Stop whining about about much you have your job and go some where else. If you’re not going to then shut the hell up cause your negatively is what contributes to low moral . Stop s—ing the life out of your coworkers
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Answer: Because we all like giving "constructive criticism" to our incompetent low IQ management.
If you don't like the content why are you still reading it?
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@1yqb+13S5tcDr this is true. Sass has been the backbone of my career for the last 10 years and you must be agile to deal with all the chunkback if you're gonna sass. If we're just talking FinTech, then yeah you can specialize a bit more in boutique technologies like, let's say, boolean reactor engines (NieTak, Hai etc) or flat morbidity graph datastores (Grotfunge, Hangnail etc).
Most important to just do the needful and you will success.
@1nyf+13S5tcDr ... what I've told people is to learn the kinds of things that are marketable like SAAS and Agile. Things like EAGT, Grabski++, and ShoreNum might be skills that other financial institutions are using. I know the bank uses PEP3 and Rachael-Zip for its web services in MB3.
You would know I guess.
Birds of a feather flock together. BNY seems to be a safe haven for imbeciles
Hey BetterTimesAhead, go ahead and start blasting that resume out there. Get on up and outta this piece!
Focus on microservices, everything is microservices these days. Study up on orchestration vs choreography, message recovery/replay patterns and you should be good. The rest is SOA and devops stuff like containers and CI/CD that you're already familiar with. You can find a new job in a month or less. If I can do it, I know you can!
LET'S GO!
Why am I still here? I have student loans and a mortgage. I'm buying time trying to learn skills that make me competitive out there, it's tough working here when the world around has progressed and you've tried to implement change technically, but its fallen on deaf ears. So trying to do it myself in my free time which there isn't much of outside of work while raising a family. I'm sure many people are in the same situation here. When I feel confident enough to REALLY put myself out there, I will. In the mean time I am applying here and there occassionally. Until then, buying time. It is sad coming into an environment daily where the stench of fear is thick and the loyaly to the company or group has wained...or is in the process of for many individuals, not just myself. It will be a happy day when that letter of resignation is handed over. Until then I keep trying to learn as much as I can in the time I have. My very best to all in similar situations. Good luck!
They are still here for reasons one can only think of. Some include they truly like it, and are frustrated at the senior management. Others are slaves to their lifestyle meaning living luxury on a bologna wage. A few are slaves to high student loans. For others, this was the only job they could land that pays in their belief a living wage.
For those truly unhappy, update that resume and network like mad. Apply to jobs where you have a high interview probability. Plan for being laid off especially if you get a BE via earning or force rank.
For those truly happy at BNYM, make sure you are on the right side of your managers political side. Be willing to learn Python and other programming languages even if you have a finance or accounting degree. Also, you must be willing, depending on the department, to work up to 18 hours a day, possibly 7 days a week at times. Plus, you too will need to update your resume, as no one is ever safe.
Good luck to all.
Learned self helplessness and some can't survive anywhere else. Also becoming obsolete on resume by being one place too long or being in some bs position that doesn't even exist outside the bank. Types of personalities that will knowingly be led into the slaughter house and not put up a fight. Down vote and search your feelings, you know it to be true Darth Vader voice
Many in my department have been laid off over the past five years, and very few have found good jobs elsewhere. Some of us that remain have been looking for other jobs, but who can live on half of their pay, maybe with fewer benefits too, like health care. Or uproot their family to move to a good job. (I know of one person who found a distant job and quit, only to have second thoughts, and stay. Go figure.)
Just because we remain unhappy here does not mean we are just whiners or slackers. Some of us sincerely hope that upper management might hear reasonable critique and change policy.
Not that this blog has much reasonable critique, and not that BNY even cares. But this is what happens when people have no where else to go. Its not a good situation for anyone.
Why did I stay so long? The office poon was pretty good. Plus it was so easy to slack off for a couple of years while cashing a paycheck. A nice six figure salary for sitting on an a$$. I did everything I could to get laid off last year and ended up with a nice long paid vacation as my reward.
My advice to everyone there: put your cares on a shelf and let yourself be free. Do what you wanna do, it doesn't matter. Come in 2 hours late, take a 3 hour lunch break and hang out in the coffee shop the rest of the day. Or don't even come into the office at all. You'll get laid off with full pay and benefits, take a month off and travel Europe and smoke some pot. Spend the last few months of your SUB finding another gig to crash.
It’s a well known fact that many at BNY Mellon suffer from some form of mental health issue. Depression, anxiety, ocd, adhd, phobias and fears, paranoia. You name the condition and I’ll point to someone at this organization that has it. I witnessed people at bny Mellon that were so gripped with anxiety and fear, that they would literally sit at their desk shaking. When I asked what was wrong, they would tell me they are just cold. So I’d look under their desk and they’d have 2 space heaters going full blast under there, and they are STILL cold. The one lady I worked with had her own private office and she’d keep it at a toasty 85 degrees. And she was STILL cold. Mental illness is so terrible. It literally traps you where you are. People will say things like “well just leave”. Well, what can I say. It’s not always that easy.
It was truly very very sad to see humans exist like that.