I can’t take it anymore, I’m fed up. My team is severely understaffed which is leaning me to work 7 days a week, 15-16 hours a day. I feel my health failing. It’s impacting my marriage and my family. I actually feel like I could die from stress all because RV wants to lay everyone off and leave the rest of us to do 4 peoples’ jobs at once. Anyone else feeling like this or is it just my group?
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It’s a sleepy custody Bank. no pressure, everything automated long before you, work should be a breeze at the Bank now.
Same thing here. They cut so many people & no help. 12-14 hours a day & weekends. It’s getting horrible fast. Everyone is getting resumes done & looking to get out too. Family suffers & our health! Good luck!
I see three distinct groups of people.
Opportunistic/Aspiring - These individuals excel in chaotic situations. They use charm, manipulation, and fanciful ideas to push unrealistic goals. Call it brown-nosing or selling snake oil—they’re savvy, but deceptive. Their promises are as unrealistic. They’re skilled liars, full of unattainable goals.
Workhorses - This group is caught in the middle. They’re not young or old, but they rely on their jobs for stability. They are easy targets for opportunists. Many face stress from work pressures and family commitments. They also struggle to comply with in-office requirements. Opportunists leverage AI-driven promises, which are often baseless, to prey on them.
Ready-to-Retire - This group is the largest, especially in the U.S. They coast along, resisting change or reluctantly adapting. Many hope for severance packages to leave comfortably. Their knowledge of internal systems often slows progress. At times, this holds the organization hostage. Their pace of work is slow and, arguably, deliberate.
Your group impacts your mental health. Workhorses should plan an exit strategy. The ready-to-retire group can stay stress-free. Opportunists have a short shelf life—about 4–5 years. After that, management failures will catch up to them. History has proven this with leaders like Suresh and Bridget.
The P-M initiative is destined to fail. It relies on impractical agile coaches, clueless architects, and superficial ideas. There’s a lack of business insight. New technologies are embraced blindly, without considering their relevance. This will worsen the firm’s challenges.
Current economic pressures won’t help. Ultimately, align yourself with opportunists if you can compromise your conscience. Or, join the ready-to-retire group for stability. If neither fits, it’s time to seek alternative opportunities
You sound like a bit of a drama queen.
Agree with folks stating your health and family comes first! In my team (we’re all individual contributors) we have spurts of weekend work and 12-hr days. But generally longer hours are due to project specific work, and we can take a day off at times. On an ongoing basis, no end in sight is going to burn you out. I’m all for putting in extra effort time to get caught up, but in this environment with P-M it’s going to lead to an expectation to continually give 7 day weeks. Something has to give - no way that is sustainable.
The feeling of constantly being behind is here to stay and will only be exacerbated once you enter the INCREDIBLE Platform Operating Model. So agile, so simple, so fast - requirements change so fast that massive amount of work go to waste due to teams having to change direction constantly. It’s draining! Thank god for agile coaches … said no one.
Good advice here. If you file proactively for STD, it may help you recover your sanity temporarily and strengthen your case if planning to file for age discrimination or retaliation in the event your management conspires to label you as a "low performer" while carrying out the P-M severance model to deny your service credit.
Get your paper trail in order (doctor's note, Wellspring Behavioral Health session, etc.) so you're prepared... when the reaper comes to harvest your knowledgeable and experienced soul.
If you're working those types of hours, you should be making near a million a year - And I'm not joking. Of course at BNY they'll pay 5% of that.. GET OUT!!
Your health and family are more important. Start looking for a new job and see your doctor. This place doesn't GAF about us
Given the pressures you are feeling, you might need to take short-term disability to heal.
Working 7 days a week, 15-16 hours a day is no way to live.
I used to be part of a 4 person team, where 1 quit, and they weren't replaced. So it was 3 doing the work of 4. Then we were down to just 2 people when another person went out on family leave for 5 months. So it was just myself and 1 other person, both doing double the work, all day, for months and months on end. And this was high stress, high volume, with insanely deadline-driven deliverables involved, too. It amazed me that management thought it was totally OK to overload us both with this BS. We asked for backup, even on a temp. basis. It was promised, but not given to us. So both myself and the 1 other overworked team-member then both were on a mission to get jobs somewhere else. We both lucked out and were hired elsewhere at about the same time. I left right before the 1 person on family leave was due back in the office. They got left having to hold down the fort solo, since the other team-member was soon out the door, too. Totally avoidable, but management chose to disregard our reasonable requests and worked us like slaves, so we broke free.
If you put together a plan, and spend some of your day working on attaining a new job, you will feel so much better about things, and more in control of your own destiny. Don't allow yourself to be ground down to dust. Focus on what matters most (your peace of mind, family, physical & mental health) and work on getting TF outta there!
Worry about your health and family 1st. This company does not give a cr-p about you. Dedicated, hard working, smart Employees working 30-40 years and being laid off with no severance.
A person’s health is far more important than working for the apathetic, insensitive idi#ts at BNY Mellon Sh%thole. They only care about cutting costs and making money at the employees’ expense. After leaving BNYM, I am healthier, happier and wiser. Ten years was enough time to tolerate BNYM’s terrible management and supervisors.
They dont care. And they have no clue waht anyone does or what goes into these jobs we’re doing
RV won't care about your health. Find a new job
Talk to your Doctor and get a physical pronto.