Instead of them just keep piling more work on us, maybe the management should finally pay some attention to resource planning.
It is impossible to overwhelm employees this much and expect them not to leave.
I don't think of myself as someone who is irreplaceable, but if only someone else from my team left, I don't know how it would all work.
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Budget planning is a joke. a rollercoaster of weeks of chaos listing new or old projects with useless guesstimates. Several rounds later and budget cuts occur abruptly.
Resource planning is another joke.
And How many people were told how to allocate your time on the timesheets regardless of what you worked on? This happened for several years.
With our circa late 1990s technology, yes. We need 5,4000 with a huge Operations footprint to run the bank. Still trying to find out what happened to all of the digital investment. Even the d-mbest of Sr leaders should know to ask what we got for the spend.
Here’s a funny one - last year senior manager approves opening of one req for my team. Interview a handful of candidates and am ready to go to HR with my pick. one month later, same senior manager hires someone to run my team at an S grade and my req is closed. new S grade hires 3 of his own and lays off 5 people from my team in mid 2022. 3 more people leave on their own. Now the surviving team is buried in work and others are looking to go. That senior manager I mentioned earlier could have at least mentioned he was going to hire another executive above us. Glad I got out and found something that pays better.
Do you actually need 50,000 people to run a bank? Could it be a case of some are overworked while others are not?
It’s not that the resource planning is totally wrong.
It’s that there is no resource planning.
Who cares, make more mistakes on the tasks; tell the manager the work is too much. Let's all drown together. I don't have my weekend, my managers won't have their weekend either. I make sure I sc--w their weekends too.
They don’t care. When I was there, they kept reducing staff (while the workload grew) then had the temerity to constantly tell us the bar had been raised. They wanted more and better when we were trying to not drown. Todd was some leader.
you cant manage resources if they cut the budget more and more each year. scope is high but they know at the end of the day people will get it done short handed.