“What can I do to improve, boss? “ asks a remote employee.
“Well, I have nothing for you. Move to a hub and that should solve the comp issue.”
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I did talk to my manager about the comp. All I got was a praise for my work and apologies about no raise and Gunjan’s/HR poor decision making skills. She feels they are paying people too much. Nonsense, since we’re all underpaid compared to our competitors. Let’s feed her some more millions so she can gloat, that ugly pig.
@am can confirm as well. We were told we had to have at least 15% of folks at needs and no more than 20% at exceeds. Everyone else was in the middle. And they looked HARD at the comp ratios - your salary compared to the midpoint for your grade. If you are over 110% of midpoint, you either need to get promoted or leave.
Pretty telling that all the upvoted questions were regarding comp and layoff concerns and actual questions about the company got downvoted. I found it amusing that there was a question about why GKs compensation increase was massive and everyone else got 2-3% if they were lucky. Pretty sure if things were as rosy as they paint them those wouldn’t be the top questions upvoted. Every one of these starts off with the same disingenuous thank you for all you do.
@a8 Manager here. Can confirm it all and then some more.
Every controversial and bad decision, the leadership hides behind saying “talk to your manager”. Your manager has no input into any of these bad decisions. Your manager has no authority to change or alter their bad decisions.
If you have a good manager, she cares about you getting your work done well regardless of whether you are in the office 0 hours or 40 hours per week. They want to give you a raise even if you’re above 110% of midpoint. They want to give you a raise without 0.5% automatically being cut and at a lesser geographic code if you are fully remote. They want you to be able to work more effectively at home (if that works for you) without throwing your life away sitting in traffic. And if you don’t like working at home, they want you to be at the office without loud neighborhood seating in a different random spot every day.
Basically, if you have a good manager they are 100% ant odds with the decisions being made at the top.
And they want you to “talk to your manager” although he can do nothing.
The leadership at this company does everything they can to remove any flexibility and empowerment on the part of managers to lead their teams, and then they have the gall to say “talk to your manager”.
As a manager, I wasn't allowed to give 'exceeds expectations' ratings. And then I had to give merit based on ratings. Even though I had multiple employees really have a solid year. And then the MC response is "get a better rating to get more merit". That's very frustrating.
Also he's a giant liar. Not only was the RTO flip flop an unethical disaster but comp numbers were 10% lower for AIP type bonuses while the talking heads took home millions.
Every bald lie they just spewed today was infuriating to watch & listen to.
Two foreigners gloating & saying how lovely & wonderful offshoring all our jobs is. I don't typically like to hate anyone but I HATE these 'leaders', what a bunch of dishonest loser looters destroying our company.
I hate the way this bank has gone lately. Why even try?