A National Australia Bank workplace survey was disrupted this week after a furious staffer replied to a group email by telling all its recipients he had zero respect for his manager and would refuse to even share a meeting room with him.<\/p>\n
The outburst emailed to sub-groups and financial advice staff came after NAB\u2019s Wealth Division reminded staff to submit pulse survey feedback by June 23 as part of the bank\u2019s strategy to improve its workplace.<\/p>\n
\u201cNAB does not value human capital at all, it\u2019s all a pretence,\u201d the internal emailer wrote. \u201cLet\u2019s see if this email will serve as a starting point of the \u2018behavioural change\u2019 that is needed, so that people feel valued rather than being ignored.\u201d<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n In response to the complaint, a NAB spokesperson said the lender has more than 40,000 employees and is committed to creating a safe, respectful culture.<\/p>\n \u201cWe know we don\u2019t always get it right. If a current or former employee has concerns or specific allegations we encourage them to raise them and they will be taken seriously,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n The complainant is a six-year contractor to NAB\u2019s Wealth division and launched the broadside against a senior manager and the bank\u2019s culture in an email that copies in NAB CRR (Customer Resolution and Remediation Department) ALL and NABAU-Commercial Services.<\/p>\n \u201cI want it to be clear that I don\u2019t have any respect for you in any way, shape, or form!\u201d the staffer said of a senior leader.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2019I\u2019m going to decline this meeting with you for Thursday 3pm June 25 2026 as I don\u2019t want to be in the same room as you. You don\u2019t deserve my time or skill as an analyst,\u201d the contractor added.<\/p>\n The complainant also told the group email\u2019s unwitting recipients his high moral and ethical standards made him feel obliged to speak out, particularly after he showed a high degree of professional commitment to NAB as a long-term contractor.<\/p>\n Bank culture in focus<\/p>\n Large corporates typically use the workplace surveys to gather staff feedback and monitor morale, engagement, or views on leadership. Employees usually file responses anonymously or confidentially on a separate online platform, and are not expected to share their responses openly in large group emails.<\/p>\n All of Australia\u2019s big banks have been fronting the rise of external online forums such as Reddit, Glassdoor and Instagram-focused Aussie Corporate. These third-party online platforms allow hundreds of thousands of current or former staff to anonymously leave good or bad reviews of a workplace beyond the control of human resources managers, professional spinners, or media gatekeepers.<\/p>\n The fiery mix of online anger often includes misinformation, exaggeration, or the airing of personal grievances.<\/p>\n Last September, Australia & New Zealand Bank met a barrage of anonymous criticism from staff on social media platform Reddit over his plans to cut 4500 jobs.<\/p>\n The accusations included vulgar insults, inferences of incompetence, and running commentaries that mocked afternoon all-staff meetings.<\/p>\n At the time ANZ declined to comment on the forums.<\/p>\n NAB is also the subject of a Reddit thread where anonymous employees comment on the bank\u2019s culture and their workplace experiences.<\/p>\n In June, The Nightly revealed text messages between NAB staff showed a separate manager allegedly threw a quantity of the drug cocaine at the feet of other staff, after spotting police arrive during a late-night Christmas party at North Sydney\u2019s Greenwood Hotel in 2022.<\/p>\n The manager allegedly involved is understood to be no longer with the bank and the incident not reported at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A National Australia Bank workplace survey was disrupted this week after a furious staffer replied to a group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-759532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}