Bank transfers are fun.
I've been trying to invest £1,500,000 on behalf of a client of ours for about three weeks now. You'd have thought it would be a simple case of transferring money from one bank account to another, but no.
My favourite part is the realisation that, at the start of the transaction, I asked the person acting on behalf of the receiving bank to clarify the bank details. "Yes, those are fine" they said.
Three weeks later, when the monies had been rejected every single time, I had contacted everyone involved in the process. All was fine, apparently.
Then, in this most recent week, the person whom I had contacted in the first place told me they'd got the sortcode wrong. No wonder the fucking money hadn't been transferred. Cunt.
My summary is that one must assume people are idiots. Not sure how this ties in to everything, but I wanted to get it off my chest.