I notice banks now have a lot of inexperienced people working for them. They also rotate people rapidly so that no one stays at the same branch for more than a year.
@Ape65 This place actually has the same employees for years but they get transferred to other parts of France. Banks here were too pesonal, slow, formal and dopey when I first moved here and now they are just incompetent and impersonal. Good observation.
@valhala56 I put the names of two of my other French banks in the tags so it is not that clear which bank this is. That guy wanted me to do a wire transfer (very expensive) & I said no, dang it, here is cash money, this is a bank, you get up & take it now, boy. They don't know usually what to make of me over here. The French are absolute geniuses at verbal exchanges. That is why it is the language of diplomacy. You can threaten to KILL someone in French and not even really SAY that! Art!
After you leave the bank they laugh histaricly about how they have screwed you
around !
I could get no service at a bank and left bank because I had other appointments. Employees that did not wish to assist me did make sure to report me to Security as suspicious and I was verbally accosted by 1 security guard outside the bank. Standing in a bank with a briefcase makes me a bomber!
@amy2x These clowns last year made me make an appointment to make a big cash WD. I understand that. When I showed up, on time, this woman said she'd only give me a little, cuz that's all she felt like giving me! I saw her this day & turned the screw, then told this other bozo I'd written about this (in English) & it had been published (outside France) & I thought it was outrageous & uncalled for. I said to her last year, you don't have the money, do you? HER JAW DROPPED. DID NOT DENY.
@slobomotion Seems your banks may be operated 2x as bad as where I am. i would be out of business if I operated like them. They print money out of thin air so they don't have any worries!
@amy2x Please see my other comment here re that. I don't think they have any money, printed out of the air or whatever. I still have not been paid by L'education Nationale in France for my three lectureships last year. (I did a lot of vids on this.) I think this place is pretty much flat bust, you ask me. I can't even sue for my back pay, the normal French labor courts do not apply for the educational system, as though they are some royalty or something. Lackeys!
My Credit Union has always been great till last month. They took out $15 AD&D when I had only $12 left in my savings now they are charging me a $30 penalty!
The insurance was even from them so I'm sure they knew I didn't have sufficient funds in my account!
Heck, that puts me at -$33 in my only account & they threaten to close account if I don't pay by the 31st.(been with them for 23 years)
@SSArt98 They had better pray you do not do to them what I am doing to JPMorganChase. I have been a Chase client since '78 and have a STERLING credit rating on two continents (big deal). I don't even need to rip Chase off, they are so incompetent they have screwed themselves! I had a charity case guy rip me off for thousands of dollars in 2001 and to be sure, Chase went apeshit on me for overdrafts. I was throwing money at them for months to stop the bleeding!
Wow a year and half - that's hideous, Lisa! I'm going thru some banking crap right now (executrix of a Will) and it's exasperating - so I sure do feel your pain!
@Socksee More than a year and a half, but who's counting? Oh, well. People think I am just kvetching when I say, "I can't do that right away," or "That will be impossible to arrange." They have this cookie cutter view of the world. They often only know their own legal system, such as Anglo-Saxon, their own banking laws and so on. I've been accused of "not dealing with things" and "playing the victim," which really hurts. I am so tenacious and keep good records, am pretty organized. xo
@Socksee I used to do estate planning, do I know! My dear pal in the States had to close his late partner's estate, took five years. The executor of my US estate is this former friend who's gone mental, so good luck to any of my inheritors! I've gone all out to keep things as simple and planned as can be on two continents. I have a pal in LA, used to rag on his "square, boring" parents but bless them they left everything in order and he and his sister cleaned up. Only took 6 months.
@Socksee I wouldn't agree to be executrix unless I got a rock solid lump sum payment besides the percentage pittance which is allowed. It costs a fortune to die, it's worse in France really. Most Americans don't seem to realize they will need tens of thousands at least to tie things up even done on a shoestring. Fools. Good luck. yeow
I notice banks now have a lot of inexperienced people working for them. They also rotate people rapidly so that no one stays at the same branch for more than a year.
Ape65 6 months ago
@Ape65 This place actually has the same employees for years but they get transferred to other parts of France. Banks here were too pesonal, slow, formal and dopey when I first moved here and now they are just incompetent and impersonal. Good observation.
slobomotion 6 months ago
You tell em Lisa!
valhala56 6 months ago
@valhala56 I put the names of two of my other French banks in the tags so it is not that clear which bank this is. That guy wanted me to do a wire transfer (very expensive) & I said no, dang it, here is cash money, this is a bank, you get up & take it now, boy. They don't know usually what to make of me over here. The French are absolute geniuses at verbal exchanges. That is why it is the language of diplomacy. You can threaten to KILL someone in French and not even really SAY that! Art!
slobomotion 6 months ago
After you leave the bank they laugh histaricly about how they have screwed you
around !
I could get no service at a bank and left bank because I had other appointments. Employees that did not wish to assist me did make sure to report me to Security as suspicious and I was verbally accosted by 1 security guard outside the bank. Standing in a bank with a briefcase makes me a bomber!
amy2x 6 months ago
@amy2x These clowns last year made me make an appointment to make a big cash WD. I understand that. When I showed up, on time, this woman said she'd only give me a little, cuz that's all she felt like giving me! I saw her this day & turned the screw, then told this other bozo I'd written about this (in English) & it had been published (outside France) & I thought it was outrageous & uncalled for. I said to her last year, you don't have the money, do you? HER JAW DROPPED. DID NOT DENY.
slobomotion 6 months ago
@slobomotion Seems your banks may be operated 2x as bad as where I am. i would be out of business if I operated like them. They print money out of thin air so they don't have any worries!
amy2x 6 months ago
@amy2x Please see my other comment here re that. I don't think they have any money, printed out of the air or whatever. I still have not been paid by L'education Nationale in France for my three lectureships last year. (I did a lot of vids on this.) I think this place is pretty much flat bust, you ask me. I can't even sue for my back pay, the normal French labor courts do not apply for the educational system, as though they are some royalty or something. Lackeys!
slobomotion 6 months ago
My Credit Union has always been great till last month. They took out $15 AD&D when I had only $12 left in my savings now they are charging me a $30 penalty!
The insurance was even from them so I'm sure they knew I didn't have sufficient funds in my account!
Heck, that puts me at -$33 in my only account & they threaten to close account if I don't pay by the 31st.(been with them for 23 years)
Mercy Me........
SSArt98 6 months ago
@SSArt98 They had better pray you do not do to them what I am doing to JPMorganChase. I have been a Chase client since '78 and have a STERLING credit rating on two continents (big deal). I don't even need to rip Chase off, they are so incompetent they have screwed themselves! I had a charity case guy rip me off for thousands of dollars in 2001 and to be sure, Chase went apeshit on me for overdrafts. I was throwing money at them for months to stop the bleeding!
slobomotion 6 months ago
Wow a year and half - that's hideous, Lisa! I'm going thru some banking crap right now (executrix of a Will) and it's exasperating - so I sure do feel your pain!
Socksee 6 months ago
@Socksee More than a year and a half, but who's counting? Oh, well. People think I am just kvetching when I say, "I can't do that right away," or "That will be impossible to arrange." They have this cookie cutter view of the world. They often only know their own legal system, such as Anglo-Saxon, their own banking laws and so on. I've been accused of "not dealing with things" and "playing the victim," which really hurts. I am so tenacious and keep good records, am pretty organized. xo
slobomotion 6 months ago
@Socksee I used to do estate planning, do I know! My dear pal in the States had to close his late partner's estate, took five years. The executor of my US estate is this former friend who's gone mental, so good luck to any of my inheritors! I've gone all out to keep things as simple and planned as can be on two continents. I have a pal in LA, used to rag on his "square, boring" parents but bless them they left everything in order and he and his sister cleaned up. Only took 6 months.
slobomotion 6 months ago
@Socksee I wouldn't agree to be executrix unless I got a rock solid lump sum payment besides the percentage pittance which is allowed. It costs a fortune to die, it's worse in France really. Most Americans don't seem to realize they will need tens of thousands at least to tie things up even done on a shoestring. Fools. Good luck. yeow
slobomotion 6 months ago
agreed
jco202 6 months ago
@jco202 Get home safely, this is a doozy coming.
slobomotion 6 months ago