✅ You might be interested in this text conversation initiated by Ms. Leigh Brady on the evening of Wednesday, June 14, 2023. This is the complete conversation.
✅ Ms. Brady did not respond to the last observation.
✅ The last 2 years have been a broad-gauged disgrace for SECU, in terms of unprecedented - and unnecessary - harm to the membership and staff. It is difficult to unbreak an egg once dropped.
✅ Hopefully, the members and staff won't get fooled again.... nor be cynically played for fools any longer!
✅ If you don't mind getting dizzy here's the video on the song "Won't Get Fooled Again"! [link: Who's Next - "Won't Get Fooled Again"]
... be sure not to miss the potential warning message in the song at 3:13 !
Glad to see she is trying lol
ReplyDeleteThe BOD and executive "team" knows that the membership and employees do not trust them at all. The staff are suspicious esp since YOU informed us last year at the meeting with the execs (as if it's something special )either get on board or leave!
ReplyDeletewonder when this board will announce who is on the nominating committee for 2023 board seats. according to election timeline chair selected June 12. Love to know which of Thsi Board is on it
ReplyDeleteI hope Leigh fully understands the guidance and support and advice she was given in that text exchange. Hope she got the message about how most of us think of her as our new leader
ReplyDeleteDon't think she is smart enough to understand...
DeleteBrady is smart but wants the power and glory too much to do the right thing
ReplyDeleteThis is spot on. Leigh likes being in the spotlight and will do what it takes to stay there.
DeleteLike list 10 things it’s important to do to let us all know what course she’ll take
ReplyDeleteBeen here 35 years and doesn't know what to do?
ReplyDeleteHer goal: to garner your support.
ReplyDeleteThat sums up the new/new. It's about me/me.
What about thinking about what you can do for 2.7 million members?
Makes me wonder if she sees how Mr. Blaine cuts through the bull s&$t and she's scared. Scared of how knowledgeable he is. Scared of how he's helping employees and the membership take THEIR credit union back. Scared of her future with the credit union. She SHOULD be scared. There's power in numbers and there's a whole lot more people interested in SAVING the credit union than destroying it!
DeleteScared is not strong enough for what I would feel if I were This Board, Hayes, Brady or Exec Team and responsible for what they have done to this NC credit union. More like terrified as every day more info comes out on them.
DeleteLooks like this exchange happened the day after you began your series on the candidate search. Part 1 was on June 13. Also the day Haze resigned.
ReplyDeleteSo, she got the job immediately and started the PR.
Playing the game of politics. Chris Ayers has taught you well.
DeleteYou can bet her PR work was going on before Hayes entered the picture. Gonna be hard to face all those she threw under the bus, but hopefully she has more sense than to mess with them...too many people watching over them, taking notes.
DeleteCOO last 2 years here. Forgive and forget. NEVER.
ReplyDeleteProbably play the "Just following orders" excuse.
DeleteShe was COO for the almost 2 years. We are not stupid much to her surprise. She has lost the trust of the biggest majority of employees and membership that serve as the backbone of SECU. What she and the current BOD has done to OUR credit union is despicable.
ReplyDeleteIn total agreement with you @ 2:29pm
Deleteshe thought she needed you to get the job, once she was appointed she didn't need you anymore. As the saying goes "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts"
ReplyDeleteAs COO also in charge of HR and responsible for those 1000+ extra jobs somewhere in Raleigh. Approved them all including our wacko org chart with vps with no employees, doing nothing, living in another state. We need more of this?
ReplyDeleteNo clue on branches, hiring "pause". Mother Teresa, no way.
ReplyDeleteDid secu board meet last night?
ReplyDeleteworking at bank and say First Citizens has excellent IT staff. Rest are over at your shop. Stay safe!
ReplyDeleteWe didn't get any developers from FC. Just non-technicals who push paper and spend money. And make all the decisions. 😂
DeleteAh. So the developer brought in by Lee Chalk is another techie. Lol. How nice it must to be to have tech title with no tech qualifications and get that paycheck.
DeleteAs long as you are under the protection of Brady bunch umbrella you can be anything you want and do anything you want.
DeleteNo wonder all these new projects are teeming/swarming with people. You contract out the development but still the teams are loaded with tons of people.
DeleteAnd evidently embarrassed us al over at seanc with the mommy loan fiasco.
ReplyDeleteSo who IS in charge? Is Hayes here until August 1? Is Leigh running things now,although seems like she’s been running things ever since Hayes arrived? guess this Board is refining election procedures— make it up as we go along?
ReplyDeleteAt least Hayes knew one concrete thing he wanted to do as soon as he arrived. Overcharge the poor with RBL!
ReplyDeletesell-by-date long past.
ReplyDeleteEven haze called her out for over hiring in front of SVp's last year.
ReplyDeleteHas Brady been out there talking to folks to get a thoughtful understanding from the teams across the state on what needs to be done next? Get rid of RBL, raise interest rates,lower loan rates, put decisions and employees back in the branches, have them all report to branch manager, close business lending, straighten out the call center mess. Let’s see I’m just a member and I got 7 without thinking much at all. Off top of my head. Oh unwind security’s investments, bring back tax prep. This isn’t that hard to figure out. Get rid of banker mentality. THE CREDIT UNION IS NOT A BANK it’s a member owned cooperative . You Don’t make ‘profits’ it’s a not for profit. Ok. It’s been awfully quiet ever since the hasty announcement about her job. Anyone notice this Board didn’t say “unanimous decision” ? Wonder if we got another 6-5 split?
ReplyDeleteBrady likes us in the branches as much as we like her.
ReplyDeleteThis. Right. Here. Feeling is definitely mutual. We (employees) are beneath her - she's always made that clear. Branches have always seen her as snooty and selfish. She doesn't care about the "little guys" - employees or the membership. If she did, she, with her "great knowledge of the credit union", would be busting a$$ to begin the process of rebuilding our great credit union!
DeleteAgreed
DeleteIs it difficult to think of 10 things that need to happen ASAP at NCSECU to regain the trust and confidence of the members? I bet Mr Blaine would put them on the blog.. ms Brady could not name 10 things she needs to do after a week of being thoughtful? Has she been looking at the financials? Bet she and Hayes will blame anything and everything on “outside” forces! Like the fed, higher interest rates blah blah blah. SECU grew through much tougher times than these. Can the members and employees reading the blog answer Mr. Blaine’s question? What are the top 10 things you’d plan to do?
ReplyDeleteWebex today at the cu confirmed it today for all SECU managers. New boss same as old boss.
ReplyDeleteBrady-Hayes. did he really say joined at the hip? more like they share a brain...
Deleteobviously a very small brain at that!
DeleteBet money Leigh created that blog😂 she doesn’t realize that just validated this blog 10x over. Just resign BOD and Brady. This isn’t your credit union.
ReplyDeleteJust as Hayes is not was not the problem, look at last post. Brady is not the problem either. She’s just taking over where Jim Hayes left off. She is implementing this boards plans for SECU. SHE WILL DEFEND EVERYTHING SHE IS DOING, BUT IT IS NOT HER PLAN .
ReplyDeleteMight believe some of that if it can be proven she was not working with the Board in 2021 behind Mr. Lord's back to put this new direction in this Board's head. She was after the CEO position in 2021, didn't get it but still sold out the credit union and all her coworkers and fell right in line with the Hayes Destroy SECU Convoy. She didn't make a difference then, not so sure she wants to or will make a difference now.
DeleteRBL has to go . The new/new election procedures have to go. First 2 things on my list for Mr Blaine
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of "have to go's START WITH THE BOARD! Awful, just awful, hope they enjoyed their trips and private plane rides on our dime!
ReplyDeleteAnybody else see the new marketing memo they sneaked in there? Microsite dedicated for propaganda on how digitalizing every experience will enhance your employee experience…bs…they are trying to take labor power out of YOUR hands. That’s why they won’t decentralize and that’s why they are not giving up! They know if the mass employees realize the “technology” they are wanting to usher in is vastly going to to reduce your skill set and your need for employment. It’s about cutting employment size and enriching themselves. They will do whatever it takes. It’s so easy to see how desperate they are.
ReplyDeleteAnd what’s going to be the experience for us members? I hate the push button call center. More of that? All for industry standard and efficiency? Efficient for whom? I’ll go to the bank if this keeps up. Why be a “member” at a credit union that’s a wanna be bank?
Deleteyou could go to LGCU ... oh wait in a little while they won't even have branches... this is a mess ... for all involved
DeleteIf this Board just promoted to CEO the next in line in 2023, I would like an explanation from them as to why the next line was not promoted to CEO in 2021. Because had that happened, SECU would not be in the hole these millions of dollars Ring Leader Ayers and his Clowns cost the credit union and us over the past two years. And our credit union branches wouldn't be torn to pieces from the coast to the mountains. I am already making plans to attend this year's annual meeting, just to ask this one question.: Just can't seem to shake the news of this Board paying 6.5 MILLION dollars of our money to Andrews Federal Credit Union for the opportunity to bring Jim Hayes into SECU. This was the most idiotic business decision ever made by a Board of Directors, but you clowns just keep making them. He wrecks the place for 2 years and you think the one who helped with the wrecking ball can clean it up? What planet do you live on SECU directors?
ReplyDeleteI am interested in confirming the validity of a few statements made regarding newly appointed CEO. I was told This Board was given Hayes' resignation on Saturday, 6/10/23 and immediately called a meeting that same evening with Leigh Brady where she expressed to the Board (her words) "no one would want this CEO position." On Tuesday, 6/13/23 This Board announced the resignation of Jim Hayes as CEO and announced Leigh Brady had been named CEO of State Employees' Credit Union. No prior notification of CEO's resignation to the membership,. No posting of the CEO position. No opportunity for other applicants to apply. No discussion with any other interested parties involved within SECU. For this Board to have promoted their thoughtful, painstaking process of selecting Jim Hayes for the past two years. And most importantly considering the controversy within the SECU community regarding the hiring of Hayes in 2021, I find this hasty announcement by This Board very suspicious. Were all the Board of Directors in attendance at this called meeting with Ms. Brady on Saturday and are those minutes of this Special Called Meeting on record?
DeleteMy fellow Members, something does not compute with This Board's hiring processes and/or decisions for our credit union.
Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete. Brady asked and she received, and her joy is complete. Amen.
Deleteno one would want this CEO position. Because I want it for myself. And the smug arrogant infinitely wise board believed her and handed it over to her on a platter with that single sentence. How nice it must to live in Brady bunches world. Life is so simple.
DeleteHow much more idiotic than this board get? Hayes fiasco hasn't even come to a complete stop and already this. CEO appointment over a simple sentence? Is that all it takes to be the CEO of a once 53 now 50 billion dollar organization? Speechless.
sounds like they are compromised in some way. $$ can blind a person ... keep the goody bags coming
DeletePayoffs/Paybacks should not be allowed in any form - you people are handling my mine and everyone else's money at our credit union. Accountability to the membership of this credit union is coming.
DeleteWOW! That scenario sounds nuts! I think a lot of people would want the job but no one would align with their agenda like the new team same as the old team beet Brady Hayes. And why on earth would they post because this board can do whatever it wants led by Ayers, Sanford, and Garland.
DeleteWhy do they have a hiring freeze on poorly underpaid workers for roughly an entire year, but they have no problem bringing in all these new EVPs and SVPs that are either rejects from other companies or have no experience in banking and give them benefit plans/salaries so high that they can't afford normal staff. I'm all for change and technology, but this isn't the way. Leigh's gotta go and we need to go back to our core values of caring about the average member. The one that needs things like tax prep services because it's too expensive for him elsewhere. So disappointed as of late.
ReplyDeleteNone of those guys interact with the member. The directors and administrators have abandoned the needs of the members. They just want the members money. As much of it as possible.
DeleteLook back at how many promotions/raises these Outsiders have gotten over the past 18 months for doing Nothing. But I heard the CEO had no problem telling our Leaders this morning the salary study showed most employees are overpaid for their positions. And Admin's goal to retitle/diminish our positions will only widen the spread on those numbers. Dirtiest administration in SECU History and we have had to deal with them for 2 years. Only a new Board will change things.
DeleteYeah don’t let them fool you. This new salary study is bogus. They are paying all the new executives big money and bonuses. Meanwhile branch’s have suffered for two years and members have suffered for this lack of support and staffing. Here is a study showing how underpaid SECU is compared to other credit unions. https://www.cutimes.com/2021/09/13/rbfcu-raises-minimum-pay-to-18-reflecting-upward-trend-across-industry/?slreturn=20230521193809
DeleteImagine how many member facing employees we could pay market rate if we eliminated all of the new outside hire SVPs and EVPs and their $200-400K salaries plus benefits.
Deletemama Mia is an AEVP and has one employee and likely gets paid 3x the average branch employee
Deletebu she leigh and none of those guys interact with our riffraff membership!
DeleteThey are the nobility while we are the peasants. We work while they sit and take credit for what we are doing.
DeleteThe Culture Club was visibly angry today in the meeting. Mia continues to talk in circles and lie to all management about the survey. Sounds like the big compensation survey is going to make things worse for branch staff and managers. Yet all the new hires are living large.
ReplyDeleteshe's a bully and uses it to her advantage. I remember taking courses every year about employee bullying not being condoned at SECU. My my how the new/new has changed the "culture"
Deletemembership is hurting along with the branch staff
DeleteDid you like how she explain anonymous and confidential are two different things? Bet the next response to surveys are 0%. Employees you were set up yet again!
DeleteNever seen two like Mia and Emma - rambling on and not saying anything of significance - ever. Hoping everyone on the outside knows they are not a true representation of a SECU Employee.
DeleteI greatly enjoyed Mia educating me on the difference between confidential and anonymous. What a twat.
DeleteYou nailed it. The last two times I heard Mia talk, it was in circles and she was not saying anything of significance. These “great ideas” (industry standards) from the culture department is not working. All they have done is convince me to not trust the Execs. SECU employees understand what is real and what is fake. Be real with us and you will gain respect. Talk in circles and attempt to BS us, you will lose trust.
Deletehope everyone got that lesson downpat..
DeleteShe had no previous qualifications to hold the position she does today.
DeleteSomeone can explain to Mia that these comments are anonymous. That she is a bully full of hot air is not confidential.
Delete@11:23 PM That's the reason why she got in as an SVP and then got promoted to AVEP in a short duration. New/new culture for new/new hires.
DeleteAVEP - Employee Engagement. Keep the employees engaged by making them run around in circles and distracted so Brady bunch can keep doing whatever they want in the background.
I heard early on about Emma's qualifications from an LGFCU insider or should we say her lack there of...Surely Hayes is taking her to the great state of Virginia with him.
Delete@7:34 am - Try as they might, by my calculations there is a base of at least 6000 employees who will not be distracted or divided. All laser focused on protecting SECU from This Board and This Administration.
DeleteThere are a lot of members who feel the same, former loan review committee members, and advisory board members. Will it be enough against the hired robo call firm running the election?
DeleteWell, we’d love for her to take some of your guidance. There are a lot worse things than demanding accountability when it comes to the use of member resources and the treatment of staff. We know, we’ve been through it since 2021 and we are worn out. Our members are tired of standing in lines, sitting in lobbies, and waiting for a live human being to answer their calls.
ReplyDeleteWhy did She not ask for guidance months ago when she saw our credit union being flushed down the toilet by This Board & Hayes? She could have saved our credit union millions of dollars and all the good employees who lost their SECU careers. This Member is not buying what she is selling. Clean out that board.
ReplyDeleteshe likes her goody bag ... more to come!
DeleteSure reads like a BS job to me. Wanted to say" I contacted Jim Blaine and he wouldn't meet with me" If I met with her, it sure wouldn't be by myself. i'd have my phone going and take some other folks along to verify what was said. poor leigh
DeleteTop Ten Things to Do: Undo the 10 most damaging things that were changed under Hayes.
ReplyDelete1. Restore Members to First Priority.
Delete2. Immediate halt to Risk Based Lending.
3. Ditch the new dirty election procedures - looks really bad on This Board to try a game of Monopoly on the Members.
4. Fix Call Center Issues - scheduling.
5. Fix Branch Issues - staffing.
6. Bring back the work from home employees if they can't be reached by their phones and all others non-producing in their positions.
7. A FAS Specialist needs to be in every branch in the state promoting the services and handling branch trust issues since they are the trained staff.
8. Mortgage Lending Specialists working in branches should be in down time assisting in branch member service and allowed to answer phone calls instead of being told by Loan Admin they are not allowed to assist.
9. Cardholder Services must have assistance working Fraud & Disputes, volume too high.
10. Remove the Hayes Interlopers from their positions of authority since they have no respect for what SECU is or what it means to SECU members and employees. Re-instate the Module Program for them, they might learn something.
1- 10. Get SECU a refund on the Six and a Half Million paid to CEO Hayes' former employer!
Deleteif all these employees worked as branch employees rather than central office, and reported to the branch manager, wouldn't that fix a lot of problems--they could work teller line if needed, answer the phone, etc etc?
DeleteI'm a member and need to go to Atlanta next week. You think ms brady would arrange for that NCR jet to get me down there-- I really don't like flying coach.
Delete@9.44 PM
DeleteOops... You are a mere member. You need to belong to Brady bunch club to avail that facility. Sorry!
11.) eliminate the MLO processors…. NO reason our branch/MSS MLO’s are not pulling the appraisals, reports, closings, working with realtors, etc. from start to finish like they did before! They have nothing to do most days and the processor jobs were a waste, a job that should have never been created… it’s absolutely unbelievable what MLO’s are being paid in relation to the work they are completing on a daily basis
DeleteThe specialists role idea has been nothing, but a joke! It’s designed to diminish your role so they can CAP your salary. We use to be able to book personal loans right after they signed, but now we are not allowed and is done by another department. Sometimes the booking takes 2 days before someone gets the funds. No fault to the people doing the book either! They are slammed just like everyone else! They thought that would simplify, but it’s just complicated matters and the members are calling back in asking “where are my funds at for the loan I did yesterday?” Well we aren’t allowed to book the loan and do it start to finish…how stupid.
DeleteIt's designed to get jobs out of local branches, decision making out of local communities, soon you're just a teller line, then everything goes all digital, and more jobs move to Raleigh or out of state, members are alienated, then why have a branch? Even with the extensive branch network, SECU once had one of the lowest operating costs. Now branch jobs are being gutted, members hate it. Employees hate it. but this Board and Brady are all onboard. And what they are doing COSTS MORE. they'll be closing branches soon...
DeleteDon't forget LGCU won't need the branches either. Their CEO threw them under the bus, must be something in the water ... or the goody bags?
DeleteReading comments above now I understand why more of us are waiting in the lobby while some employees are sitting in their office on their cells. Who tells their staff not to assist the members in the branches? Get it together Raleigh, we are sick of this new direction. Most banks are better than this and I didn't think I would ever make that statement about SECU.
DeleteI wouldn't say most banks are better than this at all, but I would say that we are now stopping to their level.
DeleteI can think of 12 ... 11 BOD and 1 CEO just to start ...
ReplyDeleteamen
Deleteshe probably just lost her connection (it's still spinning) from the new cloud technology and was unable to respond ... (or got hacked)
ReplyDeleteIs it crazy to think that this whole fiasco has been orchestrated by the board since the beginning? That the board for whatever reason wanted to bring Leigh in 2 years ago but didn’t think that she as an insider could facilitate all the shake up that they needed? So they propose to hire an outsider to shake things up telling them up front that your position here is only temporary. And why would that outsider agree to it? Money. The up front money, who knows how much salary, the who knows how much to buy them out of their contract. And if it’s someone whose reputation wasn’t stellar before they came here. What have they got to lose? And then Leigh is brought in as the savior with her 35 years of credit union experience to take over and “right the ship”. But as Bomba said during the meeting today all the projects in flight can’t be stopped at this point. But why? Why would the board want to do this? How about for the same reason everyone agrees to shady dealings? Money. Wonder what someone’s stock portfolio that included those companies that the credit union has signed new contracts with over the past two years would look like? Fore knowledge of those changes could be extremely profitable when talking about contracts being signed with the nation’s second largest credit union. Just food for thought
ReplyDelete"All the projects in flight can’t be stopped at this point." Why not? So, we push ahead with stupidity?
DeleteAs long as the lawyers remember that's what sent Martha Stewart to prison.
Delete"...projects in flight can’t be stopped at this point." Weren't a couple really big IT projects that were started under Mike Lord - stopped when new management came in?
DeleteCall for all projects to be stopped until we see how it’s going to affect the workforce and their skill set! If it’s clearly made to reduce the value of the worker instead of coincide with the worker, then trash it! We must keep secu a human focused credit union! There is still a high demand for human services at our credit union. Nobody wants to talk to AI in the call center. Let the human do their job.
Deletedumbest excuse I've ever heard! Can't stop a mistake, so you continue and compound a multi million dollar one? these guys think we are dumb southerners because we talk slow.
DeleteBecause they have already signed the contract with these companies and spent the money. You know, the undisclosed amounts.
DeleteYou have NO option but to keep pushing forward once you have received handouts.
Deleteyep as a wise man once said, "you can't unbreak a broken egg "....
Delete@10:03 PM. That's because THEY didn't get any benefits out of those IT projects. Get on board.
DeleteSECU workforce, stay united! The BOD and C-Suites have a SECU worker’s revolution on their hands and they can’t handle it!
ReplyDeleteThey hate having a workforce that can think for themselves.
Deletesure wish they'd all resign and put them and us out of this misery. How can 11 folks turn into such an echo chamber-- removed from reality and life in North Carolina for most of the 2.7 million members. It's scary. sure need some safe guards put in place to protect members from folks like this board. can no longer depend on the integrity of the CEO and people at the top. Never could imagine this with Mr. Blaine or Mr. Hall. They always looked out for the member, even though the member didn't know it. and now you have 11 people who have taken over a 50 billion dollar organization and are running it for their personal pleasure, and have co-opted Ms Brady to pick up where Jim Hayes left off--except he hasn't left yet. it's sickening, and hurts my pocketbook too.
ReplyDeleteA rogue board for sure! No accountability to anyone and don't have to answer to SEANC or the membership. Rose Connor was a push over. don't know the new lady, but the state regulator sure seems subservient to NCUA, and NCUA seems entangled with Hayes and This Board. Who both are laughing all the way to the bank.Is there anyway out of this nightmare? Are we going to lose the best credit union in the country to mediocrity (industry standard)because 11 people have taken ownership of a 2.7 million member credit union? this will be up to the members to wrest control away from this Board. Deck is stacked against the membership, thanks to the new/new election process the outside firm to run the election is the REALLY scary part. Anyone know who it is? Why is this board so silent about everything? No answers for us peons.... guess they are above all that.
ReplyDeleteEmperors new clothes = Mia is an idiot. Hate to say it, but not really.
ReplyDeleteShe is toxic.
DeleteLate to the party tonite, but just got caught up. I almost choked on my drink when I read that message. Garner your support to continue tearing down North Carolina State Employees' Credit Union? These folks have totally lost their minds living in their self-serving world over the past months.
ReplyDeleteNumber one on the list should be STOP the BLEED of long term employees that have put many years, heart and soul into this organization. It is just sickening to see how so many loyal, credit union loving IT employees have been treated. Bomba has no heart for our beloved non-profit. It would not cost one penny for him to be instructed to stop bringing in high level employees that know nothing about how we operate and honestly could care less about how we got to where we are today!! HEARTBREAKING 💔 to see them dictate and spend our members money so recklessly!
ReplyDeleteIf I had a dime for every question that the new leaders in IT asked the IT "legacy" when they arrived, I'd have... a dime. Maybe two.
DeleteThey're not interested in learning. Interested in tearing down and outsourcing to vendors. That's all they know how to do.
The last 2 years have been an abject failure. Financially, "culturally", operationally. Is anyone really surprised that employees will not trust anyone involved? There has to be a clean slate.
ReplyDeleteyou see the CU is not about them (although they want it to be), it's about taking care of your member/owners. They have lost sight on the mission and now they must be replaced because they can't be trusted. They can no longer man the front lines as they have left in those who seek to destroy... Simple as that. Do you trust these folks to have your back? They have shown otherwise ...
ReplyDeletethis board never lost sight of their mission. take care of the elites, screw everyone else.
Deletebottom line is these new folks hated EVERYTHING about the CU (at least that's the way it seemed, why else change EVERYTHING?)... oh, except their money ... we like our goody bags! Plus you either get on board with us or Get Out ... (paraphrasing their words). So my guess is the new CEO got on board ...
ReplyDeleteLeigh Brady said this back in October or November last year with the WebEx "meeting with the executives".
Deletemoney is a strong aphrodisiac ... people get "hooked" on it like any other drug.
Delete"A good reputation is more valuable than money."
Publilius Syrus
C-suite employees didn’t come to the credit union making less than what they made at the banks! Imagine the salary and potential contracts that are hidden, then merits on top of that last year.. along with bumps to AEVP and EVP. While us little ones in the branch are busting our butt just to get 3.5-4.5% merits.
Delete100%. Btw, if you transfer to a new dept and the position you are transferring to is an entry position, you will be payed at or only a little over the posted salary level for that position. But, if you are Ricky from first citizens bank you will get a never posted position as an VP then you will get promoted to a newly created AEVP for a never posted position. Btw, these folks are not coming to SECU for a pay cut. The only thing C-Suits and the BOD want to cut is branch and MSS staff. Less ppl to pay.
Delete"New Boss" pimping for the Board. Taking a cut of the action.
ReplyDeletesame as the "Old Boss" ...
Delete100 percent agree!
DeleteWhen Leigh said during the meeting that she didn't think one of the things that would need to be done was establish trust with management, I wondered why she would think that trust didn't need to be rebuilt. SECU has built a bully culture over the last two years. Employees are scared to say anything because they feel we will be run off, coached to leave, moved to an inferior position or someone will be hired to mitigate our role. It's happened so many times and we know who those employees are without saying their names. Then you have the new culture department that has come in and made us all think that there was something wrong with the culture that we have and then they spread mistrust. That department has done nothing but destroy the morale of the SECU staff. It's not appropriate to list names but I'm sure we could all easily list 10 names of employees who were brought in that have done nothing but damage SECU. Dont get me wrong, there are probably some great new hires but many in the leadership positions are failing us badly. Like it or not we have to work with everyone but let's hope that Leigh understands who is not the right fit for SECU and gives them some coaching or as Mia says "be a positive influence on wherever they may land."
ReplyDeleteLeigh heads the list of failed leaders. Ask the seanc board what they heard from her about tiered lending.
DeleteIt is simple. She has no intention of having a work environment that operates on trust, only fear.
Delete"I am being thoughtful and talking to lots of folks to make sure I listen and hear thoughts of the teams from across the state. This will help me determine next steps" Here is what you need to do Ms. Brady is to purge the culture dept, purge marketing dept, purge H&RBlock Jarred and he can take the NICE system with him, purge and consolidate IT. How many damn EVPs, AEVPs, SVPs, VP do you need in one dept? How you going to promote someone to AVEP then tell staff they are actually overpaid but still have the ability to have a merit bonus.
ReplyDeleteI know very few people that really listen. Matter of fact I can only name one that is an exceptional listener (and they are not related). Listening is not a skill that is taught... and most folks who think they are good listeners aren't... they already have their mind made up. She just wanted to use JB but he wasn't playing the game. So she took her ball and went home, hence no return answer. She could at least been cordial enough to say thank you for "listening".
Deletewhat are allthese initial positions? some I can figure out but not all, how bout a run through for us members reading the blog? EVPs, AEVPs, SVPs, VP? Vp is vice pres but what are the others?
DeleteAny SVPs or VPs remember a couple years back when our folks met their requirements for promotions and we submitted - only to be told no funds, have to wait till July 1 and resubmit. Remember where those funds were used...this was the beginning of all these initial positions
Delete@ 9:20 those initials represent huge salary bumps depending on whether you are in Raleigh or not. Executive Vice President, Associate Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President
Deleteso lots and lots more layers in management than before this board took over SECU
DeleteIf I say "No one would want this COO position" can I get hired as COO? I promise to just take the money and not ask any questions, the Board can depend on me!
ReplyDeleteOh sure. Come on board. Got it? "On board"... (wink wink) We are already overloaded. What's one more? Seems like you are THE perfect candidate for the Brady bunch.
DeleteCan I apply? My background at another credit union may not be spotless but I do know how to take care of the BOD. And I do consider myself a part of the elite crowd.
Delete@10:10 AM
DeleteOh no... You are starting to have some serious competition buddy....
So ask yourself, who has benefited from all these changes, was it member/owners or c-suite execs and the BOD?
ReplyDelete