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So as you may know, I have a new job. We are a listed company with public shareholders

Posted by ralph wiggum (aka Wiggum17) Jul 20 '22, 17:12

This week, one of our shareholders came into the office to complain about our policy of only paying dividends by direct deposit (ie, not checks).

He will not give us his bank account details because it is "against his religion" to receive bank transfers. He mentioned that he also won't accept bank checks from the State tax office because the Australian Federal constitution "only authorizes the State to make payments in silver or gold" (???).

The note I got from the Investor Relations team concluded with "Mr X does not have phone or email so requires a response by post."

Responses:

we had a guy like that at my one of my old companies. he requested the stock buyback be conducted with gold. he was denied. - mafic Jul 21, 01:02
are you in Austrialia? How often does this character come in? hate to say it but... - zeitgeist Jul 20, 19:16 3
- I suspect it's an Aussie equivalent to the sovereign citizen perspective. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 20, 19:18 2
  - oh there are for sure sovereign citizen nuts here. -- nm - mafic Jul 21, 01:04
  - yeah but... this is in TN? somewhere over here, not there. -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 20, 23:50
Evidently he trusts the postal service, so that is something -- nm - crash davis Jul 20, 18:31
Side note: This has apparently been going on for like 10 years. It's more than $30K in old dividends. - ralph wiggum Jul 20, 18:22 2
- So you're just keeping his money safe like Danny Aiello and he can come visit any time he likes? -- nm - Max Jul 20, 18:28 1
  - We offered to let him come in and go all Scrooge McDuck, but apparently that violates the Magna Carta in some way. nm - ralph wiggum Jul 20, 18:42
congrats on the job! does this dude dress like he is from the 1870s? -- nm - crash davis Jul 20, 18:15 1
- I didn't meet him, but I'm thinking Unabomber. nm -- (edited) - ralph wiggum Jul 20, 18:20
Bitcoin to the rescue! -- nm - VMan Jul 20, 18:04
It’s the vibe of the thing. -- nm - Dano Jul 20, 17:58 1
- We just showed The Castle to Nick about a week ago. 1000% funnier now that I've lived here a while. nm - ralph wiggum Jul 20, 18:19
s. 115 of the Constitution! - Roger More Jul 20, 17:36 1
- Likely an intentional misunderstanding of the phrase "A State", yeah. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 20, 17:49
How did he get the stock in the first place? Someone took his check? -- nm - Max Jul 20, 17:24 4
- Jesus -- nm - Beaker Jul 20, 17:42
- Turned up at the stock exchange with a bag of gold -- nm - Roger More Jul 20, 17:38
- Which had his bank information on it - or did he pay with a money order? -- nm - Meg Jul 20, 17:28 1
  - Or found a broker who'd take cash. -- nm - Meg Jul 20, 17:55
Oh, *fun*. And, congrats! -- nm - znufrii Jul 20, 17:21
did he mean, literally against his religion? -- nm - prayformojo Jul 20, 17:20 1
- I...think? We are trying to work out what that religion would be. This lead to me trying to explain the Amish to my colleagues. nm - ralph wiggum Jul 20, 18:18
Oh, I didn't know that. Congrats! -- nm - David Jul 20, 17:17 1
- :) nm - ralph wiggum Jul 20, 18:20

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