Stupid Bank Tellers

[jackfaire]

So I had 9 dollars today and went to the bank I always go to for laundry money at lunch. I put my 9$ on the counter and say, "Why not just take a dollar out of a roll of quarters and give me the rest." The woman nods says, "Okay" and starts counting out stacks of quarters (instead of taking my suggestion of using a roll and starting from ten).

She counts out the first stack as 2. So I only get 8 dollars. Then on top of that to give me the full 8 dollars that she gave me she had to, guess what, yes open a roll of quarters.

Then asked if I wanted them stuck in an envelope when I said yes she held them out to me to take in my hand.

I decided not to argue about being shorted a dollar someone that dumb I don't want to give them a chance to screw up more and a dollar is not worth my time.

[Boozy]

I find the average cashier to be extremely quick with numbers.

That's why I'm always amazed at how slow some tellers are at the bank when I do the store's deposit. Their entire product is money. Most of their job is balancing. They should be far better than the average cashier when counting.

And yet more than a few of them are agonizingly slow and often make basic counting errors. I have to check my coin order every single time. I find mistakes about 1 in 4 times.

On occasion, I'll have a coin order to pick up that comes to an uneven number; say, $259. I'll grab $260 and head over to the bank. This has stumped more than a few tellers. "You gave me too much!" "Your order only comes to $259" and so on....They stand there confused until I tell them to just give me an extra $1 with the coin.

Now I always order even numbers. If I'm going to take $260 in twenties with me, when I call the order in I add "$1" to the end. Because apparently these things need to be written down in advance.

[MaggieTheCat]

The bank I used back in my hometown was great. I knew all the tellers (it was a small bank, there were only 3 or 4 girls telling at a time and I went to school with one of them) and they were all very fast and efficient. I can only imagine how frustrating it must be to have an incompetent teller.

My husband usually gets quarters from his company's credit union, usually about $20 worth every 2-3 weeks for us to do laundry. A couple of times, we've opened up a roll and found a coin besides a quarter in the roll. That always sucks, because the machines take full dollars but only in quarters, so if we don't get an even dollar amount worth of quarters, we end up short a full load of laundry.

[AdminAssistant]

When I was the Admin Coordinator for TJ Maxx, one of my responsibilities was picking up change from the bank. I never, ever had any problems with the awesome teller that always handled the deposits and prepared the change order. He was amazing!