I mean literally someone who has only been in office a year is taking over segment consulting analyst. With WHAT experience?!!! I'll tell you what experience. He is related to the person who just got promoted a manager for the complaints team. And he who got promoted to a manager was actually friends with that previous manager too. What everyone says about favorites at this place is 100% true! All of these people are friends and family members. This is not right at all! This place is unfair.
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You can work really, really hard for years and still go nowhere. Cronyism is rampant. Don't kid yourself - Political factors are far more important than smarts, experience, results, or seniority. In fact, if you produce excellent work, you've put a massive target on your back. Incompetent managers feel threatened by competence.
Just reading through some of these posts, I could see why some of you would be passed up for any future roles in ANY corporation and/or company. Simple rules of life - work "really, really hard", put in your time and effort to be known for all the great work you perform daily. Be sociable, learn as much as possible and ensure your management (not just your direct manager), but their reporting managers (two up from your direct) knows who you are and all the good work you do. No, i'm not a current manager, but was prior to retiring last year. The opportunities are there. You just need keep your eyes and ears open in order to seize them and turn them to your favor. Don't really care for any comments or negative reactions - I'm just saying what worked for me (30+ yrs) and for many others in this company that I've known. Best of luck to all of you.
You all make me laugh. Do you think it's any different at other companies? Ha! Welcome to the human race, amigos.
I’ve seen people get promoted really fast ..for no apparent reason. While really deserving employees are left disappointed.
I know many many people in leadership who sleep around with people at that bank and they are directors. Talk about being a role model. Did they F*** their way to the top? Is that what needs to happen here around here to be taken serious? Don't make me name drop please. That's how mad I am.
I was told all open roles must be posted (and as a manager, I've repeated this to reassure others). Only to discover my own role (when I changed LOBs) was NOT posted. Our leader just asked a couple trusted pals for names.
Total sham. Liars.
After our division was shuttered, a specific role category was opened, and every team member was strongly encouraged to apply. No "outside-the-team" applicants were hired. So yes, they already have open seats covered well in advance of posting. They're just going through the motions. Total sham. They didn't even pretend to be hiding the fact that they were doing this. Slim Shady.
Now we have supreme court justices participating in trying to overturn an election and storming the US capital all for the dotard.
All true! Don't even bother applying for positions. They already have people preselected and the req process is just to check off a box. You'll know if they want to promote you before the position is even posted and it won't be based on work. Work is hardly (if at all) a consideration, it's about who they like.
Yeah it's a joke and keeps getting worse. ~90% of mid-high level roles already have someone pre-selected before the req even posts. So many leaders hooking up their friends...it's just sad.
I left. Had over 10 years experience and literally trained everyone on my team and across other sites and the director gave the job to someone else. I'm sure they thought I was just gonna continue to work my azz off all day and train everyone and their mom still but they learned different after I left and got a 35k pay increase some place Thanks for not picking me!!!
SVP hired his out-of-state wife's best friend as manager for our team. Zero experience. Bypassed team members with 20+ years corp bank experience, most w/ ~10 years @ BOA on this particular team, many w/ MBA creds. Cronyism.
What is all the hard work for when you've already pre selected your family member for a job??! Stop wasting everyone's time and interviewing when you know you're just gonna pick your friends and family. Just ridiculous and no one does anything about it.
This has been going on for years at this company. It's not what you know, it's who do you know. I have seen so many inexperienced, incompetent, nonenglish speaking motherfukhers promoted. It is a damn shame that this shlit is allowed to go on in this company. They have all of these job openings that only go to their fuhking friends and family. This is why I don't give a fuhck about this place anymore. Many of these leaders are so unqualified to lead. Many of them don't even know their job . This place as I said before is a complete shlithole from the top to the bottom.