BANKING BLACKOUT: FNB CRIMSONS PAYDAY FOR THOUSANDS AS SYSTEM OUTAGE STRIKES
In a brazen display of incompetence, First National Bank (FNB) has brought the entire country to a grinding halt with a nationwide system outage, leaving thousands of South Africans stranded without access to their hard-earned cash on payday.
As the clock struck lunchtime on Friday, Downdetector lit up with a tsunami of complaints from FNB customers who were unable to access their debit cards, online banking, ATMs, or mobile banking app. The timing couldn’t be more deliberate – payday for many, and FNB’s IT teams are nowhere to be found.
"We’re aware that there are issues being experienced across our channels," FNB’s official Twitter page @FNBSA copped to, before sheepishly apologizing for the inconvenience caused. Inconvenience? Try catastrophic failure!
TechCentral has reached out to FNB for comment, but we’re not holding our breath. After all, what’s a little accountability when you’re a behemoth bank with a reputation for getting away with murder?
Meanwhile, the bank’s customers are left to twiddle their thumbs, wondering how they’ll make ends meet without access to their own money. The irony is palpable – a bank that’s supposed to facilitate financial transactions is instead holding its customers hostage.
Stay tuned for updates as this developing story unfolds. And to FNB, we say: get your act together, or get out of the banking business altogether.
