I don’t know how I missed the story that thousands of Wells Fargo employees got fired over creating millions of accounts, but it’s interesting. We’ve been getting mail and documents from Wells Fargo for a person we’ve never heard of who was apparently using our address: and Wells Fargo showed precisely zero interest in not sending us said mail. Guess I know why now.
Moe Lane
PS: Wells Fargo is not even close to being our family bank, so I’m not personally worried about this story. But if the odds of me ever doing any more business with it than I absolutely had to were slim before…
As much as I think it’s dumb for certain folks to hate “the big banks” and the usual stuff that trips the current posting rules,
damned if the same banks don’t make it just as hard to defend them.
Wells Fargo excels at jackwagon behavior that tops out just barely below a level where I’d feel compelled to stop doing even the trivial amount of business I do with them. It’s almost impressive, really. I’m not even sure if it’s deliberate, at this point.
So happy to be largely done with them. The move gave me the perfect excuse to tell them to pound sand.
(They’d bought out most of the other options within 10 miles of my former home.)
*Shrugs* I prefer Credit Unions. Generally better interest deals for both deposits and loans, and much less corporate jack-ery.
Heh. I do too, but .. most of my banking goes through USAA, where there’s *no* branches.
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Okay, there’s one, but it’s in San Antonio, and I’ve never been there.
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They seem pretty ethical.
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Mew
Heh. I was going to have some landscaping done, in part because the outfit I’d contacted offered “two years same as cash financing” ..
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Then, I found out Wells-Fargo handled the credit.
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Umm.. no.
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Mew
(mumble)-ty years ago, when I was living in the SF bay area, I banked with WF, and rather liked them at that time. After I moved back to Georgia, they weren’t an option, and by the time they were, I guess some changes had taken place that were… not for the better.