I have recently learned that the company has a policy against internal promotions. Yes, you heard that right. The only way to move in the company is to apply for an open position. You can do your best, exceed all of your target goals, and be the best employee ever, and you absolutely will not receive a promotion. In addition, you will be re-organized multiple times and told what your new position is. I’ve worked here two years and I’ve been re-organized at least five times. If you express concern about the reorganization, you will be threatened with a layoff or a reduction in pay.
The return to office initiative is selective. Favorites are allowed to work from home or “coffee badge“ while the rest of us are constantly hounded about it.
They micromanage every single minute of your day. You literally have to track every single minute. No downtime is allowed at all. I’m wondering when they will start tracking our bathroom breaks.
The threat of layoffs is constant. They spin up entire departments that are only intended to exist for 12 to 24 months. Of course they don’t tell people that during the interview process. You just figure it out when the work starts to dwindle and people start being “reassigned“ which is Wells Fargo‘s way of saying “go do this job now or you won’t have a job“.
The Tempe, Arizona location is a dump. The elevators, water coolers, bathrooms, and external doors are always broken. Good luck if you have mobility issues. And because we are technically a “hybrid“ work environment, there is no assigned seating and you have to take everything with you when you leave at night. You can’t even leave a water cup in the building. They claim there are lockers for people but there’s less than 30 lockers in the entire building which are always taken up by the call center people. There’s no paper or pens, nowhere to keep a file or anything printed, and you have to fight people for a decent workspace because at least half of the workspaces have something broken… A chair, keyboard, a missing mouse, missing cords, etc. There is also a very large homeless population that hangs out in the parking lot, comes all the way up to our doors and rifles through the garbage and ashtrays. It can be scary if you are entering or leaving the building when it’s dark outside.
I honestly cannot believe that this is a professional working environment with degreed and credentialed employees. My oldest kid is treated better working at McDonald’s.
