Why Bank of America was salvaged from the financial crisis I don’t know.
These people have gone way too far in the first place by requiring thumbprints for identification. How much fraud have they really stopped this way?
How long before we just can’t do squat without some mark of the beast?
The idiots these banks hire are no more able to work a thumbprint reader than they are able to check an ID. Try paying tellers more than minimum wage and see if you can’t get a little bit higher I.Q.
Now, they refuse to cash a check for a man with NO ARMS because he CANNOT PROVIDE A THUMBPRINT!
(In this day of TSA style humiliation, couldn’t they have settled for a big toe print?)
I’m not real big on the Americans with Disabilities Act because we end up with $200 toilet paper dispensers in rest rooms and braille on drive up teller machines.
But fortunately it seems the ADA can be used to prosecute this bank for failing to provide reasonable accommodation to a disabled person.
Come on, Bank of America, you have 10 to 20 people who need to be fired over this and probably dozens more who need their head examined or perhaps extracted from a dark location.
Maybe just close down the Tampa, Florida branch – for now. Maybe the next financial crisis (looming in commercial real estate) will finish the job if ol’ Uncle Ben and sidekick Little Timmy will let market forces do their work (doubtful).
(I provide no link to the Yahoo! story from Reuters because Yahoo! will kill the link in a few weeks and I don’t like dead links in my posts.)
