UBS preparing for a October Layoff Massacre

UBS has costs to cut. At the start of this year, it promised to extract around $1.1bn from its compensation line. At the end of June, it had actually increased group-level compensation spending from $14bn in the first half of 2025 to nearly $15bn in the first half of 2026. 

Amends must presumably be made. UBS declined to comment for this article, but senior insiders told us cuts are likely later this month or in October.

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Are you a real racist or an incel?!? Put your name out there unless you are a complete coward. Real men put their lives and reputation (see the loser from Cornell - he may be a complete loser and I disagree with every fiber of his being but I admire him for his ferocious unrelenting stance) on the line for what they believe. 

Are you that guy or are you the guy that hides behind keyboard to sway impressionable students with an inherently challenged ideology (which says more about you)?

 

Thinking “half of the entry level analyst/aso jobs shouldn’t be going to OPT/H-1Bs (which was literally the unwritten policy in my group a couple years back at UBS)” is a perfectly reasonable opinion to have and is in fact not about race at all. 
 

 

What's funny is both you and longliveCS both type in such a way that your written English sounds like it's spoken by an Asian.

I think calling him a racist or an incel is a bit much, especially when he's pointing out a potential problem (which may or may not be true). There is 100% a trend in finance of banks preferring H-1Bs if possible because banks hold these desperate candidates by the balls and are benefiting from conferring a right that is not even theirs to give - the right for internationals to live in America.

Free to the company, priceless to the employee, and it's very hard to change jobs to boot. Asians just happen to be capitalizing on it. Regardless, trying to stamp out the conversation with "racist" and "incel" only raises tensions and makes people feeling this way dig their heels in further.

 

He’s probably the descendant of European immigrants himself, yet he’s worried about losing a privilege he did nothing to earn. The people who get this angry about competition often seem to be the ones most worried about being outcompeted.

 

Breaking: UBS hires H1B Social Media Analyst to shill UBS and troll anyone criticizing UBS

 

Update on a prior news report low performing workers who got fired still can’t get over it years later and resort to lying and racist rants to help deflect from poor performance. 

Psychologists we spoke with said it is not at all healthy and likely reflective of illusions of grandeur instilled by their parents or in layman’s terms mommy and daddy issues. 

Sorry to see for sure. Back you in the newsroom Jack. 

Did I get it?!?!  

 

Oh and let’s forgot like most comments you still haven’t acknowledged my main issue and keep lying about what it is I am actually doing.  

People on this forum can read. They are not as stooopidnas you. 

 

You and OP either cannot read, cherry picked certain facts from referenced articles because you have an agenda, and looking at your post history you accuracy re UBS layoffs etc is pretty low. Are you and OP the same?  A lot of talk about burner accounts from the people who got fired from this that have a weird fetishized agenda so putting this honey pot out there. 

Oh…and you and I both know you are not an MD. 

If 25pct aren’t cut when you are suggesting they will be will you come back and reply on this post to acknowledge you were wrong (again)?

 

Looked into the articles. You gave a very selective/biased read. Articles mention cost cuts in terms of the initial merger,  most cut are support / back office, that despite continued cuts the bank in the US is still hiring and went into detail about 7 new hires. 

Why did you omit the other relevant points? What is your agenda? Inquiring minds and all the teenagers in this platform want to know. 

 

Original article the OP referenced but very selectively quoted gives a guide. He has an agenda - read his posts with caution - clear he is not too bright hence why he either got fired or has zero competition for the bottom bucket bonuses he has been getting. Lucky he has his own friends (real or imaginary burner accounts) to tell him it’s all his employer and not him. 

 

Argue facts. Was the article referenced cited accurately? No. This is easily checked. 

Has this forum ever been right about mass layoffs and the doom and gloom around?  No. This is easily checked. 

Have you ever had a woman? No. Women like men who are secure and don’t spend years crying anonymously in forums that they hate their former employer. This is easily checked and check the “Why is my son a loser who can’t get over his prior employer, can’t find a date and never leaves the basement” thread and you will realize the heartache you are causing mommy. 

Easy for losers like you who have an agenda to say things but it all breaks down with any modicum of proof around layoffs here. 

 

And HR doesn’t posts in forums like this etc. they collect data, evidence, discern fact-patterns and if it hits a threshold files John Doe lawsuits for defamation which typically get settled very quick as WSO doesn’t want that, names once disclosed quickly loop in Mommy and Daddy who pay $ to protect their “idiot son”. 

Why do you think prior WSO lawsuits whose court case trails have gone cold have zero posts in relevant forums today?  

I have met guys like you when it’s all brought to light. Typically your arch type doesn’t say much a lawyer does and a parent does. Typically your arch type avoids eye contact and goes to say sorry in some cowardly way before your lawyer or your parent shuts you up to let the adults talk while a ream of all the stupid s#it you posted sits in a binder matched to an IP address that sits on the table and a firm decides whether to hammer you civilly / publicly or let it go. They typically let it go with signed statements it won’t happen again. 

That’s how HR works. 

 

You seem to have a lot of time. How long ago did you get fired? Just answer the question. Stop averting and missing. Let everyone know so you are clear in your agenda and why you lie and prevaricate so much. 

It’s pretty obvious…

 

Sorry didn't understand you. There is many such examples where someone got laid off and posted incessantly about a former employer often coloring / skewing facts (like this thread and what the OP did)? or someone broken by the firm?  It sounds like more the former to me where this clown and his 8 personalities…ahem…accounts is an outlier and the two may be somewhat related. 

People who incessantly post about a former employer and do so in a way that is not factual definitely merits psychological intervention. 


Do you think this guy realizes how sad and pathetic he is to have to cherry pick lines out of a news article to proactively post something false? What a loser. 

 

Says the guy who created 8 accounts and has been spamming this forum for the last few years. Happy to debate facts. You and your 8 accounts like to put fodder out there, someone challenges, you MS it and insult the people proving you wrong. 

It’s been years of this now and you are really going to suggest someone else is broken? 

This is sport for me as you and your 8 accounts are too stupid to argue logic, too dumb to get another finance job, and too ugly / pathetic to get a woman. 

You have been begging for attention now you have it. Argue with facts or STFU. This is like the 6th thread in the last few years portending massive layoffs. I get this is a fantasy you and your 8 alter egos find…pleasure…in but really bro? You cite parts of an article but miss / mislead the headline? 

How stupid are you?

 

What on earth is motivating truthtolight? Does he have Stockholm syndrome or something?

 

And to you and your other 8 accounts my inbox has been flooded with thank you’s for calling out your nonsense. 

People are through your opaque questions / posts like this one. 

People know it’s just a few of you using multiple accounts. 

People know you are FOS and trying to tailor a narrative.  

People are also very sad for you and your parents. 

What motivated you to be a racist and post non stop about a former employer?  They are living rent free in your head kid - that’s Stockholm syndrome. 

 

TruthtoLight blame your MDs for leaking to the press that there will be October layoffs

 

Again not the first time there has been rumors about some impending layoffs and doom that has not been true not come to fruition. 

The fake wannabe MD who posted earlier said 25% across the board. What’s your bet big man? And if wrong are you man enough to come back here on this thread and post on it?  

 

What’s so “bad” that justifies you and your 9 accounts for being racist POS who need to lie about articles as they disparage former employers / employees? 

Please enlighten everyone. You have been low on substance so I know this may be hard for you. 

And let me guess before they zeroed. / fired you, you were likely making better coin then most in America? 

Capitalism ate you ya bro. How has the firms stock done since they fired your sorry a$$?

 

You clocked us. "We" are all the same disgraced former UBS employees. In fact, every UBS hate thread has been written by "us". It's just me and my 80 accounts

 

how are you claiming “I am new here” and people have been posting for years here at the same time implying you have been reading this content for years?

 

Op and TruthToLight have to be the same person and OP is playing the persona of a fake UBS supporter and sounding like a crazy person, to make all UBS supporters sound like crazy people. 
That must be it!

 

You could be against the H1B program structure and not be a racist. Public policy positions aren’t automatically racist.  

 

That isn’t what he / you wrote though is it? They also double downed with “I am both racist and an incel”. 

I know reading for comprehension may be tough but work with me here bro. And despite that people supported him. 

That’s what makes you / him racist POS. 

That clear it up? 

 

I took that post as that user making a sarcastic “yup you got me” flippant joke more than anything else

 

Generally I would agree if a one off but when multiple statements around it, doubling down, then asking what color my passport is etc do you really think flippant or patternized?  I think we both know the answer to that. 

 

TruthToLight about to go after Sarah Butcher and efinancialcareers for creating nasty stories about UBS

 

Now waiting patiently for pattern to repeat. One of the alt accounts will ask some stupid question, ask about my motives, comment etc without addressing the fact that they completely butchered an article for their own benefit and to justify that being a racist is ok…people have been DMing me to tell me that they are so obvious and clearly can’t put forward any kind of basic, factual, argument. 

Waiting..which alt account is getting smacked next? 

 

Ooohhh ooohhh let me try let me try….


Narrator: “as the lonely, sad, fired former employee sat alternating between his 8 accounts it was clear logic, reason and mental stability had left him long ago. Rather than argue on merits and logic his mind truly believed the best strategy would be to argue like an adolescent child and call his tormentor a liar despite having no proof and the proof to the contrary being overwhelming” 


Did I get it did I get it?!? :)

 

It’s not funny yall, buddy here is having a mental crisis, haven’t seen a full meltdown like this on here in a while

 

You also seem to hold getting a girlfriend as some prize on a pedestal, highlighting the struggle the average Asian man has with dating in NYC

 

Reposting from another thread:

Had a pretty bad experience at UBS.  Majority of the people I worked with did not grow up in the US and were a mismatch to US corporate culture(unsurprisingly lead to not winning USA mandates). In general was not a fan of the leadership from MDs, EDs, directors.  Everything was always chaotic and people scrambling and pointing fingers.  Very few smooth operators with high social EQ(which ironically is what you need to win on the sellside).

As others noted, most people I knew who stayed were in one of the camps:

  1. Visa issues, hard to lateral or get buysideoffers with their immigration status.  Some groups are like 70% visas.
  2. EDs/Mds with little connections, forced to ride the laurels of a handful of heavy hitters. These are super stressful to work for as they lack confidence or political clout to act reasonable.
  3. Anyone affiliated with the barclays clique
  4. Poor performers

Just a wierd culture.  It's been so much better after lateraling.   I was scared to make the jump but so glad I did.  There really is a better path.

 

TruthToLight about to have an aneurysm when he wakes up and reads this first person account

 

Not really. 

A bit disappointed actually. I was waking up to expect sharp humor, cogent arguments maybe even a mea culpa. But instead I got more of the same generic redirects, some AI slop in the form of some weird pictures, a dude who clearly wants to come out of the closet, and another crayon eater showing off his copy and paste skills responding to an argument I never made. 

So no…no aneurism, just more an oh I get why this guy was fired now - putting aside clear social issues there is not much there in horsepower if ya know what I mean. 

That help clear it up?

 

Momma momma look! I have an amazing ability to copy stuff and paste it!  Duh did I do good Mommy?!?

That’s great son. What about actually arguing the facts as you could have copied and pasted a lot of stuff that addressed the crux of his argument. Is this person right that you completely misunderstood and misrepresented an article to try to make a case? Son it’s been a few years now. Maybe it’s time to let it go?

No mommy. They were mean. They fired me. Now I am going to make and post some pictures. That will teach him and those meanies! 

did I get that one right? I feel like I am like 95% there…

 

“It’s not “just long hours you get used to.” It’s systematic abuse by evil and toxic people.

In my experience: verbal abuse was constant and personal. MDs, EDs, Ds will scream and curse at you in front of the whole team or over teams while you’re already running on fumes. 100+ hour weeks stacked for weeks on end. Sleep is 3–4 hours if you’re lucky. Sometimes, you’re told to lie about your hours so the bank can pretend everything’s fine.

One month of 4-hour nights in undergrad is nothing like two years of sustained sleep deprivation, humiliation, threats, and physical decline with zero control. The place is inhumane.

The cumulative damage after two years is what really fucks you. It creeps up until something permanent settles in. Working at UBS directly caused a chronic health issue I still deal with.

Would not recommend UBS IBand would recommend you do extreme diligence on any IB group at any bank.”

 

Again completely irrelevant to the what the OP initially posted and misrepresented re news and doesn’t address the racist stuff. 

You get a D- on Comprehension solid A on Copy and Paste! 

What about upgrading them skills?!?

 

“This is spot on. I’ll contribute one additional example in response to the main thrust of the original commenter.

Via my sellside seat, I have worked closely with four buyside associates who recently left UBS (all of which completed the UBS analyst program). One of the associates was proficient. The other three admitted that they had never worked on a live deal before joining the buyside (!!!) and had skills that matched: 

  • Two of the three did not know how to analyze or review rudimentary data (ex: sumifs function in XLS, understanding a detailed comp spread).
  • One of the three didn’t know how to calculate EBITDA.
  • All three made us seriously question the ability of their institution to get a deal done and had adverse impacts to their firms when it came to evaluating the seriousness of the buyers.

So in short - agreed that “what you know” is what actually matters. But it appears that recent changes at UBS might be seriously impairing their analyst program.”

 

Again completely irrelevant to the what the OP initially posted and misrepresented re news and doesn’t address the racist stuff. 

You get a D- on Comprehension solid A on Copy and Paste! 

What about upgrading them skills?!?

 

“I personally had the worst experience of my entire life there and was treated so poorly. I would never in a million years do it over or go anywhere near that bank again.

IB is tough everywhere, but I Felt like UBS had a noticeably worse culture than what most of my peers were dealing with at other banks.

The culture was deeply broken and toxic. Constant weekend work for pitches, all-nighters, deal flow was low, and the bonuses were so disappointing.

Not to mention the bank seemed to have a disproportionate number of internationals on visas which honestly ruined the culture and it was miserable working with some of the international EDs and Ds. It felt like many of them stayed longer than they wanted to because it was so much harder for them to quit.“

 

Again completely irrelevant to the what the OP initially posted and misrepresented re news and doesn’t address the racist stuff. 

You get a D- on Comprehension solid A on Copy and Paste! 

What about upgrading them skills?!?

 

this is exactly what Asians, especially Chinese will do to a places culture

 

By poster do you mean the deranged prior firm obsessed incels that years post being fired still can’t get over it and created 8 accounts, post non-stop for years and need to lie and be racist or the person making a rationale argument re article being completely misrepresented and that racists are PoS?
 

Please elaborate. Curious if you generally support racist liars. 

 

TTL: Estimate the probability of UBS finishing top 25 in Americas League tables by the end of the year... surely a BB which just bought another BB would easily cruise into the top 10 right???

 

Don’t know / can’t comment about that. This was about a misrepresented news article and racism but will bite as it continues your trend of non-sequiturs. 

How about this it’s low for sure but higher than the probability of you being hired and lasting at any top 25 shop. Surely a guy who got fired and s#its all over a former employer must be a rock star who can land? 2 years in a basement gave you plenty of time to improve  


Let’s connect YE to see who’s right! My moneys on me ;)

 

 

Asking how UBS will do on a thread about UBS doing poorly is not a non-sequitor. However, this error confirms that you are not some bot, but genuinely mentally ill. I could tell you I've never commented on a UBS thead before but I know that would do nothing to calm your schizophrenia.

 

Did you read the actual article OP infers? If you did clear you didn’t read for comprehension and completely missed the headline. 

I get you and your 8 accounts not the sharpest in the tool shed but was hoping combined we can get to like a 60 IQ. 

Again if these don’t happen in October, like thru haven’t in the past when you rabble roused, will you come back here and acknowledge you were completely wrong (again)?

 

Duh….this his #7 of my 8 accounts…duh working at this place is dumb…yeah…duh my momma says I am edumicated and duh…even doe I’m not good at numba’s…the place should not have fired me…duh so yeah…duh this place and…duh this chain is dumb….yeah …duh….


Did I paraphrase you right? 

Also heard you got fired from this place as you couldn’t model despite a lot of group training. Is that accurate? This is what one of the other threads mentioned. Know it all who can’t model was the specific comment. 

 

Yeah! But let’s go with the deranged lunatics that got fired years ago and are racist and have been posting non stop the last 2 years. 

You really think people want to work with people like you / that?  Putting aside the fact you can’t model. 

Let me tell you a little secret. Mommy likely had to put a bone around your neck to get the dog to play with you bc of your personality. Sorry if that brought up a bad memory. 

 

This is less about positive or negative about a firm but factual comments and discussing facts (this thread very light on including a severely misrepresented article). 

But since you asked I will give you more then 3. All 8 of your accounts and personalities are no longer there? 

Since I answered your question answer mine. Did they fire you bc of your attitude and the fact you couldn’t model like the other threads and DMs mention?

 

And I’ll make a deal to show my sincerity around that as you all clearly don’t get it which shouldn’t surprise me if 10pct of what is posted around the ones that were fired is true. 

have your account / personality #3 (by the looks of it but it may be account 5) update the headline to properly reflect why the article mentioned and stop the racist BS and o go quiet. 

Deal? You be honest and I stop. That clear?  Otherwise I start posting the names and initials DMd to me and what I picked up on threads and start blowing people up. I am not in your field but have an interest here. 

 

Looks like TruthToLight was finally banned. If you click on his profile you get nothing.

Loading account Truthtolight2 ?

 

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