Well, I just had a ton of bricks land square on my noggin. Some awfull realities you don't really think about came to light in my recent financial mis-fortunes.
Do you think about who handles your money, at whatever financial institution you have your money stashed at?
I bank at Bank of the West out here, and the level of competence was appalingly low. My employer bounced a check, and my account went into red. After awhile, I got a letter saying I had to get it taken care of, or the account would be closed. I tried to get an exact date of when that would happen, and maybe get the date extended and to my surprise, when I visited 5 different branches, and also called into the branch I had signed up at, I got 6 different stories! :-o The last one I had went to had said that I had until the 19th to get it taken care of, and went into a bank with some checks on the 19th, only to be informed that the bank had closed the account back on the 15th! :getmad: So, now I have to get this mess straightened out somehow.
Its sad to think that this is probably the case in a lot of other banks. Maybe I'll try a credit union or something a little more privately owned instead of the big companies that don't give a damn about spending the $$ in order to have trained people. Problem is, how do you know?
