At 2:15 pm this afternoon a bankwide emergency meeting was called for all us to attend a meeting at 5:10 pm. That is NEVER a good sign. When they start pulling in people from their vacations to attend said meeting, well you know it's really bad.
It was announced that my bank, which has been around for more than 30 years, is to be no more. We have been eaten by bigger fish in the sea. We were the ones that were supposed to be doing the eating, not the ones being ate. We don't know after all is said and done if we will have jobs with this new bank. The banking industry is so volatile...banks going bankrupt, banks merging, banks being acquisitioned...That is what we were SUPPOSED to be doing, we were the ones that were supposed to be acquisitioning, not being acquisitioned...although they like to call this a merger.
It is sad to see a very small community bank, we only have 20 branches, disappear. I guess in this instance the smaller you are the harder you fall!
But I am not smoking over it! My ROAR isn't too loud tonight, but nonetheless, this tigress is roarin' in 190 days of fabulous FREEDOM!
