1 /5 lisan chen: Extremely disappointing experience at CommBank Mortdale.
My mum, a long-time CBA customer, needed help with an international transfer but does not speak English. I went with her to assist, but we were told by Joanna that I could not translate for her — which is understandable for official bank policy . However, instead of offering to call the TIS National Interpreter Service (which is standard CBA policy), Joanna refused to assist us at all and told us to go to the Hurstville branch.
We were basically kicked out, despite having all of my mum’s customer information already set up at Mortdale. Now we’re stuck at the Hurstville branch, where they’re starting from scratch and taking forever to set up everything again. This could have easily been avoided if the staff had simply used the free interpreter service available to them.
This was not just poor service — it was lazy, unhelpful, and completely dismissive. Extremely frustrating and disrespectful, especially toward an elderly non-English speaking customer. CommBank can and should do much better than this.