Here is a good tip for those still at bny Mellon trying to make sense of things. When you are in Mysource looking at the org chart, read it from the bottom up, instead of from the top down. The managers don’t manage the team that’s under them. The managers manage the higher manager that’s above them. So if Mike is the higher manager, it will show that Mike is Joes manager and that Joe manages a team of 8. The reality at BNY Mellon is that Joe doesn’t really manage the team of 8, although Joe definitely gets credit for that. Joe manages Mike. All day every day Joe manages Mike. Joe spends all his time and energy giving Mike the perception that Joes team is the best team on earth, when in reality, it’s really quite the opposite. Joes team has some problems, but you can be sure that Mike will never know about it. Bny Mellon has an ineffective system to ensure accountability or to properly rate an employees performance, and so Joe gets away with managing Mike instead of his team, and no one questions it.
So who really manages Joes team? Someone on the team of 8 manages the team. This poor soul is just one of the team members. He or she is a a manager without the title or the pay, oftentimes unqualified or inexperienced at being a manager, but yet this person is running Joes team while Joe manages Mike. This poor pseudo manager thinks that he or she is gaining valuable managing experience that may help him or her advance their career down the road. The reality is that Joe will hide behind the pseudo manager when times are bad. The pseudo manager “takes one for the team.” When times are good then Joe gets credit for EVERYTHING the pseudo manager did for the team. The pseudo manager is just being used while Joe continues to perfect his perception of the team to Mike.
This is BNY Mellon in a nutshell. It’s one of many games played out in the environment on a daily basis.
Working at BNY Mellon is a lot like trying to fight a war with nerf darts. Nerf darts don’t follow the normal rules of physics, and your career will never follow the basic rules of common logic.
This in a nutshell is life at bny Mellon.