February 07, 2002

BofA upgraded the local ATM

BofA upgraded the local ATM to the latest and greatest model, complete with color screen, sound effects, and dancing bears. Well, no bears, but then the only ATM trick that could impress me would be free money coming out of the slot. As I sucked on the teat of capitalism, the fancy graphics promised me exciting new offers soon to come. Does some junior advertising executive somewhere believe that he's going to come up with an exciting advertising campaign on colorized ATMs that's actually going to persuade anyone to buy anything. Or persuade anyone to hate BofA any less. Maybe junior advertising execs are all delusional. Of course, once I got into the actual money-grubbing screens, the display reverted to the same old boring format that's probably been running on the same system for twenty years. That's probably a good thing. Posted by mikewang on 12:18 AM