DO NOT do business here. I've been a WF customer for over 15 years with several mortgages over the…read moreduration, so when I received an offer for a $2500 bonus to sign up for a Premier Checking which I would receive after 90 days, I carefully read he instructions and booked an appointment with the Hillcrest Branch. Unfortunately, I was given Fernando Guerrero, an amoral, lazy and uneducated employee who 1. didn't understand the terms of the offer and 2. didn't take the time to simply VERIFY how to set it up correctly. During the course of the 90 days, I reached out to Fernando several times to ensure I had met the requirements for the bonus, and EACH TIME he assured me I had (again, very negligently not making a simple phone call to the promotions dept to ENSURE I had...but just SAYING I had). After 90 days; no bonus (surprise!), so I began to reach out by phone and email, and of course Fernando began dodging my calls and not replying to emails. When I finally took the initiative to explore WHY I didn't receive the bonus, it was because he had explained it incorrectly AND failed to set it up so I would get the bonus. After hiding my number, I finally got through to him, and he was very apologetic, saying he would ask for an investigation and say it was "bank error", and that he would "advocate for me" (his catch phrase, which means absolutely nothing). Come to find out, after the actual investigation took place, both he and his manager, an equally unethical Lisa Kern, denied ALL responsibility and claimed it was MY fault. Well, guess what; I recorded my calls (BOOM, SUCKAH! You're done!) and turned them into the Executive Office, who promptly did a subsequent investigation and finally gave me the bonus I was due.
The point is there are some extremely hard-working and competent individuals who work for WF which is why I have been with them for so long. But at least at the Hillcrest branch, there is a culture of lying, unethical behavior and just plain laziness which could have literally prevented this entire experience with ONE phone call that never happened. This incident has now been taken to the highest levels at WF and my guess is Fernando Guerrero will take the fall for the entire experience (and his incompetence was the reason it happened), but I think from my call with the manager, Lisa Kern, that she probably told him to lie and say it was MY fault during the investigation so as to hide her lack of training/handling the situation. So, if they are both fired, let this be a testament to their lack of ethics, morals and customer skills for anyone who is considering hiring them in the future.