The one star is for Jermaine, who saved the day. He was fantastic. Per usual. The only good thing…read morethis branch has going for it.
We walked in, for our appointment we made. We were made aware that the person our appointment was with was running late. Finally 25 min later, Ebony (an associate) takes us to set up an account. I made mention from the get go that I wanted to open the exact same account as his twin brother had already opened up, and siblings before. We had done one with Jermaine months ago which went totally fine. Flawless in fact.
As we (and I say we very loosely) meaning Ebony and I sat down, she starts by setting up my account with me through a link to do it basically on my own; I made mention that this was very odd and not the way I've ever opened any of my children's accounts linked to mine in the past. Again, communicating I want the exact same account as his siblings have on my account.
She continues to tell me multiple times that it's the SAME. Then I start asking very specific questions as to why I'm noticing a lot of differences. She continues to try to convince me this is a new way of doing the old account. Still isn't adding up. She then continues for about 5 more min to tell me it's the same and is so insanely rude and pushy. To the point where I'm asking for a third party to come intervene to explain since she's clearly not getting it. The level of incompetence and ignorance was shocking. She made a last ditch effort to manipulate and starts reaching for straws and making comments such as, "Jermaine is new at banking". "Didn't you already reschedule this appointment?"
First off, Jermaine is not new to banking, and he's the only one proven himself in there to act professional.
Second, me needing to reschedule my appointment from yesterday to today has absolutely zero to do with her inability to listen, communicate and own her mistake.
People make mistakes. All the time. It was the level of her gaslighting, rudeness and incompetence that has prompted me to write the review.
The manager Tracy who came in was just as rude, however at least she had the decency to inform Jermaine what was going on and he was able to correct ALL mistakes made. The end result was, ebony had opened the complete incorrect account had been open. I believe Ebony needs to possibly look up the definitions and differences between same and similar, because in banking, details matter. Customer service matters, and even after her big mistake, no apology from her or the manager Tracy, just Jermaine who apologized profusely when he didn't even do anything except help. So, if you're stuck going to this branch and need actual customer service with professionalism and intelligence and above and beyond kindness. Please make sure you ask for Jermaine. I will be contacting the Hampton roads president Tyron Noel, along with making sure my online survey from today is very accurately represented.
The last thing I want, is for some poor elderly person to walk in there and become manipulated, taken advantage of, and believe what someone's telling them and taking it at face value as truth when it's not. Ebony worked hard trying to convince me something was true there when it wasn't. I think there was a level of her counting on me to not understand banking, or basic common sense.. scary to know this is happening. I hope someone catches on to what's happening there.