I would love to leave, but there are no good jobs out there and even the bad ones are hard to find. Every single company seems to be running on skeleton crews and layoffs seem to be around every corner. So I stay here, even though my motivation is... — read more 

People are posting the same question all over the public channels: How is having Teams in addition to these other products saving us any money? The answer is that it's not. First of all, Teams will replace pretty much everything eventually, but the... — read more 

Is buying PTO a real thing? Can you do in middle of year if you are new ?

Pretty moving.

Overnight decision to move then out of the sla-ghter house currently known as Tech moves under Nish. Do we really need a chief privacy officer in that model and do we need over twenty people in a second line role where all of their functions were... — read more 

Why do I have to talk to multitudes of people and teams across Member Protection and Risk to update my control? Why does every change go through “review” by people who don’t have anything to do with my process? Why does it take me longer to educate... — read more 

Without the financial support of the rest of the organization, the bank would have ceased several years ago. This goes all the way back to General Joe, when the growth of the bank should have resulted in changes that were left ignored, resulting in... — read more 

This site was once a community and source of knowledge. It’s in a tailspin of conspiracy theories. When someone makes a reference to an exec from 3 years ago, and is no longer here. Ignore them. When someone makes an outrageous claim like “30%... — read more 

Dont know how we are doing with competition.

Are there any changes to 5 days?

Honestly, I never thought the current Bank President would have such a devastating impact on USAA Bank’s culture, organization, and people leadership. I knew him when he was an ED, watched him move up through the ranks, and genuinely congratulated... — read more 

Who did Dan fire? He now has 142 directs.

Has there been a single day in the past 12 months that we didn't have to worry about cuts? I'm pretty sure the answer is no. Even after the cuts are freshly over, we immediately start thinking about the next round, because we all know it's coming... — read more 

Unfortunately, if things are falling apart, the only way to turn a profit is to reduce headcount, and that is not sustainable. That works on Wall Street but not with a private company. You do not have investors to impress and no stock price to move ... — read more 

Dan has been give 20-30% reduction in costs now. There will be massive cuts for 3P and employees. Expect layoff, expect old investigations opened up, and expect minor issues to result in termination. The teams that will be hit are EDAO, P&C IT, Corp... — read more 

It’s been exactly one year since my short meeting that ended my time at USAA. I stopped by here to see how things are going, and all I can say is I feel bad for everyone still stuck there. Even when I left, getting work done was already a nightmare... — read more 

If your EMG is talking about “how we work” and is having your leader write out each of your job duties and what it entails, that is the first step in deciding who gets their 60 days notice. Word of advice, make sure you let your leader know... — read more 

This wasn’t a mass layoff like the one in January, but a few one offs occurred today. My manager and our 2 leads had their roles eliminated today, we were told the news at 4:30pm. Only thing the AVP said was their roles had been eliminated after a... — read more 

Move before it get worst

So...Serafin's departure email just hit. Was in there for less than a year, and just moved to San Antonio. Clyde left a dingle berry of a mess from Op Model AND move to Guidewire. If you objected to the simultaneous switch, you were labeled as "not a... — read more 

What the heck was this boring useless and common sense drivel????? Hot mess…. Nobody knows whats going on with it… Doesnt usaa know that a good portion of employees do not deal or interact with members?????

USAA has a policy that all new roles are in office. Remote employees that post for new roles must move to an office location if they want a new role. It also has a policy that all roles are posted for at least 5 business days. This does not appear... — read more 

He's got 28 under him right now, soon to be 29. What's the endgame? What's going on?

Any insight? Discussing a role.

Fires 40 pct of his direct reports and assumes their roles, including Availability. figures out that most outages occur during change, so now unnatural acts of impossible clairvoyance are expected, with the implication of losing your job due to... — read more 

At least four IT Infrastructure peeps were terminated without severance pay this week following an “investigation” for “policy violations”. Witch hunt in progress. Don’t give them any excuses.

But that's not it. It's never been it. The problem is the constant layoffs and the never ending changes. Let us go back to working from home more and maybe people would actually want to work more and be more productive again.

RB and folks were sacked after an Investigation.

Getting emails that keep reinforcing rto at four days, notably leadership… Apparently, they dont want to deal with stupid stuff like the friday trainings we now have and the upslilling that has nothing to do with 95% of our roles…

I would have been out of this place a year ago. But no luck so far. How many others are stuck just because they can't find anything else right now?

New tech leader Dilbert look like dude [who loves diving] sacked him? No communication was made.

At least, I haven't heard anything going on, nor seen anything where I'm at. It's a relief, frankly.

If you are a bank employee, either get to the office close to 9am local time or get ready to be escorted out by being in the office early. Notice period is tomorrow.

The company I complain about giving me zero psychological safety rolled out their bi-annual update to pulse, as they have for the last decade. Also this is my weekly reminder that my fraud director had a full calendar today and that also means we’re... — read more 

Has everyone reviewed it yet and the changes

Meta & Microsoft...USAA will for sure experience the similar situation especially in tech where it is so much shaky. Zero psychological safety the core Agile principle for success.

July is after June. Oh and this is my daily proclamation that Fraud will have layoffs in the next quarter- so in case it does happen I can come back and say I was right. - my name is Ms. Cleo “Call me now”

Everyone get prepared, the leaders we call id--ts are meeting, yet I want to gas you up to believe there’s a master plan some AVP and their directors have the power and competence to layoff their staff, self-defeating their own roles and stature... — read more 

Everyone get prepared, bank fraud leaders are traveling to Phoenix next week. They all have full day agendas to discuss head count! Fraud detection is next for impact of layoffs!