Unfortunately BNY Mellon rewards and praises mediocre work so there is less and less quality employees here. Just a few years ago, it was impossible for such people to have as much confidence as they do now. It's really hard to work with them. How do you deal with mediocrity in the workplace?
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The union seniority mentality here in San Fran Sicko is quite simply as astounding as it is detached from reality. You finna gotta produce Jack or put it on the rack.
Well… that’s a very easy question to answer. Quite simply, there is a huge chasm between those who have studied and those who can do. And, there always will be educated fools and geniuses with no credentials.
In other words, education only helps your entry into the workplace. Talent, Smarts and sheer effort build your careee.
If you don’t understand this then you should be in a union shop… likely Federal Government, where YOU will be the problem but you will get rich.
Same this is true with major league baseball and the NFL. Been mediocre for the past 100 years. Net won-loss record of all teams together is .500
I get so tired of these virtue signalers talking about the mediocre workers..... wtf would I work my a** off for 1-2% raise while the exec's rake in all the money.
and I am willing to bet the person criticizing the mediocre employee isn't that stellar him/herself.
I am putting in as little time as possible while continuing to do 'my job' They can shove the extra special projects where the sun don't shine
What about those moving up to high job grades that are not even junior college grads while Masters degrees are trampled?!?! Lots of this going on.
Question to the person commenting about cr-p schools. How many Ivy League grads work at BNYM? I didn’t attend an Ivy League school but as far as I’m concerned there is Ivy League and then there is everything else. I am sure there are a few here at BNYM but in my roughly 15 years here I have yet to meet even one Ivy grad because they usually get high paying jobs given to them after graduation…. I know plenty of Ivy grads and not one of them had to even interview for their job upon graduation and all started making well over 100k on day one. Would love to know where you attended that makes you so much better than everyone else for the elite mindset
Sounds like commenter #2 works in the fund accounting/fund servicing world and came to us from PFPC.
I don't think you understand what elite is.
More often than not, those elite schools produce extreme costs for tuition, etc that can't be paid back. Oh wait, our taxes will pay for it...
...and you actually prove the point with those name examples. More often than not, college admissions establish a proper order of intelligence. Those who think otherwise probably mention their gpa before their alma mater.
Way to mention some extreme examples - any of them work at BNYM?
NEVER GRADUATED COLLEGE
Bill Gates -Microsoft
Michael Dell -Dell
Mark Zuckerberg -Facebook
Steve Jobs -Apple
Julian Assanage -WikiLeaks
Evan Williams -Twitter
Larry Ellison -Oracle
Jan Koum -WhatsApp
Travis Kalanich -Uber
John Mackey -Whole Foods
Nicola Tesla
What school you went to is meaningless. There are great business people from less royal schools and s**t business people from Ivys. Don’t generalize
Goals and tracking are meaningless in the Bank.
Is having a degree or two from a great college really what it is all about? I think it is for the new joiners to the management and product owner space. But these are the people that are not really adding value and possibly even doing the wrong things. The college degree is only meaningful when you first graduate. After that, what matters is your experience, your skills including social skills and your actual output. That degree is less important. And by the way, some people are really good at being a student. But in the real world, they can't find their way out of a paper bag... I see that a lot now at bnym management.
....Perpetual motion
100%. Look up any level K/L/M - most graduated from garbage colleges, at best. These "managers" view themselves as hotshots - I mean, they must be for having risen to a middle management job at a bank, right?!?! In reality, they must know this title was and is only attainable for them at BNYM. And that is why they'll never turn on Senior Management. In fact, they go a level above and keep working all hours of the night and weekends to save their sad 125k salary. Maybe their Florida, Delaware and central Mass neighbors working in retail are impressed. I am not.
How do you know their work is mediocre? Everyone has performance goals to meet so how do you know they aren’t meeting goals to get recognized