I had one of those for my HSBC account, but 15 years ago. I thought HSBC had ditched those ages ago. Certainly their UK bank, First Direct, prefers customers to use the same function on the phone app. However, I’ve not used my computer for banking for ten years - just use the mobile.
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They still issue them if you ask.
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Good, that sounds a bit like customer service. Funny old company HSBC. Massive. International. Cautious. First Direct, for me, provides better service for customers. But I an HSBC customer for 15 years - opening my account at their Canary Wharf HQ while running a large project for them. Their UK operation was dominated, at that time, by ex-Midland bank people and I found them to be good, considered and intelligent. Can’t say the same for management in other UK banks.
They used to serve curry on a Thursday in each and every company canteen - after a tradition started in Hong Kong by their founders.
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I am the same as chilli, my brain does not compute such things as numerics.
I will never take an IQ test because I reckon it would be an abysmal score.
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That’s how I remember my PIN not by the numbers but the pattern it makes on the keypad.
I was lucky that I was able to make my credit and debit cards have the sane PIN because years ago you had no choice except the number they gave you (probably not a good idea but hey ho!)
I used to wonder why calculators and telephones (and now teller machines) had a different keypad arrangement, it used to annoy me for some reason.
The other thing is how predictable PIN number are, the most common is 1234 but after a data breach some one took the trouble to graph it (really???) the lighter the colour the more common the number
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Nope >>
@ www. Im alright Jack. ORG.
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She was seriously loved in the UK . Today I head out on my friends food truck to the beach tourists area from 2 pm to 10 pm and when we get tourist from UK and I chat with them you can see the love they had for her .
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Lol same here but I have done the best I could and that is all one can do .
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I of course have a card but I only go when bank is open and deal with tellers not the machine .
Last time I was there the bank Manager asked me if I wanted to learn how to use the machine just in case bank was closed . I told her she as always was very helpful but thanks I know how to use it but last time I used the machine it mocked me for being bald and always wearing T-shirts with shows from the 60s to 80s .
I always stay in character and do not laugh at my nonsense but her mouth dropped and she just looked at me ,
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Oh Crumbs 
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That is if we do not reel Corporations in, remember, how many times have public money had to bail Corporations out, we the consumers have let corporate institutions bully us. We the working class can/ do/ should be running this show, stand up and show these Corporations who are the real bosses,
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It is a poor insecure system, who in actuality is in fear of the power you have over them, no clients, no power!!!
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But, the consumers are employed by the corporations at various levels of the pecking order, its just the way it works (or doesn’t in some circumstances)
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I agree. There are not enough people willing to stick their neck out make a difference. Governments introduce legislation to back the corporations, not the little people.
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So many consumers spend a life trying to climb the corporate ladder, its the dream.
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Who remembers the song?
The working class can kiss my ass, I’ve got the Foreman’s job at last
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Ahhh, but that , my friend, is where you miss the boat. The working class are the workers, consumers, and the voters, had they the mind/ will, they can destroy Corporations. You may think Corporations can always replace their losses(workers/ consumers) but that is only because we let them, if we band together we bring them down, and no worries, another will rise to take their place.
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It simply will not happen. Back in Roman times Juvenal noted that provided the masses are given bread and circuses then they won’t rise up. As long some form of food (ok its cheap, ultra-processed food but then that means its also appealing to eat) and lots of forms of entertainment (TV and social media has provided the most brain numbing version of that) then the people will grumble but not take any action on anything. Not even a boycott. The corporations are perfectly secure and they know it.
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Ahhhh, my friend, but the world is a changing, and the working class are realizing, businesses and Corporations need the working class more than the working class needs them, we are the workers, and the consumers, without us there is no business/ no profit, and they can replace us with AI, they cannot replace us as consumers, and the working class can open their own business /. Corporations, everything in life is but a State of mind, and that scares Corporate, their leaders, and their puppet following!!!
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Its been good for the masses, you won’t get a chimney sweep now for less than £100.00 per hour 
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