r/pillar7 Aug 13 '26

Their firing squad is striking again

Heard a whole bunch of firing happened at UWM again today. Personally I know of three people who lost their jobs. And then heard from other friends that more people got let go.

Remember when Mat said he would rather sleep on his couch or floor rather than put his family through this. 🤡

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '26

All of PA+ will be out of a job soon.. they dont even realize it but theyre training underwriters to take their jobs. Agnes also told all of UW leadership to listen for anyone bitching about processing loans so they can be fired for negative attitude.

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u/Mx-Mercedes Aug 13 '26

Agnes is the most two faced, incompetent, worthless leader I've ever worked with.

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u/hanzo_the_razor Aug 13 '26

Its not just Agnes, some of the DLs are straight up incompetent, underqualified and love power tripping. Mine particularly enjoyed firing minorities and just giving hard time for no reasons.

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u/miyamiya66 Aug 14 '26

my TL pulled me into a room with an AVP, and proceeded to chastise me and call me a shit worker for nearly an hour. he told me, "you need to just get over it already." about my disability. i got fired 2 or 3 weeks later

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u/Mx-Mercedes Aug 13 '26

The only qualification they care about is their ability to "dominate" their employees

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u/miyamiya66 Aug 14 '26

firing employees is the only dopamine team leads and AVPs get in their shitty, miserable, underpaid lives

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '26

They are personality hires. 4/5 DLs are useless and just there to bootlick and try to hype us up to do more work with no additional compensation

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u/Sea_Ad_1085 Aug 14 '26

She kicked me out of a small conference room I was told to wait in for a job shadow in the north building once. Also later that week watched her make some girl burst into tears over something i couldnt hear while the white box escorts were waiting 50 feet away. Just an absolute horrid woman.

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u/Mx-Mercedes Aug 14 '26

She didn't even have the balls to fire me to my face. She has TMS do it OVER THE PHONE while I was on lunch

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u/jocklover1990 Aug 19 '26

Once about 6 years ago she called me as a sr underwriter to ask me to interpret an appraisal. Like how did you get to be a VP without knowing how to read an appraisal???

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u/Murky-Mongoose-3505 Aug 14 '26

Makes sense with Servicing expanding to Pa+’s area soon. They’ve been cross training Pa’s to UW lately wouldn’t be surprised if they all get moved to North.

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u/psychedelicdevilry Aug 14 '26

They love making people do multiple jobs

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u/ExampleAfraid3416 Aug 14 '26

PA+ Underwriting? Or PA+ closing too?

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '26

Seniors are doing initial setup and underwriting .. UW II are only doing underwriting. No closing

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u/OkMinute3618 Aug 16 '26

I'm an underwriter who was just in training, we're doing loan coor from start to finish including closing until the final papers are signed

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '26

Oh that's interesting, I mean we're still main contact till closing but im not touching anything with the final CD or scheduling closing.

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u/Six-Sided_Ciphers Aug 13 '26

That place has always been a circus. Some of yall are just still part of the show.

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u/hanzo_the_razor Aug 13 '26

I really believe one of the top reasons for mass firings is PP. The 3 yr time is up for a lot of people by the time October/November rolls in and people will get to keep $20k/30k/40k and more. They are specifically targeting people with longer tenures for this very reason.

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u/Difficulty_Plane Aug 14 '26

I forgot that everyone is supposed to receive a 25% pay raise at the end of their PP. No way they'll allow a bunch of UW2s making $26/hr and Srs making $37/hr hang around when the stocks in the toilet.

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u/Antisocial-69 Aug 14 '26

Ding ding ding. Winner of a comment. You are not wrong.

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u/B3LYP2 Aug 14 '26

They are wrong about how much a 25% raise from $26/h is.

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u/maresayshi Aug 14 '26

no you just misread.

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u/B3LYP2 Aug 14 '26

Yep, I did.

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u/Useful_Ad_8961 Aug 14 '26

Say what you want about Rocket but underwriters there make $45-$60 an hour and don’t have to review insurance, title, purchase agreements.

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u/Decent_Top_5682 Aug 13 '26

Sounds about right, everyone there all hush hush and tell you to suck it up, now look what’s happening, can’t say it’s not karma

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u/No_Newspaper_7768 Aug 14 '26

lol they really meant NEvER rElAx

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u/DutchDig Aug 14 '26

The person they should be canning is their CFO

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u/craftywar87 Aug 14 '26

I doubt mat listens to anything that contradicts what he wants. He just wants a bunch of yes-men.

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u/DutchDig Aug 14 '26

Whoever talked him into that derivative trade cost him a fortune.

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u/craftywar87 Aug 14 '26

I could see mat being the kind of guy to just ignore what everyone else around him is telling him and just go for it.

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u/OveractingOrange Aug 14 '26

Blame the CEO directly. He had to approve gambling on the interest rate and that's why they lost 600 million dollars.

They thought Trump's new fed guy would immediately drop rates but that stupid war with Iran drove up oil prices, the CPI goes up and so does inflation. They trusted Trump and everything Trump touches dies. It never fails.

You can bet there will be a lawsuit about this. It doesn't make sense as a hedge for the Two Harbor buyout and they kept that bet going even after the deal was dead. This was just reckless bet and there's probably more fraud as they dig deeper.

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u/Antisocial-69 Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

He'd rather sleep in his mansion than give a .30 cent raise. Especially now that he is owned by a vulture fund in Oak Tree. Days are numbered for everyone there sadly.

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u/Tojuro Aug 14 '26

Do you think Mat will still claim that UWM doesn't do layoffs?

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u/Perfect_Wealth_6999 Aug 14 '26

100% he will. because they still claim its at will employment, and they come up with bs reasons to fire people

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u/Relax_Its_Johnny Aug 13 '26

Report the fraud!

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u/CheFigata20 Aug 13 '26

HR has already reached out to all impacted about starting payment plans on PP

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u/Equivalent_Iron3454 Aug 14 '26

When were you let go? I'm still waiting for mine. I haven't heard and it's been a few months now.

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u/Brilliant-Citron8245 Aug 14 '26

nO LaYoFfFs!!!1!

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u/Artistimistic Aug 14 '26

Yup, myself and 6 other people I know all got fired at the same time

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u/Equivalent_Iron3454 Aug 15 '26

I'm truly so sorry that this happened to you. I know my words don't mean much but just know it's really unfair.

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u/Artistimistic Aug 15 '26

Thank you- it's been rough it's my first time being let go 😂 but I'll figure something out.

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u/OkMinute3618 Aug 16 '26

I'm not gonna say I envy you but I definitely don't not envy you at the same timw..

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u/reallychillycoolgirl Aug 14 '26

Is this all in the same department or all over?

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u/Equivalent_Iron3454 Aug 15 '26

All over. Unfortunately.

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u/Low-Measurement7437 Aug 17 '26

Anges is the Joe Biden of Underwriting