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Kitty · Hermes

Eww..my office mate sucks

cahabo · Kate Spade

If I had several hundred thousand dollars in my bank account, I wouldn't bother arguing on the phone for about an hour over $60!
It totally bugs me when people are talking on the phone about personal matters when they are on company time. Annoying! Do some work!

jacks435 · Kenneth Cole

Ugh, I'd be so annoyed. Why don't people go to an empty meeting room to make personal calls?

kittenheels · Coach

That is so annoying. It's like people who talk on speakerphone with their door open so you can hear about their dinner plans/weekend etc!

sephorablue · Marc Jacobs

Kitty wrote:

"Look how much money is going through that account! And you're going to argue with me over $60 in fees?"

Um, hello? How did these words come out of his mouth without his realizing their applicability to himself?

NCshopper · Hermes

Wow. That is beyond tacky.

I just love when people think that having money automatically entitles them to priviledges. What an ass.

Farrah · Marc Jacobs

Actually, I have done that at work. A few years ago my bank totally messed up my account and put my rent check through 3 times which totaled over $2100 and overdrew me because I don't keep a large amount in my checking: only enough for bills. I screamed at them for an hour and a half. Those jerks screwed me over and I'd be damned if they were going to make me come into a branch and sort it out when the over $100 I received in fees was THEIR fault. Not to mention the other checks that I wrote that bounced and I got fees from them bouncing with my creditors. In the end they paid those too. I wasn't messing around.

Now, I don't have that kind of money in the bank, but my BF does and he would do the same thing. I don't care how much you have, no one should pay for bank errors big or small.

-- Edited by Farrah at 15:48, 2007-01-10

Kitty · Hermes

Farrah wrote:

Actually, I have done that at work. A few years ago my bank totally messed up my account and put my rent check through 3 times which totaled over $2100 and overdrew me because I don't keep a large amount in my checking: only enough for bills. I screamed at them for an hour and a half. Those jerks screwed me over and I'd be damned if they were going to make me come into a branch and sort it out when the over $100 I received in fees was THEIR fault. Not to mention the other checks that I wrote that bounced and I got fees from them bouncing with my creditors. In the end they paid those too. I wasn't messing around.

Now, I don't have that kind of money in the bank, but my BF does and he would do the same thing. I don't care how much you have, no one should pay for bank errors big or small.

-- Edited by Farrah at 15:48, 2007-01-10

It wasn't a bank error though..he overdrew his account and knew it was his fault. he just thought that because he had so much money in the bank they should reverse the fees.

subwolley · Kate Spade

There is a person in my office who does the same thing! Almost every day this person is on the phone arguing with someone. It's either the bank, the insurance company, or whoeever else there is to yell at. It's totally annoying!

squishy · Coach

Kitty wrote:
"Oh come on, I have several hundred thousand dollars in my account and you're going to charge me these fees? Look at what type of customer I am."

"Why don't you just delight me and remove all three of the charges?"

"Look how much money is going through that account! And you're going to argue with me over $60 in fees?"

"wow, I didn't realize the people I was banking with were such jerks."

work-appropriateness aside, if i heard someone say this, i'd have to TIE MY ARM DOWN to keep myself from throwing a telephone book at him.

Kelly · Hermes

Obviously several hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money, but it's definitely not the biggest account that bank has. I do not think that his having a lot of money in there gives him any special banking privileges, but even if it did I don't think he'd be in that category!

erin · Chanel

cough, i am that penny-pinching that i would argue over something like this, too. every bit counts! (although i don't have as much as this guy in the bank!) i wouldn't be an asshole about it though (i hope).

NCshopper · Hermes

erin wrote:

cough, i am that penny-pinching that i would argue over something like this, too. every bit counts! (although i don't have as much as this guy in the bank!) i wouldn't be an asshole about it though (i hope).

I'm not disagreeing with the guy complaining about getting charged--I've complained about crap like that, but to be essentially bragging about how much money you have when others can overhear you and to be asking for special priviledges just because you have a lot is really tacky, IMO.

Sandy · Kate Spade

Kitty wrote:

Why don't you just delight me and remove all three of the charges?"

This is the part that really irks me... why don't you delight me?!?

I hate when people talk to other people like that... it's like, would you want me to come into your work and talk down to you like that?

Kitty · Hermes

NCshopper wrote:

erin wrote:

cough, i am that penny-pinching that i would argue over something like this, too. every bit counts! (although i don't have as much as this guy in the bank!) i wouldn't be an asshole about it though (i hope).

I'm not disagreeing with the guy complaining about getting charged--I've complained about crap like that, but to be essentially bragging about how much money you have when others can overhear you and to be asking for special priviledges just because you have a lot is really tacky, IMO.

Exactly. It's not that he's trying to get the charges removed..it's the tone, it's doing it infront of someone else, doing it at work, being a dick about it, etc.