I opened an online bank account in 2014.
The online bank was bought by another bank somewhere in 2016.
The another bank is being bought in 2021 by a bigger bank and needed to fold the online bank, while keeping everything for customers the same. Sure!
The switch was last weekend and of course, it went wrong.
So now I’m on the phone, and it looks like it’s going to be ALL day, just to access my bank account. Which didn’t change at all.
There’s a lot of things like that taking over our lives without us asking for anything. With heavy capitalism there’s nothing trickling down but annoyances, stress and loss of good services.
Simple.com was really great (but apparently wasn’t collecting enough fees so, shot in the head).