Horrible and very impolite and rude Branch Manager. I called them today and talked to the branch manager to issue me transactions of this month. I knew that official bank statement will be ready by end of this month, but I had to provide an official letter to mortgage company today as my house closing is next Monday. If I wouldn't provide them the transaction's history today, closing date of my house would have to be postponed which means changing rates etc. I explained this to the manager, but she was very rude and said we can not issue you that and we can not fax that neither to you nor to mortgage company and wanted me to call online banking. I had to check with her whether she was listening or not, because she would respond me like 3 or 4 seconds after I stopped taking...sounds like she was on another task simultaneously!!!!
Before I called this branch, I had called citibank online, but they wanted me to call the branch directly!
Manager was very rude and impolite and not friendly at all. She never provide any solution for me to address my problem. She was just repeating herself that call online banking or stop by the branch. I told her that I'm not in Chicago and there is no branch in this area where I currently live (that's another frustration of Citi Bank). I told her that she needs to learn how to talk to customers, as she didn't really know proper way of behavior. I wanted her to give me her boss's phone number; she said her boss is in vacation. I insisted her to give me a number that I can talk to someone who acts as her boss today. After few minutes she gave me a number. I called that number for multiple time and no one answered and also it did not go on voice message where I could leave my name and number for them to call me back. Not sure where she found that phone number from. A big lie. Finally, I told that I would recommend her to review some books, manuals, etc to learn techniques and proper behaviour to become a responsive manager and she just hung up the phone on me!!!
Even if there was no way for them to provide me the transactions, she as the BRANCH MANAGER could have explained that for me in a nice way and provided me some solutions. Not just being rude and impolite.
Avoid this branch. This has been the third of fourth times during the past two months I experienced issues like this (depositing check, statements, etc) with the Citi Bank. I will close my account with them and start working with other banks. In multiple occasions I have seen that the Citi staff are careless, unfortunately. read more