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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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My New Fraternity
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Tomorrow I go to close my bank account. I'm transfering my
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checking account and moving my safe deposit box to a new bank. An
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individual can only take so much abuse by a business before they
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reach their limit and move on. I dare say I have taken my abuse and
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have reached my limit.
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I bank with FirstBank in Denver, Colorado. Over the past three
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years I have had occasional problems that were eventually worked out
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but more recently I have run into too many incidents that never should
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have happened. The first that really irked me was when the bank decided
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to block my use of my ATM card. I found out the fun way when I tried
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to pay for some groceries with it and got a 'denied' for the first time
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in my life.
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My credit is good, I had/have plenty of funds, yet they blocked
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all transactions on it. The next day I visited the bank and asked what
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was going on. The account rep I dealt with explained that it had been
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put on hold because they couldn't reach me. He told me they had sent
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two bank statements to my address and both had come back. I told
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him to pull up my records and checked the address just to make sure
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everything was cool, and it was.
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I hadn't changed address for over a year so that shouldn't have
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been a problem. Anyway, I asked him if anyone had tried to call me
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at any of the numbers (house, pager, emergency) I had left with them
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and they said 'no'. Great, they or the post office fuck up and cause
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me a nice amount of grief. It only took an hour to fix the problem and
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I was on my way.
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The second major problem started a few months back and I still
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can not figure this one out. Every two weeks or so I visit the bank
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to deposit any checks and occasionally visit the safe deposit box.
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When I visit, it is almost always on a Friday (one of my days off) and
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I typically go in blue jeans and a t-shirt, sometimes a button up
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cotton shirt.
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One day a while back I went in to deposit a couple of checks
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into my account (one wasn't mine) and I ran into a problem. The teller
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said I had to have the other person come in if I was depositing their
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check into my account. I told them that another branch had everything
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on record and that he could ask them to fax it over. He was real rude
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in telling me that he would have to check with his manager. Apparently
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he thought I was trying to con him into depositing the check.
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Instead of quietly asking his manager who was nearby, he
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still showed his disbelief and rather loudly said "this guy said we
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could do this and this or something". The tone of his voice once again
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stated that he did not trust me at all. His manager told him to call the
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other branch and ask.
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He picked up the phone to call, introduced himself, etc. The
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first thing he said was "I have some guy here saying this and this".
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He didn't refer to me as a 'customer' or 'gentleman', but 'some guy'.
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This was a little too much. I had been standing there for five minutes
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already and I could see he obviously did not want to help me out.
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I told the manager what was going on and told her that the teller
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was being very rude and the tone of his voice was insulting. She
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quickly apologized and got the full story. Instead of helping me I told
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her to forget it, and that I would go to another branch.
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Two weeks before when I was in, it was before work so I was
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dressed in my shirt, slacks, and tie, and looked professional. Each
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time I was dressed like that I got exceptional service. The times I
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dressed casual in jeans and a t-shirt I always seemed to have some
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problem, or the teller was rude to me.
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A few months before another male teller basically called me
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stupid for not knowing when a deposited check would be processed.
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Instead of calling me stupid he looked at me like "are you a moron"
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and said "of course it is available right then, what did you think?"
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with the half sigh half laugh.
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The next closest branch was over 30 minutes away because of
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traffic. Instead of dealing with traffic I went back and spoke with
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the branch manager. He listened to my story and emphasized that 'yes
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you are an important customer'. I asked him why I had been discriminated
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against because of my appearance and he had no answer.
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The manager told me he would deal with the teller and bring it
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up at the next bank meeting that regardless of appearance, all customers
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are equal. I thanked him and went on my way.
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Today was the last straw. I was at another branch near my
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new place and I needed a Money Order. I normally don't use them but
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I had to have one for a deposit. I asked the teller for a MO for
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just over 800 dollars. She looked at me kinda funny and asked the lady
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next to her how to do one. Since she was new I waited patiently.
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I handed her a check (with a huge 'first bank' logo on it)
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along with two dollars in cash for the MO. She looked at everything
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and asked me for ID. I told her that this was my bank, and that I had
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an account with them, and she could check everything out on her computer.
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She told me that was standard for the amount I was asking.
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I showed her ID and watched her compare everything and hand
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it back. She walked back to a terminal and pulled up my account records
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to check my available balance. I had several thousands of dollars in the
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account so it shouldn't have been a problem. She got the check, filled out
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a little of it and went to her manager. She told him everything was ok
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and asked for his approval. He looked at me and then pulled up my account
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record to verify the funds.
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After a minute he approved it and I got the MO like I wanted.
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The problem is, I was wearing jeans and a t=shirt again. The teller
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AND the branch manager insulted me by checking TWICE for the funds.
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Did they think I was stupid enough to pass off a First Bank check
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to a First Bank teller and ask for a First Bank money order?
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One day before I had been at my regular branch, dressed in a
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shirt and tie and asked for basically the same thing. Two money orders
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for several hundred dollars. They did not ask for ID, and they did not
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check for funds even using a temporary check.
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They discriminate based on appearance. Many of the tellers and
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even a few managers do it on a regular basis. It doesn't matter how
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much money you have in your account, or how many accounts you have,
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but it does matter how you dress.
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Since my new job I have seen this happen quite a bit. Any time
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I am at the grocery store I get two responses. I always pay with credit
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card so they hand it back and say "Thank you so-and-so". If I am dressed
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nice, they use my lastname. If I dress in jeans and a t-shirt, they
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use my first name like they are my friend.
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If you are having a problem at a store or business, dress nice.
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That way you too will appear to belong to this 'fraternity' or well
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dressed people and get the respect you deserve.
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DisordeR
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= Questions, Comments, Bitches, Ideas, Rants, Death Threats, etc etc... =
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= Internet : jericho@netcom.com (Mail is welcomed) =
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= gote land +27.31.441115 =
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= Arrested Development +31.77.3547477 =
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= Global Chaos +61.2.681.2837 =
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= Chemical Persuasion 203.324.0894 Undrgrnd Indust/Inc. 207.490.2158 =
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= Damnation 212.861.0580 that stupid place 215.985.0462 =
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= Hacker's Haven 303.343.4053 PheedbacK 303.782.0893 =
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= E.L.F. (NUP) 314.272.3426 Misery 318.625.4532 =
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= Dungeon Sys. Inc. 410.263.2258 Psykodelik Images 407.834.4576 =
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= Paradise Lost 414.476.3181 Black SunShine 513.891.3465 =
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= underworld_1995.com 514.683.1894 Digital Fallout 516.378.6640 =
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= PSYCHOSiS 613.836.7211 Bad Trip 615.870.8805 =
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= Plan 9 716.881.3663 suicidal chaos 718.592.1083 =
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= Damaged 801.944.7353 The Death Star Bar 805.872.3151 =
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= Purple Hell 806.791.0747 Atrocity Exhibition 905.796.3385 =
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= Phoenix Modernz 908.830.8265 The Keg 914.234.9674 =
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= Files through Anon FTP: FTP.NETCOM.COM - /pub/je/jericho/FUCK =
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= FTP.PRISM.NET - /pub/users/mercuri/zines/fuck =
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= FTP.WINTERNET.COM - /users/craigb/fuck =
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= FTP.GIGA.OR.AT - /pub/hackers/zines/FUCK =
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= ETEXT.ARCHIVE.UMICH.EDU - /pub/Zines/FUCK =
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= FTP.DIMENSIONAL.COM - /users/rage/zines/fuck =
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= Files through WWW: http://command.com.inter.net (DisordeR's User Page) =
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= ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/je/jericho/jericho.html =
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= http://www.prism.net/zineworld/fuck/ =
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