I opened my account at this branch around 10 years ago. It used to be a fantastic credit union and always a pleasure to do business with. (In fact, I honestly can't say enough for the customer service that I USED to receive from this place--and I'm not exaggerating.) There were a few deadbeat tellers, of course, but the management was really wonderful and the majority of the tellers were, too. Just an all around great place to do business with.
But, that is all completely a thing of the past and all I want to do, at this point, is figure out a way how to get my money out of here as easily and quickly as possible. And while I am not impressed with the people who are now in charge of this branch, it is not really about the customer service at this particular branch (which, since the advent of the pandemic, has been virtually non-existent anyway). Rather, it is about the complete change that has taken place in SCU policies over the last few years that is the problem. (E.g., you used to be able to call into a branch and get help if you had a question or an issue. Now, you can't. Now you have to call a 24 hour customer service line, where an automated voice tells you that there are "36 callers ahead of you.") You also used to be able to make a credit card payment over the phone, either by asking a teller to help you or by using their telephone banking option--but no more. Now you have to call their customer service (which is filled with incompetents. I remember calling there with an ATM-related question and giving up after 45 minutes--without ever getting an answer to my question). But the last straw for me came today, when I called their despicable customer service to make a payment on my credit card and was told by a rep that she could no longer do a transfer from my money market account into my credit card (even though I had been making credit card payments this way for months). And when I asked her how I was supposed to pay my (secured) credit card from now on, she told me that she would have an (anonymous) specialist call me on Monday. Other than that, she had no options for me. So now you can't make a payment on your credit card by calling their 24 hour call center, either.
Do yourself a big favor and stay the hell away from this place (unless, of course, you enjoy being driven crazy. And, memo to the owner: Please don't answer me by giving me your useless 800 number, because if you really cared about your customers, you and your revolting excuse for an upper management team wouldn't have spent the last few years coming up with new ways to inconvenience us. And you would also provide us, your members, with the name of a specific person to call--along with their phone number AND EXTENSION NUMBER). Bottom line: This is one of the most user UN-friendly places on the planet and it has become a nightmare to deal with them. Stay far, far away. read more