Goals are Unobtainable - Personal Universal Banker Citizens Employee Review

1.0
Feb 29, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

One of the higher paying banks, good vacation/benefits, weekly paychecks

Cons

The sales goals are unobtainable, at least in the branch I was at. Everything you have to say to the customers is scripted and they want you to stick to that script, and really not add any of your own personality into things which can come off as sounding robotic. The branch I worked in had extremely low traffic (because people in my city are choosing PNC and other banks, not Citizens, and Citizens knows this). Despite having only 20-25 customers come in to the branch per day, we were expected to get all of these checking/savings accounts, credit cards, loan apps, per week. They really put a focus on how much "new money" is brought into the branch. And even when a customer is coming in for a routine check cashing, we are told basically ram things down their throat (premier banking appts, refinancing loans, etc). The sales are ridiculous and the pay isn't worth the stress of the job. Hours are also long.

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Cons

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Pros

The pros are the benefits, the pay could be higher for all that you learn and have to go through for ten weeks. They offer tuition assistance and opportunity for upskilling and advancing in such little time and the remote flexibility is great too

Cons

Management sucks and of course they have their favorites and then they have the people they target like myself. They micromanage bad and are quick to give you an occurrence for nothing. Their systems are so slow and then they blame you for being five ten minutes late logging in. They want you to tell them when you get up to breathe, go to the bathroom and they push for you to take calls and know boatloads of info after on 3 weeks of training. What they don’t know is that I will sue for any wrong doings or discrimination and I keep records of everything

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