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Redundant Phones, & corporate Influences!!
Kasper:
I feel your pain. The accounting website my employer uses told me I have to download an app to use their website. I only use it to claim expenses. I found it dumb so I refused. I ate one expense and now I refuse to use my money for work.
johnboxall:
--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on October 28, 2021, 01:17:44 pm ---
They still utilize such 'Codes', but NOW it requires logging in to your Phone-App to see the 'Code' that you need to quote to complete the transaction!
--- End quote ---
Galaxy S4 is eight years old. Use a mobile web browser, you can use NetBank as normal. It will send you an SMS if required.
RJSV:
Yeah, about that 'App' thing:
OLD SCHOOL VIEW WOULD SAY: " This is classic MONOPOLY Power, being asserted / exerted..."
Right now, I've got a (routine, thank God) email, from a 'PORTAL': Requesting I confirm upcoming appointment. Trouble is, that does not seem 'optional',
so I start to bristle (heat up, behind the neck). Now, I usually try to behave, reasonable.
Think about it ( before dismissing, as trivial); YOU WILL get signed up, with password, to that specialized medical 'portal'. AND, (capitalized for DRAMA); YOU WILL enter password, upon request, to confirm office appointment, 48 hours in advance. (Normal typical office stuff, am I right?).
OR: ... Or what? ...oh, I don't get the medical service access. Soo, I suck in the pride, shut-up, and get the App, installed............
NOooooooooooooooooooo.
OR, as Glenn sez:
Arrrrrggggggggrrrrrrphhhllllllaaa
That's a MONOPOLY, and it ain't pretty, they exert all kinda mayhem and havack. Just do (that) and things will go smoother for me..
.CLASSIC VICTIM DYNANMIC!
Oh, and I want to request, a FREE DEVICE, for me to comply to your simple App Spyware Installation REQUIREMENT.
NOW, knowing some of this (serious) concern is presented various in 'sarcastic' forms, that's my nature.
Tomorrow morn, I am going to attempt a simple, voice phone call, to confirm foot Doctor appointment this week. Probably, no problem, to confirm and keep the scheduled appointment.
And, yes, I've always turned a confused Grammer hand, to the 'single' quotations; Couldn't tell you, the reasoning, or Grammer rule though.
CatalinaWOW:
This general screw the customer attitude seems to be a worldwide banking attitude. It is not peculiar to the IT department. Several years ago the bank system I had been doing business with for several decades was absorbed by a larger system. For about three months after the "merger" I received letters about every three weeks describing how they were going to improve service by eliminating a service I used and liked. Everything from safety deposit boxes, hours of operation, banking locations and various financial services (lines of credit, overdraft protection ....).
I left and have never looked back. Similar things have happened a couple of times since.
Corporations have no loyalty to customers. There is no reason to reward them with loyalty. While few of us have assets large enough to make them beg for our business, if enough overcome inertia to respond to these insults it is possible they will take notice. And moving to smaller institutions does give you the opportunity to become a bigger fish relative to the pond.
RJSV:
ACTUALLY: I recall, I believe one way they do the bit where you read some cursive style wording, and enter it in, is that they are actually performing a live 'Security Check' if you are a human, not machine bot.
So, some of this frustrating verification activities are used, (but again, for the Big Bank's purpose). They just use you, to easy identify some item.
Maybe, but just a speculation. Actually makes more sense, that an entity like Tesla could use such short verification / human recognition abilities (in the machine vision sys).
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