After seeing it happen to so many dedicated people around me, I'm really questioning the whole point. You watch colleagues who got top reviews and decent raises one year get let go the next. It makes you wonder if going above and beyond actually protects you, or if it just makes you a more expensive line item. I’m starting to think the smart move is to do good work, but keep your energy and best ideas for your own life outside of here.
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At Wells Fargo only the bullies survive at the management level. Next year they will be bullies armed with AI Jira.
There is none. Talented ppl got laid off while incapable ppl stay.
Less and less diverse.
The company is a sinking ship or Boeing company.
You get severance benefits. Those that don't will just get termed for cause.
@b5 I’m doing it now lol
A chunk of my work is grunt work: research then find and fix metric issues. No one doing that type of work gets promoted (unless the fix boils down to Saved the Company $x.x Million a Year )
The "reward" of a paycheck isn't enough for most people who value and respect the work they do, but it's what most of us are stuck with if we stay...and isn't it kind of in the air that we should be thankful for our paid job?
My suggestion echoes many others: focus on enriching your life outside of the company. You have a job and it is paying the bills. Save your sanity and don't expect anything more than your paycheck. And prep your financial status for when you get the very possible THERE IS THE DOOR, BUHBYE call.
The only thing you should work hard on is your family life and your hobbies. Your job doesn’t care about you. Never go above and beyond. If we all do the bare minimum then we are all meets.
@ab
This!!!! ^^^^^
But,
When you finally get bohicha'd with an IM, blast your manager with the facts and watch them try and backpedal. They won't be expecting that.
Your time will be up because there won't be any recovery from that anyway.
Thanks for the wonderful suggestion, I have worked average 16 hours starting 2016 till october 2025 and when they said they can't make exceptions for rto I felt like I already wasted so much doing over time every single day for years, I am not doing it anymore.
I work my butt off and get excellent reviews. Never got promoted, or ever is considered for internal promotions when I try. Many I know were the same and ended up getting laid off. My advice to everyone is to do your 8 hours a day, be nice to your manager, never challenge management, and do enough to get a meets. Do not give them anything else and prioritize your family/hobbies in the little time you get a day.
If you wanna be rewarded for hard work go into construction, retail or just about anywhere else. You wanna succeed in banking? Better kiss your bosses rear end. Work ethic has virtually nothing to do with success in most banking roles.
This bank used to be good, used to rate you fairly and compensate you fairly too. Now it’s a good old boys club. But the state of this country and world nothing surprises me anymore.
Real reward - more hard work will be dumped on you.
Agreed! This bank is trash. management is trash and so is Charlie!
There has never been any reward for hard work. Usually, it's punished by heaping more work on, and expecting more work out of you for the same mediocre praise. The only way it is ever rewarded is if you're the golden child, chosen by management to be showered with actual tangible benefits.
That is why most people would just do the same level of performance, it led to the same review, and the same financial outcome. Consistency was at least consistent. Now they're punishing consistency, requiring more, and making everyone fight for recognition, while punishing the consistent performers.
There is no point to remaining here, and I'm speaking from multiple decades of WF experience.
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WF is managed by a group of greedy id*t.. dont waste your life here. there must be some place better