Why Banks Are Designed To Appear Incompetent [Roundup] – eastpowernews

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• Why banks are designed to look incompetent. Customer support is dear, and we would like everybody to have the ability to get a checking account even when they don’t generate sufficient income to cowl respectable service. So customer support is supplied to most prospects on a budget, with a funneling course of to make use of higher-cost service solely when warranted. (Put one other method, prices of acquiring service are imposed on the client relatively than incurred by the financial institution, till it’s demonstrated to trigger an issue.)

  In the meantime, for giant issues particularly those who might embarrass the financial institution there are facet doorways to make use of for escalation. And branches normally can’t aid you. Additionally, regulation limits what banks can inform you, and what they’re prepared to inform you for their very own safety.

• GHA Discovery giving out $25 credit score on member birthdays
• Delta retains claiming to supply a premium expertise, however I hold seeing images like this of their social media stream in methods I by no means used to earlier than the pandemic. They aren’t as premium as they was.
  

  @Delta giving me essentially the most disgusting seat of all time what is that this @AssistDelta that is in FIRST CLASS pic.twitter.com/nhVnoAbV8T

  — AMSetting (@AMDull) November 7, 2023

• Overlook driving UPS!
  

  Most likely the hardest job in a on line casino. They make about $45,000/yr. Not horrible for unskilled labor, however they’re getting a pleasant bump. Tipped of us make far more—union bartenders make $150k a yr, banquet server is about $200,000. https://t.co/gvTqpPD5QY

  — Important Vegas (@VitalVegas) November 6, 2023

• China’s Hainan Airways will fly Boston to Seattle carrying solely passengers flying onward from Seattle to Beijing. This lets them squat on each Boston and Seattle routes with only a single flight. They can’t legally fly home passengers simply from Boston to Seattle.
• Delta-controlled Wheels Up unsurprisingly trying to do offers with Air France KLM and Virgin Atlantic

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