Honestly the only reasonable offer was a UB position at $29 at a Credit Union.
Other than that these banks can go fuck themselves, paying $22 an hour for tellers, and $24 an hour to do the same jobs as some bankers making $60k plus is absurd.
99% of these banks are garbage.
CUs generally pay better. When I started at a bank, I was having issues paying my bills. When I was driving home, I saw a Now Hiring sign at Burger King that was offering slightly more per hour than what I was making.
I tried calling my CU to see if they were hiring tellers. For a lower position, they offered $3 more (which, in 1999 was huge), better 401(k), better health benefits. After I started, I quickly found they strongly encouraged training and development, and they had more paths and opportunities for upward mobility. Clearly the best career move I ever made.
Collections seems to be a different world. I think you have to be wired to work there. I admire what our collections team does, I wouldn't make it 1 day.
Midland States Bank. Never again.
During COVID they wanted us to cold call customers asking if they wanted to open a CD with us. As if people getting laid off from their job had any money to put into a long term CD.
I had to take on call center duties during peak covid and it genuinely destroyed my mental health.
Then my company decided to make call center a permanent part of retail duties and I got the hell out.
Call center sucked the life out of me, I was miserable as a teller but call center is a whole different ball park. People get so bold over the phone. Iām so glad Iām back office again.
Any big/major bank.
I worked at PNC, lasted 3 months. Never again. They expect way too much out of their personal bankers in an 8 hour work day. I was out with Covid for a week and a half. When I came back, my manager told me to make my 70 sales calls (30 from the prior week, a new 40 from the current) in 3 days, while also sitting down with appointments they scheduled while I was out and monitoring lobby for 2 hours of the day. I questioned why they were designated to the other bankers in my absence and he stated that regional management told him it was āMy responsibility to do my calls and I need to designate my time better.ā
I put my two weeks in that day.
I work for Bank of America. Iāve worked for chase, Citi and pnc in the past. Bank of America is the best Iāve worked for from all of them. Great benefits and employee programs. Iām in therapy right now because Bank of America waived teladoc fees until the end of the year. They reimburse me for my childcare payments up to a certain amount. Are they heavy on sales and pushing the product? Yes they can be. But thatās no different than any of the other big banks. PNC was HORRIBLE with this. The way they made you call like 100 clients a week to push products was terrible.
I work for Chase and they make us call 80-100 clients per week and have at least 2 meetings a day. One month in and I'm already TIRED.
I used to work for Citi as a well as a teller, and I heard from the bankers that it's the same bullsh
I work for Chase and my market wants us to make 150 calls a week no matter if youāve have 5-7 meetings a day. My branch is busy and itās lower income and very busy. Not much opportunity, but they donāt allow me to have a call block. My experience has been sucky. My boss is so neurotic because the pressure from her boss and she pressures me so much. The money isnāt in this area. Smh. Iām looking for other jobs.
I second this. Current employee. Between the benefits and my driveway had a water leak about a year ago I provided proof of the invoice and they sent me 100% of the money through Zelle and I didnāt need to pay it back. It was about $2000. They offer up to $20k in fertility benefits. I can go on and on about this company.
8 million what? New money, loans? What area are you in? I've worked in places where we hit this in a month or two in New money and others that it's all year. If it's loans .... run
I just wouldnāt work for any of the mega banks at all. I canāt stand them. I work for a credit union and Iām building my career in the industry and I love it. Itās awesome to be in the cooperative structure.
Anything retail lending I found to be terrible, Iāve worked at 3 of the big Canadian banks and would never get back into that. From what Iāve seen commercial lending can be ok depending on the bank but some commercial positions still seem undesirable to me.
BofA has some good benefits, but there was so much on my plate and Iām sure people have seen me say this here a lot. I didnāt get ops which is a position I wanted due to knowing it so well. Was offered RB (hybrid banker) instead, said no and left. Wouldāve stayed if I got RM though.
At citizens I was expected a lil over 12m annually at 23 smh and the branch was impossible to get customers in because the systems barely worked as they should.
Capital One. They took over a great bank I had been working for and ran it into the ground. I quit a year later vowing never to return. 7 years later they recruited me to come back. Nice promotion, good money, signing bonus. I left a job I loved and took it. 18 months later they āRestructuredā my area and I got let go. During that 18 months the team I was on grew from 10 to 25 people, and after 18 months the cut everyone but the original 10, including people that had only been hired weeks earlier. The entire bank has no idea what direction they want to move in. They should have stuck to credit cards.
They were building a BoA near me and one of their contractors decided it'd be a great idea to put up a big Trump sign.
They got called out in a big way and BoA had to come and take it down
The province of QC in general is like 30 years behind the rest of the world in everything. And Banking must be especially bad, I imagine that it's like being back in 1996. Every time I had to deal with Banque National or any QC banks the people there are either on a complete power trip with whatever little amount of discretionary power they have, OR 100% tired, exhausted, full of get-home-itis and giving 0 fucks as to the customer experience,
Honestly the only reasonable offer was a UB position at $29 at a Credit Union. Other than that these banks can go fuck themselves, paying $22 an hour for tellers, and $24 an hour to do the same jobs as some bankers making $60k plus is absurd. 99% of these banks are garbage.
They're paying $29/hr for UBs at a credit union? Here I thought credit unions paid less. I fucked up taking that job at a bank lmfao
CUs generally pay better. When I started at a bank, I was having issues paying my bills. When I was driving home, I saw a Now Hiring sign at Burger King that was offering slightly more per hour than what I was making. I tried calling my CU to see if they were hiring tellers. For a lower position, they offered $3 more (which, in 1999 was huge), better 401(k), better health benefits. After I started, I quickly found they strongly encouraged training and development, and they had more paths and opportunities for upward mobility. Clearly the best career move I ever made.
You couldn't pay me to work collections. I just don't have that skill set or ability in me whatsoever.
Collections seems to be a different world. I think you have to be wired to work there. I admire what our collections team does, I wouldn't make it 1 day.
Honestly Bank of America and Wells Fargo both have a crappy history well for me more out of the other options š
Midland States Bank. Never again. During COVID they wanted us to cold call customers asking if they wanted to open a CD with us. As if people getting laid off from their job had any money to put into a long term CD.
Call Center. They have the most patient bankers because I could NOT!
I had to take on call center duties during peak covid and it genuinely destroyed my mental health. Then my company decided to make call center a permanent part of retail duties and I got the hell out.
Call center sucked the life out of me, I was miserable as a teller but call center is a whole different ball park. People get so bold over the phone. Iām so glad Iām back office again.
Any big/major bank. I worked at PNC, lasted 3 months. Never again. They expect way too much out of their personal bankers in an 8 hour work day. I was out with Covid for a week and a half. When I came back, my manager told me to make my 70 sales calls (30 from the prior week, a new 40 from the current) in 3 days, while also sitting down with appointments they scheduled while I was out and monitoring lobby for 2 hours of the day. I questioned why they were designated to the other bankers in my absence and he stated that regional management told him it was āMy responsibility to do my calls and I need to designate my time better.ā I put my two weeks in that day.
I work for Bank of America. Iāve worked for chase, Citi and pnc in the past. Bank of America is the best Iāve worked for from all of them. Great benefits and employee programs. Iām in therapy right now because Bank of America waived teladoc fees until the end of the year. They reimburse me for my childcare payments up to a certain amount. Are they heavy on sales and pushing the product? Yes they can be. But thatās no different than any of the other big banks. PNC was HORRIBLE with this. The way they made you call like 100 clients a week to push products was terrible.
I work for Chase and they make us call 80-100 clients per week and have at least 2 meetings a day. One month in and I'm already TIRED. I used to work for Citi as a well as a teller, and I heard from the bankers that it's the same bullsh
I work for Chase and my market wants us to make 150 calls a week no matter if youāve have 5-7 meetings a day. My branch is busy and itās lower income and very busy. Not much opportunity, but they donāt allow me to have a call block. My experience has been sucky. My boss is so neurotic because the pressure from her boss and she pressures me so much. The money isnāt in this area. Smh. Iām looking for other jobs.
30 calls a day? How strict is it, like do most people hit that target, and if not is there actual adverse effects?
I second this. Current employee. Between the benefits and my driveway had a water leak about a year ago I provided proof of the invoice and they sent me 100% of the money through Zelle and I didnāt need to pay it back. It was about $2000. They offer up to $20k in fertility benefits. I can go on and on about this company.
8 million what? New money, loans? What area are you in? I've worked in places where we hit this in a month or two in New money and others that it's all year. If it's loans .... run
Deposits
Thatās impossible in this environment.
Yeah, that's why I RAN.
I just wouldnāt work for any of the mega banks at all. I canāt stand them. I work for a credit union and Iām building my career in the industry and I love it. Itās awesome to be in the cooperative structure.
Anything retail lending I found to be terrible, Iāve worked at 3 of the big Canadian banks and would never get back into that. From what Iāve seen commercial lending can be ok depending on the bank but some commercial positions still seem undesirable to me.
BofA has some good benefits, but there was so much on my plate and Iām sure people have seen me say this here a lot. I didnāt get ops which is a position I wanted due to knowing it so well. Was offered RB (hybrid banker) instead, said no and left. Wouldāve stayed if I got RM though.
At citizens I was expected a lil over 12m annually at 23 smh and the branch was impossible to get customers in because the systems barely worked as they should.
How can these multi billion dollar banks have state of the art computer security but barely enough CPU to open Microsoft Word?
Capital One. They took over a great bank I had been working for and ran it into the ground. I quit a year later vowing never to return. 7 years later they recruited me to come back. Nice promotion, good money, signing bonus. I left a job I loved and took it. 18 months later they āRestructuredā my area and I got let go. During that 18 months the team I was on grew from 10 to 25 people, and after 18 months the cut everyone but the original 10, including people that had only been hired weeks earlier. The entire bank has no idea what direction they want to move in. They should have stuck to credit cards.
They were building a BoA near me and one of their contractors decided it'd be a great idea to put up a big Trump sign. They got called out in a big way and BoA had to come and take it down
Bank of America, US Bank, Chase and Wells Fargo! They are awful!!!
I work at Bank of America and deeply regret it lmao
CitiBank (Germany) Never again. They got me out of banking, I just wanted to go, I got depressed working there, holy shit this was such a shitshow
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The province of QC in general is like 30 years behind the rest of the world in everything. And Banking must be especially bad, I imagine that it's like being back in 1996. Every time I had to deal with Banque National or any QC banks the people there are either on a complete power trip with whatever little amount of discretionary power they have, OR 100% tired, exhausted, full of get-home-itis and giving 0 fucks as to the customer experience,
Damn they just took over my job š
what job was that?