Former Wells Fargo employee shares pressure he felt over sales quotas
Former Wells Fargo employee shares pressure he felt over sales quotas
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf resigned on Wednesday following outcry over a fake accounts scandal within the company. In order to meet sales quotas, employees had opened more than 2 million accounts and credit cards for customers without their knowledge.
To get a better sense of the company’s culture, we spoke with former Wells Fargo banker Khalid Taha. He recently settled a personal injury lawsuit against Wells Fargo over stress caused by sales quotas and left the bank in July as a condition of his settlement.
Click the above audio player to hear his full account.
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