Company: J-P-Morgan
Date: 2021-05-22
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

They protect themselves with an arbitration agreement
Pros: Secure company, can move departments fairly easily for low level employees. Great if you like the idea of selling your soul.
Cons: Where to start...they have a binding arbitration agreement so most employees have no option to take them to court, even for egregious violations. They have a new “virtual ID badge” that requires you to have a smartphone (that you supply and pay for) so you can get into the building, it also requires you to allow them to track your location, ALWAYS. They constantly force people to work off the clock, even though they already were taken to court for this, you have to log in and get your systems up and running, and only after everything is up and running can you log in, so that is all unpaid time. The systems are extremely outdated, many of them date all the way back to “BankOne”, believe it or not! The CEO goes to the media to complain that the employees are not producing enough in the middle of a pandemic, which puts massive pressure on every level of management on down to freak out about production. Communication in the company is laughable, nobody knows what is going on. They play games and do these experiments with things like your family’s health insurance, and you have nothing you can do about it. The pressure to smile and pretend that everything is GREAT, even though it is not, is insane, but if you don’t play along then you are the problem. Managers are elevated to the level of their incompetency and then left there to rot, and nobody trains anyone in anything so when someone that knows how to do something leaves, that knowledge leaves with them and everyone that is left has to just guess and assume and hope for the best. Bureaucracy is mind numbing and soul crushing. The hardest part of the job is trying to get the systems to work, keeping the access to the systems you need to be able to work, trying to figure out how to use these outdated systems, and keep the customers from figuring out how poorly everything works and the massive security failures that happen constantly. The place is soul crushing, I strongly recommend to find anyplace else first.