One who is not overly ambitious to advance in his career, one who will tolerate doing a double workload for almost the same pay, or one who will be indifferent to a toxic atmosphere... he/ she can be quite comfortable here.
For everyone else there is less and less reason to stay here. I’ve started to despise my job here and I think there are few of those who still enjoy their job here?
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I’m so happy I was let go over two years ago. I gave my all there for many, many years. Love where I am now and a lot less stress and I dont have to worry everyday that I am going to get laid off. It’s all about who’s buddies with who. I could write a book on all I witnessed, put up with and saw there. When I started there it was a bank of integrity, pride and honor. Now it’s garbage.
No, I simply shared my approach to life and it works for me. Share yours if it works for you.
Clueless.
That’s what she said.
@4ktv, I've done my share of manual labor from throwing bales of hay, shoveling stone before everyone owned a skid steer, framing houses and roofing in the summer. It was actually pretty simple and just about anyone can do it. Very few people are capable of doing what I do at the bank. Heck, most people couldn't even do a simple sql query much less a query with left outer joins or programming with dependency injection. That means it's hard.
Kinda interesting that apparently so many people feel working from a chair for a bank is “ hard work”. Not time consuming or stressful but “ hard work”.
No wonder why society is so f’d up.
Working at a bank is not “ hard work”.
Digging ditches. Landscaping, blue-collar work is hard work. This is soft work sitting in a chair
Maybe time consuming. But far from “ hard”
I’m not a bank, I just love financial services and technology. If you don’t, I can understand your attitude. You should self assess and find what you love to do. Hard work is fun when you’re doing what you love to do.
I was on "stretch assignments", different ones, large global programs, for 8 years. For 8 years I believed I'll be lifted up a few grades, but it never happened. I directed large groups (Level M or S work) at Level K pay. My boss just ignored me, as senior leaders continuously plucked me out and into more stretch assignments. My boss started hating me. The Stretch Assignments made me feel good because I outperformed. For 8 years. In the end I couldn't do the charade any longer, especially with a bullying undermining boss.
“I’ve never made a move for money“
What a load of BS. We work at a bank, what do you think banking revolves around?
The people talking about “ working harder & more hours “ are part of them problem. You know this company is a run by terrible greedy management. If they can get the job done with less people, they’re going to do so regardless of the impact to the employee in their personal lives. They’ll just regurgitate some BS about work like life balance while not allowing you to have any if you continue to put in the hours to get the job done
Wake up. Your a mouse on the wheel that’s never going to get the cheese.
Regarding the post about working harder and doing double the work to get more money and advancement, I did that and it didn't work.
I worked in IT on a vendor application for years that didn't give me any marketable experience. There were in-house, cutting edge applications in my department that needed people. I approached my department head and volunteered to work with one or some of these in need applications.
I naively thought that I would be moved to one of these new application, but it didn't happen that way: I could work with groups developing new applications, but I had to also continue working on my current, old application at the same time.
My first assignment was supposed to by an even split of 4 hrs on old app and 4 hrs on new app during my work day, but since both applications were doing major work, it was really 8 hours old app then 8 hours new app, so I was working 16 hours per day and literally doing two jobs.
This went on for a few years on and off whenever needed. During that time, I didn't receive any promotions and I received the same cr---y raised that I had been receiving. The external groups that I worked with praised my work and my reviews were excellent.
@1rur+1gVE1vqV. Care to share your age and grade? Curious what level all this investment in yourself has yielded
No doubt that this is a millennial complaint.
I’ve always thought of doing a double workload for almost the same pay as an investment in my career and it really does work out that way. Don’t get me wrong, you need to step up in a big way and provide some big deliverables but you will get noticed and pay and career will advance. You might run through many clueless managers but believe me, the cream will rise.
Don’t blame the Bank for your own attitude. At some point you’ll realize that you get out of your career what you put into it and it truly is that way everywhere. I’ve never made a move for money but always moved to the next great cool project or company and the money eventually followed.
No longer enjoy my job here. Giving my notice in soon. Management will keep piling on the work & give you nothing in return. BNY was a different place once upon a time. Sad but time to move onward and upward.
Run!