Comments on: Bank of America Baffles With Bullshit http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/09/21/bank-of-america-baffles-with-bullshit/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:43:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Julia http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/09/21/bank-of-america-baffles-with-bullshit/comment-page-1/#comment-85392 Julia Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:05:38 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/09/21/bank-of-america-baffles-with-bullshit/#comment-85392 <blockquote>Why do we trust huge awful institutions we hate over the people close to us? </blockquote> Because the local guy may have local power over you but the huge guy has impersonal power over. You feel you have safety in numbers and it's fair becasue everybody is getting the same bad treatment. It's like complaining about the weather. What I mean is say you get turned down for a loan by a local bank and later you hear that the social pal/nephew/coreligionist/member of the same ethnic group etc. got a larger loan for a similar and/or competing project. Now you're didn't just fail but you failed and are oppressed, ripped off, treated unfairly, singled out, laughed at etc. People feel safer being cattle in boxcars headed to the slaughter than the lone bull in a ring facing his fate.

Why do we trust huge awful institutions we hate over the people close to us?

Because the local guy may have local power over you but the huge guy has impersonal power over. You feel you have safety in numbers and it’s fair becasue everybody is getting the same bad treatment. It’s like complaining about the weather.

What I mean is say you get turned down for a loan by a local bank and later you hear that the social pal/nephew/coreligionist/member of the same ethnic group etc. got a larger loan for a similar and/or competing project. Now you’re didn’t just fail but you failed and are oppressed, ripped off, treated unfairly, singled out, laughed at etc.

People feel safer being cattle in boxcars headed to the slaughter than the lone bull in a ring facing his fate.

]]> By: Tim Boucher http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/09/21/bank-of-america-baffles-with-bullshit/comment-page-1/#comment-85380 Tim Boucher Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:20:53 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/09/21/bank-of-america-baffles-with-bullshit/#comment-85380 Julia: gotta love that targeted advertising! Thanks. <blockquote>The weird thing is though our banks are constantly screwing us, we almost never change. There are some great local banks in town but I am still using stupid corporate banks.</blockquote> YES! Why do we trust huge awful institutions we hate over the people close to us? Julia: gotta love that targeted advertising! Thanks.

The weird thing is though our banks are constantly screwing us, we almost never change. There are some great local banks in town but I am still using stupid corporate banks.

YES! Why do we trust huge awful institutions we hate over the people close to us?

]]> By: speedbird http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/09/21/bank-of-america-baffles-with-bullshit/comment-page-1/#comment-85367 speedbird Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:15:36 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/09/21/bank-of-america-baffles-with-bullshit/#comment-85367 > habituate yourself to taking orders from robots That's my conclusion too. A lot of companies seem to work on this principle and employ staff accordingly. Do what the machine says... > habituate yourself to taking orders from robots

That’s my conclusion too. A lot of companies seem to work on this principle and employ staff accordingly. Do what the machine says…

]]> By: Svenson. http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/09/21/bank-of-america-baffles-with-bullshit/comment-page-1/#comment-85354 Svenson. Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:26:51 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/09/21/bank-of-america-baffles-with-bullshit/#comment-85354 Wow, stunning BS from Bank of America. I've a great deal of it from them. One of my favorites is the credit cards which offer 6% interest, then jump to like %24 percent when you get real debt on them. (without warning) The weird thing is though our banks are constantly screwing us, we almost never change. There are some great local banks in town but I am still using stupid corporate banks. I think thye depend more on customer laziness than customer loyalty to run well, so I wouldn't expect much from Bank of America regarding your problems. Wow, stunning BS from Bank of America. I’ve a great deal of it from them. One of my favorites is the credit cards which offer 6% interest, then jump to like %24 percent when you get real debt on them. (without warning) The weird thing is though our banks are constantly screwing us, we almost never change. There are some great local banks in town but I am still using stupid corporate banks. I think thye depend more on customer laziness than customer loyalty to run well, so I wouldn’t expect much from Bank of America regarding your problems.

]]> By: Julia http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/09/21/bank-of-america-baffles-with-bullshit/comment-page-1/#comment-85350 Julia Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:09:17 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/09/21/bank-of-america-baffles-with-bullshit/#comment-85350 :) The top Maroon ad is for Bank of America. All five Green ads are for banking/credit etc. and one of those is for a Bank of America credit card. When I clicked on this to comment the Blue ads under the title are for Customer Service Phone and Age + ID Verification. :) The top Maroon ad is for Bank of America. All five Green ads are for banking/credit etc. and one of those is for a Bank of America credit card.

When I clicked on this to comment the Blue ads under the title are for Customer Service Phone and Age + ID Verification.

]]> By: Julia http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/09/21/bank-of-america-baffles-with-bullshit/comment-page-1/#comment-85343 Julia Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:28:12 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007/09/21/bank-of-america-baffles-with-bullshit/#comment-85343 It doesn't matter but technically the SS # was established as a PENSION number only. If they cared about security each company you do business with would give you a unique ID # in addition to your acct. #. It doesn’t matter but technically the SS # was established as a PENSION number only. If they cared about security each company you do business with would give you a unique ID # in addition to your acct. #.

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