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[Ape65]

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.

[slobomotion]

@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.

[Socksee]

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! 

[slobomotion]

@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

[jco202]

agreed

[slobomotion]

@jco202 Get home safely, this is a doozy coming.

[slobomotion]

@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]

@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]

@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]

@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!

[amy2x]

@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!

[valhala56]

You tell em Lisa!