👉 Okay, alright settle down now, let’s tackle this… rather pointy piece of current-day vernacular: "'Mortgage Wells Fargo.’” Frankly, I haven't seen a trend quite so wonderfully, spectacularly awful as the rise and spread of that specific mouthful.
Let’s unpack it, because honestly, the initial instinct is to just shout "What even?!" It basically boils down to an aggressively sarcastic, almost theatrical complaint leveled against the now-rather-bruised institution, Wells Fargo. Initially, the saying emerged during 2016 and early 17 when a scandal blew up about their aggressive and frankly insulting sales tactics—basically they'd stuff everyone with fraudulent and unnecessary financial products into every available opening in your life. Here’s the breakdown of what we mean by that whole mess, historically: Wells Fargo was caught systematically lying to its customers, creating fake all those bogus accounts to hit a mandated quarterly bonus for their employees. It wasn't just bad service. It was actively and deliberately screwing people over. 800,000 fraudulent accounts were discovered. Now, the addition of the word "mortgage?" – this is where the humour (and frankly, some understandable outrage) comes in. Because, let’s be brutally honest: Wells Fargo's practices, coupled with the already complicated and anxiety-ridden world of home financing, just felt… suffocating. You feel like you are being financially embalmed
