Thread regarding Bank of New York Mellon Corp. layoffs

Any other active employees have an odd management structure after the reorg?

My 2018 manager was one of the many middle managers recently demoted. My new 2019 manager was formerly my 2018 second line manager (the manager of my 2018 manager).

Anyway my new 2019 manager says that he is too busy to meet with us individually so he has asked someone else (who shares the same grade and job description as I) to be the unofficial acting manager for my team, meaning do work assignments, manage scheduling, handle performance reviews, and act as the escalation point.

So essentially I report into someone different than is reflected in the system. Anyone else?

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Several members of my team are refusing to acknowledge our appointed "fake" manager and have opened an HR case to have our new official manager at least meet with us once.

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Not here, but it's happened to me somewhere else.

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Yeah, there's all sorts of behind the scenes stuff going on. While publicly restructuring and renaming managers as 'individual contributors', all those not-managers are still doing all the admin tasks they did before, at least in my area.

We have people sending status reports to one non-manager, having PPM time sheets approved by a second non-manager, and actually reporting to a manager who is too busy to manage anything but his crazy workload.

In addition, we have people working in one location, but for budget purposes showing up as working in an entirely different location hundreds of miles away.

Hey, just keep paying me, that's all I ask.

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Yep. Lots of weird stuff going on. The new org charts are paper only. Our local upper management followed paper directions, and we now live in a fantasy world or nightmare, take your pick.

CEO and directors probably don’t know, or care.

I am one of the reorganized managers with a new team, on paper. In reality, I still do my old job too, but those report to someone else, on paper. Like I said, lots of weird stuff going on.

People somewhat cavalier about it. If we fail, hey maybe we’ll get lucky to be laid off! Meanwhile, part of my job is trying to keep good people from getting too depressed. They are part of the reason that I don’t just quit.

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