Westpac - Greedy, fee grabbing scum

Man I hate banks. I just got a letter from Westpac today telling me that the monthly account keeping fee is going up from $5 to $7.50. What a rip-off. How stupid do they think we are? As if it "costs" them that much to keep an account. It is pure greed, nothing more. Scumbags. I am so tempted to just close my accounts with them and tell them to piss off.

I've already shifted virtually all of my savings to ING, and boy did that feel good. Good because I actually get decent interest, and good because Westpac have much less of my money.

To the directors of the bank: You are just greedy bastards who don't give a crap about your customers and just want more money for yourselves. Pathetic. You should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves. You poor babies only made $700m last year. I guess you can only get 4 new boats each this year instead of 6. How awful for you.

I'm home

I'm back from Queensland. I had to go up there (to Amberley RAAF base) for work. Being on the base was an interesting experience, but the work part of it didn't go so well. It was a minor disaster in fact.

But work aside, I got to see quite a few aircraft take off and land (including F-111s, Caribou troop transports, Boeing 707s, Cobra helicopters). Like our own mini air show.

The F-111s sound pretty cool when they take off. VERY loud, and you can actually feel it through your clothes (they were taking off with the afterburners going).