I worked for Wells Fargo for over 16 years. During those 16 years, I always had either met, exceed, or constantly exceed reviews. During 2008, Wells Fargo bought Wachovia Bank during the financial crisis. However, during that time, the Wachovia Management team was left in place while the management team from Wells Fargo started reporting to them. It has been a mixed bag of culture differences between the two companies. For me me it has been extremely difficult. There were three managers working in Dealer and basically they ran off two of them. One left the bank and went to another company, and the other one left the department and went to another. I was the last one there in the original management team, and they asked me to manage the department while they looked for a new manager. I ran it until April of 2011 so for about 6 months I was the only one there. While being myself I still met my manager responsibilities in my team members annual reviews and their new goals for 2011. My new manager started in April of 2011. She never really made an effort to work with me and set expectations or develop a relationship. While I know there is certain time frame for learning the job, new relationship was established between her and I. During the mid year performance, she never once met with me and let me know how I was doing. During this time we were still in the process of integration, so it was a really difficult time. However, I was able to meet my obligations again as a Manager and gave my team members their annual mid year review. I never received mine and in fact did not know how I was doing until she transferred this over in December. You can ask other team members who reported to her if they ever got their mid year review. When we finally integrated, it did not go very well. So I was litterally taken off managing my team to help them clean their books.. (loans and entries that were aging). So from October 15th to probably the second week of January.. all I did was clear these entries that were aging. I would work from 6AM to 1AM. This was during the holidays. I missed my daughters holiday activity just in order to clear the entries. My manager at this time kept working 8 to 5. Even after I told them during the 1st week of December that we were in trouble with our accounts. At the same time, I was the only one that fully understood what was going on. The integration team, along with the Greenville team (our sister Wachovia site) could not assist. So basically, I along with some of my team members were successful in cleaning up our area. For this I did not even receive a thank you from either my manager or her manager. Again, this was the cultural differences between Wells and Wachovia. There were also other things that occurred to me which I found it hard to believe. For our trouble debt process which is troubled loans, the initial team members that started the project were removed and I was given the task of taking over for them and provide feedback. This was during the latter part of integration, yet I was held accountable even though I did not start the project. For my annual review.. they had it ready to give to me at the end of January. I was basically singled out as non performing and for this I was not given a bonus which I thought I deserved. I did bring this to the attention to my HR person and she was not very helpful. Yet every other manager seemed to get it their review about a month later. Yet I finished my team members reviews on time. I think I was the only one on the team that did not need extensions. After this, I was placed on informal and formal counseling. I did go back to HR and ask if I could dispute this, and they said I could. However I did not. I also got removed from the weekly management team meeting, so I always got the information second hand. I was asked to take over processes an lead them, never once going over it with my manager but via email on what I was supposed to do. At the same time, I was to provide the information back to the team members, but again with second hand information as I was not in the meetings. This leads me to conclude that they expected and wanted to fire me. I also asked HR, why I was the only Hispanic (minority) in a management position. In the day and age I did not think that being a minority would be a hinderance or lack of room for opportunity for us. Even today, I was always willing to do what ever it took to assist and train the team members in these processes. My case I think revolves on one.. when they hired the new manager, basically she was tasked with removing the last vestige of the Wells Fargo management team. And basically, I had to be the one asking my manager for weekly one on ones.. never one for how I am doing or how to improve myself. I was never allowed to counsel or address my team members that needed counseling. I provided counseling documents for one team member and she never responded back that I should give it to that team member

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