Boet wants to burn down the Bank!

Without a doubt banking has changed a lot in the last couple of years and it does not require a Rocket Scientist to figure out that every change came out of your pocket.

You do not have to be ancient to still remember when your local branch of the Bank was still a Bank and not a service centre.

Yes I am talking about the days when your Bank manager was a grey haired old toppie with a bit of a paunch and drove an ugly black Toyota.

That was also the days when your file was somewhere there in the back of the office, all the staff including the toppie was living in your suburb or Town. The "toppie" actually had some say over your account and most of all the authority and ability to approve a loan not like today where you are just some algorithm in cyberspace.

Nowadays at your service centre the manager is the person that remembers the call service centre number the best. The fact that it is the wrong one doesn't really matter - you will get another wrong number from the rude people at the first wrong number. Psst - don't tell them they are rude - the call is recorded and may be used against you in a court of law.

Ok, ok I hear that that is not the reason why you want to burn down the Bank!

Bank charges! -oh my golly - you are tired of all the charges.

You really really want a free statement in the branch from a helpful knowledgable person, you want free Internet charges like when they convinced you to do it because it would be to your benefit, you want to be able to phone a call centre person to ask what to do when the Internet site is so user unfriendly that you are convinced you are on some spoof site in Nigeria without paying R50.00 as being charged at Fnb, you do not want to pay more on your insurance because Absa homeowners insurance is now paying Absa commission cause Absa basically forced you to take insurance with them when you got your bond, you do not want them to know about your skelm Foschini account that you always pay on time. You do not want them to increase their charges twice a year and you do not want them to say who must play fullback on your street team.

You also have a gripe with how they dress and do not understand where have all the people in their prim and proper clothing and trustworthy look gone to, to be replaced by clothes that show too many fat rolls worn by some punk rocker lookalike with a chicken in a lunch pack next to them.

Yes I Do understand that you think they are a cartel and engage in uncompetitive business practices by telling their service providers that they are not allowed to pay anybody else a commission.

You are gatvol of their charges, know that they are all in cahoots to rip you off and cannot afford it any more and want to drive down to head office, burn it down and send them an account for the petrol and matches and take a photo of the expression on their faces when they receive it.

You my friend are 100% right and full of good ideas but my advice to you is not to do it because the Bank will just increase their charges to build a new Head office.

My last suggestion to you Boet is to move to the UK where bank charges is on the same level as UFO's and you even get interest free credit cards for 6 months!

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