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PenAir Credit Union

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Lacking Understanding - Member Advisor PenAir Credit Union Employee Review

2.0
Aug 28, 2020
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Pros

Has a good 401k for now ... which has been in place for a long time, from long forgotten administrations. I feel like the pay is competitive as they have tried to slow the departures to competitors. There are some good people who work here.

Cons

Frontline employees are asked to do it all. Teller line, process loans, membership, call center, selling, acting... and do it all at once. Way too much to know. Rules change almost daily and Frontline staff is not told. There are a lot of people in management positions who for the most part keep making changes and adding responsibility to Frontline workers without an understanding of what that position requires. Real leaders can get in there with you and do what they expect you to do. Even Branch Managers and Branch Operation Managers (BOM) are lost. Member Advisors are required to fill in for these Managers occasionally but BOMs only know half of the job of a MA and the BM might only know the half. There is a lot of focus on role playing make believe situations. This can be extremely uncomfortable and unproductive. The expectation is to hone in on robot skills so that you know what to say in order to sell the most products. If you just be yourself with your own style, they grade you and try to change you. I think the goal was to mimick a fancy hotel mixed with the sales of a cell phone store. They spend lots of money shopping the Frontline employees. Secret shoppers pose as customers on the phones, at the interactive tellers and in branch. They score you which equates to your evaluation. You may be shopped by the same person more than once. They are looking for a robot like experience such as certain phrases and sequences. There are lots of new people. They are nice people but with the vast amount of expectations for Frontline employees, it can be overwhelming. It is hard to find people with accurate answers. Role expectations are unclear. Frontline employees are expected to fulfil the dreams of every other department which causes conflicts.

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5.0
Jun 5, 2025
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Pros

Health, vision and dental benefits , 20 days PTO from the get go. Extremely kind and genuinely care about meeting the needs and wants from their employees.

Cons

A driving map would have been cool so we don’t get lost .

3.0
May 11, 2026
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Pros

Credit union as a whole tries to create a good work environment, Benefits are good and 401k match was 8%

Cons

Extremely poor pay for amount of responsibility and risk. Most other departments had pay bands widened but ours stayed the same. Constant fighting between management in collections department. Extremely unprofessional upper management with continuous bullying of supervisors. Large Overlap between supervisors and managers duties with poor delegation of tasks between them. Huge difference in roles for individual contributors that are all the same pay grade. Extremely poor performers are not held accountable, some are terminated but others continue to create large amounts of extra work for others. The amount of workplace drama that is allowed is appalling and is caused by 2-3 employees that contribute little to nothing to the department. 4-5 employees went to hr about these issues and management immediately retaliated against this, everyone was automatically in trouble for something or another. Hr agreed with absolutely everything I brought up, but there was little that could be done without escalating this higher within hr. It really seemed like nothing would change. I left voluntarily and relocated out of state.

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