JPMorgan employee dangers the whole lot by ambushing CEO Jamie Dimon at city corridor over make money working from home… and WINS

A JPMorgan techie whose question at a company town hall triggered an extraordinary work-from-home rant by the chairman claims he was briefly fired over it.

Nicolas Welch was sitting front row at the meeting in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday and asked the third question of chairman and chief executive Jamie Dimon.

The self-confessed ‘old hillbilly’ said he, a tech analyst at the bank since 2017, worked in a team with members across four time zones from India to Argentina.

‘There is no way that being in an office makes any difference for us specifically,’ he said, in audio that lit up the internet this week over Dimon’s response.

‘So, all I’m asking is that – I’m not suggesting you rescind such an order – but suggesting it be left up to managers of individual teams themselves on [the] necessity of an office workplace.’

Dimon responded with a long rant against working from home, and defended his earlier order dragging all employees back into the office five days a week.

‘That’s it? I’m going to give you a complete answer. There is no chance that I would leave that up to managers. Zero chance,’ he said. ‘The abuse that took place was extraordinary.

‘We don’t need all those people. We were putting people in jobs because people weren’t doing the jobs they were hired to do in [the] first place.’

JPMorgan techie Nicolas Welch, whose question at a company town hall triggered an extraordinary work-from-home rant by the chairman, claims he was briefly fired over it

Dimon responded with a long rant against working from home, and defended his earlier order dragging all employees back into the office five days a week

Welch told Fortune magazine that after the town hall, he was summoned to a meeting with his former boss Garrett Monaghan, now a vice president but still with the same division.

‘I don’t know what the fuck you just did, but come to my desk immediately when that town hall ends. Please,’ the text read.

Welch said when he arrived at the office, he was pulled into a meeting with Jeffrey Merrill, another of his former bosses from 2018 to 2021 who was now a VP.

He claimed Monaghan told him he ”just dragged our whole organization through the mud. Go and clean off your desk and get the f**k out of here’.

But hours later he got a call from Monaghan’s boss, Megan Mead, who heads up all of global IT support, telling him he wasn’t fired.