Thread regarding U.S. Bank layoffs

@ks a small group of people? You clearly have never looked at the TTA Survey results.

The most loyal US Bank people I know over the last decade are very very upset. In fact, I don't know a single employee who has been here longer than 2-3 years who isn't. This isn't a small group of people, it's the vast majority of the company.

You are completely delusional.

@dk I am @as….
I read through these blogs regularly and finally had enough. I’m sick of the whining and made up content about how unhappy everyone is. From what I can tell, this is a small group of people throwing out nonsense to stir the pot. You threw out “ethics scandal” like there is some major issue, just to get everyone lathered up and posting more garbage. This is what I mean when I say feel free to leave if that’s how you feel. I’m done trying to placate you.

@as can't wait for the massive ethics scandal in the news involving US Bank, you can't hide from it forever.

Why not focus on innovation and creating new products to actually compete with other banks? Do you not realize that just because something isn't "illegal" doesn't mean it's ethical?

If you outrage thousands of employees, and they let everyone in their lives know never to be a customer of US Bank, you can do the math to figure out how many thousands of customers you will lose...

@as Ok GK. Don't you have better things to do like continue running this company into the ground and chasing launching products nobody wants or uses?

@as – If we’re really leaning into “collaboration” and “doing more with less,” then it’s time to go full throwback: everybody back in the office. No VIP passes, no “but my situation is different,” unless it’s an actual medical reason. Equal opportunity badge swiping, time in Hub IP tracking for all. 😄

@as go gargle on a nutsack.

I guess they'll just fire me then. Oh well. More vacation time.

@as

You haven't been overly flexible. What a ridiculous lie. You've been petty, dishonest, uninspiring, unprofessional, unethical, and perhaps worst of all, ineffective and incompetent.

I am a professional who has been with the bank for over a decade. I left a prestigious career because I so enjoyed working with some of the excellent managers here at the time. Absolutely fantastically effective middle managers who carried this place the last 15 years and more. Those managers are absolutely demoralized and most have left.

I do not know one single employee who has confidence in upper management right now. You guys are destroying a 100+ year old institution. RTO and the way it's being handle is a symptom of your incompetence, not a cause.

"If you were hired as “remote” and are now being required to come in, so be it. If you don’t like it, quit. There is no law that requires us to have you remain remote forever."

@as were you dropped on your head as a newborn? No one gives a damn what you think. When an employer offer is made and it specifically states remote then it is a binding contract. Breaking the contract will lead to a law suit. Before you say "at will employment" it means the employer can lay off the employee but they would need to pay severance and unemployment benefits. So there is a law that does require the employer to not change the status of an employee without the right reasons.

@as FU demon and go back to your hole.

@as By “everyone stop complaining” I have to assume you refer to El-io and GK. Agreed! Hopefully she has stopped complaining about the so-called “nonsense” and instead had resolved to support employees instead of treating them like adversaries.

@as i’m sure you are a joy to be around

I work for neither BNY nor US Bank. I used to work for a bank that rhymes with Sh1tty, but I left on my own terms. 3 days RTO (I was not hired remote..when I was hired, it was 2 days in office) didn't factor much into leaving...2-3 other far bigger reasons

Anyway, these people can and do many types of tracking. I have myself seen reports of badge swipe (common) but also of IP switches for my direct reportees. I didn't give a sh1t as long as the work was getting done....you could be sitting in your RV somewhere as long as the work got done for all I cared...but, these banks are on the lookout to lay people off and policy violation is THE EASIEST way to get rid of someone without paying a dime in seperation/layoff. These people are getting more and more sophisticated. With ZScaler and other such tools, you never know what is gbetting tracked by whom...it only takes one bust to fire someone. It's an employer's market right now so no one gives a sh1t..even if it wasn't...many people need a paycheck to feed their family. Then system was never meant to be fair

Your CEO took how many millions last year? Sh1tty's took 42 million justg last year while under her watch as CEO and recently Chairman of the Board and CEO (talk about conflict of interest), Sh1tty paid nearly 0.5B in consent order fines to the OCC. The original fat fingering to Revlon that got the consent ordered issued also happened under her watch. Did she pay a price? Heck no....these people never do. That's for peasants like me and you guys on this forum here

@av+1kprxv0xt. I am not the SEVP of HR. I work for a company called BNY Mellon now BNY.

I observed many similarities in the writing style and language (phrasing, structure, vocabulary) used by the title author (Post ID: @OP+1kprxv0xt) to the email we received on April 6th or 7th regarding the change in RTO adherence to IP-based from Badge swiping (sent by SEVP HR of U.S. Bank, E. Barcelos).

@OP Everyone needs to stop complaining… get off your couch and get into the office. I’m sick of hearing from everyone about having to go to work. We have been overly flexible and this has gone on long enough. If you were hired as “remote” and are now being required to come in, so be it. If you don’t like it, quit. There is no law that requires us to have you remain remote forever. This is not going to be negotiable, either return to the office as dictated by your manager or you will be considered not in good standing with consequences to follow.

Are you at PNC?

@a8 I have no crystal ball, only a grasp of history. These things have always happen in cycles. Neither the industrial nor information revolutions ended the booms or busts of employment, and while some think it will, as of yet I don't think this generation of AI will be any different. Maybe I'll be wrong.

@a3
With AI and offshoring becoming the norm for large companies, I’m not as optimistic as you. Could you please share any reasonable catalysts you could foresee occurring in the next 2-4 years which might shift the power away from corporations and back to the workers?

@a4. There were issues with reporting at first but it got fixed. As far as discrimination goes, some employees were designated agile flex meaning they only had to come in 20 days per quarter...mostly engineering jobs. Everyone else was 3 days in office at first and last Septemer they upped it to 4 days.

My only point is that work from home is dying/dead.

This is now the industry standard. JP Morgan is 5 days a week, so is Goldman Sachs. PNC also announced full return to office.

The people whose offices closed were remote at first and the company has been letting them go one by one.

I'm not trying to scare and fearmonger anyone. I just want to make you all aware of what is happening.

• Best of luck!*

Did your company have accurate reporting and did they apply consistent treatment of employees that didnt comply? Sounds like it if they all were fired. This company discriminates some employees and not others and sets and applies different rules.

Yup, but this works only as long as the market remains bad. All bets are off once it improves. With all the goodwill gone there corporations are going to have a bit of a reckoning.