I work in BK and the morale is awful. Every day walking into my office is like walking into a morgue. Each floor is half vacated, you can hear a pin drop. Heard Aug 19 is going to be a blood bath with layoffs and then more Dec 2. Very sad. Managers are behind closed doors every day.
Reposted from @10g6ENDx-1zqd for important info on future layoffs.
Heard that 240 is so crowded they are laying off Aug 19 and Dec 2 (Monday after Thanksgiving). Whomever left will go to Jersey City.
I've worked very hard to get my approval rating below 50% on Glassdoor. And I don't plan on stopping any time soon.
(Although, I have to laugh at the green approval squares... that I order H.R. to submit...)
I heard August and November, which happened last year too. But they also laid off during other months. Time will tell.
I was in Brooklyn a few months ago and it just looks awful and depressing with bits and pieces of workstations just lying around. I hear their goal is to have everyone out of Brooklyn by the end of the year...either everyone will move into an overcrowded 240 Greenwich or get laid off. To make room in 240 Greenwich for those that do come over, I’m sure they’ll be laying more people off too. Ohh and don’t think that any work from home policy will help offset the number of people in the office at any given time. Remember, this joke of a place doesn’t do work from home. You have to be in the office at your desk to take your calls with people who are not in the office. It’s like their only solution is to lay people off without any regard to what it does to culture. Look on Charlie’s approval rating on Glassdoor...below 50% says a lot about what he’s doing here at BNY Mellon.
I am a manager and have no advance notice of layoffs. We are often as shocked as the target when they are let go. Thats why HR is on the phone, so they can do the deed instead of the sometimes speechless manager. And remember, BNY gives extra credit for letting a manager go, so we are just as tense as you are around lay off time. Maybe even more so...