From: Snag_one@msn.com   
      
   On 12/17/2025 12:25 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   > The world has turned upside down.   
   >   
   > Service at the local DMV has gotten quite decent, and has gone to hell   
   > at the two local banks where I keep balances.   
   >   
   > The federal government has really fucked up banking, but some banks lean   
   > into the fucking harder than others.   
   >   
   > Yesterday I watched two different tellers try to illegally fund a   
   > cashiers check from my mom's bank account while I was standing there   
   > with cash in my hand saying cash over and over and over.  One couldn't   
   > handle their repeated inability to even enter my name and ran off saying   
   > I had a bad attitude and would have to deal with somebody else. Total   
   > shrinking violet meltdown over their own incompetence.   
   >   
   > I don't like banks inherently on a base level, but when I walked in I   
   > put on a fake smile and a fake front.  I was nice.  I was friendly.  I   
   > was clear.  By the time I left I was swearing and had to grit my teeth   
   > to barely choke out, "You have a great day," as I walked away.   
   >   
   > Its a sad day for banking when the DMV becomes the standard for customer   
   > service they should aspire to.   
   >   
   > Of the two local banks (I use a couple out of town banks as well) where   
   > I do business that is the one that sucks harder.  I just went there   
   > because the lines at the other one where quite long and their parking   
   > lot was almost completely full.  Now I know why there was no line at   
   > that one.  Nobody else wants to go there either.   
   >   
      
   I guess we're just lucky ... and it IS a small town . I can walk into my   
   bank and write a counter check for several thousand in cash and never   
   get asked for ID .   
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   Snag   
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   when they stayed foreign ...   
      
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