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 My credit rating’s improved!

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 @38629c61 "Well done, you've moved up to Poor" is the most spectacular inadvertent description of social mobility right now. If it was in a Black Mirror episode we'd rinse it for being too heavy handed a satire. 
 Fun fact, you can get a double digit experian credit score. 
 @38629c61 It's ridiculous. I have a poor credit rating because I pay for mkost things in cash or by bank transfer. It's almost as if you can't get a good credit rating unless you are willing to put yourself in debt. 
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Is this for real? (not in US, never dealt with a credit rating) 
 @38629c61 I thought it was a meme. I... I can't... it's too much. 

Probably some underpaid worker did it and nobody cared enough. 😔

On the other hand, that speaks a lot about the company! 😬 
 @38629c61 Where does Experian say you were before? Workhouse-bound?   Destitute?  Impoverished? 
 @38629c61 Moved up from what though? Soul crushing poverty? Ramen Noodle Diet? 
 @38629c61 😂 
 @38629c61 ,Congratulations 😀 
 @38629c61 wow, I really had to do a double take at that wording. That’s stupendously insane and insensitive. Credit rating companies deserve to burn. 🔥 
 @38629c61 what level were you before this? 
 @38629c61 See also social "mobility" in the 2020s, etc etc