Tempo [he/him]

26 | he/him | Wiradjuri

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  • I was with a semi-local one until recently because they had some pretty hefty account access fees (got charged $40 in a month for what I would consider normal card usage). As much as they had a “give back to the community” initiative behind them I just couldn’t justify that financially.

    The one I’m with now advertises itself as a “bank” and seems to be more national but they’re still a CU. No monthly access fees, the same level of great service, local branch, they’ll donate to a local charity of your choice free of charge, just generally more satisfied with them overall.

    Both seemed to use the same general app which seems to be getting around the CUs and it seems to work fairly well for checking balances and transferring funds. Also works fine on phones that don’t run Google services with SafetyNet and all that.





  • Used to be one of those Paul Blart Mall Farts (it was either do a security guard course for indigenous guards or lose my Centrelink benefits). Back in the days before they put in sensor gates at the entries and exits, you could pretty much head straight back out the front and nobody could stop you. All we did was write down descriptions in a log that I’m fairly sure nobody read.

    A few months before I quit, Coles got rid of us guards because they realised we barely actually did anything to stop people taking stuff. CCTV and facial recognition pretty much replaced guards.

    (For the record, I’m very much a “If you’ve seen someone stealing, no you didn’t” kinda guy now. Last straw for me at that job was when they wanted me to do a course for an army base gate guard. Fuck the troops.)