03-03-2006, 04:53 PM
In a pig's eye !
Effective March 1st (with a phase-in to June 30) my bank (Royal Bank of Canada) is MAKING me register every single vendor that I pay bills to in their database, IF I wish to continue the convenient practice of paying these bills at the bank.
If I don't want to do this, I can pay them by snail-mail. :angry:
I have spent all of my morning on this. First, I had to go fiind examples of all the damn bills I pay. THEN find them on the Bank's database. THEN input an interminably long account/customer/roll number from somewhere on the damn bill. THEN cross-check (and I am now cross-eyed) to ensure that I input the number accurately (small print and too many damn zero's at the end of the numbers).
I already knew I had too many bills. This is really annoying me because I have to input this all by account and vendor. i.e. If I pay two electricity bills, I have to input each separately.
I am nowhere close to done.
And that isn't the least of it. I have to do the same thing all over again for my husband's account, so HE can pay those bills too, should it be needed. And, since I am the designated family banking rep, I had to go about finding out how I can set that up for him, and then had to suffer the goddamn condescending lecture from the well-meaning bank rep on the phone about the dangers of him sharing his internet banking passwords with anyone, including ME.
If I wasn't sure that all the banks would be doing this soon, I would be having some meetings about what other bank might like my business, instead of this drudgery.
And, DON'T even think of waxing joyful about the benefits of online banking on me. I resent this intrusion onto my time and privacy. I WANT to walk into a bank and be waited on. It has worked just fine for a long time and I DON'T want to change.
So THERE.
Effective March 1st (with a phase-in to June 30) my bank (Royal Bank of Canada) is MAKING me register every single vendor that I pay bills to in their database, IF I wish to continue the convenient practice of paying these bills at the bank.
If I don't want to do this, I can pay them by snail-mail. :angry:
I have spent all of my morning on this. First, I had to go fiind examples of all the damn bills I pay. THEN find them on the Bank's database. THEN input an interminably long account/customer/roll number from somewhere on the damn bill. THEN cross-check (and I am now cross-eyed) to ensure that I input the number accurately (small print and too many damn zero's at the end of the numbers).
I already knew I had too many bills. This is really annoying me because I have to input this all by account and vendor. i.e. If I pay two electricity bills, I have to input each separately.
I am nowhere close to done.
And that isn't the least of it. I have to do the same thing all over again for my husband's account, so HE can pay those bills too, should it be needed. And, since I am the designated family banking rep, I had to go about finding out how I can set that up for him, and then had to suffer the goddamn condescending lecture from the well-meaning bank rep on the phone about the dangers of him sharing his internet banking passwords with anyone, including ME.
If I wasn't sure that all the banks would be doing this soon, I would be having some meetings about what other bank might like my business, instead of this drudgery.
And, DON'T even think of waxing joyful about the benefits of online banking on me. I resent this intrusion onto my time and privacy. I WANT to walk into a bank and be waited on. It has worked just fine for a long time and I DON'T want to change.
So THERE.
And you may call it righteousness
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake
