I think people use this forum to complain because they can’t at Schwab, for fear of retaliation. In my experience, any constructive criticism or justified negativity about this or that is met with disdain, side-stepping, and even work related consequences. That’s why everyone seems “fine” but the survey scores are garbage. This forum is a “safe space” for people to vent about this, quite frankly, poorly run company and the vast majority of people on here feel the same about most topics.
“Moving on” isn’t really a possibility when broken things aren’t being fixed, upper management still isn’t being transparent, further layoffs are still a very real possibility, and all of our valid questions are continually brushed aside in all hands meetings. Workplace flexibility is also probably on its way out because executives only care about the bottom line vs the employees actually making them $$$.
Inflation is ki-ling the middle class, the job market blows, bonuses/raises were cut and will probably be next year as well etc. There’s really not a whole lot to be positive about rn, so coming to this forum and chastising people for still having concerns is about as tone deaf as the EC (and Walt preaching positivity on LinkedIn while the stock plummets, making the grants we got last year virtually worthless). But yeah, let’s all put on a happy face while we wait our turns at the chopping block, fu-k off.
Putting it up for visibility. Thanks, @lgw+1tOuIjib, for putting together everything that needs to be said.