Sadly it’s all about politics and being friends with your managers that determine who gets to stay. I work with so many people that are lazy, entitled, close to retirement and don’t care that stay because they have close relationships with management but people who are capable and do their jobs get laid off. This isn’t a dig at those who are close to retirement because there are plenty who are competent and are easy to work with but it seems like so many of the bad ones who are nightmares to work with stay….
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I look at the past decades of working at this bank. I don't think I have ever been on a "true" team. Its sad really. They tried to make teams with their agile transformation. WF still has agile transformation positions open so I guess there is some hope. Maybe there were "true" teams together. The so-call engineers are a joke. The tech is a mess. It is sad. Its a big bank. Maybe there are true teams somewhere -- not team in name only (or cause the bank is on teamworks).
That’s the truth! I’ve worked with some crazy troublemakers over many years who work against the team and incite dissension. They always use their crazy to stay
@pt+1jvd25arn What is going on with Columbus, OH. A skunkworks in the making? They seem to think highly of themselves. https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-varrasso/recent-activity/all/
This is SO true! The laziest at WF always seem to rise to the top. Its such a toxic work environment run by narcissistic fools.
Case in point: I’ve been with the bank for over a decade. I hold advanced degrees, have management experience, and have consistently delivered. But when they reshuffled the org recently, leadership roles didn’t go to the most qualified—they went to friends of the executive.
The new leads? Former employees and managers from their past team. And to top it off, they pulled in lower-level people and handed them team lead roles they weren’t ready for, while those of us with decades of experience got pushed down the chain.
Now we’re dealing with the fallout—confusion, dysfunction, and poor leadership. Ironically, a new executive just stepped in and is shaking things up. Hopefully, they see through the politics and focus on merit, not loyalty.
@ak+1jvd25arn spot on. And a threatened rat will stop at nothing.
@de+1jvd25arn again spot on. Entire process setup to resell others work. No value, just look at cloud computing. Where were they? Answer backstabbing each other
I worked hard in tech, but I challenged my management now I am looking for work. Lesson learned
You want to see lazy, come work in the risk team.
@bm+1jvd25arn, troublemakers get laid off all the time if they are lowly staff employees. It's about a hierarchical power thing. If you are a high ranking troublemaker, you will survive, but if you are a low ranking staff, you are never allowed to talk back.
Applied feudalism 101.
You can add to that, the bullying ones never get laid off, the troublemakers never get laid off, the manipulative ones never get laid off, the information hoarder ones never get laid off, the gas lighting ones never get laid off, the abusive ones never get laid off. It's all about making your manager FEEL GOOD. Like they went into a happy ending massage place. Banking and prost--ution are exactly the same now. One is legal, the other one isn't.
Location Strategy doesn’t care , in theory.
So True, You work day and night and one fine morning your manager say you are done please logoff. He does not have courtesy to say good reason as well. what is use of such manager :)
Don't work too hard. If you work too hard, your manager and his manager will feel threatened by your presence. When they feel insecure about their positions, they will try anything to undermine your career.
Then you have the energetic ones who buzz around ceaselessly but pollinate nothing whatsoever. Who cannot make a bee line to the heart of the matter to save themselves.