Here's an Interesting article that parallels what is happening in our industry today.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mark-zuckerberg-is-realizing-that-when-you-treat-your-workers-like-human-garbage-they-might-not-like-you-anymore/ar-AA2369ab?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a04bce8f6f34192a3919b59b944e2ea&cvpid=5ea63c8bb12642a98ff3e9b42593777f&ei=36
Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is apparently shocked to discover that when you treat employees like garbage, they stop applauding your “vision.” After years of layoffs, culture rewrites, and “efficiency” crusades, Meta is now learning the obvious: workers don’t develop warm feelings toward leaders who treat them like cost centers with pulse rates.
And the irony? Everything described in that article reads like a template for what BNY employees complain about daily on this forum. The same themes echo: performative culture, leadership detachment, endless “transformation,” and a workforce managed like an inconvenient expense. Employees at both companies describe the same pattern — praise the mission, cut the people, then act confused when morale collapses.
The punchline is simple: whether it’s Silicon Valley or Wall Street, executives keep discovering the same truth. If you treat workers like garbage, they eventually notice — and they talk about it.