I actually was yesterday
A bill came out one day earlier than expected, just pushing me over my overdraft limit. I got paid at midnight, so hopefully I can talk nicely to my bank and they won't charge me for it.

Who am I kidding, it's a bank, they're going to charge me for that plus the phone call...
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:06, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

who are you with?
sometimes they aren't complete cunts
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:07, Reply)

HSBC

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:08, Reply)

you poor fool

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:10, Reply)

Yes

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:11, Reply)

Yeah, they'll charge you but if you talk to them nicely they'll recinde.
They're not as big a collective cunt as, say, Santander.
( Kroney, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:11, Reply)

I'll give it a go
The bill usually comes out on pay day, so if i can sweet talk them out of charging me £25 it's worth a shot.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:12, Reply)

HSBC told me I had an overdraft of £250.
Then charged me £250 for being £100 overdrawn and denied any knowledge of giving me an overdraft. I asked what they were going to do if I didn't pay and they said "we'll just keep phoning you". Terrifying. They dropped it eventually.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:26, Reply)

trying to charge you £250 for going overdrawn is laughable
you could've told them to get bent and that you'd see them in court.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:28, Reply)

It was £250 plus £50 for using my card whilst being overdrawn.
Which didn't make sense as I was overdrawn for about two months (thinking it was fine) and used my card loads during that time. I just said to them good luck getting it off me and they dropped it as a 'gesture of goodwill'. Morons.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:31, Reply)

"gesture of goodwill" is standard bankspeak for "we have fucked up but have had our humility glands removed so are incapable of admitting it"

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:39, Reply)

this is the truth
I've worked in a couple of banks. Almost every member of staff in both were complete fucking morons.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:44, Reply)

I spent a summer working in a bank in Germany when I was a student.
Talk about your humour bypass...
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:46, Reply)

I worked in Lloyds twice
I'm not sure if you'll have heard of the 'Fish Philosophy' it's a whole thing about having fun at work.

By the time it reach Lloyds it meant that when someone blew a whistle we all had to do a mexican wave. Then the whistle was blown again. Outside of these times were had to be silent and got in trouble for talking.

I am NOT exaggerating :(
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:48, Reply)

What the actual fuck?
Some people should not be allowed to have staff.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:49, Reply)

yeah
to be fair it brightened my day as it was the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:50, Reply)

And I thought my last bosses were the biggest cunts ever.

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:55, Reply)

I've had 23 jobs over the years
I have a fine selection of cunts to chose from
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:56, Reply)

For you, ze overdraft facility is ofer.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:48, Reply)

It was quite a small, southern, old fashioned kind of area
and once, I was talking this old couple through some kind of standing order or something. I was splitting eye contact between the two of them, and the husband was giving me pure evils. I don't think I was supposed to talk to the 'little woman' about important stuff like bills.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:51, Reply)

The birthplace of Naziism.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 12:12, Reply)

that implies you, too
are a fucking moron
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:46, Reply)

I was a temp
so don't count as a member of staff
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 11:59, Reply)

i shall also claim this defence

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 12:07, Reply)