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- From: jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
- Subject: Re: good bank gone bad
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.233510.16941@walter.cray.com>
- Originator: jcarroll@ferris
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- Sender: jcarroll@ferris (Jeff Carroll)
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- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <41412@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 23:35:09 CST
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- In article <41412@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, cs199aa@sdcc5.ucsd.edu (Mark Fletcher) writes:
- > My life is hell. I used to have a good bank. A nice bank. The kind
- > of bank you'd bring home to mom. We had a wonderful relationship
- > together, lasting more than 4 years. Then It happened. They said the
- > merger wouldn't affect me, and would turn my nice, happy, fun-loving
- > bank into an even better bank. I didn't buy it. There was nothing
- > wrong with my bank. Why should They change it??? How DARE they
- > impose upon such a personal thing as a man's bank! Well, the love of my
- > banking life has been turned into something grotesque. I can't even
- > recognize my bank anymore. My bank, which in the past has done me no
- > harm, has screwed me over not once, but TWICE in the last couple of
- > weeks. There is now a big black spot inside of me. I am filled with
- > hate and revulsion. I need a new bank.
- >
- >
- > Mark
- > Bank of America must die.
- >
-
- for the benefit of east coast readers: there are now essentially only
- two banks on the west coast; bank of america, and a much smaller institution
- based in portland which we might for the purposes of this discussion
- call the bank of oregon.
-
- during b of a's last couple of major bank-snarfings, they allowed their
- victims to keep the names they had had at the time of their consumption.
- it's a lot cheaper than changing signs out in front of all the branches.
- i've noticed that most of the bank branch offices in the dc metro area
- now have polyester bag signs that cover the logos of the banks they used
- to be. The arrival of the sign man to replace the bag with a glass sign
- is usually the omen that the bank is about to change hands again, although
- I've seen bank branches with bags two deep.
-
- anyway, although my visa card says "seafirst bank" on it, seattle-first
- national bank is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of bank of america, and
- so is the former-archrival bank across the street, which is known as
- Security Pacific (security pacific itself not having stumbled upon the
- same enlightened policy in its own bank-snarfing days.
-
- to address mark's problem: you have no alternative but to leave california,
- and move to a place with more conservative banking laws, such as Wyoming
- or Illinois.
-
- i suggest you write a letter to pete wilson explaining your decision, and
- asking why the hell he doesn't do something about the massive exodus of
- taxpaying citizens such as yourself
-