Corporations have gone multi-national and just don’t give a damn.
]]>Kudos to State Bank & Trust. I don’t give away as much money as I did a year or two ago, but I’ve done a fair amount of pro bono work for worthy org’s and needy people. It’s how things ought to work. As best I can read, from de Tocqueville until the onset of the days of corporate hegemony in the 19th century, it’s how things did work: Americans were generous of their time and money to worthy causes and impoverished people. How far we as a nation have fallen!
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]]>You remember when Bert Lance got in all that trouble for “special treatment” by a bank in Georgia? I was dealing with a local bank in Fort Walton that would guarantee my checks all over, and if I was short would give me a loan without asking, and send me the paperwork later. I was in the Air Force and I really was all over, but People’s Bank took care of me, and I sent the head teller thank you gifts from all over the world for the ladies who worked there. I received better treatment than Bert, just because I was a customer from the day they opened and everyone knew each other.
]]>When I first started banking with Wachovia, they were pretty much local. Okay – that’s how long ago I started banking – back in the Stone Age.
As they merged and grew, they became pretty much intolerable and inefficient. The latest trick up their little corporate sleeves has been to lose all record of my mother signing a signature card that allowed me power of attorney over her accounts with them. I’m sure they lost it in one of their various mergers, and it’s only turned up now when I try to cash a check written to ‘cash’ so she’ll have $$$ to give her grandchildren at Christmas.
They certainly never had trouble with deposits I made after endorsing the checks with my POA.
I’m getting some recommendations and switching after New Year’s (too much Christmas crap going on now). I’ll keep a little something in Wachovia, since they have ATM’s all over the place and it’s convenient should an emergency pop up far from home.
I know they won’t miss my business, but I wont’ miss them, either.
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