Thread regarding Bank of New York Mellon Corp. layoffs

@7cpj, let's just say Robin isn't a boys name.

@OP

I honestly don’t know. I’m still waiting to hear their pronouns, and Robin seems to be particularly shy on that aspect. We should all give s/he/or the other 37 s-xes the space they need in coming out.

Yes mostly, and Woke.

I had a job back in the '90s where I got all my work done during official hours and left at 5pm every day. My manager once said "You should be more like Tom".

Tom was in the office at 8am and stayed until around 7pm.

So I replied "Oh, you mean I should come in at 8am, read the newspaper until 9am, go to breakfast in the cafeteria for a while, work for a couple of hours, take a two-hour lunch, then spend the next two or three hours working on fantasy baseball/football and hanging out in female co-workers' cubes?"

That didn't go down so well :) Tom was my definition of a slacker. No one had a clue what, if anything, he ever did as far as actual work goes.

No, actually they’re a mix of middle age, male and female caucasians, African Americans and at least one se-----y unidentifiable former woman.

None of which has anything to do with their performance.

Replying to everyone talking about the slackers ruining it for us....
You do realize that the people who are slacking while based at home are the exact same people who were slacking while we were in the office, right?
Work ethic didn't really change.....it's the way it is in most parts of your life.
Some people get away with major crimes, and some people get busted taking home a pencil.

C'est La Vie

Slackers can be anyone, in the office or not. I know of people who come in at 8am, but chat until 9ish, then there are multiple smoke breaks, restroom breaks, hour+ lunch break, then a little more chat about the upcoming evening, then leave at 5. Putting in a solid 4 hours of work.

I’m going to work 15 hours tomorrow from the office so Robin gets a bigger bonus

@yqy

Sorry, I don’t need to work 12 hours to complete my tasks “at my little desk in the office”, but as it turned out, many of us apparently do need that kind of babysitting. So the slackers have ruined it for all of us.

Can’t criticize Robin for that decision and I for one sure don’t blame him.

@yqy

I beg to disagree. Working harder and working smarter are not incompatible at all. In fact, it is working harder that usually teaches a worker to work smarter. That’s true of anyone with an active mind.

Facts are facts. The pandemic really did serve to surface the slackers, NetFlix binge watchers and ne’er do wellers among us. Robin isn’t stupid. It sure wasn’t the productive workers that spoiled the party. We’re all going back to the office and we fully expect to see some major displacements. It’s doubtful that anyone is going to be surprised at the cuts.

Expecting people to perform remotely was a nice concept but we all learned quite a bit about the differences in our work ethics.

@dal, are you saying men handle most of the caregiving duties? Or, don't we believe in science any more?

@ msv, uye, xuk. Working harder and not working smarter is short sighted. You are lumping all workers and their contributions into groups. Just because you need to sit at a little desk away from home and work 12 hours to complete your daily tasks doesn't mean others working remotely aren't doing just as much for the bottom line. If you want to remain in 1975, thats ok. But don't judge others with your benchmark. Remember, BNYM didn't miss a beat working remotely over the past couple years. This is about control and facilities commitment, nothing more. Culture? Yes, only for those that stay more than 2 years. Our C-suite doesn't hang around for that long.

I’m here for the paycheck. I work to live. Not live to work.
I get nothing but a paycheck by doing my job & they give me nothing other than my check.

Good for you if you enjoy your work & are a “ workaholic “ but in my experience the people that talk constantly about how hard they work or great of a worker they are, are neither.

I’m 100% with Dimon, Musk and hard work. So sick of carrying the slackers.and we all know the coworkers who pushed their work off on us for two years of their fun and games pandemic.

Look, it’s simple. The pandemic is history. The workaholics among us carried he Bank because we care. Now we want the recognition that we deserve and we want the slackers moved on out of here.

@gon. I don't know about that. It was reported at Davos this year that Jamie D said in an interview with CNBC about remote work that " It doesn't work for young kids or spontaneity or management" But he did say that remote work can "help women" since caregiving duties tend to disproportionately fall upon them. "Modify your company to help women stay home a little" he said.

WOW, just wow.

What a racist, s-xist "article". If only these ceo's were g-y they'd be protected against such hostile hate spee92ch.