The l . a . Occasions broke the tale in 2013 after speaking with Wells Fargo workers associated with the CBB.
It stated that low-level employees—who received between $10 and $12 an hour—feared for his or her jobs should they didn’t make strict quotas for starting brand new consumer reports.
To satisfy these quotas, employees had been forced to start unneeded records for clients, without their knowledge, and forged the customers’ signatures.
Wells Fargo administration called this practice “cross-selling,” but employees called it “sandbagging” and a “sell or die” quota system. After the scandal hit the news, Wells Fargo fired 5,300 employees that are low-level blaming them for the misdeeds.
But CBB persisted in drawing focus on the presssing problem with petitions and protests at Wells Fargo offices and shareholder conferences. (más…)