Who gives you eXtra???
Posted on May 31st, 2007 by whinger. Filed under Whinges.
Last time I went into The Halifax I had to queue because they were dealing with some stupid idiot who had lost his paying in book or something… and when I got to the counter she said “you can pay it in at the machine – you don’t need to have deposit envelopes already, it will give you one”
So this time, when I went in and there’s only one cashier and two people waiting I thought “I’ll give it a try”…
So I went to the machine, pressed “deposit” and “cash”, and the amount, upon which it spat out an envelope and said “this deposit will not be available until 5/6/07” (that’s 5th June to any American cousins)
Now that’s not good enough – it’s a cash deposit, FFS!, so I figured “I’ll go inside and put it in there”, except now the machine is waiting for me to put the envelope in the slot…
So I press “cancel”… nothing happens
I press “clear”… nothing happens
So now there’s a queue of people behind me thinking “what’s this tosser doing”… and I can’t just put the empty envelope in because the bank might think I’m trying to defraud them or something…
So I have to wait 90 seconds while the machine just sits there beeping at me… I can’t even walk away cos it still has my card.
Eventually I get my card back and I go back inside and there’s no queue, so I walk straight up up and she says “sorry, would you mind waiting, I’m just in the middle of a transaction”, and I’m like “can’t someone else help me” and she’s “I’m just finishing this transaction, I’ll only be two minutes”, and I’m “oh, only two minutes, well that’s F*CKING FINE then, after all my time isn’t worth ANYTHING, I’m just the F*CKING CUSTOMER, I’ll just STAND AROUND LIKE A C*NT waiting for you F*CKING DO YOUR JOB PROPERLY you STUPID B*TCH.”
Of course I didn’t say any of that, I just pouted like a spoilt child and mumbled “Like I have a choice”.
So the whole thing from start to finish took about 10 minutes for a transaction which actually takes about 30 seconds.
The only “Extra” I’m getting there is a few points on my blood pressure.
Bah.