Hi fellow Ranters,

Today I wanted to rant about how ridiculous some companies are, and expect us to just accept it!

Data Expiration

How stupid is it in the year 2024, that a service only lets you download an incredibly short amount of information?

I know that data is a fleeting thing in a lot of ways. There is so much of it generated all day every single day. There are really important things that need to happen with that data though, and that's one of the things that is incredibly frustrating.

We have a bank that we use for some things. We don't use it primarily as we do another one but we do use it to blend the things that we are doing. It's a pretty good thing, as we are able to fluctuate what we do and put not too much risk in one area. The really fucking annoying thing about THIS specific bank though, is that it limits the data you can extract out of them!

We like to export our transactions and keep them for storage. We've had a few situations recently where we needed to look back at some expenses to figure out where something was, and it really helped that we exported them. This was an unintended consequence of what we decided to do many years ago to track just expenses for a budgeting perspective. Since then though, we have gotten to do it regularly and it's helped us figure out when we purchased something in particular, for something we needed to document in the current time.

When we looked back at this one particular banks transactions though, it was fucking stupid! They only gave you a TINY window of when they would give you the historical transactions. Every other institution we've dealt with gives you a LONG time to look back except for these fuckers. This really screwed us because we didn't realize this, we thought it was only transactions they would load on the site. NOPE. Transactions you download are subjected to the same absurd standard.

So now we are kind of fucked in a way in terms of the transactions we've made on the damn thing. This bank is also one that fucking pisses me off in another way that I ranted about a few months ago, where they make you do something separated by a timeframe instead of every other damn place that we've dealt with that doesn't care if you do things consecutively, they just want it done.

This is definitely an annoying situation and likely one where we round out the year and then cancel the fucking account. I think it's so important that we tell these companies to fuck off when they are being obnoxious. We aren't asking for insane information here, but they think they are above us little peons so they can dictate some ridiculous rules and that we should accept them and thank them for doing it. Nope, sorry bud, times have changed. You can't fuck people over and expect them to come groveling back.

What about you, have you had a situation with a bank or a company and they are incredibly stingy with information that is truly yours, and don't care about what you ask for? Let me know in the comments!

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