Working hard gets you nothing. No training, no career development, no opportunities.
Pros
Scheduling is somewhat flexible. As long as we had our 40 hours and there was coverage in the department from 9-5, we were able to come and go when we wanted (within reason).
Cons
There doesn’t seem to be any opportunity to advance. I was told I needed to do something above and beyond my regular job for a raise- doing my job exceptionally well to the point of training new employees was not enough. During 2020 (COVID) we were thanked for our service to the company and told we would not be getting merit raises for 2021 (no raises at all, not even for cost of living) because the bank was hurting. We then were mandated overtime to work on PPP loans and told we should be grateful there were no layoffs. All while then bank was finishing an $11M+ cosmetic renovation of the building. All loan files are paper so we were also forced to come into the office on scheduled days to access files- even with positive cases all over the building. The Bank refuses to invest in digitizing their files or going paperless. Senior management positions pop up left and right and we only find out when they send the email announcing who is filling the role (always external people) no one internally has an opportunity to apply or even knows about the job. Then these new positions get six figure salaries, sign in bonuses, five figure annual bonuses, expense accounts and company cars ( when they don’t travel anywhere for their job). This business continues to ride their employees to the top and lie through their teeth about opportunity and what to do to get a raise, then they never follow through.