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PNC Financial Services Group

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I was going to stay quiet until I saw that PNC put out a "diversity" statement on racism, which is BEYOND LAUGHABLE. - Detection and Investigations Associate PNC Financial Services Group Employee Review

1.0
15 June 2020
Recommend
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Pros

You get paid on time

Cons

AML Operations is the Perfect Example of a TOXIC Work Environment You haven't lived until you've received, in February 2019, an invitation from a senior manager for a process improvement meeting called "Make AML Great Again". And senior management ran the department just like the current occupant of the White House. Yes, you read that correctly, and of course this happened during Black History Month. Senior management is clueless, and are only interested in hearing from "yes men" who blindly agree with management's ideas. If you ask for clarification on something, you are marked as "difficult" and will be targeted accordingly, a process referred to by AML senior management and team leads as being "managed out of PNC". The team leads/managers that distribute the work do so in a bullying fashion at the direction of senior management, by assigning employees that are not viewed in a favorable light by management an abundance of cases with "expedited due dates", or an abundance of "high risk" cases involving more thorough reviews, or assigning in such a way that all cases for that week are due on Mondays, combined with revoking teleworking privileges while also limiting building access hours. After asking a valid question about case assignments during a "questions" portion of a meeting about case assignments, one of the bullying team leads took my manager aside and told them to "get me under control". Meanwhile, this female team lead was doing the work of a male direct report for him after hours. Also, there are a little over 20 Quality Analysts that review the work of the Investigators. Once senior management decided to target me, I had the same 3-4 Quality Analysts over the next 3 years, although they are supposedly randomly assigned. The Quality Analysts assigned to me combed through my work with a fine-toothed comb, looking for any reason to reject it. Senior management went outside of our clearly written procedures TWICE, just to reject my work. I documented the actual procedures in their respective cases to show the departure from the procedures. Each team was required to have daily morning meetings where we would discuss our work and its progress. It became glaringly obvious to my team that my work was held to a much higher standard than the rest of my team. I have witnessed an employee actually stay in the building overnight due to trying to meet deadlines due to intentional case overloads while dealing with building access that is cut off earlier for them than the rest of the employees. That employee was fired upon returning to work the following morning after going home to take a shower. The fact that INTEGRITY is one of PNC's core values is laughable in AML Operations. Employee Relations/Human Resources is just an extension of AML Operation's discriminatory actions, and only serve to identify employees for retaliation including being interrogated and falsely accused by a VP from HR interrogate about a disability for which PNC already had the required documentation. HR operates however they want to with absolutely no regard for the law, demanding that employees use personal phones for communication with them so that the conversation does not occur on a recorded line. If everything that PNC's HR department does is supposed to be above board, why the secrecy and demands that a non-official means of communication be used? *There is supporting documentation available for every statement made in this review*

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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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2.0
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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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