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Finance committee The targets are set for the entire country. It varies from branch to branch. It depends on how many customers the branch has and how many staff members. The size of the branch dictates what your targets will be.
June 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Sally Watson
Finance committee Yes. They became more and more unrealistic, if that's what you mean.
June 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Sally Watson
Finance committee Yes, there's a reward for the manager.
June 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Sally Watson
Finance committee Yes, exactly. Notes are put in your personnel file saying that you didn't achieve your targets. Then you get to sit down with the manager, and he has to say, “How can I help you achieve your targets?” But there really is no help, because it's impossible to do. You can't help some
June 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Sally Watson
Finance committee Yes, absolutely, they're all the same.
June 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Sally Watson
Finance committee Absolutely, yes. I chatted with people in the other financial institutions all the time, especially after I went to the Ontario centralized accounting unit where I had to have a lot of dialogue with a lot of branches of the different banks because of the nature of the transaction
June 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Sally Watson
Finance committee It was an overall culture because this campaign that I was talking about was global. It wasn't just the Canadian branches of Scotiabank; it was all of them all over the world. They all had to go through this selling campaign every year in the spring. It was an incredibly stressfu
June 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Sally Watson
Finance committee That's right.
June 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Sally Watson
Finance committee No teller expects, or they didn't at the time I was hired, to be a professional salesperson. They just don't expect to have to do that. It becomes kind of a culture shock. You start off as a teller doing a teller's job, and then gradually you start to become a salesperson. Then y
June 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Sally Watson
Finance committee Well, it's funny, because I used to talk to my husband about that. When we went to get our mortgage, he was absolutely stunned at the amount they were willing to lend us. He asked me, “Is that right?” I said, “No. No, we cannot afford that. That's what they want us to borrow, but
June 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Sally Watson
Finance committee Is that for me?
June 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Sally Watson
Finance committee What is the question exactly, in a nutshell? Do you want me to tell you how that affects the employees, that they have to sell all these products to scoop all these extra service charges?
June 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Sally Watson
Finance committee It's not great, because of this huge competitive thing. Everybody's trying to grab a new customer whenever they come in the door. You're forced to sell products to people. You see the same customers every day, day in and day out. How many times can you sell that one person anoth
June 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Sally Watson
Finance committee Absolutely. People literally dread getting up in the morning because of the horrible things they know they're going to have to do when they get to work. They're going to have to sell somebody a mortgage they can't afford. They're going to have to let somebody buy a more expensive
June 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Sally Watson
Finance committee The managers don't see a problem, because there's this big thing that goes on in the bank. It's called the annual campaign. It's a campaign where each branch, usually in the springtime, has a three-month period in which to sell the maximum number of products. It's like a competit
June 7th, 2017Committee meeting
Sally Watson