07 October 2010

THE WORST BROKERAGE WEBSITE EVER

morgan-stanley/smith-barney hosts my pathetic (submerged) stock options. a bonus insult (on top of the pointlessness of those grants) is its repulsive incompetence ...

first, it shows me an empty account. my previous employer. don't even know where that came from—i had no options from those turds nor did i stupidly sign up for their stock purchase plan: i'm not a complete idiot, just stupid enough not to remember that you can never go back. regardless, i last worked there almost three years ago—so why's that crap the default?

second, the entire thing is written in ghastly flash. it's as slow as molasses to react to any mouse movement or click & it flickers weirdly. its default font size is too small. plus it blurs the background when one of their stupid "pop-ups" is displayed. &c. but after all that, it's just a repulsive mess of a site. what did they gain by using flash? they couldn't find any html coders? what a huge ugly turd of a site!

third, i tried to find my account statement—the whole reason for going there was i got a paper statement in the post with the unsubtle suggestion i go paperless. could i find my statement? hell no! could i find the toggle that switched the statement i couldn't find to paperless? hell no! i should go paperless? on that incompetent site? yeah right!

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