It's gettin confusing to tell the difference?
Employee Tracking by management
How are employees being tracked except the swiping of badges at door? Lately we are hearing lot of software's being installed in the system without employees being told that they are being tracked in a particular way. Anyone who can shed some light... — read more
Air quality
Can we say cr-p communications when is in central Ny have been in the hazard zone for the last couple days with yesterday being highest. Headaches, coughing and eyes burning yet hey business as usual . Who cares if you get sick getting there
Peakon - BNYM cares about our health
Had this question on the survey this week... NYC has the worst air quality due to Canadian wildfires and authorities are saying to stay in doors. We still need to come to office for RTO though.. BNYM cares about our health so much. We all need to... — read more
Team members
how many people on your current team do you feel pose no value ?
Market conditions
I'm happy for those who find a better opportunity and leave this, but honestly, it makes me very depressed that I can't get anything better myself. I believe less and less that I will succeed at get a better opportunity, at least not before the... — read more
Layoffs occurred last Friday
Do you know anyone who was affected and what groups? I am hearing of several locations.
RTO isn't just a 'return to what it was'
For hundreds of people in the King of Prussia, PA office, it's a return to an office in a DIFFERENT CITY (Wilmington, DE). For many of us the commute went from 15 minutes to nearly over an hour when typical traffic is factored in. Many people... — read more
Lighthouse
Anyone else sitting on these calls about your process being more automated only to hear random teams talk as if they know your process, know the business related to it and talk as if they’re taking your process completely? I don’t even get asked... — read more
This is all they know
When you can’t figure out how to actually grow the business, the only way make their numbers is by cuts. Too bad the regular employees will suffer instead of who they should get rid of: the overpaid and useless middle managers. This is 100 percent... — read more
Warning Email
Emails going out starting today from corporate to employees not in compliance with 3 days a week in office just in time for mid year reviews.
What career paths does the BNY experience lead to
After all the fantastic work done at BNY and having the job description on your resume. What career options does it lead to?
Downtown Pgh
https://pittsburghquarterly.com/articles/wake-up/ For those of us collaborating around the PIttsburgh water cooler, this is what we get to enjoy
Changes for the better
Does anyone expect them anymore? What was once a great workplace is now a shadow of the former.
What colors are there on the card swipe report?
Curious about the report you guys are talking about. How do they make sure it matches with employees' record?
Fraud Contractor Hiring - Husband and Wife
A manager has hired 2 of his distant relatives (Husband and Wife) as contractors to work on same project. They are from same vendor, they never show up at office and being paid the highest top dollar. No one seems to know what they are working on... — read more
60 day notice period
How enforceable is it when you give notice? It’s in the contract, but are you tied to staying the entire 60 days once you say you’d like to resign or case by case in how decent your manager is?
Which bank/firms do not have that bell curve performance rating?
Which firms doesn’t have that re--rded bell curve and fire staff yearly performance rating that creates this sh-t toxic workplace culture at BNY? Looking to fu-k off from this sh-t hole, much appreciate the advice.
Our opinion is irrelevant here
I totally understand people's complaints because they think that coming to the office is a waste of time in most cases. Venting is sometimes necessary, however, do our complaints change anything here? No. I don't recall leadership ever taking... — read more
Keen to move on- Advice please!
I'm considering new career options in the financial industry. I'm on the hunt for a company with a good reputation as a great employer. You know, the kind that genuinely cares about their staff and creates a positive work environment unlike my... — read more
RTO Policy
Is there an official policy? I hear so many different things. For example we were just told that holidays do not count as in office. This is in direct contrast with what we were originally told. The real problem is that as an employee you have no... — read more
Morale is severely lacking
The staff has been cut too many times in the past 12 months and morale is severely lacking. We are always waiting to hear if we will get laid off next. If we only had a long-term plan that showed us the bank was committed to us, things would change... — read more
Could it be?
Is RR finally on his way out? And what about the rest of his “innovative” team?
Drive to replace older workers
They are being careful not to commit anything to writing (for obvious reasons), but the writing is clearly on the wall. RV sees this as a key part of his legacy. It's their prerogative, but they have to tread extremely carefully to avoid age... — read more
Elon Musk - what a clown
He goes on a tirade about how it’s immoral for people to use services that require workers to be in the “office” while at the same time expecting to WFH. If he’s suggesting that workers are treated equitably in working environments then does he... — read more
Left because of RTO
I wonder how many people left because of RTO. I don't think there were many though?? I also wanted to leave but I couldn't find a full remote option that suits me better.
Let go for non compliance to RTO
Does anyone have any info on people being let go for non RTO. From what I'm told they recieved a flat 12 weeks not 2 weeks per year. As I understood non compliance was to effect your performance review negatively 1st. From what I'm told they were... — read more
NYS sick time
Anyone seeing a major issue with this? It’s constantly the same people calling out and even if you know they’re laying on a beach somewhere as long as they say “ I’m sick “ mgmt cannot do anything until they’ve used all 13 allotted days. Meanwhile... — read more
Filling reqs
Anyone else see a major lag with this nonsense? Now they’re trying to save money so are purposely not filling them quickly to save money each money. Makes great for being short staffed with vacations approaching . More genious ideas from up top — read more
Following RTO rules
Just out of curiosity - does it seem to you too that there are lots of people here who do not follow RTO rules?
Robin
RV is wall street guy and his hires. They will never understand BNYM and have no intentions either. They are nit Gerald Hassel,Todd McGuinn,Frank Cahouet. These came up the ranks. Kelley,scharf, now RV will sc--w up big time, getting the golden... — read more
People who don’t know their job
do us all a favor and please leave
The noise
How does anyone up top think in office is beneficial ? I get way more done at home when I don’t have to read an email 5 times because of all the office noise and constant chatter. Some teams don’t stop yapping from the time they get in until the time... — read more
Think like an owner???
If I was an ‘owner’, I’d want a new board of directors and top level. Considering this company is stagnating for decades. Clorox bleach had the same share price as BNYM in August 1999. Both are earth-shakers, but in that time clorox has quadrupled... — read more
Mass layoffs coming
Too many new young people hired. Also leadership from BB. Deposits and stock tanking. Update your resume. FEB will be baaaaad.
Warren Buffet buys Capital One, Dumps BNY Mellon
Source : Investopedia https://www.investopedia.com/warren-buffett-buys-capital-one-dumps-bny-mellon-7498577 It was due to buffet Shares was distributed among all the Employees in February. I took it as a Red Flag and knew this was coming . It makes... — read more
There goes Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway sold it's remaining BK shares. Must be they're sick of watching us try to grow by firing our biggest asset and hiring offshore replacement. Or maybe he's just sick of sitting around waiting for profits to increase like we've been... — read more
They ignore low morale
Our leadership acts as if they are unaware of how low our morale is. How else to explain the fact that in many ways they try to lower morale even further? They obviously don't realize that almost no one is satisfied working here anymore and... — read more
Stop working overtime
As long as the masses continue to run around like a chicken with their head cut off working extra time for nothing- . This treatment will continue.