Originally Posted by Shiznaz

We don't have much financial power in my department, but the way it was explained to me is that Scotia has a very strong 'cost control culture'. We will literally dispute you over 10 dollars. Its ridiculous! We didn't have record billions of profit last year from signing cheques all willy nilly. The funny thing is that what we do in real estate, even if we cut our costs in half, it wouldn't really affect the bank's profits at all since we are such a tiny sliver of their portfolio.