fun with bankers

[sabotabby]

My rage has managed to completely consume any productive venting method. I can't even think straight. I just want to hit things. Preferably people in suits. I was about 30 seconds away from taking a hammer to the ATM and retrieving the goddamned check myself.

I was having a really, really good day up until 6:00.

I am sick of being condescended to, ignored, fucked over, robbed, and dehumanized. It's one of those days where I wish I lived in a country where people settle power imbalances with bullets rather than paperwork.

That sounded rather unpleasant, didn't it? Oops.

On a marginally more positive note, here's what the view outside my window looked like at approximately 9 AM.

Comments

[freed0mfighter6.livejournal.com]

It's one of those days where I wish I lived in a country where people settle power imbalances with bullets rather than paperwork.

That was absolutely hillarious. You know I would consider canada...if it wasn't for the snow and cold weather..how do you DEAL!?

[sabotabby]

It's not that bad, depending on where you live. Vancouver has pretty decent weather; people survive in Montreal, but I have no idea how, and Edmonton is pretty much unredeemable for most of the year. Toronto has a few weeks where we all wish we didn't have to work or leave the house, but other than that, it doesn't get that cold.

Plus, I have really fashionable winterwear.

[1in8.livejournal.com]

:(
In the summer it's hot as hell!
I can barely stand being out in more than a tank top mid-august.

It's only a few months of 'really' cold weather.

[freed0mfighter6.livejournal.com]

I just moved from Houston, Tx to North New Jersey and it was snowing yesterday. I really don't like cold weather. It's really depressing to me.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

how do you DEAL!?

It's called being human, and being even better than rats in adapting to any shit we are being thrown into. We're not the most populous mammal on this bloody planet for nothing!

But more literally, it's all about layering.

People in Toronto don't deal with the snow though. We get 5 cm and then people whine and don't go to work. In Québec, people would laugh at it. Just another day! You just need a shovel and good winter tires. Winter tires, hmmm...

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

the cedilla transforms a hard c into a soft c (i.e. pronounced "s"), so it's useless in Québécois. Just keep it to français and my name ;]

[sabotabby]

I r teh dumb anglo. ::smacks forehead::

[sabotabby]

Some people in Toronto even call in the army when it snows.

Les Québécois are right to mock us.

Snow? In Toronto? In December? You jiving me?

[himy.livejournal.com]

I'm still at the beach...

http://www.photopia.tyo.ca/?image=himy-8-couch-poTato

[kynn.livejournal.com]

I missed it, what's the positive note?

Brrrrrr

--K

[sabotabby]

It's almost time for tobogganing and hot chocolate!

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Have you considered asking your employer to cancel the old check and cut you a new one?

[sabotabby]

That's what I'm going to do tomorrow morning. Of course, it will mean that I can't cash it until I get a new bank, which means I'm still out the money until Friday.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Yes, definitely get another bank if they can't treat you decently. But don't they have those seedy little cash-checking places in Canada? You live near a college, don't you? They charge a fee; but as a one-time thing, it might be worth the convenience of having cash on hand right now.

[sabotabby]

Only I don't want it in hand...I sorta want it in the bank for when the landlord cashes the rent check.

You can see the source of my panic. I mean, I should have enough to cover it if I don't eat very much. But the bank can bite me, seriously.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

Not that I'm enamoured of ATM machines, but I've had a couple banks screw up deposits that were deposited in person. I'll spare you from the details.

Good luck with the bank.

Setting ATMs on fire is not recommended.

[sabotabby]

Well, no. My check is not printed on the non-flammable sort of paper.

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

agreed, bankers are fuckers. Example: today at around 10 I went to the credit unin to make cashier's cheques. The place was empty cos students are lazy and we don't do banking til like one. All 10 tellers were unoccupied, save for a guy named Oscar, who was tending to a person. So I waited for like fucking 2 minutes, whilst these women bankers were gossiping about what they're buying their boyfriends for christmas. Oscar gets done, motions me over to his window, and I was outta there within 5 mins. Fuckers, fuckers I say. power to the bullets!

[sabotabby]

Maybe I should rob the place. They had their heads so far up their asses that they probably wouldn't have noticed.

and...?

[himy.livejournal.com]

Soooo what DID the girlfriend decide to get the boyfriend for christmas???

Re: and...?

[sabotabby]

Le huh?

Re: and...?

[himy.livejournal.com]

Then they bought an instant grow up potion and went back for more



Then the machine got stupid



But the girl grew up and married another ATM user



Then the machine got really smart



The end.

[lemur-man.livejournal.com]

Is that near the station?

[sabotabby]

Yep.

[shakinghell.livejournal.com]

you think they'd have protocols for this shit. do they not remember that ATMs have cameras to take pictures of people who use them?

but yeah,

five words:

destiny's. child. style. dance. off.

this is my new answer to everything. i bet you'd so kick their ass.

[sabotabby]

Unfortunately, I do not think the cameras take a detailed enough picture to reveal how much money I put in.

I can't really dance. :(

[shakinghell.livejournal.com]

but, still!
dammit. there goes my being helpful. heh. fuck the bank!

Short of Cash?

[himy.livejournal.com]

http://www.Photopia.TYO.ca/?image=IM000269

Short of Cash?

[himy.livejournal.com]

http://www.Photopia.TYO.ca/?image=IM000269

[azad-slide.livejournal.com]

ok no Canada for me!

Money

[himy.livejournal.com]

If money doesn't grow on trees
Why do banks have branches?

Re: Money

[sabotabby]

Money does grow on trees.

I mean, not the metal kind, but the rest of it.