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PNC Financial Services Group

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Predatory Capitalism - Branch Sales and Service Associate PNC Financial Services Group Employee Review

1.0
Nov 16, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Holidays - Decent benefits and employee resources

Cons

PNC is not atypical within corporate America -- but it is certainly just as appalling and unethical as any other bank, it simply wields many jargon-laced smoke screens with which to shield itself. My manager barely acts like a human being. In fact, almost none of the upper management (especially the corporate sales reps from other departments) are human-like at all. Speaking to them, it's like there is not a single genuine bone in their body, like the humanity has been slowly winnowed out of their soul. I've sat in on meetings and calls where not a single direct, or useful, thing was said in two entire hours. They are attempting to turn their employees into jargon-spewing monsters, too; utter automatons. Positioning and capability statements are gross and no one - particularly not younger people - will ever be drawn in by an in-person commercial delivered by a robotic employee. With the heavy sales focus, we are highly incentivized to focus all of our attention to wealthy clients while ignoring the impoverished and those with genuine need. The overdraft fees are predatory and atrocious - and PNC is content to continue to milk the elderly and physically disabled for fees that continue to make their financial life a source of stress and chaos. I've been tempted to recommend customers like that to another bank. I genuinely hope that when younger people garner the reins of power from institutions like these, that the bloodsucking corporate leeches are thrown out. Also, voiceCX is terrible. How is a 6.79 out of 7 a 4 star score? Please stop basing your employees confidence on the COMPLETELY arbitrary whims of customers who may simply be disgruntled about policy, or angry, or even prejudiced. I love almost all of my customers but there are some genuinely nasty people with similar moral character to the PNC higher ups, that just don't care about others, and enjoy tapping one star reviews on their phone to make themselves feel better. I've seen some of the people who leave our branch google reviews and many of them have never left a single rating on any business that wasn't one star.

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2.0
May 2, 2026
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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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