BNY employees need to UNIONIZE, in order to fight the deeply corrupt BNY HR department, who continually completely disregard employees’ excellent performance records, and, instead, use HR rule technicalities to override the will of the employees’ direct managers, and unilaterally let go GOOD employees, and WITHOUT any severance pay. The BNY HR department has far too much power, and only by UNIONIZING can the employees be treated fairly.
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Stop the scheming to get over and try working a day for a day’s pay. Good god.
Dude, you’ve been gaming the system for two years, and quite sloppily at that. Sorry, not going to help a slacker who won’t work. You deserve firing and you’re certainly on the list.
No it does not work. I was one of those in houston office who was let go yesterday for doing that a few times this year. However here in Houston we have to pay for parking as well, an extra out of pocket expense. I also recently used my medical condition to convert to wfh full time so the fact that I had not been into office since october cause I had my wfh situation approved n they still let me go, I find ridiculous. Whats funny is its the managers that encourage us and say they dont care where work is done as long as it gets done. They know we work outside hours (I have worked often at 9-10 pm at night, on weekends and even while on vacation, when I shouldnt be). My clients have always liked me and depended on me to do the work. There are many on my team who thought this whole tracking thing is ridiculous and juvenile. I know a few on my team who did the same thing too where they dont stay all day or some would scan their badge n leave office. I am surprised why they are cracking down on this now right before the holidays and not just giving people a warning. Our boss even called us a few months ago and said that they were starting to crack down on this and to just stay even for an hour. So yeah I stopped doing “scan n go” as I call it. Also when this rto started in march with tracking I called hr n they themselves told me that scan of badges count as you being in the office. There was no requirement for those to stay in office for a certain amount of time. If you did not have your badge, they would use your log in in office as counting towards you being in office. You also had to meet minimum requirement of being in office and you could do all five five n then two.. and I asked hr over n over again no requirement for how many hours to be in office n they said no. I know here in houston office they had a visitor a few months ago and when it came time to ask questions, a girl asked questions about the in office n why some people left early etc. I believe because of her question, they cracked down on Houston office. Anyway sorry for long comment, but yah my advice is log in n just stay at least minimum 6 hours would be my recommendation. If we did not have to pay for parking, I would have no issue coming in everyday and staying for the whole 8 hours! I know parking was a big complaint for lots of those in Houston office
Why would you not have submitted in office exceptions for business travel? Seems like your own error or your managers for not educating you
Did BNY ever define exactly what “working from the office“ means? A lot of people sit there and small talk for two hours then go home – is that “working“? In its purest sense, making the effort to drive into the office, and making the effort to swipe their badge AT the office, IS, in fact, “working from the office” because the employee is exerting effort on behalf of the company AT the office — ergo, they are “working from the office”. Therefore, they DID follow the HR rule. Unless the HR rule specifically states “log into a computer“ as being required in order to comply with the HR rule, then there is a strong legal case that their employment was terminated without just cause, and they should at least receive severance pay. They should really launch a class action lawsuit against BNY, on behalf of all of the employees whose employment was unjustly terminated.
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Submitting in office tracker exception requests, hunting down my manager, having to own the follow ups to see that this is done…. Do you not understand how completely stupid and juvenile this is? Do you not understand how bureaucratic and non professional this is? Do you see how this is just a trap to snare people that are too busy for such pablum? I know these are the rules and all, but, it doesnt mean we should just be silent on it.
Coffee badging is so weird. You’re not gonna beat the machine by cheating. Stop putting so much effort into fighting the system and just leave for greener pastures elsewhere. When they went to 3 days a week, I asked to be moved remote. They said no. I left. No games needed.
What about people who swipe in on the weekends
I mean they only said you had to swipe in 60 percent of days...no one said you had to login and work.
I had a co-worker who told me directly they were fired for coffee badging. This individual only swiped in and did not connect to the network.
if you are planning to be offsite still working then you should be submitting in office exceptions so that the office tracker deducts those days. if you dont thats either at your fault or your managers
Yes. They call it coffee badging and terminated quite a few people from my office because of coffee badging earlier this month. As far as I know, no warning was given. You only get a warning if you don’t meet your in office quota. Not for coffee badging.
People are getting fired for this. Good workers.
No it is not in bny…lot of people misunderstood. Hope they give warning first and track this later.
Yep, in this age of intellectual disability in charge, you need to log in just to be safe. I was at an all week offsite for a client and guess what they had me as? It took enormous pain and phone calls and emails from my manager to get it lifted. We are absolutely pathetic slaves to the dopey machine here.
My understanding is that people have been let go for swiping and leaving without logging on, very recently. It might be reserved for the worst violators.. don't know, but why go there.
Hoping some people can be saved from themselves.
This behavior has already gotten several people fired. If you come in, log on.
Isn’t this the coffee badging that people have been getting fired for? They’ll look for ANY reason to fire people to reduce staff & not have to incur any costs, so why do this unless you want to be fired for cause?
Depends how in depth they want to get. They have the data that you’re out of compliance just depends whether they use it or not.
If you check the dashboard, it may tell you the method of how it clocked you in the office.
If you swiped in but there was no network presence, then there is chance it would be flagged.
If you want to play the game like that, then you have to be very comfortable with the consequences.
Depends of the team, we had many people like this and no consequences