Dear reader
You may be starting to think that I'm as obsessed with the banks as Bob Crow is but I can't resist sharing.
Hats off to my business partner for this one.
He hauled the North London NatWest business manager over the coals, he really did. At the end of the pulverisation, he asked what NatWest thought might be an appropriate compensatory gesture for all of our time and trouble, not to mention aggravation. They suggested that they might put £30 into our account. We laugh in the face of £30! What an insult.
My business partner suggested that even on a modest hourly rate of £150, they really should be thinking more in terms of a payment of £800 to mollify us. The whole debacle had really taken up a lot of our time. The business manager went away to think about it and we weren't holding our coporate breath.
Lo and behold, a few days later the bank made us an ex-gratia payment of £250.
Back of the net!
