Sunflower Bank reviews

The absolute worst company I have ever worked for. We were grossly understaffed to the point we’d be staying 1-2 hours late every single day - a couple times we were there 3 hours late! Ridiculous for a simple banking job. I was told before even accepting an offer of employment that we’d never be held over more than 30 minutes. We lost employees in mere months at times because of the toxic atmosphere, and even when they were interviewing, they’d get dozens of applications that they’d turn down because “there’s something about them”. Employees were always picked because of the manager’s feelings, not because of their work history, moral compass or talents. I was constantly bombarded by abuse from coworkers: cussing, name calling, bullying, refusing to help when I got overloaded with customers because they hid in the back on their phones. I brought this up to management numorous times and literally had a hand put up to my face and told to not talk about it. I ended up having to go to the director of HR to have someone let me even make a complaint because of my horrid manager refusing to let me. Employees cussing about customers after they left, in front of other customers, chewing out the supervisor again in front of customers, falsifying documents, releasing confidential information unnecessarily, I could go on. So, long story short, I’d NEVER suggest this crap show to a friend. I highly suggest staying as far away from this place as you can.

Sunflower has one goal which is to keep the books looking as good as possible regardless of the cost to employees. We were dramatically understaffed compared to the tasks and time frames we were given. Upper management had no desire to understand the REASONS (not excuses) mistakes were made or tasks were not completed in the time frame they deemed acceptable. The amount of turnover and the amount of time it took to get an employee "trained" resulted in one of two employees having to pick up the slack of an entire branch for months on end, along with salaried employees have to work 50 - 55 hours a week easily. The expectations of the branches were not changed however which resulted in the loyal employees who had stuck it out being disciplined for mistakes made while trying to do the work of three of four people. The bank is so focused on growing that any infrastructure issues are given quick "TEMPORARY" fixes that have gone for four and five years without true permanent fixes. The issue is the permanent fixes cost money which is something the ownership group isn't interested in doing. The lack of interest in spending money results in Sunflower having a dramatic lack of competitiveness compared to most other retail operations. This, however, does not hinder upper management from setting totally unrealistic sales goals and expecting you to make them. Training in anything beyond simple retail positions like a teller or banker is a joke to nonexistent but the standards they hold you to would suggest a minimum of six months of training. In summation since the bank has started its dramatic attempt to scale up quickly things have gone from high but healthy pressure to unbearable working conditions. The merger and switch up in senior leadership has resulted in upper management fearing for there jobs which has lead to an unhealthy downward push that has caused the company to lose many long-time employees. The new standard is that those who produce are given unchecked power regardless of there worthiness to manage people or not. I have heard members of HR telling potential applicants that many of the negative reviews they have seen are a result of disgruntled former employees of acquired banks, but in reading through most of these I can tell you that isn't the case.