‘I am disappointed in myself for believing we were more than just a number’: AIB staff angered by cut to hybrid working
by hughly
‘I am disappointed in myself for believing we were more than just a number’: AIB staff angered by cut to hybrid working
by hughly
24 comments
Remote work will never trully take off unless one of two things happen:
* People make it a political issue.
* Workers unionize, e.g. civil service.
Covid is mostly gone. No need for people to be working from home anymore.
I’m all for working from home. Alot of our admin staff do work from home. I also see it getting the piss taken out of it. Neighbour works for a pharmaceutical company. He cuts the grass, cleans the house, does school runs, does the shopping and goes to school matches all before 5 pm. I said to him to be careful some management doesn’t catch on. Not everyone is doing that I know, but it only takes one to ruin it
Some jealous boys and girls in these comments. None of us should be gleeful about benefits being stripped.
3 days a week is still pretty much hybrid
I just left a full work from home job because I wasn’t happy in the job itself (but was a big fan of work from home). It was a very well paying job and unfortunately all the equally well paying jobs are now hybrid at best. My new job is hybrid with 2 days at home per week, however the job I just left is likely to be fully return to office in the new year according to rumours so possibly I got out on time before I had to compete with my colleagues for the remaining hybrid roles. It seems fully remote jobs are getting more scarce
I’d advise anyone that no matter what your employer tells you, know that you’re always a number. And that’s fine. I know that my work doesn’t care about me, but in equal measure, I don’t give a flying fuck about the company and its mission or goals or whatever. I’m just focused on my specific job and making sure I do it to a high standard.
If your job has stats or your manager uses KPIs or performance evaluations to track your work, you’ll see people get more done at home. In my office case anyway.
Some managers just need to see bodies in the office in order to give their job meaning. Our teams were doing almost 50% more work on home days. I thought all the managers would be delighted to hear that it’s like having an additional half a workforce on the work from home days.
They did not like that. I think a lot of them were worried (especially micromanages and middlemen) that their jobs would be at risk if they weren’t paid to just walk around the office and treat it like a school moreso a workplace.
WFH has been a game changer for people. Long may it last. Hopefully a 4 day week come into place soon also.
Live more, work less
work for a numbers company, surprised pikachu face
Ah yes the back office role I have in a big financial institution where I stop working at 330/4 each day and walk back to the computer to show I’m active each 10/15 mins.
How dare they tell me to come into the office and actually work. Like on most Fridays I just meet my friends, how can I be in the office.
FYI i work in the big institution. I’m in the office 3/4 days a week already actually working.
You are always just a number to a company. They are not your friends or family.
More cars back on the road
More people back on public transport
More days needed for child care
Government could’ve legislated but chickened out so here we are
What are the odds on aib walking this back?
The plan is obvious – force people to leave, then do a round of redundancy, show the buget thats become available due to the declined headcount and bump up the top brass pay packets to a few million a year before bonuses.
Just say no I’m not going back and let them figure out how to get rid of you. If your work is done everyday, they are going to struggle to get you out the door.
I worked for AIB up to just before the pandemic. I got laid off just before Christmas and in the same meeting that I was informed of this the manager asked me if I wanted to chip in to the branch christmas party fund. I told him to fcuk off. I’m sorry to hear about the return to work order but if you ever thought you were more than a number in that place I don’t know what to tell you.
People are so naive. Your employer isn’t your mammy ffs.
🤣 ” human resource” is not a lie
It’s quite telling these changes came in *after* the government’s stake was sold. The optics would not be great if this had happened as they were stakeholders.
Employers don’t really care about you, they are not your friend, HR is there to protect the company not you..
People who believe otherwise are fools..
You are only a number…the fact that this person arrived at this realisation only when this situation arose is naive beyond belief.
I do the best for the customer. I know that I’d I’m not there tomorrow the customer couldn’t give a shite. But it’s how I feel. And remember. You die tomorrow there is a replacement in the wings. Don’t fuck yourself to a job that doesn’t care.
Allow me to translate for the smarmy pub know-it-alls before they wear themselves out any further – no, this person never actually believed they were more than a number to the company.
They are just being careful to use AIBs own feelgood PR speak against them to make their point, because they are posting on their employer’s own internal comms system under their own real name, employee profile, and staff number.
That people are being this vocal despite all of that should only underline the point.
Get a CO2/100km for the mode of transport, do the maths. It doesn’t have to meet a carbon tax standard if you are using it to incentivise the company.
The biggest car crash in banking history and the new 09 and 10 reg plates blocking up the bank centre carparks thereafter? Cry me a river because your pandemic privilege is limited by what your infinitely incompetent HQ tells you, acting like you work for them! They work for you, isn’t that right?
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