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PNC Financial Services Group

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Management styles focus on belittling employees - Financial Services Consultant PNC Financial Services Group Employee Review

1.0
Jan 9, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Pros? If you want a job, they'll probably hire you if you can be bonded. Yes they offer benefits. If you are looking for some income while you look for decent employment elsewhere; they'll hire anyone and everyone.

Cons

This is for CSRs; specifically people seeking employment in the call centers. If you want to work for PNC you'd better negotiate your salary well in the first interview, because you will never get a raise. When you first start working for the company you'll encounter a lot of smoke and mirrors when you try to follow up on the touted 'opportunities for advancement'. PNC tends to employ embittered management throughout the call centers and the majority of the managers I encountered can be pretty petty. They tend to pass quick judgement about their groups without doing any research about their employee's skills. I actually had a manager promise me that if I was "good' for a week, she'd teach me how to open word on the computer. I don't know why she thought I couldn't open word, or what she thought my skills were, but it was pretty disheartening since this was the woman who was supposed to help place me in the company. The overall management style focuses on belittling, and I have had managers make up stories about customer complaints against me (one common trick is to pull up a form letter in word) just for an excuse to degrade me during the weekly one on one meetings they are forced to have with the employees. If you call HR with a concern about your treatment, your future is grim, and your environment will worsen. I made the mistake of doing that and had bullying managers follow me around the company demanding meetings to tell me how awful I was. I found myself completely deprived of all self esteem by the time I left the company. When I worked there, I was constantly stressed and worried I'd loose my low paying job because the managers I'd worked for convinced me I was a useless person. If you want to work for this company, I'd suggest not taking anything your managers say to heart, that's what they want you to do, so you stay in the call center, which is a pretty awful job without all of the petty management techniques.

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Pros

Great People to work for. Management wants to see you succeed. Great hours and time off benefits.

Cons

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Pros

Easy enough to request time off. ( In the call center not branches) Remote, 9 occasional absence days and you start with 3 weeks vacation. I had some really great coworkers

Cons

The Burnout! Back to back to back to back calls. Ridiculously unrealistic expectations of us. They come up with a new buzzword and go all in. Recently their buzzword is hospitality. However it's anything but hospitable. PNC causes mistakes for customers and then we get yelled at. With absolutely no way to fix it promptly. They take double payments all the time and customers call in ripping mad and we have to say oh sorry our bad will send you a check in 2 weeks but we got to make sure the money clears first. It's truly insane. Another buzzword is empathy, and again they don't have much empathy for us. In a shift you can easily take 70 calls. The matrix every year gets more impossible to meet. And in every year they change how they're going to write you up. They went from six instances down to one. Just make one mistake and you're written up. I hope they can RESOLVE this issue for themselves.

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