bank-account@blueyonder.co.uk
I have been exasperated in the last few years with the insidious efforts of
Banks to hide behind computers, terrorism, bank fraud and money laundering to
hide the fact that they want to do business online real time internet wise. They
would like us to utilise our online terminal rather than our branch. In fact they
would like our branch to disappear, and the internet to take over. I recently
wrote to two bank Chairmen asking why their online rates for loans were lower
than in branch rates for the same loan on the same day. This seemed like leading
us by the nose to the internet as our online salvation. That is all very well
when the time comes we are all completely online internet computer literate, know exactly which
product we want, their online is infallible and your ISP does not have a gloom
day, always assuming this steady source of electrics worldwide, not many variables
there. Given adverse problems on any of the above and there are insurmountable
problems. It is then necessary to walk into your local branch to get it sorted
out. Given that it took me some three weeks a few years ago and letter from my
Doctor stating that I was of sound mind and not your urban Guerrilla, right for one
count anyway, simply to open a straight deposit account, I was a little worried when we
had a new manager at my local branch in Birmingham, and I had to negotiate a
joint current account opening.
I should have had more faith. A new Bank Account is only so good as the
Manager you deal with, sadly I thought that was now solely a computer which told
employees what to do, but in my case I actually have my manager like as in an,
old style, Ill sort it for you, Branch Manager. Yes they still exist,
albeit rarities. I count myself lucky to have the services of a proper Bank
Manager, and recently thought I ought to let you all know about this, and if you
want more details to email the address below, as Im sure there are many of you
out there who remember the old adage, its not the Bank, or the Branch, its the
Bank Branch Manager, or in short the Bank Manager is what helps you not the
particular Bank.
In any profession there are always the good, and the bad and the other, for want of a
better word, but in this case it takes a rare breed of modern manager to rise
above the computer and triumph for the customer. I would urge anyone who liked
the old style of Bank Branch Manager who helps you when there is a problem with
your Bank Account, you know, old fashioned things like help, courtesy, and
friendly professional and respected advice, to email the address below for more
help on becoming a recipient of good service from a real live Manager, who
actually Manages.
bank-account@blueyonder.co.uk
As you will be aware by now, I make absolutely nothing monetarily from this
website, it is purely here to try and help people avoid charlatans and get in
touch with real live honest people, professionals who will help.
When it is not mumbling on about my family of teddy bears.
So the above reference for a real live Manager is no spoof or joke, and I gain
nothing directly or indirectly by it whatsoever, but you might well do worse
than try out having an account with your branch where you can trust the Manager to
fight your corner, and who knows the ins and outs of their computer system
backwards.
In this day and age of technological advances taking day to every day things we all
used to do out of arms reach, and available only via the telephone or your
terminal, there is something quite refreshing about being able to go into your
own branch and speak to your own manager face to personal face, without being rejected
out of hand for something any ones common sense can tell is quite feasible, just
because it is computer generated, operated, controlled and obeyed. I speak after
twenty five years in the computer industry, where within current banking I now feel the tail
is wagging the dog.
What would happen if the internet crashed due to serious long term electrical
failure, either deliberate or due to archaic practices, or a returning ice age,
as is predicted. What then all our dependence on the screen as god, and finance
hanging on every bit and byte. It would certainly bite back with a real vengeance,
and it would be too late now to lament the passing of the physical braches into
oblivion. Just as our butchers, grocers, milkmen, scrap merchants and all the
trades we are spurning in our rush online, are dead or dying breed, so the
branch and the manager will decay and die. Sort of use it or lose it scenario. Personally, I
try to use my shops, local trades and local amenities, otherwise they will be
mooted as unprofitable and chopped. Then where is the freedom of choice, where
is the alternative but electronic domination of our whole lives at monopolised
prices. Soon there will be no petrol stations left due to people getting it all
at supermarkets. When they are gone, will the supermarkets keep the prices down
when they are your only suppliers. I think not, and so with banking. If you want
to keep some things for ourselves you have to actively go out and support them,
so I urge you to email the above if you wish a better service than your present
one in the current situation. That is with a high street bank, but it matters
little, it is the manager who is the key to it all, old fashioned integrity and
professionalism in a modern person with a very quick, astute business brain, and
unusually in todays world, time to listen.
I ran 3i technically as Senior Systems Programmer across the Uk for eight years
and I never met anyone better than this manager in all that time, and 3i are no
fools when it comes to managing money. Try out a totally new approach today, I did and
have nothing but praise, maybe you can benefit too, and not sit fuming while the
online tells you no, or a clerk in a branch refuses you because the Computer
says so. Why not deal with a gifted human, and leave unstressed, sorted and
smiling.
bank-account@blueyonder.co.uk
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