That’s all.
I had a job and achievements that I enjoyed, then during a reorg I was told to do a different job. No choice. I’ve been doing that for a while now, and I hate it, and it hates me. Looking to move on, but until then....
I HATE MY JOB.
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I am just burned out. I have handled additional work as our team shrunk from layoffs. I adapted to a management role when the company laid off other managers. I hated continual layoffs and forced rankings but tried to make it easier on fellow employees. Now I have a job that I don’t know with a team of miscellaneous people from different parts of the department. I am honest with my boss, say I don’t have a clue, maybe I would be a good choice for layoff. Yet I am still here.
My entire career, I have been a champion for change. I have enjoyed technological leaps and have been an early adopter of gadgets and workflows. I have been eager for work and opportunity, as companies expanded in good times and even as they and shrank with an unfortunate economy.
But I have never been through anything like this. At this point, I have been so displaced that I could be the most useless person in my department, yet I remain while they continue to lay off productive people and reorganize the team into some new format that will solve all their problems.
Yes I am considering alternatives but my bad attitude has slowed me down in so many ways. Then I realized: BURN OUT. Therapy, here I come.
Does 16 in 26 years rank?
i know someone who has been here over 15 years, and has had SIX different managers in the past four years. Top that!
Only a few years ago, I got my manager’s job when he took over another team. Then my manager’s manager was demoted when someone took over that job. Then that manager’s manager “retired”, and was replaced by someone that had recently joined BNY. Then my manager’s manager “retired”, and my manager took his place. Meanwhile, my original manager was laid off.
All have grand ideas but no one really knows what’s going on. Haha, who’s on first?
So if you hate your job and wonder how it got that way, this might be your answer.
I don’t understand why BNY does not simply ask who wants to be let go.
They could have criteria, like years of service.
Then unhappy people could leave with the package, and people who want their jobs could remain.
That could improve morale, and productivity.
Other companies do this, and some call it “early retirement”.
best of luck to those let go....there is a brighter horizon for you.
I was cut Monday morning after 19 years of service. The job s—ed, but I will miss the friends I’ve made over that time. It’s hard accepting that I won’t see these people everyday.
Our executive/senior management are a bunch of money grabbing, selfish, greedy bas*t–ds with only themselves in mind.
They’ve already destroyed so much of what has been built over decades.
I started Mellon bank/The Bank of New York Mellon n Philadelphia,P.a back in 2001....as a check service clerk working in the check processing and settlement department.I loved it.
I got laid off after 14 and a half years of service in 2015.....😔 This was an awesome job with good benefits.I miss it so so much.
Totally with you. The same thing happened to me.