Topics regarding layoffs at Ally Financial Inc.

Topics regarding layoffs at Ally Financial Inc.

This week hit hard

More people gone. Good people — who gave a lot and deserved better. And the message to the rest of us? “Stay positive. Be agile. ”I’m tired of hearing that. This doesn’t feel normal to feel trust being chipped away and a culture that doesn’t feel the... — read more 


Liars

Credit Admin was told to work from home due to ceiling repair. The following week layoffs came. Turns out there was no ceiling repairs. They needed all the admins at home to give them the boot via zoom.


How to 100 percent avoid layoffs

If you feel like there’s going to be a lay-off on a particular day, take PTO for that day. They can’t legally lay off someone on PTO, so they’d just add a different name that isn’t out that day to do that.


AI

Anyone else's team being pushed to use that AI tool? It actually feels like they're adding another step in our processes for little reason. Training it to do our jobs? Maybe I need a pedicure.


Opposite of an ally is an.....

enemy. If you’ve got an attorney or know someone who does, drop their name in the comments. Let’s team up to hold Ally accountable—they’ve got a terrible track record of discrimination and the new leadership is only making things worse.


Well well well

The list of major companies laying off staff this year includes Oracle, Kroger, Nike, Scale AI, and more Ally is cutting less than 5% of workers. The digital-financial-services company Ally is laying off roughly 500 of its 11,000 employees, a... — read more 


PTSD post Ally

I think I may have work PTSD from my time with Ally… my partner encouraged me to look for about two years while he fielded my late nights, early mornings, constant emotional breakdowns, and rants about toxic coworkers. My new company is completely... — read more 

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Skeleton crew

So uh is every team working a skeleton crew?

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How are those AI initiatives going?

https://futurism.com/companies-fixing-ai-replacement-mistakes Not relevant at all to Ally. Just thought it was interesting. I see no parallels between what happened here and what some people envision as the Bank's future.

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Ally Bank Acquisition - Synchrony or SoFi

TD Mike was brought in by the Board of Directors to position Ally to be acquired. As soon as he's brought on, Lending is sold (I lost a lot of friends) - six months later Russ Hutchinson is in NYC tanking our stock price, and four months after that... — read more 

6 Months Post Layoff - Best Thing Ever!

What up chat! Figured I'd drop you all a line now that I'm clean and clear with the bag Ally gave me to walk and beyond the date range where I couldn't say anything. Landed a role in the Big Four right at the end of the 60 day severance period of... — read more 

life after ally…

… is SO GOOD. Felt like I was in a cult where everyone had to thank the job gods for free parking and maintain that it was a great place to work despite having neither the pay nor the culture nor the budget to back it up. My current company is... — read more 

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