I was let go in 2015 in a restructuring move where the whole department was eliminated. I think we were listed as 'do not hire'. Do you know if this is something that expeires or are all of us blacklisted forever, meaning we'll never be able to go back and work for Bank of America again.
What do you think?
Thank you!
You rented an apartment without actually having a job. That’s more on the lousy contracting company than it is in BofA. And that’s why they hire contractors. You chose higher pay but you go in knowing that you may be cut with no notice.
I thought I was on the DNH list after I was fired from Merrill. But I got hired by BofA 10 years later. When I was interviewing I called up HR to check my DNH status, and they told me I was not on the list. Try contacting the HR department directly. It worked for me when I did it 5 years ago.
I don't know why anyone would want to work for BofA unless they are a teller. At least teller positions have a lot of activity, so you'd think it would be a safe job.
I interviewed with BofA for a six-month contract position in Charlotte, NC. I was offered the job and given a start date in 2-3 weeks. I found an apartment in Charlotte and had literally just left the apartment office with a signed lease and the apartment keys with a move-in inspection checklist in hand when I get a call from the consulting agency saying not to show up for work on Monday because BofA cancelled the contract. I turned around and went back to the apartment office and told them what happened. I was out my security deposit & two months rent to "break" my lease because they'd given me the keys.
After finding a new contract role a month later, I was a couple of weeks into the new job when BofA contacted me again to say they were still interested in me, and that they cut the contractor role in Charlotte in favor of making it an employee role in Norfolk, VA. I decided that an employee position was better than contracting, so I re-interviewed and accepted the position. But suddenly the previous consulting company got wind of it and forced BofA to make me work as a consultant through them for six months and then BofA could hire me. Every week, in our staff meeting the manager said they were still going to convert me to employee status at the end of six months. Then, two months in, BofA announces a 16K layoff. For another two months, I'm still told every week I'm being hired. At the end of the fourth month, I suddenly get called into the manager's office to be told that I won't be hired and that I would be let go at the end of the six months unless I found a job sooner.
When the layoffs were announced, there was an older worker who couldn't do their job, but they had it because they were merged in due to an acquisition, that thought for sure they were going to be let go in favor of hiring me because I didn't need any training from them when they were told to give me on-the-job training for what their team did and I knew the tools better than they did. All I needed was to know where the code repositories were and what their production release process was. Turns out they shouldn't have been worried.
I've hated BofA ever since and will NEVER work there again for any reason.
I'd imagine it depends on why you were placed on that list. Like you mentioned, being in a restructuring where a department is let go should NOT result in a permanent hiring ban. However, being terminated for cause is. If BoA can't tell which type of termination is which, then they have problems.
I worked in a division of Texas Instruments a LONG time ago which was sold off to Raytheon Systems within 3 months of my hiring. I was not told during the interview process that the division was being considered for sale & I hadn't seen any news about the pending sale. When Raytheon took us over, they announced six months later that they were closing our facility and moving the engineers to another state and letting the rest of the workers go. I opted to take my severance and stay in the local area rather than move to another state. I wasn't told that all employees that were transferred to Raytheon were ineligible for re-hire with any Texas Instruments division for a period of five years. I kept getting contacted by external and internal recruiters who thought I was a great fit for some role, I'd apply and interview, but then suddenly I wouldn't hear anything back until I got a "thank-you-for-your-application" letter saying I was no longer under consideration for the position.
Finally after about 6 interviews, I contacted the interviewer and asked why I wasn't considered and he told me about the Raytheon black list. I marked TI off my list of companies to work for and never looked back.
They can rehire you, but the process is tedious, with lots of additonal approvals. Hiring managers typically chose candidates that don't have the extra baggage.
Anyone knows how to get added to the Do NOT hire list?
do not go back: there are plenty of jobs out there, Wells is hiring tellers...
I know someone who was placed on do not hire and their manager and the time they left has to fight it for them. It’s difficult bc a lot of times the manager is no longer there
Just work somewhere else! who cares about BofA.
Never expires, unless they completely change to a new HR system/platform and lose the data. I was with the Bank 30+ years, most as a manager, through 2019. Generally there has to be strong cause to have this noted on anyone's file in the first place. You could try to appeal, I suppose. Maybe through your former manager (if on good terms), or another manager (esp. if yours was biased or had subsequent action taken on them!), a friend who has since become a manager, or perhaps direct with HR if you know why you were designated and can challenge the status or redeem yourself. That said, you're likely better off to be out of the place.