Our host today is none other than the '5 o'clock shadow', and today’s question is:
What makes me excited to come to work at BNY every day?
Survey says…
The PEOPLE! (ding, ding, ding . . . great answer!)
Yes, the same people who’ve been driving our culture, transforming our engine, and—plot twist—being systematically offboarded to optimize shareholder value!
Because nothing says “culture” like a quarterly spreadsheet of headcount reductions and a celebratory bell ring when the stock ticks up 0.3%.
Culture now comes with 4 daily badge swipes per week, 54 hours of required new training, and a ghoulish labyrinth-style corn maze set up to ensure your non-compliance with HR and BNY Training policy requirements. Can you say: "NO SEVERANCE FOR YOU!"
Let’s break it down:
People drive our culture.
-- Especially the ones who remain after the reorg, the re-reorg, and the “strategic realignment.” Survivors of the Hunger Games: Finance Edition.Culture is the engine behind our transformation.
-- And like any good engine, it runs lean, burns out occasionally, and is replaced every fiscal year with a cheaper offshore model.Transformation is our purpose.
-- Which explains why every team meeting feels like a live-action episode of “Who Moved My Org Chart?”
So yes, I come to work excited—excited to see which department has been renamed, which colleague has vanished mid-email thread, and which new acronym we’ll pretend to understand until it’s sunset in Q2.
Because at BNY, we don’t just value people...
We VALUE them, DEPRECIATE them, and then WRITE THEM OFF — all in the name of transformation — VVV style.
So for all you kiddos out there young and old ... Trick or Treat and Happy Halloween!!!