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Marin4me · Columbia Bank

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(I'm posting this here because Umpqua Bank had Yelp take down my negative review of the outrageous behavior by their employees and managers less than 48-hours after I posted it). This is an alert concerning the Umpqua Bank employees. On Tuesday morning, September 28, 2021, a female bank employee forcefully removed the electrical charging cord from my vehicle; she insisted that this charger was only for Umpqua Bank employees and demanded that I leave because I was trespassing. She also summoned the police department to further intimidate me. The officer left without taking any action, stating he was not sure whether the bank employee was legally within her powers to prevent this electric vehicle charger from being used by members of the public. This charger is listed as a publicly accessible charging station on the Plugshare website and I was parked in one of the two designed electric vehicle only spaces. The other space marked "electric vehicle only" was occupied by a gasoline powered vehicle owned by an Umpqua Bank employee. At this point, it appears that the only bank "employee" that can use this (formerly) free public electric charging station is the highly paid female bank management person who drives a brand-new Tesla. I reached out to Umpqua Bank representatives this afternoon and I will update this review after they have had a chance to investigate these events.
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1
collection
Marin public-source records
source url
https://www.google.com/maps/reviews/data=!4m6!14m5!1m4!2m3!1sChdDSUhNMG9nS0VJQ0FnSUQ2bnJxYXpnRRAB!2m1!1s0x8085bb7b89d89c51:0x67f100002816b928
observed at
2026-10-11T00:15:18.837Z
published at
2021-09-30T12:57:19.641163Z
Reviewer
★★★★★
(I'm posting this here because Umpqua Bank had Yelp take down my negative review of the outrageous behavior by their employees and managers less than 48-hours after I posted it). This is an alert concerning the Umpqua Bank employees. On Tuesday morning, September 28, 2021, a female bank employee forcefully removed the electrical charging cord from my vehicle; she insisted that this charger was only for Umpqua Bank employees and demanded that I leave because I was trespassing. She also summoned the police department to further intimidate me. The officer left without taking any action, stating he was not sure whether the bank employee was legally within her powers to prevent this electric vehicle charger from being used by members of the public. This charger is listed as a publicly accessible charging station on the Plugshare website and I was parked in one of the two designed electric vehicle only spaces. The other space marked "electric vehicle only" was occupied by a gasoline powered vehicle owned by an Umpqua Bank employee. At this point, it appears that the only bank "employee" that can use this (formerly) free public electric charging station is the highly paid female bank management person who drives a brand-new Tesla. I reached out to Umpqua Bank representatives this afternoon and I will update this review after they have had a chance to investigate these events.

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