krunchykrome
Lifer
- Dec 28, 2003
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In the last 5+ years, I've stepped foot in a bank maybe a handful of times. Once to open a joint checking account for my wife and I, and a couple times to withdraw large sums of cash ($500+).
i can withdraw cash online now? sweet.
does it pop out of my dvd drive?
Nope, but there's this handy-dandy little machine called an ATM that you passed on your way to standing in the line for the teller.
I've had to stand in line maybe once in the past 5 years because I had a problem with an account becoming inactive or something and I needed a teller to talk to. Of course I had to stand in line behind all the old ladies who were paying their electrical bills...
I couldn't be a teller. My day would be spent saying:
"You know you can do this online right?"
When I was a teller, we'd have old ladies come in everyday and cash a check for $20.
Overall, it was easy job. Although one Friday the vault wouldn't open and we couldn't get enough cash, especially big bills. We got small bills from other branches, but we had to cash people's pay checks in 1s and 5s. Completely sucked balls.
It's always amazed me that tellers are the lowest paid people in a bank, but are the only ones who actually have access to the cash.
i've seen the same teller there for years in the bank that i go to.
she's an older woman (mid-late 40's), hispanic, speaks enough english for us to effectively communicate, seems friendly, always happy.
there's another teller who has been there for years, also an older woman of about the same age, but asian.
seems like a nice low stress job, but apparently salaries are only about $11/hr, $25k.
i guess that's appropriate for a mindless job.
My brother (Gayner)'s girlfriend is a teller and makes great money. She's making more than me (junior software developer).
Most tellers carry less than $5k in their drawer. Experienced tellers up to $10k. If someone wants to make a large withdrawal, they have to "buy" cash from the safe which has to be accessed by two people, one being a branch manager. If someone deposits enough cash to take the teller's carrying cash balance over his limit, he has to "sell" the cash to the vault before he can log out of the system.
Who goes into a bank to withdraw cash and be okay leaving with only the receipt?I have found the following post somewhere and I I wholeheartedly agree with it:
"Some cashiers and even branch managers are simply opportunists, thieves and crooks. Some of them are good actors. They would withdraw cash from my account (on paper) give me the receipt and then tell me "how else can I help you, you can go now...." without giving me the cash! Many times, many different cashiers! Amounts vary between $300 and $2000 ! They never succeeded although one had me leave, forgetting to get my cash and after I returned she "remembered" me and gave me the cash without any problems (good old girl!) yet she should have called me right away when I was leaving the counter cashless.... I always felt sorry for them and never reported them. Then I started reporting the cashiers to the HQ(online) once the crookery thing became old and annoying, with it falling on a deaf ear... So have any of you? Please share your stories."