BanksYour Ginger Fuhrer froths, "I hate my bank. Not because of debt or anything but because I hate being sold to - possibly pathologically so - and everytime I speak to them they try and sell me services. Gold cards, isas, insurance, you know the crap. It drives me insane. I ALREADY BANK WITH YOU. STOP IT. YOU MAKE ME FRIGHTED TO DO MY NORMAL BANKING. I'm angry even thinking about them."
So, tell us your banking stories of woe.
No doubt at least one of you has shagged in the vault, shat on a counter or thrown up in a cash machine. Or something
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chthonic, Thu 16 Jul 2009, 13:15)
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These sorts of stories make me feel like a spya really, really shit spy, but a spy none the less. Hang on a second whilst I don my trench coat and fedora.
I know of some people that I can't name for obvious reasons. At the time of this story one of them worked in what is now known as HMRC, the other at a bank. The happenings are quite recent, at some point in the last boom, anyway.
I'll start with the HMRC. They're investigating a lot of banks for what is arguably theft and tax evasion. In short if they didn't steal the money then they at least didn't pay tax on it.
Now, to the man from the bank in order to explain the naughtiness. This man was given advanced warning of his being got rid of and he was told he'd be allowed to keep the company car. Wait, this is a bank? Now, as many of you no doubt know and the rest suspect when a bank wants to get rid of you they don't give you a few month warning and a car for nothing. So what was it this man had to do, what was it he was doing in order to feed his family 'til he was laid off, what was it they were giving him all the niceties to keep shut about? In banks there are dormant accounts, those that have been left untouched for years for whatever reason. This man had to go through each of these accounts and transfer their money from the inactive account to the bank's own coffers.
Now, I'm sure there are ways out of arguing it's theft if it comes to that, by saying you're moving it from one part of the bank to another merely for liquidity reasons or such, and if they came back to claim it then you'd give it to them. They are, however, making profit from this and as they're trying to keep it stumm they're not paying any tax on it. The HMRC now knows this, the HMRC are very upset.
Sure, banks screw us all over with rip-off interest rates, 'computer errors' and downright incompetence, but next time you find yourself thinking, "Well, they are out there to maximise revenue." remember that they'll do anything to maximise revenue, even if it means blatantly break the law or, knowing full well that they're doing so, fuck over the helpless.
Cunts.
(, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 23:43, Reply)
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