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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UkraineWhich is apparently one of a tiny handful of countries that is still covered by some arcane piece of legislation which means that anyone on a non-tourist but still fixed term visa taking up residency in the country has to register with the plod like it was some totalitarian regime.
I almost kicked off the day we went to do it when they told me there was a £35 charge for doing so. Non-negotiable, as without the registration the visa was invalid. Nobody was able to explain to me why we were charged £70 for the visa in the first place and then had to pay 50% of it again to actually use it.
The icing on the cake was the fact that our £35 paid for a shitty piece of pink paper with a badly scanned picture on it that was recognised by precisely nobody as valid proof of anything.
Just one of many, many con tricks pulled by the govt to screw money out of people wanting to make a life for themselves.
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They're not making money on thatIt probably costs them more, considering how bureacratically inefficient they are.
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