In Soviet Amerika, Bank Robs You!
May. 15th, 2007 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusHahahah.
You know, I've come to expect this kind of behavior from a bank, but you'd expect better than this from a fucking credit union, you know?
For seven years I've been with this place. Never caused any problems. Never overdrew my accounts. Never late on a loan payment, back when I had a loan.
But, now, I finally get paid, after six weeks of having no income at all, nearly out of savings (did I mention I got to pay first, last, and deposit on a new apartment and move across the bay into it during those six weeks?). I take my payroll check down, want to deposit it, and take some out for rent, and, you know, maybe some food and stuff... yeah, they put a hold on the funds. How long? "Oh, probably not more than three days."
Can you release just enough to let me pay my rent? Nope. No exceptions to your new policy that you just made up on a whim? Exception? What's that? Sure, policy may vary depending on the teller, and on what kind of mood she's in, but if we make an exception... well... um... face it, we only have a little tiny bit of power here, I mean, I'm just a bank teller, I get paid $17/hour, and I have a college degree in a town where damn software engineers are bringing in checks for $10,000 every week. I've only got a tiny bit of power over them, and I'm going to abuse it to the utmost. You remind me of the guy who called me stupid in high school, so I'm going to do the one small thing I can to make your life miserable. I think I'll go file a SAR on you, too. You'll never know if I do, but that's one other tiny bit of power I've got so I better abuse that as well.
Oh yeah, in happier news, Jerry Falwell's dead.
Yeah, I was gonna post a nice obituary for him. Maybe mention his work in getting the current gang of goons into office, or his long support of Apartheid, or his money laundering schemes where he took donations to his fake religion, accompanied by government funds, to sell guns and buy diamonds, but you know what? I'm not gonna bother listing all his evil vile sickness and insanity. He's been pretty irrelevant the last few years, having been superseded by more outrageous and hate-selling nutjobs like James Dobson and George W. Bush Himself. His life the last few years has just been saying more and more outrageous nonsense in a desperate effort to get on TV and remind everyone he's still alive. Well, now he isn't.
You know, I've come to expect this kind of behavior from a bank, but you'd expect better than this from a fucking credit union, you know?
For seven years I've been with this place. Never caused any problems. Never overdrew my accounts. Never late on a loan payment, back when I had a loan.
But, now, I finally get paid, after six weeks of having no income at all, nearly out of savings (did I mention I got to pay first, last, and deposit on a new apartment and move across the bay into it during those six weeks?). I take my payroll check down, want to deposit it, and take some out for rent, and, you know, maybe some food and stuff... yeah, they put a hold on the funds. How long? "Oh, probably not more than three days."
Can you release just enough to let me pay my rent? Nope. No exceptions to your new policy that you just made up on a whim? Exception? What's that? Sure, policy may vary depending on the teller, and on what kind of mood she's in, but if we make an exception... well... um... face it, we only have a little tiny bit of power here, I mean, I'm just a bank teller, I get paid $17/hour, and I have a college degree in a town where damn software engineers are bringing in checks for $10,000 every week. I've only got a tiny bit of power over them, and I'm going to abuse it to the utmost. You remind me of the guy who called me stupid in high school, so I'm going to do the one small thing I can to make your life miserable. I think I'll go file a SAR on you, too. You'll never know if I do, but that's one other tiny bit of power I've got so I better abuse that as well.
Oh yeah, in happier news, Jerry Falwell's dead.
Yeah, I was gonna post a nice obituary for him. Maybe mention his work in getting the current gang of goons into office, or his long support of Apartheid, or his money laundering schemes where he took donations to his fake religion, accompanied by government funds, to sell guns and buy diamonds, but you know what? I'm not gonna bother listing all his evil vile sickness and insanity. He's been pretty irrelevant the last few years, having been superseded by more outrageous and hate-selling nutjobs like James Dobson and George W. Bush Himself. His life the last few years has just been saying more and more outrageous nonsense in a desperate effort to get on TV and remind everyone he's still alive. Well, now he isn't.
