I was one of the 550 let go 18 months ago. I have stayed in touch with about a dozen former collogues, most but not all in IT where I was. Not a single person has a positive thing to say about the current RJ. They are simply going thru the steps of having a job and getting a paycheck. A couple are near retirement otherwise they would have left a long time ago. Does anyone on this forum hear anything positive? Maybe Paul, Vin, Bella or Andy could comment....
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I have a friend who was in HR at RJ until a few months ago. They told me the pressure to perform was relentless. Problem is, RJ has a horrible reputation and there are so many other positive places to work.
Anyone wishing to comment should do so without some RJ HR hack trying to belittle them. HR is so overwhelmed that Paul had to step in and force a large number of job postings to be removed. Nobody wants to work at RJ and it shows just by looking at all the open positions. This is truly an embarrassment to RJ senior management especially Paul, Bella, Vin and Andy. Way to go IT...(yes I used to work in IT).
Anyone wishing to post should post. Don't listen to those that say move on. If you have to get something off your chest do so. You will be better for it. Most likely those trying to get people to stop posting are RJ HR hacks. They are so far behind the eight ball in hiring and retaining it really shows.
Interesting that people who say we should move on and shouldn't be posting after 18 months are...posting after 18 months. Take your own advice and move on. Let the rest of us vent.
I was one of the 550. I was with RJ 26+ years. All it took was 1 bad YE and Tax Dept. called me in Feb 2021 to come back. The younger "CPA" they replaced me with wasn't up to the task. I returned in April through a contract agency so I didn't have to give back my severance (I got somewhere around 56 weeks total). I just ended my contract after a year. Note "I" ended the contract. I got my last paycheck last Friday. I had originally planned to retire April 2022 before the layoff.
They laid me off, brought me back at a rate 56% higher than when I was an employee and finally, after 1 year of me being back, they didn't do anything to prep for next year's tax season. No one ever asked me how I do what I do. How does this company stay in business?
My advice to anyone reading, only go to this company if you have no experience and need to pad your resume with some. Otherwise, sad to say, this is not a place to build a career anymore.
Time to move on and stop complaining about being let go! You sound pathetic posting about it two years later. It stinks here in IT and look at all the posts on this site for the last three years. Bella, Vin and Andy are only looking to fill their pockets off the backs of all of us laboring away.
I agree, time to move on. Paul has given up on being a comfortable place to work. He is simply working on getting as many stock options as possible as are Bella, Vin and Andy. If they cared for the regular employees at RJ they would have given all of them a 5-10% bonus to lesson the impact of inflation. Rents have gone up nearly 20% in the Tampa area and are to the point of nearly unaffordable. Lets see if any of these 4 still has a heart.
Time to move on. Coming back here after 18 months, shows it is still eating at you. If you let it do that, then they win. Your mind is paying them a debt that you don't owe.