Is favoritism a common thing in your department? Manager overlooks/makes exception for a certain employee but either micromanages or ignores the rest of the team.
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@bb This is the reality. Favoritism (personal favoring) and ageism/racism have a thin line here - everything is a corporate theater at US Bank .
For me, if my manager ignores me, it may hurt my chance of being promoted or my performance evaluation (it’s never fully objective to be honest - of course managers pets get more positive perceptions). But if you just have a newborn baby, or pursue higher ed, or just want to coast to your retirement, it could be a blessing.
Did anyone pick up on which teams have bullying, favoritism, and high turnover? Please let us know and help each other out to avoid applying for those teams. #1 is dealing with Elavon leadership.
New Elavon CEO will have one chance to get it right next month, clean house and try to get the payment company back on the right track, after years of squandering its brand, its position in the industry, its experienced talent and its ability to execute on basic payment solutions. Should be lots more departures from the "leadership" under Walker now that the veil has been lifted, not much there, the payment company is adrift, no experienced leadership to grow the business, keep legacy relationships or keep up with the payment giants in the industry.
@sr 2.5-3 weeks lands in the middle of May, which tracks with their mid month cadence.
GK straight up said there aren't going to be "mass" layoffs in the town hall. This place will do ANYTHING to fly below the WARN layoff requirements. Our stock price is sketchy at best, as is the faith the street has in us and news of layoffs, especially layoffs that relocate jobs to India will spook investors and send customers running. So, no. Large scale won't happen. It'll be under the table, quietly, a few here and there with no severance because that's what happens when your job gets sent to India.
rumor is in 2.5-3 weeks company wide layoff happening not sure if theyre giving off different dates to different people but good luck
Elavon was the reason my mental health was on the edge and I didn’t have energy for my kids and wife after work. Life is better now.
Former Elavon person here. The favoritism was so blatant and the toxic treatment to anyone else (me) was so awful it impacted my physical and mental health. I had to leave. Never seen anything like it and so relieved to be out of that toxic cesspool.
Elavon’s senior leadership team is built around the concept of favoritism and nepotism. Look at the team Ja*mie Wal’ker left behind as he moved on and ask yourself who is actually qualified to be in that role. He’s been promoting and protecting people that don’t deserve the role they’re in and is now the job of the new CEO to clean house quickly!
@m8 added a dislike because I hate that this is true but it is.
I’ve seen “work friends/manager’s pets” end up taking advantage of each other after they collectively bullied a girl in my team. So toxic!
Yes. I have had nothing but issues with favoritism and cronyism here. It’s another toxic part of the corporate soup and is very frustrating and unethical when you are excluded from opportunities because you aren’t the manager’s pet, former colleague, or personal friend. Favoritism happens in most companies but it is particularly bad here. Upper management does not care so the abuse from all levels of management continues. Bring it up and expect to be gaslit and punished.
My advice is to keep your sanity - put your headphones on, be boring/drama-less as much as possible, and make sure you brush up your resume just in case, but DO NOT QUIT. Let GK and EL lay everyone off.
Favoritism (favoring Indians) happens in my team and it feels unethical but letting time unfold.
Welcome to Bank of India. Bring the US back to U.S. Bank.
Simply put, yes. It feels like they’re already lining up their performance review stack ranking, or intentionally influencing it.
Watch how managers treat young Indians vs people above 45 at work who have been here since Pandemic picking up their slack (I know a few Indians who were born here as well and they’re truly exceptional, but just a handful of them). Driving this workplace culture to the ground for sure. Not illegal but unethical.
The “manager’s favorite” in my department is not even a high performer and/or collaborative with high EQ person. There’s some personal favoring going on here (DEI/Personality hire?!) Also got ME as well when the rest of the team shows up in office 3+ days a week starting this year (some of us ride 2 hours of bus ride or have to drop kids off/pick them up after school) while that “favorite” gets an approval to work remotely while the Teams status is barely online although the position is hybrid. Why do you think it’s even okay to make up their own rules and apply them whenever they want and to whomever.
Who gives a fu-k! We have bigger problems to deal with here as our CEO and her Major Clown committee destroys an iconic company from within. Stay focused and avoid petty distractions.
I know some very hard workers who deserve to be acknowledged and rewarded but have been treated horribly while there are personal friendships and favoring going on, advancing some that have no business advancing through these convenient reorgs.
I've trashed the executive leadership so much in this forum, rightfully so. They're sc-m and all deserve to be deported to india as far as I'm concerned.
My immediate management is so understanding of all this though it breaks my heart a bit. I realize they are in a tough spot. They have been vocal they don't agree with RTO but their hands are tied. I know they have tried.
@OP your manager is likely prioritizing high performers which makes sense. There's plenty of employees who are here to "work" their 4 hours a day. Why would management put any effort into people like? Management pays high performers. They invest in better employees. This isn't new. What you call favoritism is called competition.
Yes absolutely. Our managers make up their own rules and apply them whenever they want and to whomever.
Yes I know of one individual who gets special treatment. He's hated by his colleagues but all the managers think he's the best thing ever. Nothing anyone can do about it. He only got ME this year due to not following RTO which I found amusing.
Par for the course in a culturally failing company like ours now is. It's been destroyed from within by the current MC.
That’s the least of my worries here. We have bigger fish to fry. Like unethical management team plotting on how they will destroy us next.
No.
Great things to have managers ignoring me. I am managing myself at work.