Banking in Romania as a foreigner
Tough process. Bring cash! Why do you need a card? To avoid carrying cash, to pay the rent, insure there are no purchasing issues. It will take at least few trips to each bank. All before 1700 while most people work. Saturdays and Sundays are closed. Apparently they have a process but it depends on their employees to implement it; and many don't know that procedure. Otherwise, you receive the unpleasant answer: "we don't do that". For instance, BCR has huge flags about managing accounts, and when walking in a bank makes one wonder if they should have brought a book to read, a sweater to knit, or a computer to work on while waiting. My patience runs low when incoming customers are not even acknowledged, the ticket system has no logic, and the information of each client is performed in the presence of others. But unfortunately, clients are hooked into having an account, and have no choice but to stick with it. Going through the same process makes things extremely painf...