Thread regarding U.S. Bank layoffs

@ah- think about it sweetie. Why would share price matter to a long term high contributor? Think real hard now.

NM- sounds like much deeper cuts are needed.

@a8 in Warsaw, employees are given 20 to 26 days of annual leave depending on seniority, 13 national public holidays, 2 days of parental care leave for those with children under 14, and up to 33 days of employer-paid sick leave. And as far as I know, they're not required to go into a hub in order to remain employed. They're also under better labor and privacy protections than workers in the U.S.

@c1 this has been one of the more pretentious takes I've read on this site in a while.

Considering RTO disproportionately hurts working mothers and marginalized people you should care a whole lot more about it based on your political stance.

If you have an issue with RTO, contact your union rep...oh, I just remember....you don't have one - do what the boss say or lose your job, end of day

@bc I hope you’re doing all these things. I don’t think a galvanizing of people will happen for this “cause.” I am involved in activism, protesting in sub-zero temperatures and I still carry my whistle with me in case ICE shows their ugly masked faces in Minnesota again. I am all for Unions and would back unionizing tellers and other low paid jobs at the bank. I would also join the protests of any janitor workers in or near my building. However, I will not protest RTO, even though as a working mother I had to make some changes because I assumed things would stay the same. I knew after Andy told everyone twice to get into the office 3x a week and no one did that it would get ugly as it did for Wells Fargo, BOA, and we were a little late in the RTO game. When Trump ordered all the Fed workers back 5 days a week I knew we were SOL. Lucky for me I am not responsible for a lot of the child rearing and household responsibilities that a lot of women deal with. My husband is awesome and we have a plan to share the responsibilities and help relieve the stress. I would rather work from home but I have accepted it and will use my activism on more crucial things like getting the current administration out. If they are gone things may change. We are saving as much money as we can in case of layoffs which is why I come to this site.

This is such a strange take.

People discussing RTO aren’t necessarily discussing it because it’s the most important issue facing the company. They’re discussing it because it’s one of the few things leadership is actively choosing to control.

You seem to assume that employees who question RTO are somehow the same employees who aren’t performing, learning, contributing, or building relationships. That’s a leap with no evidence behind it.

Many high performers have spent years proving they can deliver results remotely. Asking whether a commute adds value is not the same thing as lacking ambition.

And let’s be honest: layoffs and offshoring decisions are rarely based on who complained about office attendance on an internal forum. Companies eliminate roles for financial, strategic, and organizational reasons all the time, including roles held by excellent employees.

The part I find most telling is the conclusion that if employees are unhappy with RTO, there must still be “plenty of mediocrity left” and leadership should keep cutting. That says more about your view of employees than it does about theirs.

People can care about their careers and still question whether spending additional hours and dollars commuting improves outcomes ( it doesn’t). Those positions aren’t mutually exclusive.

The story is that it is expensive to the employee to come into the office - feels like a pay cut, time waster, and broken social contract. Were you laid off for being fiscally irresponsible?

@OP there are studies that show RTO is nonsensical...."Case by case, there may be good reasons for teams to work together in person. As a general rule, though, it turns out that ordering people back to the office full time is a power and status move. It’s a signature strategy of leaders who exhibit narcissistic qualities. They see any kind of remote work as a threat to their authority and admiration. "

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/opinion/office-work-wfh-bosses.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

@b8 Go after the share price or customer base. Those are the only things goonggr and her camp commissars care about. Use your influence in your community to advocate for people to use local credit unions and close any accounts with us bank. Write op-eds to media publications. Have conversations with local politicians that have surely knocked on your door. Create bots to spread messages on social media to help the cause. Create bots that spam applications to open us bank job postings to waste the company's time.

However, eventually I see white collar workers unionizing to protect against the absolutely disgusting actions taken by executives to exploit their employees. The problem is that none of us want to be activists. We work these jobs because we want a fair exchange of labor for a wage and to not have to think about these things but we are at a point the corporations have gone too far.

@b6 Then please share with all of us your strategy to get us out of this RTO mess. I want answers

@b1 You are clearly someone who is rattled enough to come in here and post. I don't think executives are gods or too mighty to be lurking here. I think they are actually very small minded people. Work is all they have in this life, without it they would be nothing. And deep down they know this.

This is the equivalent of forcing management to double every employee salary for no logical reason and on receiving complaints tell them they are looking at the wrong metric and should only focus on employee productivity.

Move on, OP.

@ax You have all the complaints so please tell us what we should do? All talk! I think you should join forces with all the disgruntled employees of Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citi, PNC, Amazon, Meta, Dell, state and Federal governments and the list goes on. Come up with a plan. I can’t think of anything I can do so I will wait with anticipation to hear from you. You really think some executive is actually rattled by YOU enough for he/she to personally post on here?

Bro if I get laid off and keep up with us bank like it's an ex lover that got away someone please run me over with their car because I've lost at life.

This is sad whatever exec posted this. You really expect us to act like it's 1960? The trust between the employees and the corporation is gone. You tore up the contract when you started replacing us with indians, when you moved goalposts, when you forced employees who were hired remote 10 years ago back into offices. You said fu-k you to people who arranged their lives around expectations that were agreed upon when they got hired. That trust isn't coming back.

Do you think anyone in here cares about the stock price? lmfao. I wouldn't care if it went to $2.

This is a very irrational argument. One of the big reasons I'm "obsessed" with RTO is how much it impacts my productivity. My position was remote long before covid for a reason. Those decisions were made on a case-by-case basis using logic and reason, not emotion and one-size-fits-all leadership.

Now my day-to-day routine is getting up for early morning meetings, and then later fighting traffic and driving into an office I've never had a work-related in-person conversation in so I can sit and work remote there on teams.

Hours wasted every single workday, day in, day out.

So yes, management forcing me to contribute less does concern me.

Dude you lost your job here and are still su-king up. Major L is showing on your forehead.

@OP by this logic you are also calling yourself mediocre and saying that’s why they laid you off…

OP you don't need to champion the share price of a company that laid you off. That's some serious corporate Stockholm Syndrome.

The company leaders and shareholders will worry about the company. Employees need to worry about themselves and their families. The interests of these two groups used to be shared, and linked in a form of mutual gain. Unfortunately we've lost a lot of that and playing by the old rules while the other party plays by new is a losing strategy.

What an odd take.

Gets laid off, but has "no idea why" but plenty of "advice." Lol can't make this up. Is op a high performer or a boomer everyone is tired of hearing talk? Again, this post is coming from they guy who was removed from thr company but he has advice on how to stay in the company! Lamo

@OP The irony of this post (is that you, El-io?) is that everything the OP says applies 100% to the management and not to the employees. THEY are the ones worried about how many days you go into the office… which days count… what’s the minimum to stay employed… THEY are the ones whose primary concern is whether you spend two or three days in the office. WE have to deal with the idiocy and gaslighting, but THEY are the ones who make it an issue.

This was discussed weeks ago - these people coming here complaining about Talk to Us Surveys and Return to Office while the leadership is building out the global capability center in India and looking to their European subsidiaries in the UK and Poland to offshore their job.

It's a sense of entitlement - the Warsaw and Ireland offices have FTEs and departments that been with the company for more than 20 years and I bet most of them don't know this.

Some people that were hired remote is being forced in. The reason given by MC makes no sense. "Collaboration", yet we are offshoriing to India which makes "Collaboration" more difficult. Broken tech for Teams, different hours, etc.

I am older than you, but know the value of being creative. This is not 1960. This is 2026. We can't say, "Well in office always worked", when in fact we know remote works makes us more productive, healthier, happy and is better for the planet. Not a tree hugging hippie either, but there are common sense measures we can take to keep our air clean.

Furthermore, hubs are not clean, have in adequate seat and let's be real, some don't even have coffee.

I could go on all day.

Seems like you could learn a lesson about moving on. Also nobody cares about your opinions, we all doubt you lost your job with "strong preformance" haha, nice try