I first wanted to wait it out until being laid off. I gave up in the end. They won, but I won too. I used the time in the office to look for jobs, and I found a much better and more convenient option. It took time, but it worked out in the end. I’m an average worker, with an average resume. If I could’ve done it, anyone can. The job market is tight, but there are jobs. I understand everyone who wants to wait it out. I just couldn’t deal with WF and the pointless yet costly and time consuming RTO anymore.
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Saul is 100% NOT cool with wfh.
attendance is being tracked and reviewed, group by group in CSBB.
As a shareholder I am super stoked that you are no longer here. Hard to imagine that you are an average employee when you spent your time in the office looking for work somewhere else instead of contributing to your team.
OP, if you are just average at WF, then are you average at your new job? If so, in time you will also lose this new job.
To @2gyx+1vuEa4Ci
I’m completely on your side. I worked for the company 20+ years, 18 remote, and they got blood and sweat from me, at all hours. I think they were well compensated for my ‘privilege.’
Perhaps it looks too cliche to be true, but the darkest story you see here on theLayOff is the correct one: WFB actually hates its employees and its customers. It wants to pump up the next quarterly report by any means necessary. That means erasing jobs in the USA and sending every possible job too . . . wait for it . . . India. That way they get the cheapest employees. Period.
Similarly, they don’t want to provide any service in exchange for customers’ business. They have no desire to provide competitive products, interest rates (check these!), financial counseling. And don’t call them, you’ll waste 20 minutes and end up talking either to AI or someone in India. Indians are wonderful people and I don’t resent them, but dear god, would you choose someone 12k miles away in a completely different culture to serve customers in US? Well WF does, because its goal is least possible cost and customer service doesn’t matter. So what if they lose a depositor with $25k, they have $2 trillion to blow through.
Anyway, these are not good or bad facts, just the facts. I have no complaints because I profitted greatly from them. All jobs are temporary, and this one was no exception.
“I don’t know what Saul said to make you think he likes people who work from home.” Saul was the one pushing thru wfh for lots of technology a few years back. The other lob leaders were p1ssed. Charlie let him do it too as he had some song and dance about why his division needed it but others couldn’t have it. Only when moving to CSBB did he change his mind.
You'd know, and if that's the case, F him. For most employees the office is a waste of time and for the company it's usually a huge waste of money.
To @1tga+1vuEa4Ci
No. He did not hand out any exceptions that I’m aware of, and I worked in Technology throughout his tenure. See my comment below. He stated clearly in meetings he wanted to fire anyone who didn’t want to work in an office, in the city of HIS choice. Some brave souls objected in real time and he shut them down in front of everyone.
I would love to meet this Saul of which you speak, clearly not the same person I worked for.
Wasn't he handing out WFH exceptions like candy until the axis of evil gave him a talking to? I'm not in tech but that's what the techies I spoke with said.
To @ify+1vuEa4Ci
I don’t know what Saul said to make you think he likes people who work from home. In his first meeting after being hired at WFB, within minutes, he told Technology that we needed to live and work in the same city as our manager, not merely in an office. He called this “co-location,” it’s roughly 172 times worse than RTO, and he was set to fire his whole division to accomplish it. Then Covid hit, and he was delayed.
Based on the above, I would place ZERO hope in kind treatment from Saul if you work from home. You will be in the crosshairs.
This is why Saul should be the best CEO. Seems to be cool with WFH and see the obvious benefits. Unlike that garbage "human being" Scott.
I find this post believable. Notice the OP does not list the trifecta, “more PAY, better job, more convent”. Just Better and more convenient.
Well it looks like their plan is working since RTO is a back door lay off. Once we loose another 20,000 people maybe they will stop the RTO garbage.