I think this article does a good job of summing up why I will never bank with them (again). I did so for a while as a teenager and really got a feel for them. I closed my account and switched to a local bank and never went back.
http://www.startribune.com/inside-wells-fargo-front-line-employees-describe-immense-pressure-few-rewards/394694611/They are relentless. They will not stop bothering you about opening an account or purchasing some financial "product". Like the article says... it's not just by one person or just one time. They like to trade you around the branch to various different tellers and bankers... all asking multiple times. And it's so obvious that this is being enforced from above. The kind of forced friendliness and familiarity, backed up by a sense of intense desperation and misery, makes the place hard to even go into.
But with the recent revelation that 5200 employees were fired for opening some ungodly number of fake accounts to satisfy performance demands, the bank has come under intense scrutiny.. and these policies are being zeroed in on as the culprit. Personally, I think those 5200 should be hired back... and instead the 5200 senior most employees of the bank should be fired and barred from working in banking again. Cut the head off that beast.
Have/do you bank with them? If so, what has your experience been like?
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