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Mellon is a male dominated, 'good ol boy' company that spits in the
face of diversity. Female managers are denied every request to work
part time following the birth of a new child but male managers are
allowed to work part time for the first 5 years or more of a new
child. Managers have no idea what it is that their employees do, are
capable of doing or would prefer to be doing otherwise. Mellon is so
horrifically understaffed following 3 years of layoffs every 6-8 weeks
and a so-called hiring freeze (that apparently only affects HR Solution
heritage offices) that we are worked like mules in the field but have
had no raise in almost 4 years and no bonus in 5 years.
Employees are hired to answer phones and there is no escaping that
chore, no matter how quickly you learn, no matter how great your
performance is, no matter how qualified you are to do something more
productive for the Clients. Once you are identified as an employee
that does something well, possibilities are crushed for a position
elsewhere in the company.
Management is a joke. Mellon spits in the face of employee development
and employee satisfaction. You are there for their purposes and to
hell with everything else. Work-Life balance is preached at least
weekly in email but God help you if you ever try to take advantage of
one of the 'family-friendly' policies offered to every other Mellon
office EXCEPT for Cary office. We are forbidden to leave for lunch or
to leave prior to completing at least a 10 hr day - 6 or 7 days a
week. To rub salt in the wound, there aren't even any plastic forks to
eat the lunch that you have to bring for yourself; there are no paper
plates to put a freshly warmed lunch plate on & carry back to your
desk. This company - at least the Cary office - treats employees no
better than dirt on the bottom of their corporate shoes and the worst
part is that it bothers no one that 99% of this company is miserable.
Internal surveys consistently report horribly low morale.. so much so
that over 2/3 of the company won't even respond to the surveys that are
sent internally but the same weight is given to the 30% of responses
that they do receive as would be given to 100% if the rest of us could
muster up the strength to respond. What's the point afterall? Nothing
will change here. It is a paycheck and nothing more; of course, we are
threated daily with losing that which is the only thing keeping me here
in the fifst place.
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