Heard rumors of employees being fired for coffee badging after a review of in office activity in the US, anyone seen this happen?
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Do they give you notice? Or warnings or investigate before taking actions? Can the first time pass by? Since as a new employee didnt know that this could cause them trouple and thought it would be ok in case they have to leave immediately for family emergency.
Is there any recourse to this? No warnings??
Happened to me last week. my card swiped but i didnt log on so HR called me and asked about it, then got fired day after. No vacation days pay, no severance,
If people who swipe in and stay 4 hours are being let go then the bank would be firing half of my location. On todays episode of: Sh*t that never happened.
Even those who stay for 4 hours for example n leave are getting let go.
This is the first time I heard about this. What location?
My understanding is that you can tell if you're in compliance in the Working Together section in my source. As a contractor I have not been assigned to one of the work assignments so mine is not there. Just curious if this is correct.
Its not just happening to people who swipe n leave. Even those who stay for 4 hours for example n leave are getting let go. It is honestly ridiculous.
@btcs+1vmYBpfO We all know who it is. A pure id--t. Maybe they should skill up and get a salaried position rather than working hourly like McDonalds employees. Maybe that could help them. Who knows :/
Boss just said in a team meeting that a number of people got let go for swiping in and leaving or trading badges with others to swipe for them, etc. And he said BNY is monitoring network activity behind the scenes, even if swipe outs aren't being monitored.
It almost sounded like a 'ring' was discovered and cracked down on.
Many people have recently been fired for ‘coffee badging’.
In Jan the Houston office is being forced back mandatory 8 hrs in office 3x a week because some hourly employee complained about having to come in while others weren’t spending all day in. Not 6 hrs or 7 hrs - they have to be in building 8 hrs on network. May as well work at McDonald’s and punch a clock. I certainly wouldn’t work above and beyond and sure wouldn’t work from home after hours, When my 8 HRW were done and I put in 2-3 hrs commuting, that’s it. Don’t expect after hours work from me. Managers are going to have to do 4x a week in the office.
@3zve+1vmYBpfO the working together guidance does not say "Swipes and login to the network counts as a day in the office"
To be considered recorded as "in office" that day you meet a criteria of
- badge swipe
- in-office network login
- business travel day booked through Amex
Yes it may imply BOTH are required but does not explicitly state that "simple and clear" but rather multiple ways to be considered "in office".
lets be honest with yourselves....that practice is so unacceptable and i cannot believe someone would actually try to skirt the system when others are coming in the office as asked. This is just an example of why we are being treated like children and a manager cannot just manage staff looking for short term flexibility.
You are all minimizing the massive anti-RTO employee restance. We need to fire all of t(e noncompliant “workers” and give raises to the workers.
It’s interesting how popular this topic is. If you read the policy, it’s very simple and clear.
Swipes and login to the network counts as a day in the office. Doesn’t matter how long you actually stay.
I know multiple people who come in, swipe with the badge / phone, log in via Wi-Fi from the cafeteria, work for maybe 30 minutes and leave. Nothing ever happened to them.
Anyone doing this is an id--t and deserves to be fired.
Badging in, hanging around for a short while (enough time for a cup of coffee) and going home.
Everyone likes to talk cr-p in here with the “coffee badging” nonsense. People being fired are the ones who either swipe and leave immediately or are having badges swiped by someone else when they aren’t even here at all. The people leaving early or coming late but actually logging in office hours are not getting fired unless there’s other just cause.
Yes, had someone let go from my group this week.
I'm not claiming to know who the full scope of who is being targeted but I can say that my impacted employee was swiping and leaving. I don't work in the same office and frankly she should not have been reporting to me but we all know to he current state of affairs around this dump. We're talking not logging into the office network at all, period, ever.
I don't think we're talking about the leave at lunch crowd.
It happens all around me every day, all day. Wilmington.
Were these people warned or did BNY just try and trap them?
The amount of time and money being spent on tracking is unbelievable. Life at BNY is pretty awful.
I can confirm this is happening in the US. One of my colleague was fired for coffee badging.
Are they really laying off on this RTO issue?? NY and PGH
Lol Murricans, you need to stand out like Europe and fight for your rights, no one is goint to fire us over coffee badging.
Apparently NY is spoiled with actual Starbucks baristas and whatever latte they want for free on the 16th floor. Meanwhile we are nickel and dimed to death every where else.
Yes, we had it happen 11.4. Don’t who is coming in for our cr-ppy coffee though lol
What is coffee badging?
They would have to lay off my entire building (Im not from US so it wont happen)
Is layoffs about to announce or is it happening? I saw some of the managers are warning but did they track previous RTO?
ppr+1vmYBpfO
Yes, it happend outside US for people who did not even log to office network.
Is this happening outside of the US?
They do this if you only use your badge and go home without office network connection
Is it really happening?
Yes this is happening. It went down yesterday for one person in my group.