Scotia Bank Telemarketers

The latest telemarketer bullshit has come to me courtesy of Scotia Bank. For the last 4 weeks I have been getting a call or more a week from them coming from  their telemarketers at 1-888-764-1733.

Here is a copy of the email I sent Scotia Bank.

My name is Flint.

 

I do not have a bank account with your company. I do not have a credit card with your company. I do have a car loan through you, and am starting to regret it.

 

I work grave yard shifts and lately have been getting woken up at least once a week by calls from 1-888-764-1733. They claim to be calling on behalf of Scotia Bank to tell me I am pre-approved for a credit card. Up until now I have been polite with the telemarketers and told them a) I am not interested and b) take me off your list (stop calling me). But I still get calls. 

 

If you want to waste money sending me mail I will throw in the garbage that is up to you. I do NOT want to be called. One of the main reasons I left my last bank is this sort of BS. At least they had the excuse that I actually had a bank account with them. All I have with you is a car loan, and thanks to this latest BS I will have to see if I can switch it to my usual bank somehow. They don’t harass me with these kind of stupid calls.

 

So, take me off of whatever call lists Scotia Bank has. I am sick of the harassment and about ready to blog about it.

 

My phone number is 1-***-***-****.  Take it out of your call database.

 

I hope you can appreciate the effort it took not to be profane in this email. 

As you can tell by the above it is extra annoying because of my work and sleep hours. I have an elderly parent so I do not want to shut my phone off. Hell, I shouldn't HAVE to shut my phone off not to be annoyed by assholes like this. The first time they call, fine, it happens. After that, after they have been told I am not interested take me off the list, they are just annoying fucktards and get treated as such.

What I found kind of ironic is that while Scotia Bank will farm out my name and number to their telemarketers I could not call their 1-800 number and speak to a person and complain because I don't have a bank account number or credit card number to put in. 

Fucktards.

Luckily, I know how to block calls on my phone and they are going on the block list.

RBC: How A Fucktard Apologises.

Damn, I forgot I wrote this, and it is a tad ... alot ... out of date. But what the kimchi. :)

Gord Nixon, CEO of Royal Bank of Canada, has released an open letter to Canadians. NOW, he is sorry for the foreign worker controversy.

On Monday he brayed that RBC had done nothing wrong. It was all the fault of some company (iGATE) that RBC used to outsource work. As I said then TECHNICALLY he is right.

People saw that claim for the BS it is. Nixon tried to chickenshit his way out of any responsibility by using a technicality. Fucktard.

Mind you, he STILL tried to use the technicality to brush off the criticism.


"While we are compliant with the regulations, the debate has been about something else," Nixon wrote.

He is still trying to deflect responsibility while trying to tell people that he is listening to their concerns. Proof is in the pudding Gord. And people are watching you now.

RBC: The Tardery Continues.

The CBC interviewed the head of RBC, Gord Nixon, about the current scandal. He said;

"Firstly, RBC has not and does not hire any temporary foreign workers."

As the talking head on CBC pointed out "technically" he is right. They hired a firm, iGATE Corporation, that hired the foreign workers, and brought them to Canada. Foreign workers that are being trained to take over the jobs of Canadians. So yes, technically, Mr. Nixon is right. RBC did not directly hire these workers. Technically. Gotta love how people try to hide behind technicalities.

At a time banks continue to make record profits they claim they have to take cost saving measures, like outsourcing to other countries. Mr. Nixon got a raise last year. He went from making $10.1 MILLION dollars a year to $12.6 MILLION dollars a year. RBC's profit went from $4.85 BILLION in 2011 to $7.54 BILLION dollars in 2012. Yet they have to outsource these 45 IT jobs out of the country to save money. What a fucking joke.

Is it any wonder why people think bankers are just a bunch of thieves?

Royal Bank of Canada ... suck it!

As I was leaving work Monday night I stopped at the ATM to get some cash. My card didn't work. Initially I laughed it off as me screwing up my PIN. Didn't work again. And again. I didn't want to take the chance of the machine eating my card so I didn't try a 4th time. My plan was to call the bank, or drop in, Tuesday afternoon and see what was going on with my card. My plan changed when my mail arrived Tuesday morning.

There was a letter for my from Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), my bank. In it was a new RBC bank card. One of those pieces of shit with chip technology that I was happy NOT to have. They were pleased to inform enclose my new client card and to inform me that I had to start using it immediately as my existing card was no longer valid. The fucktards CANCELLED my old card while this one was STILL in the fucking mail! It arrived activated.

Needless to say I was more than a little pissed off. It was just luck that I wasn't using my old card in a store. Or that I wasn't in need of the cash at the time. While I have already given them a piece of my mind I am considering closing up my account and going elsewhere. Probably Bank of Montreal (BMO).

This isn't the 1st time RBC has changed shit around on me. They once changed my bank account/plan I had with them for 14 years without asking my permission. They "phased" out the account I had, because it gave unlimited use of debit cards. In it's place they GAVE me an account that had 3 uses free a month. They never bothered to see WHAT kind of account I wanted. I only kept this account because it was more convenient than opening a new one when I went to Korea. Now that I am home, and their service is as shitty as ever, it is time to look elsewhere.

I was happy not to have one of these cards and am not happy to have one foisted on me.

Oh and another note to you fucktards at RBC the "speed and convenience" of the card which you crow about in the pamphlet you mailed me is a crock of shit. It was faster and more convenient to simply swipe a card and not have to insert it and wait.

Added May 4th 2012

I was talking with one of my nieces today and the same thing happened to her boyfriend this week. Unfortunately for him, he was paying for gas after filling up and doesn't have a credit card. Luckily, someone else was with him who could pay for it.

This cinches my decision. I am closing out my RBC account after my next pay and moving everything to BMO.