I often remark that banking hasn't been the same since the Bank of Adelaide closed its doors. That convenient little bank on the corner of Gawler Place and North Terrace which is now a gentleman's outfitters. (Things haven't been the same since they started calling gentleman's outfitters men's clothes shops!)
Now, by the 'Bank of Adelaide' I do not mean the 'Adelaide Bank', which is what you get pictures of if you type Bank of Adelaide into Google. Indeed, you get pictures of the banks of the Torrens but no 'Bank of Adelaide'. Nor do I mean the State Bank which is now called BankSA and is really a front for St George Bank in SA. Indeed there are no pictures of the Bank of Adelaide at all in the Google system, it is pre-internet...even I think pre-desktop.
Replacing such banks is a system of processing money which involves encouraging people to not use face-to-face banking (it costs more if you do), of setting up fee systems to encourage you to bank at home and then when you have set all that up, of upping the fees so that it is at least as expensive to have no service as it was to have the very human contact that was outlawed. On top of this if you actually need to speak to anyone it is almost impossible to directly dial the branch where your account is, you almost always get diverted to a central switch or call centre. You have to wait in queues for ten minutes before you even begin to get served, and you can never speak to the same person twice, which puts a lottery into any encounter desperately hoping that you get someone who knows something about the system and not simply an operator following a systems' sheet. I think those people have a helluva job which I don't want.
But it's not like it was when there was a Bank of Adelaide!—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 60.231.233.131 (talk • contribs).
The above was moved from the article. --Scott Davis Talk 13:54, 24 March 2006 (UTC)Reply
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