What do you do if your banker hits on you?
This happened to a friend of mine, who requests to go by Lynn.
Lynn went to the bank to open a new account, and a few days later her banker, Mr. Banker, called her up to chat. She blew him off but ran into him at the local farmers’ market the following weekend. Mr. Banker called again, and Lynn told him she was not interested.
Mr. Banker’s behavior is unprofessional and unethical, and he violated his institution’s privacy policy, which restricts access to personal information to those who require it “to provide products and services to you.” If Mr. Banker considers a date to be a service, maybe he should look for work in Nevada.
In medicine, HIPAA (pronounced “hip-uh”) government regulations address security and privacy of patient data (hospital employees were fired after snooping in Britney Spears’s medical file). If a nurse looked up a patient’s information and called her to ask for a date, the nurse could be fired.
I do not know of analogous laws that protect private information outside of medicine, and it could be up to an individual manager’s discretion of how to discipline Mr. Banker.
Lynn has not reported Mr. Banker’s breach of the privacy policy (looking up her phone number).
What would you do? Would you call the bank and report Mr. Banker?
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