{"id":616,"date":"2003-07-10T18:40:37","date_gmt":"2003-07-10T13:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/616"},"modified":"2003-07-10T18:40:37","modified_gmt":"2003-07-10T13:40:37","slug":"utter-banking-frustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/616","title":{"rendered":"Utter banking frustration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/nm\/20030617\/wr_nm\/tech_microsoft_apple_dc_3\">announced last month that it was discontinuing Internet Explorer for the Mac<\/a>, saying Safari was better and that Mac users should use it instead.  Ok, fine.  I&#8217;ve been using Safari for the past few weeks and really enjoy some of its features, especially the tabbed browsing.<\/p>\n<p>But.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently neither of my banks got the memo.  On one, I can&#8217;t login, and the page it sends me to to resubmit my username and password is for a different bank in a different city.  On another, every time I try to enter a new payee, for each character I type I get a popup javascript window showing me the ASCII code of the character I just typed.  Which means I have to do this:<br \/>\nA<br \/>\n[enter]<br \/>\nC<br \/>\n[enter]<br \/>\nM<br \/>\n[enter]<br \/>\nE<br \/>\n[enter]<br \/>\ntab<br \/>\n[enter]<br \/>\n1<br \/>\n[enter]<br \/>\n2<br \/>\n[enter]<br \/>\nspace<br \/>\n[enter]<br \/>\nB<br \/>\n[enter]<br \/>\nu<br \/>\n[enter]<br \/>\ng<br \/>\n[enter]<br \/>\ns<br \/>\n[enter]<br \/>\nspace<br \/>\n[enter]<br \/>\nL<br \/>\n[enter]<br \/>\nn<br \/>\n[enter]<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n[enter]<\/p>\n<p>And so on ad nauseum.  That particular bank has been un-Mac-friendly since they changed online banking systems over a year ago, and nowhere on their website do they have the balls to admit that their online banking only works well with Windows 98+ running IE5+.  However when I called to complain about how much it sucks on my Mac, they said &#8220;Yeah, we know, you should use the site on a PC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OK, fine, assholes, buy me one, willya?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I didn&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling very Mommy Dearest today.  &#8220;Don&#8217;t fuck with me, fellas!&#8221;  Whoops, better go put the wire hanger back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced last month that it was discontinuing Internet Explorer for the Mac, saying Safari was better and that Mac users should use it instead. Ok, fine. I&#8217;ve been using Safari for the past few weeks and really enjoy some of its features, especially the tabbed browsing. But. Apparently neither of my banks got the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}