We have people who can be cut who contribute absolutely nothing. People who go from one meeting to another regurgitating the same points over and over again with nothing new being said or decided. Yet the ones being cut are the people who do actual work and who bring actual knowledge to this place. Thanks again, id--ts-in-charge.
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The bank seems to promote lazy people who speak word salad in every meeting, only compounding the problem up in higher levels. I don’t understand it.
A big strategic priority is expense management, however there’s still so much waste on unnecessary travel by many employees for truly no value-add to a project, product, customers or the bank as a whole. The ridiculous amount of nonsense travel for several employees for random conferences, workshops, another team meeting that doesn’t accomplish anything, leadership feeling the need to stay for a week+ without being any help but giving an occasional high-five in the hallway…how about cost expense there?
I’m all for effective travel that truly drives bank growth, but 90% that I see does absolutely nothing for anyone, except leave us with less people to do the actual work.
@jk Oh I know. I have a feeling once the market turns around we will see a mass exodus of all our best engineers. RTO, all the red tape, toxic leadership, the pay, and just motions broadly.
@fg many of us are planning to leave. We're all significantly underpaid vs. market in addition to the added bureaucracy (everyone new, even the kids, make more than engineers here a decade). I don't know of any engineer not listening to Linked-in recruiter pitches. I do, ears wide open, just haven't clenched it, want to make sure the next company is better run.
@er the amount of bureaucracy with technology these days is INSANE. Idk how we have any engineers left.
If I have to sit through another session of how to be a CoPilot end user when I've been prompting AI for 2 years now I may go insane.
Same topics every week, use this nifty new AI tool, it'll help your productivity! No, know what will help my productivity? Nuke from orbit - ISS, ChangeManagement, CP, CPS, & anyone else that has inserted themselves obstinantly into the path of engineers making it excruciatingly difficult to accomplish even the simplest of mundane things. Want to save millions of dollars immediately? Today? Right now? Tell these people who are used to saying no for bullsh-t reason how to say YES or get fired. That's how to save millions of dollars & improve efficiency, it's not some shiny new tool - our problem is patently getting out of our own way.
Not a single leader gets it, nobody cares, we've said it all for years & years now. The paperwork alone in tech & refusals of some groups in it to cooperate to get the job done is THE problem.
If i was allowed to be in charge of anything I could clean this sh-t up real fast but none of my leaders think my temperament is qualified. Well hosses & bosses, my type-A personality gets sh-t done, so maybe get out of the way or retire, whatever you need to do to let me fix this. I desperately want to fix it, I know how to fix broken things, if I had the necessary authority. Will I be nice about it? Sure! Will I also say undo this blocking aspect of what you do & find a way to make it work for app team customers in 60 days or you're fired? Also yes. Our leaders are such laissez-faire hands-off losers collecting hundreds of thousands each in salary while sitting on their hands that our entire way of working & delivering is entirely broken by now. It su-ks. But yeah like OP said, plenty of time for bullsh-t meeting types where we regurgitate the same concept ad nauseum. How much does THAT cost us in labor?
Are you referring to the lady high up in risk who works in Utah? What an absolute joke she is.
Love that all the top management in my division gets work from home status despite being within Hub distance while the rest of us plebes get to schlep out to to the boonies 3 times a week.
Can you say “dysfunctional organization”?