Pros
Get paid to do the bare minimum. Safe job environment. Better than Burger King.
Cons
Welcome to the thief of joy and of any kind of meaningful existence. US Bank is where average people go to work a mundane job and live a mundane life until they die a mundane death. This company is void of any kind of personality, is completely and effectively removed from anything close to representing the natural human experience, and frowns upon individual joy, inspiration, or individual expression. Don’t let the news letters fool you. You will have no lack of abundance of a constant flow of messaging and propoganda from above about the impacts on the community and improvement to the world around you. You will be gaslit beyond end about your positive contribution to society and how you make a difference and how the company is a part of what’s going good in the world. Greater and greater levels of meaningless sentences spewed out of a never ending flow of meaningless messaging that causes you to lose your sense of self, sense of up from down, sense of any kind of grip on reality. You will be eased, through a cushy job and a steady paycheck, into a sedated and happy malaise, as your energy and your freedom and passion and youth is taken from you. Day after day, week after week, draining, vapiring, suckling your life force away. If you ever manage to quit you will emerge as a skill-less, colorless, flavorless, directionless, identity-less blob of organic matter, who’s soul purpose in life has been to move modern day stones back and forth from one side of the “intellectual business optimization and progress” (or some other form of corporate garble) desert to the other, as managers cycle in and out, starting up in a direction that was the opposite of the manager before, which was the same as the manager two managers ago, which was the opposite of the manager three managers ago. Management doesn’t care about the ideas of their smart mouthed underlings. Management would like these “subordinates” to shut up and do as they were told. Because the direction has come from above, from the people who know best … even though those people have been at the company for the shortest amount of time and are doing what already has been done an infinite amount of times in the past and has never actually worked out … even though the peon underlings have been there the whole time and know exactly what is going to work and not work. Management is obsessed with their own advancement and reputation and success, trampling overhead their very own team to gain an edge in perceived greatness. Hard work is rewarded with more work. Creativity is rewarded with reprimand. Following directions is rewarded with rework. Critical thinking is grounds for release. Training? What training. Us bank. It doesn’t need its people. But it employs them. It makes so much money. An unstoppable force in the world. A god-like business model for endless revenue. Unstoppable. People are not needed. People don’t run the company. People are hired to watch. To assess, to QC, evaluate. To move papers from here to over there. To look busy. To give their recruiters meaning. To worship the great cruise ship. The lifeless machine that keeps churning and crushing and fueling and bringing. That keeps everybody sedated and happy as they ride out their lives on this cruise ship to h*ll. But hey, it’s a great work life balance! 😀
