Interesting point. Intense pressure from Senior Management to meet unreasonable goals. Senior Management minimizing and even punishing contrary views from frontline managers and employees. Aggressive pressure leading to poor decision-making... — read more
I joined Wells Fargo a year ago
Since then, I've come to realize that there's little to no communication between employees and those above us, management likes to use fear-based tactics, you have to play office politics if you want to survive, and most people are so tired they are... — read more
Hiring Process
What’s the standard timeframe for the hiring process? I applied for a few different jobs before I was laid off. It’s been 3 weeks. 2 weeks ago I had my phone screen with the recruiter.
Wm Barnhart lease
I've heard that a new tenant will be moving into the Barnhart center on 1/01/2025. If that's true, Wells Fargo employees will have to be out by December 2024. Can anyone confirm?
Safest & Least Safe areas to work at WF?
As we contemplate when/if our jobs will be eliminated/shipped overseas, what are some of the relatively safest and least safe areas of the bank to work in terms of job security, in your opinion?
Managerial trash to be eliminated at Amazon
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/amazon-could-cut-14-000-managerial-roles-now-is-the-right-time-to-says-company/ar-AA1rGEul
New Service Now Requirements
Due to recent facilities leadership team directives please read the changes effective immediately. Standard and Incident $hits are no longer acceptable and you will turned away at the entrance. All AUs must create their $hitNow request for... — read more
Home mortgage process
Can someone help me understand. During the process the following parties are involved: HMC: takes or perfects the online app HLP: communicates what stips customer needs to turn in (job mainly consists of copying/pasting emails seems like) .. — read more
Is Wilmington DE office the new HQ for WF?
Is Wilmington DE office the new HQ for WF?
Fire us if caught not making enough keystrokes
Wells Fargo monitors our every move and keystroke using remote, electronic technologies - purportedly to evaluate our productivity - and will fire us if we are caught not making enough keystrokes on our computers; however, Denise went unnoticed at... — read more
Intimidations/retaliation from FMLA?
Just curious if anyone else is experiencing what feels like intimidation and retaliation after returning from leave. I was on leave for major surgery and returned on doctors release date. But my manager is making it seem as if I’m demoted by asking... — read more
THANK YOU for the Christmas Bonus!!!
Thank you for the early Christmas bonus... I was displaced last month and already started working at my new job... Loving the two paychecks...
Is Wells Fargo ripe for a Take over?
It seems that all these new upper management hires are coming from Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan. Been there with other banks.
How many in-office hours to stay off the naughty list?
My LOB has informed us that they won't tolerate "coffee badging" any longer and we'll be dinged on year end reviews if we don't comply. What's the current thinking on how many hours that means we need to be in the office? I've heard mention of 2, 4... — read more
Sociopath CEOs Say Remote Work Will Be Dead in 3 Years or Less
https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/79-percent-of-ceos-say-remote-work-will-be-dead-in-3-years-or-less.html Meanwhile, our dear leader is making 325X the median employees pay: https://aflcio.org/paywatch/WFC
Toyota follows growing trend of companies halting DEI policies and initiatives
Several other companies, like Ford and John Deere, have distanced themselves from woke programs https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/toyota-follows-growing-trend-companies-halting-dei-policies-initiatives
Recent Layoff Questions
For those who were let go recently or know of people that have been what areas? Location - Job Title - Department Inquiring minds want to know
El Paso, no word yet if a business will take over the nearly 300,000 square feet building
Wells Fargo to close main branch in January 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_cKhElyjCc
We gotta get out of this place
We gotta get out of this place If it's the last thing we ever do We gotta get out of this place Girl, there's a better life for me and you
Are there benefits to coming in as an internal employee vs external
I am in my 60 day notice and can still apply to jobs as an internal candidate. However I would not be eligible for a salary increase and have to work as opposed to getting paid to do nothing for 60 days. If I wait until my 60 days is over I can come... — read more
Offshoring of Jobs
When will the top dawgs learn that offshoring of jobs is really not a cost savings & ends up costing companies more money in the long run. For example, all the rework we have to do with P&I work. And anyone familiar with Boeing lately? Their planes... — read more
14 WF branches unionized or in the process
... at recent count, earlier this year. "Committee for Better Banks’ Wells Fargo Workers United is the only public effort by Wells Fargo employees to organize a union. With a union, workers are seeking to address chronic understaffing, unfair sales... — read more
Undue Hardship
How does WF get away with saying working remote is an “undue hardship” for the business ? If your doctor recommends remote work for you for a legitimate medical reason- how can they justify denying the accommodation?
As a candidate requiring Visa sponsorship - is it advisable to join Wells?
As a candidate requiring Visa sponsorship - is it advisable to join Wells?
What’s really going on at Bank of America?
Who has the scoop!
I was among those who were let go yesterday
If that didn’t happen, I would have left on my own anyway. I’ve been with WF for over four years. I figured a while ago that there were no career avenues to pursue. In addition, banking jobs have been consistently degraded over time. I realized that... — read more
Whew!! Relief
Whew, I was so worried that after TK got fired from her job and demoted to some underling under Gidgit , that she would drop from the Most Powerful List of Women in Banking. Good to see the Wells spin machine still works. Maybe AB needs to be told... — read more
Welp, after 16+ years it happened…
I knew it was coming. Executives gave me a heads up around this time last year it would be coming and we’ve stay in constant communication about it and it’s helpful that this doesn’t feel like a ‘surprise.’ WF always accommodated my personal-life... — read more
Layoffs
I haven't been here long so I'm still unsure how things work. From what I've observed so far, layoffs happen usually once a month and it's always just on Tuesday. Am I wrong?
Those who got displaced, were you rated poorly?
Just curious folks that have been let go not because of RTO, if you were let go working from a core location. Can you please share? . I hope you all will find a better place than this sh-t place. I am also curious if it happened a specific day of the... — read more
Got RIF’d today.
I’m vacillating between despair and relief. Honestly my job was mind numbingly boring as I went from a highly active role with lots of traction performing a lot of work to one that did not offer much involvement. I’m not going to let grass grow under... — read more
Charle Scharf: negatively impacting good people’s lives every day.
Charlie is a what is called a Corporate Psychopath. He feels no empathy or remorse for destroying people’s lives to benefit his own, whether it be his employees or his customers. He is able to justify everything he does because in his book - we... — read more
Year End Self Evaluations
I'm having a hard time even thinking about doing this year-end self evaluation, when I'm at a site that's being displaced next year. Why would they even give us promotions let alone a good raise.
7am Town Hall?
Further proof us west coasters aren't long for this company. CEO Town Hall scheduled for 7am PST. In all my years here I can't recall one this early. At what point do we stop being a San Francisco based bank?
Barnhart layoffs
Anyone get layed off at Barnhart today?
Healthy Tension, New York Big Wig Wells Fargo "Wisdom"
So some New York big-wigs started quoting we want to put you guys under "healthy tension" to keep you off-balance. Not sure how much they are paying those students of confucious, but Wells has been under too much unhealthy tension for a decade at... — read more
What would you go for if laid off/quit and really don’t like your job?
Would you try another job at the bank or try something entirely different? I’ve been in WF for five years now and I want to leave. I don’t like my job. I initially wanted a career in banking, now I’m inclined to believe that there is no such thing... — read more
What does Tomorrow (10/1) hold? Why was there no WARN for Boise?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wells-fargo-cut-nearly-100-231814455.html