Ok - Anonymous employee Nordea Bank Employee Review

Great place to work if looking for work life balance

None applicable, all is good

Unethical Mickey mouse club, fairweather work"friends", hamster wheel life, PL broadway show, la-la land for circus lovers, Dumbo-eared Big Brother surveillance who observe you

Like a blender, they shred and break you down until you’re unrecognizable. All while smiling to your face. Quickly, you start to apologize for things you have not done. Politics everywhere you go -always keep a written record with them, you will need it later to protect yourself. Know your rights, you won’t regret it. Find out in advance who are your union representatives and who could act as your employment lawyer at short notice, as fast as within 2 days. The law can protect you. They will do their best to make you come alone, unaware, unprepared and easy to corner, so be ready- bring a legal support person, someone who can take notes and who notices that they did not never give you performance review. Never go alone. This has been the worst company and management I have ever worked for. They showed me the example of how to create a worst in class employee experience. It is completely inappropriate for a bank to consider such unpleasantly ice-cold people as managers who should not even be near people because they: - Does not comply with occupational health and safety regulations: Expect you to do the work of a entire team for one salary (the work of at least 6 people). Workload management non-existent. - Poor employee protection: Use fear, intimidation and quiet firing to control employees - Their unpleasantly poor management practices create psychological distress for employees - Disrespect their employees time, efforts and humanity (time is spent on mandatory regularly occurring meetings whose value is total 0) - Look for ways to humiliate their employees: Even mocking disabled person - Inappropriately monitor people who take sick leave and attacks them without any boundaries upon their return from sick leave - Study you and then use what they found to use against you. Your weak spots became their manager's people strategy - Invasion of privacy: Monitoring of employees' working days and free time. Making inappropriate insinuations about employees' private life, using post-employment surveillance - Lack of equal treatment of people: Inequality based on nationality and intentional exclusion some employees from the flow of professional information and from team meetings (everyone else received the invitation regularly) - Constant gaslighting and tricks wear you out so that you would be too weak to stop fighting back - Giving feedback: Big mistake. They surround themselves with echo chambers. Fake positivity. - They rewards incompetence and disturbed workplace bullies to whose power is your vulnerability - Promotions are based on politics - the greater the praise at the theater, the better the ranking- the higher the position, the greater the dishonesty - Unreliability and ignoring employment laws- they twist things, ask you to misrepresent overtime hours worked, can do that they don't pay unused holiday leave that occurred during their employment upon separation - Other unhealthy management practices such as making up lies about their targeted employees- creating their own version of you, which you don’t recognize and then punishing you for it They created an unbearably stressful workplace that triggered an eating disorder, bulimia, in me for the first time in my life. Unprofessional management belittled the situation and blamed me for my illness which was the outcome of insane working conditions in which I had to work under them. I was perfectly healthy before I started working for them. Working for them caused me traumatization, a permanent state of anxiety, panic attacks and almost took me to the hospital for treatment due to their serious mental occupational health and safety deficiencies. I often felt a sense of job insecurity because they favor cheap and inexperienced labor at the expense of others. I felt big pressure to meet unrealistic performance expectations set by the disengouraging management and unwritten rules set by colleagues which led to a stressful work environment where I couldn't have a peace-of-mind. The company's operational style felt old-fashioned hierarchical, rigid and focused on cutting costs at the expense of employees well-being, which often led to disorganization of outdated processes and thinking and long working hours in poor quality work infrastructure. I often felt frustrated when things progressed slowly internally and was powerless to move forward with my own work when I didn't have supportive community around me, and at the same time the urgent, unmanageably high workload continued to grow and I was continuously blamed for that. Company burden employees at work in a way that endangers their health without showing any shame. I noticed that many of my talented colleagues left the organization quickly, which made me question sustainability and the health of the work culture- many healthy employees simply couldn’t stand working in a place that represented the opposite of their own values, where workplace bullying was normalized, and had management support. Availability of career development opportunities within the company seemed limited and controlled and even the talented ones soon realized that they were just wasting their time there in dead-end jobs when there was no signs of sustainable future, where maintaining employee's ability to work and grow would be valued. There seemed to be an atmosphere of fear and mistrust among employees, largely stemming from lack of real leadership and their non-existent people skills. It felt as though the company prioritized control over empowerment, which left many employees feeling unhappy, cynical and unwillingness to help each other. Silenced people used their silence as self-protection. Communication issues often led to misunderstandings, passive-aggressive behavior, malicious gossiping, isolation of colleagues and a blame culture that added to the overall stress. In this broken workplace, it’s the people who drain you. Some people medicated because of their job, because of the people they have to work with every day.