Great Southern Bank reviews

Fails to follow its own processes and policies leaving employees abused and exposed. Makes lots of noise about mental health but when you actually have a workplace induced mental health condition they don’t want to know about it telling you it’s “not practical” to make basic adjustments. Protects incompetent and deceitful leaders even when they lie and throw innocent employees under the bus for their own failings. Poorly organised internal workflows and operations, technology that lags behind other businesses. No career progression possible or training provided to keep up with changes. LOTS of great people made redundant for no good reason, then later the same roles re-hired with modified job title. Insist you come into the office multiple times a week even if you have to commute hours and end up sitting there all alone, will not negotiate on this. Has a flexible working policy that sounds great but when you apply to have the smallest adjustment made even for genuine legal reasons you are treated with contempt. Lots of nepotism amongst managers, hiring old buddies and connections. Years of hard work, blood, sweat, loyalty and overtime mean nothing here. Management does not genuinely care about your welfare, happiness or career aspirations, it pays lip service only. You are regularly forced or strongly pressured into emptying your leave balance at certain points in the year (Christmas, EOFY to name a few) so it is difficult to accrue enough time for a real holiday with the family. Leadership comes up with these big ideas (think rebrand) then without consultation or any understanding of what they’re asking sets absurd deadlines for completion, causing the pressure to flow downward and any sense of planning to fall apart.

Lack of strategic direction, way too many Senior Managers with zero requirements to have them there. Completely removed executives who have no idea what is actually happening in their businesses and rely on survey after survey to get a ‘sense check’, though no action is undertaken to improve the culture or the way staff are treated. Redundancies are happening at an alarming rate, branches are closing, outsourcing of their contact centre happened (though remained in Australia) and job security is REALLY LOW!