Pros
I get paid $18 an hour, after taxes and insurance(meh) its around $11. Vacation and personal time.
Cons
This position has changed from servicing your book of clients so straight sales and micromanaging. The monthly goal for our branch is $3m in new money... really difficult to compete again other great banks with much higher interest rates... but we are supposed to sell on the relationship- this isn't mutual between the bank and customer. The customer has no reason to really stay with us. I get asked daily, why should they have money with us when they have been banking here for 20 years and have nothing but .07% interest on a savings account to show for it. No one cares about relationships when it comes down to losing money. Daily we are wiring out over $1m+ to other banks, which increases our bottom line from $3m a month to $4m and so on... Tellers have turned into "associate bankers", more responsibility without a pay increase. These positions are being done away with because of 'smart' ATMs, which means people are losing jobs. If we are going to a more modern strategy anyway, why are we not able to have more work from home positions?