• Biffsbraincell@lemmy.zip
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    She was a vice president of business selection and conflicts at ​the bank. Not The vice president of the bank.

    Before anyone gets too excited.

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      It’s important to remember that banks hand out vice president titles like business cards. It makes the vice president feel important and gives customers someone with a splashy title to yell at.

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      From what I’ve heard of this story, a woman who had a history of mental issues stabbed a random man getting out of the subway and then went and stabbed this woman. Her position at a bank is nothing more than attention grabbing headlines.

      Just a heads up, if you look into this at all you’ll probably come across the video of the stabber being shot and killed.

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      To add to this, she might have been just another cog. I don’t know how BofA titles work, but I have known people with a VP title that had no one reporting to them and had no decision making authority.

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        It’s an assumption going back decades, AFAIK, that someone with the title “vice president” in finance/banking doesn’t mean jack squat.

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      She was a vice president of business selection and conflicts

      She was a specialist in “conflicts” and she got conflict there in Times Square. Failed to resolve the conflict miserably.

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      Isn’t that how it works though? You have the president, and then multiple vice presidents with their own responsibilities? Vice president of lending, vice president of marketing, etc?

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        Yes, but banks go the extreme and hand out the title like candy. It’s way easier to become a VP at a bank than other companies.

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          Do banks even give out candy anymore? It’s a sad day when the only Dum-Dums at the company are wearing suits.

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            My credit union has free ice cream bars during the summer and a hot cocoa machine during the winter.

            Haven’t seen a corporate bank with so much as a bowl of suckers for years.

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        Most just in the US. When I worked at an American company, even some tech support folks were given Vice President titles because it apparently makes customers happy to be talking to a VP.

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        I’m pretty sure at BofA, it’s not that high level

        A manager manages a small team, a director manages several managers, and then a vice president manages directors. They usually have ~100 people under them, but it can vary widely

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      From what I was able to discern, the CEO of UHC was really just a nepo frat boy selected by the board. He had no special skill or talent, other than looking like another white man in a suit and selecting multiple choice answers about what to do in the company.

      Straight from Central Casting, if you will.