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    toothpetardHamilton Nolan
    6/10/16 12:14pm

    These things have families?!

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      Sid and Financytoothpetard
      6/10/16 12:55pm

      Only if you don’t utilize responsible family-planning practices.

      Man held after attempting sex with ATM, picnic table

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      toothpetardSid and Financy
      6/10/16 1:01pm

      If this whole shithouse goes up (gawker just filed for bankruptcy); call me maybe on the twitters? Guaranteed premium experience.




      Clip and save!

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    EatTheCheeseNicholsonHamilton Nolan
    6/10/16 12:11pm

    Apparently to exchange money in Burma, you need perfectly crisp hundred dollar bills. Not folded, not torn or stained, etc. Since I’m heading there in a few weeks, I went to my bank a couple days ago, and made the teller go through almost 60 bills before finding ones that hadn’t been folded. Hope that poor guy is getting paid more than $12.44 for that shit.

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      Sid and FinancyEatTheCheeseNicholson
      6/10/16 12:14pm

      Colonialist humble brag?

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      Sonic Reducer 151EatTheCheeseNicholson
      6/10/16 12:16pm

      What’s your mission to Burma?

      I’ll see myself out.

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    Low Information BoaterHamilton Nolan
    6/10/16 12:22pm

    I wish there was a no-smalltalk window at the bank. Banks: I don't enjoy the simulated concern over how my day is or what my weekend plans are any more than the poor teller you've forced to act like they care. Just let me get in and out with as few words as possible.

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeLow Information Boater
      6/10/16 12:30pm

      Al T. Money would be the perfect teller to speak to then.

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      caekislove-caekingitupLow Information Boater
      6/10/16 12:30pm

      I don’t enjoy the simulated concern over how my day is or what my weekend plans are any more than the poor teller you’ve forced to act like they care.

      Damn, I thought my teller might have had a crush on me!

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    benjaminalloverHamilton Nolan
    6/10/16 12:18pm

    My sister in law just quit her bank teller job to work at a convenience store; she could get more hours and do less stressful work for the same shitty minimum wage. They’re laying everyone off anyways, with cuts to positions and hours every month. Millennials don’t use nearly as much customer service, you see, so humans should be replaced with machines. Not sure how those Millennials are going to renegotiate their mortgages and juggle loans and bills with a machine when they age and require more complex services, but the upper middle managers and consultants who see zero value in the work tellers do will all be long gone by then.

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      SouthboundPachydermbenjaminallover
      6/10/16 12:22pm

      Tellers don’t do any of the things you just listed. If you need your mortgage renegotiated, you talk to the mortgage guy not the teller.

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      benjaminalloverSouthboundPachyderm
      6/10/16 12:36pm

      Banks are currently laying off every type of branch employee who interact with humans, including the ones who renegotiate your mortgage. Tellers are often the ones who tell people they need to renegotiate their mortgages. They do a hell of a lot more and are a hell of a lot more useful to customers than a machine. When I go into the bank, it’s to interact with a human, and I’d like them to be more qualified and knowledgeable than the person making my Subway sandwich, actually. But no, because banks don’t make enough profit to pay their employees a living wage.

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    festivusaziliHamilton Nolan
    6/10/16 12:04pm

    You mean they are letting dirty poors touch my precious moneys? Gross. Fix that shit. At least buy them some gloves so I don’t get contact poor.

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      QuadPolefestivusazili
      6/10/16 12:08pm

      Your money is laced with cocaine and feces. Yes, fix that shit and buy the tellers some gloves.

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      festivusaziliQuadPole
      6/10/16 12:11pm

      My bills are laced with only the finest Colombian cocaine and the feces of the highest class hookers money can buy. They should feel grateful to be exposed to such exquisite filth.

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    DunlinHamilton Nolan
    6/10/16 12:13pm

    Banks, too big to fail pay their employees a living wage!

    ‘Murrica!

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      Open SoreDunlin
      6/10/16 1:36pm

      So, $26,875.20 a year is not a living wage?

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      c'est-a-direOpen Sore
      6/10/16 1:45pm

      After taxes, that works out (depending on a great many factors of course) to about $400/week or $20K/year. That is not a living wage in a great many places.

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    Dean BeyerHamilton Nolan
    6/10/16 12:13pm

    I’ve worked for both Bank of America and Washington Mutual and I will confirm all this is true. Shitty pay, tons of responsibility, and they will fire you for getting into financial trouble.

    I hate banks from the inside out.

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      caekislove-caekingitupDean Beyer
      6/10/16 12:18pm

      I thought WaMu had those weird cash machine things instead of tellers..

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      Dean Beyercaekislove-caekingitup
      6/10/16 12:19pm

      A teller still operated them. There was still a person.

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    Sean BrodyHamilton Nolan
    6/10/16 12:03pm

    Also, looks like a tough gig.
    They have to interface all the shitty bank rules with the public.

    My credit union is a far nicer place, I’m hoping they pay their people more than twelve bucks an hour though.


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      PunditGuySean Brody
      6/10/16 12:10pm

      On the few occasions when I’ve had to use a teller in the last couple of years, there was a near certainty that a customer would be yelling or rude or both.

      Tellers need hazard pay.

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      EdithPrickleySean Brody
      6/10/16 12:26pm

      I worked as a teller through college and for a year afterwards. It was a terrible job because people like to take it out on the teller when they don’t have money in their accounts.

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    ninjaginHamilton Nolan
    6/10/16 1:26pm

    So what’s the plan, now that Gawker’s filed for bankruptcy?

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      caekislove-caekingitupninjagin
      6/10/16 1:28pm

      Get high and eff anything that moves!!!

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      EvanrudeJohnsoncaekislove-caekingitup
      6/10/16 1:42pm

      Get high and eff anything that moves!!!

      Wasn’t that their plan before the bankruptcy as well?

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    IskaralPustHamilton Nolan
    6/10/16 12:11pm

    Interestingly, the hourly pay for bank robbers is much higher.

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      festivusaziliIskaralPust
      6/10/16 12:35pm

      eh, not really. you don’t make shit robbing banks.

      *yes, i just “well, actually’d” your joke for no reason. it’s a slow friday

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      IskaralPustfestivusazili
      6/10/16 1:22pm

      But hourly? I mean, it makes sense that the long-term career potential is limited, but I figure a five minute investment in writing a note that says “I have a gun give me money” and handing it to a teller should generate a reward significantly in excess of $12.44. Spending it before the cops catch you is the hard part.

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