My manager gave me a beautifully written review, praising my work...and then ranked me a 2 with no solid explanation. I'm a month in disputing the grade with ER...still no word on their investigation....has anyone been through this sort of thing?
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Trips? Wow thats awesome. I will join this joint!
how about your mgr loving what you do, getting a meets, and then no raise or bonus? Welcome to AS world. HR don't care that stack ranking and other items happening. Transformation not respected, sales reps getting disneyworld trips with the saving. Thanks NL. we know what is true tho
@ae+1jn6a31xb the fake performance review does mean something.. no pay increase, no bonus. True story. Being stuck because you cannot expect anyone else to offer a position. No longer a good reference. It is an outrage!
@ee+1jn6a31xb, it's not "may of been changed", but it's "may have been changed". Don't use the ghetto language.
The rating may of been changed from above. Your manager likes what you’re doing but was told to change rating.
@d3+1jn6a31xb is so correct. Summary. Wells Fargo is a highly abusive micromanaged, bully managed psychologically abusive work environment. It is no place to grow a career in. Now I might add you might win the lotto and have a good manager and get substantial raises and/or promotions for a while. Such enclaves are rare at this bank. Eventually you will get transferred to a hellscape, with a micromanager manager, tech that spies on you
My mgr plays the game and is a terrible human-being who has no remorse for his actions. I have been the mark for 3 yrs. I filed ER complaints (first time of my 30 + career, 19 at WF). HR will only tell you need to talk to 2-up. In the end it just puts a target on your back to end your career through continued mistreatment and micromanagement all in an attempt to have me quit or eventually give cause to terminate. There is no career here anymore. Being exempt means nothing, years of service means nothing, my resume, and my expensive MBA means nothing. It is as if I was pushed to the end of the line and I have to start over just because Im not in the clique. Did I go back to high-school? It sure feels like the 1980s again.
The most shameful part about all this is the human factor and people not being heard for what's right, but doing what the puppeteers ask at whatever the cost. Reading through this thread, YEP HR, EAC, anyone you go to will not back you up (even though it's preached every year on how they are there to support and investigate) even with FACTS. The interest is to protect the FIRM and I can see how that interest is a must, but why preach fairness, why have mandatory ethical courses, why give that opportunity to raise your hand and voice your thoughts, man - like a "5 why" session. Ultimately, at the end of that fifth question - the answer will always be that YOU did something wrong. It's like telling a person that their shirt is red when he/she is wearing blue and after the wasted time and energy - ONE starts to believe that the shirt is blue. I don't know and not for me to judge, but somehow somewhere - someone will get the courage to get facts out there and that class action ______________ will come. Ethics - what ethics, the ones that cross a checkmark off to meet criteria, but not honored up higher? Such a sad reality that one can't even fight for what's right, even with facts in this company.... Real Talk!
Thanks all for the replies and feedback...I just got an invite to discuss the outcome of the "investigation" next week...will post an update.
Please post your case number here and I will have it moved up to the front xoxo
Just remember, HR isn't there to protect you.
Obviously you are a good worker, a good s..cker for your manager. Your manager has to grade people on a curve -- for the rank and yank curve. This goes behind objective criteria. Remember no matter how nice your manager is he/she is part of the abusive system this fearful organization has created and will support.
Fake accounts, fake interviews, and now fake performance reviews. Human resources continues to fail in protecting employees, customers and shareholders.
The dispute won't work. Once your rating is set, they will not change it. I came to the conclusion that these performance reviews mean nothing to us, and they are all rigged.
I received an exceeds this year. Bonus and raise were the same as when I got meets last year.
Keep smilen keep shinnin!!
I've learned there's no point anymore in trying to exceed. If you do that you're just wasting your time and energy because they won't increase your rating. The most they'll do is come to rely on you for more work for the same pay. Just shoot for meets, there's no incentive to go anywhere beyond that at Wells.
ER is here to protect the company, not you! ER is going to come back and say it’s all good. Try harder in 2025.
If ER came back in your favor then that’s discrimination against you and you would have ERs findings to use as a basis for whatever case you want to make.
I suspect if you really go at this hard, you will find yourself displaced….
Sorry this happened to you!
HR won't do much because its a company wide effort
Same thing happened to me. My manager wrote my review as an exceeds, but their manager said the department already has a lot of people who are an exceeds and kicked mine down to a meets, which in turn caused me to get a lower raise. Doesn’t sound fair to me, but I went to HR and they were of no help and in fact sided with the upper manager during the initial call (before they even started their investigation). Anyone who believes that HR/ER is impartial has their head in the clouds. I only hope another employee in this situation won’t let it go and it turns it into a big @$$ class action lawsuit. WF sc--wed their customers over for many years, who’s to say they won’t sc--w employees over as well.
I thought it was common knowledge that they just rotate around the 2s a lot of the time due to forced ranking. Prob shouldn’t take it personally, but I guess it depends on the specific facts here.