... "time and tide wait for no man" - or woman.
✅ Julian Hawes' previous letter which received no response... [link... 10/23 post]
... think this has just moved from a character test, to a character and intelligence test!
... "time and tide wait for no man" - or woman.
✅ Julian Hawes' previous letter which received no response... [link... 10/23 post]
... think this has just moved from a character test, to a character and intelligence test!
Doing the right thing might be the hardest task ever for this board and ceo….
ReplyDeleteFacts. Wonder if we'll get an email soon, on a Monday morning, announcing Brady stepping down? Oh wait. Nobody wants the President/CEO position - so Ms. Brady said. Well, nobody wants a President/CEO that tells bold faced lies, either. SECU needs a complete overhaul - starting with her!
DeleteThank you Julian.
ReplyDeletewell as they say, the ball is in their court now .... do they have the courage that it takes?
ReplyDeleteWe demand an apology and a resignation from Ms. Brady. Icing on the top would be for the board to resign. Just make us all happy and leave. I wanna retire and feed my family and provide good service to our members. I could care a less about the technocrat oligarchy SECU wants to ensue for profit purposes.
ReplyDeleteThank you Mr. Hawes.Please run for the board. Eastern nc knows you and trusts you.
ReplyDeleteDitto. AMEN!
DeleteHe would be perfect!
DeleteEmployees state wide are requesting the resignation of Leigh Brady. A removal of her as CEO must be done in 2024. She is not pro member or employee. She is pro profit and self interest. This does not align with SECU. It’s time we find a ceo and board that aligns with the member owners vision. They are simply acting for their self interest.
ReplyDeleteSo the ceo and board just ignores its members? Thank you for pursing this and it also paints a picture of the board’s plan: ignore and disregard any member who doesn’t have financial means or time to pursue hiring a lawyer. Where’d do the right thing go?
ReplyDeleteCertainly was the MO under Chris Ayers' leadership(?) --Members did get rid of three Board members responsible for supporting Gym Haze in his destruction of SECU--operating systems, employee benefits and morale. but the worst problem, one the board is perpetuating, is taking money out of the neediest members pockets-- and then out of every rural community in North Carolina and funneling it back to the urban centers and wealthy members. It is NOT the right thing to do. Get rid of RBL! Why is Brady expanding it??? Where did she come from? What happened to the Best consumer financial institution in North Carolina?
DeleteIt is the board which needs to go. this started with them not Brady.
ReplyDeleteThe new ones too. They haven't done spit. What was the point of all of us voting for them??
DeleteLeigh Brady and the remaining Eight of "This Board" should hand in their resignations immediately and save the members at SECU from another long year of fighting House Bill 410, trying to get the regulator to do her job, fighting off any new crazy illegal election by-law changes Brady and the Eight come up with! Plus another contested election that McKinley Wooten,
DeleteStelfanie Williams, Mark Fleming, and Bob Brinson are bound to lose. Please save SECU time and members money. Do the right thing. Resign ASAP. Stop dragging SECU's reputation through the mud! Take Chris Ayers, Mona Moon and Ben McLawhorn with you!
No Leigh is making the board, employees and members take the rap for her weakness.
DeleteEase up on the new Board members. They have been there for 2 months and are likely to get outvoted 8-3 on everything. Unfair assessment at this point.
DeleteWin at least 3 more seats next October and the Good Guys take control.
The new 3 should not be getting critiqued. There isn’t much they can do until we get 4 more in there next year.
DeleteQuestion for you Mr. Blaine. Why do we have a board of directors anyways? They don’t work here or have any clue what’s going on. Shouldn’t the workers and the members determine the vision of SECU instead of a select few volunteer members who have never ran a loan application? I just feel having a board of directors for any corporation is specifically designed for elites to slide their way in there and then take control of companies in Rogue fashion? That seems to be the case throughout America. If we do have a board…they need to be made up of the common people of NC and not executive level people who have no clue what it’s like struggling for the dollar.
DeleteAnd WOW! Aren't all the members and employees disappointed in Bob Brinson and Ben McLawhorn? always thought those two "got it!" understood what SECU meant to North Carolina and state employees. boy was I wrong. Finally understood when they signed the letter of support for Jim Hayes, a week before he waved bye bye,laughing his head off! what a bunch of fools This Board turned out to be...
DeleteBoards and CEOs in corporate America have enriched themselves for years off the backs of other peoples labor. This won’t happen at SECU. We will put a stop to it before it’s all said and done.
DeleteThe disciple didn't seem to gain any wisdom from the teacher ...
ReplyDeleteRepeat "SECU is NOT a bank. SECU is NOT a bank. SECU is NOT a bank." SECU has members, NOT customers. SECU employees and BOARD, "Do the right thing." That means you, Leigh Brady!
ReplyDeleteLeigh Brady needs to start job hunting. You really want to be here, Leigh? At this point, what’s your goal? To ruin workers careers and make members pay more for loans? Congratulations? This is your career accomplishment? Making life worse for people? What a joke.
ReplyDeleteAs they say Leigh, lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way.
ReplyDeleteruining the future for females at SECU and beyond.
ReplyDeleteI know right! Finally! A woman CEO and we get the worst one.
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ReplyDeletegee! Those two really do look alike!
DeleteLook alike or act alike?
Deleteyeah! both look cheesy.
DeleteIs that what chatgpt came up with? "Definition of lack of leadership?"
DeleteThe negligent 8 need to step down. Game over let us start rebuilding now.
ReplyDeleteAnd the other 3
DeleteI mean I wouldn’t say game over. They have the layoff card in their back pocket. That will permanently wipe their reputation out with the member owners, but if they know they are going to lose….they will ruin careers and livelihoods because they didn’t get their way like a bunch of children and take their bow after that. They have no desire to build the current staff up. They want AI to run the show so they don’t have to deal with 7-8K employees. AI, ITMs, automated call centers will be the ultimate death of the credit union but all they see is money. We need to decentralize and rebuild our local staff back up in the branches and then slowly usher our call centers back into our branches so we can be one cohesive unit. You can still have hybrid wfh and have workers in the call centers. Having call center workers in the branch really helped branch staff and
DeleteAlso helped build chemistry. Not only are you building chemistry…you are building your skill set and understand the branch side of things. Jack of all trades was the way to go. I miss it terribly.
Trust was the secret ingredient in SECU’s 85 years of growth. Trust is neither understood nor valued as an essential commodity by Brady or The Eight. They just don’t get it
ReplyDeleteA big reason they do NOT want to bring back the tax services is because they greatly want to reduce the memberships need to go inside a branch. That’s the whole goal folks for them long term. Reduce the role of loan officers and tellers. Reduce the need for branches so that way they don’t have to hire as much staff. Notice hardly any branches are fully staffed anymore? Before 2021, most branches had a full line of tellers and every office had a loan officer in it. You already seeing that decrease. Wait till the ITMs roll in….
ReplyDeleteIf you listen to one of Hayes interviews. He was desperately upset over the property tax SECU has to pay for all its branches. In the next 10 years or so, secu will try to close branches to get some property taxes off their books…that’s another reason why do not want our membership using our branches. What we fight for now..will determine what secu will look like. Another soulless entity or a member owned cooperative?
Deletelast time I went in a branch was a year ago to get change for $20 bills for christmas presents for nieces and nephews. One teller, I waited over 20 minutes. One person sitting in office that I could see, doing nothing. Infuriating. It is a very successful way to drive members out of the branches. Bravo to jim Hayes and Leigh Brady for ruining the best thing.. I'm copying this from a post someone else made a few days ago--want to be sure it is well read!
DeleteNEW YORK (Reuters) -JPMorgan Chase ( JPM ) is preparing to overhaul branches it acquired from failed First Republic Bank ( FRCB ) as the lender expands its formidable national footprint.
"Branches have been a winning strategy for us that is helping us capture more market share," Jennifer Roberts, CEO of Chase Consumer Banking, told Reuters in an interview.
Of the customers who hold deposits with the bank, 75% visit a branch annually, she said.
The largest U.S. lender has more than 4,800 branches across 48 states. By the end of this year, JPMorgan ( JPM ) is likely to open 167 locations, exceeding an earlier projection of 150, Roberts said.
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