Whether you enjoy wfh or not, you should agree with your fellow workers that it is pretty messed up to just spring an additional week/ two weeks in the office on us. Neither Abby nor your managers care about, but that doesn’t mean peoples lives should just be reduced to a statistic or number. Seriously what’s wrong with some of you? Such a lack of basic empathy for your peers is
Seriously disgusting behavior, do better. In my opinion, business practices like this won’t work forever as it seems most of the younger generation feels disrespected for obvious reasons. How are young adults supposed to grow in a company that constantly does a “ figure it out as you go” mentality with their job and life? What do you all think the future will look like when companies are left with mainly subpar talent because most smart people will not being stay at companies like this for long?
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anti-brown? I commented on here, I'm dark-skinned and I'm not racist. The fact is that Fidelity hires from India so they don't have to pay as much. The IT departments are 85% dark-skinned and aren't American Citizens. What is racist about that? Non-Americans are the majority.....that's not racist, but it is concerning since this is Americana.
Yeah not surprised all of your racist are mad at this post. Didn’t see this many downvotes on the anti brown people post. You all are a joke
Yep- lick the boot and drive home in my Porsche convertible to my paid off home.
YOU ARE 100% correct! When you Leave move your money too. Fidelity is tanking. MANAGEment is an effing joke.
Lick-lick-lick
Yum. Love the taste of boot.
Any company, private or public, can fire you if you don’t do your job. Your job could include going into the office when you’re expected to. Where did you sign that stated how many breaks you get, or how long you can take for lunch? RTW has been communicated for a while, so I’m not sure why this is a surprise. When you got hired, fingerprinted and had a background check you essentially were consenting to work for this company in the role you were hired for. Employees don’t get to determine what they will or will not do and stay employed. If you want that, go and start your own business and you can have that control.
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Ask anyone who has retired from Fidelity, accepted previous VBOs, or has moved on how many weeks a month they went into the office. Uh, 4 weeks. These were also the associates that built Fidelity up to what it is today. These WERE the top talent, and not here anymore.
What’s left are associates that are doing the bare minimum and their own thing.
We never signed anything when we went remote and we never signed anything that said we’d come back. So how does Fidelity skirt being sued if they really enforcing this? Can private companies do anything they want? If they fire us for this, will we get unemployment? 😛😝
People don’t seem to work much in office and it prevents me from getting pretty much anything done. So much talking. So much walking. Time I would be working is spent commuting. Such a waste. And yes, it is a step backwards from before Covid.
Spring an additional week/ two weeks in the office on us? This has been talked about since the beginning of the year. I’ve been preparing for this. Why haven’t you? It’s your exceptional incompetence that hasn’t prepared for this. It’s the incompetent employees are the ones bitc**ng about going in 2 weeks a month.
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The sooner you realize you ARE just a statistic/number no matter where you work the better off you will be in your career. You are at the bottom of the food chain and are easily replaceable.
If you don’t like it, go get a remote job since there are so many. As a dog wags its tail, the tail doesn’t wag the dog. Good bye and good riddance.
FINRA doesn’t prevent remote work. They just want to examine your work site once a year for ensuring it’s safe for customers privacy and data protection. Only finra registered employees have to do this. During COVID this yearly check was suspended.
Most of my team used to go in once or twice a week before covid. This mandate is a step backwards for those that need to spend most of their time thinking and programming.
The market su-ks now but it’s cyclical. I’ll be moving on to a place that is more flexible. I am pretty happy with my work and management and dealing with 1 week onsite. But the alternate week schedule is out of touch with the reality of how many people work.
This is a clash of cultures that transcends fidelity. However I don’t think the cat can fully go back in the bag now. It’s just a matter of time - 5 years, 10 years, who knows. People who think that we were always in offices should think about this as a 100 year old phenomenon. Most of humanity was not in an office. I am sure we can find a way that can keep people happy without the need to treat them like little kids.
That FINRA excuse is garbage, Fidelity sits on the board and has a huge influence. The whole RTW effort is to prevent startups from moving into the space, that’s always been why those proximity to an office rules existed. No it’s being wielded to take the heat off of management and blame someone else. Might as well just break out the lube and bend over… if you are going to take it up the a-s, might as well enjoy it.
Obviously a gen z comment, that also does the bare minimum. A lot of RTW is being driven by FINRA which allowed work from home for COVID-19 relief. Even before COVID, some groups were working from home up to 50%. Also a FINRA requirement. Ask anyone who has retired from Fidelity, accepted previous VBOs, or has moved on how many weeks a month they went into the office. Uh, 4 weeks. These were also the associates that built Fidelity up to what it is today. These were the top talent, and not here anymore. Su-k it up buttercup or move on out.
Summary:
After a three year plus rulemaking process on our new rules, during which FINRA engaged in substantial outreach to member firms, FINRA informed member firms in January that the temporary COVID-19 relief would come to an end on May 30, 2024, a year after the official end of the pandemic…. FINRA announcement 5.22.2024
https://www.finra.org/media-center/newsreleases/2024/finra-statement-correct-misinformation-about-new-residential#:~:text=After%20a%20three%20year%20plus,official%20end%20of%20the%20pandemic.
Fidelity return to work has been much slower/gentler than several competitors. Schwab requires all employees (except like 10%dull time remote) to be in office every week, 3 days a week, for a minimum of 8 hours daily.
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The sooner you realize you ARE just a statistic/number no matter where you work the better off you will be in your career. You are at the bottom of the food chain and are easily replaceable. There are games being played way above you and you are just a pawn in that game.
There wasn't a protest/sit in when they got rid of the pension and there will not be one now.
Sorry for the hard truth but both of these items need to be said because they are true.
They want you to leave because natural talent attrition is cheaper than a VBO. They plan to outsource more and take advantage of a cheaper labor market. Unless we all speak up, they will just push any outliers out and find more resources in countries that will lick the boot. It’s time we do a silent protest / sit in!
I honestly don’t think it’s wrong or crazy that they want us back 1/4 time or 1/2 time. How is this “disgusting?” People always worked in offices. Go get a remote job if they’re so plentiful.
What I do think is messed up is changing people’s remote status on them after hiring them remote so they live nowhere near an office. THAT is messed up. Asking you to come in 2 weeks a month is really not.
Completely agree. All the guarantees fidelity made during covid around not mandating going back and people making decisions to buy homes in areas not near a fidelity office and then them ripping that away is absolutely disgusting. F this place, I hope they lose top talent and tank their revenue. I am applying for jobs like crazy and will do bare minimum until I’m out.