 69 and a half. I still work at a part time job. Ageism is very definitely alive and well at US Bank.

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Outsourcing the helpdesk has been a mess. I wonder how JVG has survived this long; maybe decisions like this are why.

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Post ID: @9ozj+1g0AVzeI

The desktop support and help desk for 75,000 employees was migrated to India at the start of the pandemic in 2020 and the employee struggles and lost productivity connected to that debacle are well documented.

However, more importantly, the country where access to employee desktops resides, remains fully supportive of Russia and Putin during the Ukrane war, purchasing oil and natural gas from Russia and abstaining in important votes at the United Nations condemning the invasion, all in support of the Russian leadership and a tottering economy. Those fortuitous circumstances seem to be quite lost on the U.S Bank woke machine which seems to have no difficulty preaching right from wrong, but with systemic access to the empire sitting in India is a risk that USB appears tone deaf to, perhaps because most employees have objected to it since it was moved over there anyway.

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Post ID: @6ukx+1g0AVzeI

They do love to outsource technology with management having very little understanding of how it works or the quality of product being returned. It's the on-site team's issue to fix any and all bugs.

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Post ID: @5pln+1g0AVzeI

It doesnt matter they are outsourcing everything to India. We will all be out of a job soon enough.

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Post ID: @3wre+1g0AVzeI

This company does not value organic expertise. SMEs are worked hard and poorly rewarded. Experienced workers are looking for an exit ramp. Management would like to replace everyone with trainees or off-shore.

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Post ID: @2olj+1g0AVzeI

As U.S. Bank looks to build out a highly diverse workforce, the category and demographic always overlooked and excluded is age and experience, which does add as much, if not more to a workforce than an inexperienced employee, with no inherent knowledge of how a business line is run, how it is regulated, its compliance requirements or how the darn thing is supposed to make money. The bank's largest and most visible shareholder, Berkshire Hathaway, seems to value age and experience in its ranks, perhaps the bank should look at its own shareholders from time to time to see how a successful workforce should be assembled.

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Post ID: @2ela+1g0AVzeI

Same thing happens at State Farm.

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Post ID: @rpa+1g0AVzeI

Your number one skill in TOS was being able to use Microsoft Office around three years ago. Maybe that's the problem.

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