I used to be a customer of the local credit union. Business with them was totally unsatisfactory. First of all, they think they own you and have this requirement to treat you like an irresponsible child though you earn much more than they do.
Secondly they incorporate this insipid stance of treating the "customer" like some "member" subject to any rule they capriciously make up on the fly.
Needless to say I left in a huff never to return.
I see these poor smucks on television doing ads for the credit union and think how utterly sheeple these low end earners appear bragging about their nothing relationship with a valueless institution.
I'm left feeling that my fellow humans should be bitch slapped like the credit union's bitch they appear.
Today is Bank Transfer Day.
Initially formed as a consumer activism movement whereby persons were beckoned to switch from their commercial bank to a so-called not-for-profit credit unions with an imposed deadline of November 5, 2011.
While I view a lot of the fees imposed by banks as ridiculous and their customer service abysmal with outsourcing to compensate for incompetent IT departments, the credit unions are just as bad with a different set of violations to shove up your ass at the drop of a hat.
Can you say CUNA Mutual, boys and girls?
Needless to say the recurrence of Bank Transfer Day has neither inspired me to return to the godforsaken finances of Credit Unions and I'd just as soon never see some of the lamer infantile officers in those institutions ever again.
Give me the title of "customer" over "member" any day.