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I USED TO WORK AT MBNA - Credit Card

Posted By: pdmasta on 3/15/2006

I used to be employed with MBNA back in 2005. I was in their elite sales team counter offer. Basically our job was to sell as much as possible, as fast as possible, and if we were good enough, smart enough, sneaky enough, we wouldn't have to do it all legally. CRC regulations said that we were able to do .
this, this and that. MBNA pretended to care, pretended that we were all be listened too, pretended that if we didn't do exactly what the law required their would be swift punishment. Well, that didn't happen. You see we used to sell insurance as well as loans. We had a bunch of really good sellers on the team, one guy in particular used to sell 10-20 p3's a day (thats what we used to call them) I remember everyone wanted to know how the hell the top sellers sold their stuff, what did they say? what did they do? You'd think the entire management team would call a meeting and go over EXACTLY what was done, exactly what was said, no. Never happened, because it was illegal. Things that were not mentioned, say specific fees or charges for a loan or particular insurance were not mentioned to the customer. Perhaps the customer was listening, but the sales rep was speaking too fast, or just as the IMPORTANT parts came up, he would hold down mute for a fraction of a second. Everything was monitured, but they couldn't tell when you had MUTE pressed down. There were a lot of tricks, a lot of lies. People would complain EVERYDAY that they paid ONTIME. MBNA were very very smart, never told anyone it took 2-5 business days to get the money, and mbna made damn sure it took 5 days to process ANYTHING. They wanted everyone to default on their payments, everyone to pay higher interest. I know for a certain fact that MBNA would not correct their phone list if a person had moved, I know for a fact that people were called every week, every day for months, for years even.

I know that deceased customers would still get calls. Their widows answering the phone for the 35th time and telling us that their husband died. MBNA was ruthless. And did they reward you for all the hard work? no! they gave us chocolate bars for more energy. They'd demand overtime, overtime overtime. Why aren't you working this saturday? I got a family...? DOESN'T MATTER! NO FAMILIES, NO OBLIGATIONS, ! They didn't want you to leave. I think one of the worst things MBNA did was sell to people who really didn't speak enlish that well. We were all forced to bully our way through sales, even if the person didn't understand what you were saying, just keep pounding away and they'll eventually fold, and take the money. Directors Club. What a joke. This was MBNA's "idea" to reward top sellers, problem was, the 'leads' or 'call lists' that the top sellers would use would be shared by the lower of the sales groups. It tainted the pool, so when 'some' of the elite sellers would be asked to go on 'inbound' calls, they had the clear advantage. Their time on a seperate lead system was not compensated for, nothing was done. People were crushed in a day, in a few days when their rivals would go on 'incoming' In my opinion, MBNA is the worst financial instituition I have ever worked at. Thank god for HSBC. And one last thing about mbna that was idiotic, the men had to wear a STRICT dress code, pants, tie, you got the idea, the women? anything they DAMNED WANT! Low cut shirts, I mean so low it was REDICULOUS, I thought half the women were going to the club on their lunch breaks, oh god how pathetic MBNA was. I am so glad I left. ps. never work, never deal, never talk to mbna, because more than likely you are getting SCREWED!


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