Why I Got Fired from Bank of America
StreetGangs.com
December 6, 2009
KENNESAW – As credit card companies go in high gear to increase interest rates (to 29.99%) and impose daunting fees on customers before government laws go into effect next February, employees are also under extreme pressure to press customers to pay excessive fees. One such employee was frustrated with the way Bank of America was treating their customers and why they were deliberately not allowing customers to qualify for re-payment programs to assist people who have lost their jobs and homes. Jackie Ramos understood that many card holders were still in the grips of the recession and some were experiencing unprecedented levels of financial hardship.
Eventually Ramos was fired for helping and assisting too many customers with getting on the “Fix Pay” and other programs. The “Fix Pay” program that Bank of America offers would turn balances owed into an installment loan that would freeze all fees and allow card holders to pay off balances. Eligibility for the “Fix Pay” program is determined by arbitrary answers to questions regarding spending habits, that do not evaluate financial need or assistance to pay a debt. Unfortunately the bank did not qualify many people who needed and wanted this program, and eventually her site leader, Bill Rabel, fired the compassionate employee.
Tags: 29.99, APR, Bank of America, Bill Rabel, BOFA, collections, credit card, debt, fees, interest rates, recession, stock holders, Tiffany Gatlin
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i hate Bank of America, but i think she didnt something wrong.
Evil big business capitalist pigs. B of A is a company that also takes out
insurance policies on it’s employee’s without consent. Also known as
a ‘dead peasant’ insurance policy. That’s THEIR term, ‘dead peasant’.
Those fucks raised my APR. I think it was at 3 or 4%, and then it was raised to 15%, and I was a loyal card holder for almost 10 years, and I paid my bill on time. Then the dumb asses did not want to renew my card because I had a school loan and I had just lost my job!!!!!!!!!!
I was originally an MBNA customer since 1993, then about 4 years ago Bank of America purchased MBNA. I got a second MBNAcard in 1998, so I currently have 2 B of A credit cards and they both had 25,000 limit, so I had 50,000 limit with about a total of 5,000 due, never been late in 16 years and they kept reducing my limit until the just decided to close both my accounts. So mad at them.
my daddy has an account in bank of america but i have never heard him complaine of any thing such as this that i just found out that took place,but now that you tell me this girl im really sorry you got fired,but i think you did the right thing and that aint the only job out here in this world so dont worry about it hunny!!!!! ;-P ”GOOD LUCK”
Pray for her new job! I went through the SAME THING! www.kabbalah.com
your the reason why this country is such a great place. it”s people like you that will save the world from the modern day scruge so that kids today will have a future and good role models
You’re were obviously in the wrong line of work. It’s not about your feelings it’s about doing the job you were hired to do–effectively. Better get into Social Work or something. I emphatize but I’ve worked in corporate America long enough to know that you do what you are told point blank. It’s not about how you feel.
What EV ER
It’s all about money. Period. They’ll stack the sick and dying up like cordwood outside hospitals if the creditors (who are like hungry alligators) can’t get their flesh. It’s all about money.
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High my name is Mamie Baker and I am a 20 year old Black Girl from Calgary, Alberta in Canada. I just got fired five weeks ago from my job at Tim Horton’s because I was phoning in sick to often, so I was fired because as they caught me lying as I wasn’t sick. Actually I was to lazy to go to work but that is nothing new for me as I am lazy anyway and have been fired from every job I have had for lying that I was sick.
Thanks for this post; now I know what side of the tracks I’m on lol
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