In a main branch, there may be an abundance of vice presidents.
I remember when I got my first business loans from the [now-defunct] National Bank of Washington, it seemed that every other person to whom I was introduced was a vice president. My then-business partner and I would joke that the only folks there who weren't vice presidents were the cleaning crew.
Like I said, I don't mean to minimize the position - it's a pretty good one - but it doesn't place one near the pinnacle of society in most larger venues.
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I did not mean to imply that she was some big mucky muck. Only that the position she held would have been one where she could easily have had the connections (think 6 degrees of separation on a scale of really only one or two degrees) to accomplish the goal.
I know that if I wanted to get something “done” in Hawaii, that was important enough to bend a few laws, I know exactly who to contact in Hawaii. Not because that person could accomplish what I wanted, but because that person would KNOW someone who could, or that knew someone who knew someone that could. Thats just how things work in Hawaii.