Posted by Goose on July 28, 2012 at 07:07:21 from (70.198.0.105):
In Reply to: OT - I hate banks... posted by Lyndon - AB on July 27, 2012 at 12:06:11:
I may be cynical, but I'm convinced bankers become bankers because they're too dumb to get a real job somewhere else.
A friend of mine had a couple of rough years at farming and the president of his bank convinced him to quit farming. So he did. Then a year later when some notes came due at the bank, the same president couldn't understand why my friend didn't have any farm income to pay on the notes.
On a personal note, I chaired the Board of Trustees for our church for five years a few years ago. In that capacity I sat in on the Foundation Board meetings as an advisor. The twelve person Foundation Board was populated at least half by bankers and bank employees. The Foundation Board was sitting on $3.5 million dollars and were TOTALLY clueless about maintaining the infrastructure of a 3,000 member church that included a K-8 school and a separate Child Development Center.
The CDC building had a mold problem. The Foundation owned the building and rented it back to the CDC. I had a professional engineering company do an evaluation of the building. Their report concluded the mold problem was caused by the mansard roof. Snow would pile up on the north side of the south slope of the mansard, and because of protection from the sun, the snow would turn to ice and when it did melt moisture would infiltrate the building through the eaves, find it's way to the basement, and create mold.
The Director of the CDC and I had an architect draw up plans to replace the mansard roof with a sloped roof to eliminate the problem. We formally tendered the proposal to the Foundation Board.
The Foundation Board had the shingles replaced on the mansard and bragged about how nice the building looked. I threw up my hands.
Didn't mean to get long winded, but I related this to reinforce my opening statement.
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