King Charles III is taking BNY Mellon back to 1980. - Anonymous employee BNY Employee Review

1.0
Jan 11, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great team, interesting work. The system I work on is complicated, but that's a good thing. You don't get bored.

Cons

Since King Charles III took over as CEO, it's his way or the highway. The latest harebrained scheme is to force people to come to the office every day instead of working from home. In this day and age, that's just moronic. Most people face horrible commutes in urban traffic, and when you could spend that time being productive, it's just a Dilbert cartoon brought to life. But, the King has spoken, and his subjects must obey, or quit and look for a better work environment. The other idiotic idea from the '80s is that 10% of each group must be rated as 'not meeting expectations'. Why? Because some corporate goal wasn't met in 2017. Now, you might think that management, especially upper management, would be held responsible for that, but no. They decided to punish people below a fairly low level instead. So the CIO gets $10,000,000 a year, and we get screwed. I don't know what's wrong with these people. Maybe it's just the disconnect between multi-millionaires and the lives of the worker bees.

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