The scariest part of working at a bank is the fact that there could be......a robber lingering in the parking lot. Today, a guy lingered in front of the building for a good 10 minutes. When the lobby was empty he came in. He stopped at the doors to look in Carol's office, then slowly walked towards the counter with a check and a purple crown royal bag. It was only Carrie and myself at the teller line, Andy was at lunch and so was branch manager Joe. The guy just looked odd, Carrie said I can help you here, but he still kept starring at me and taking the tiniest baby steps my direction when Carrie stressed, "Sir, I can help you right here." He asked, "Can I cash some checks?" Carrie asked, "Do you have any accounts with us?" He said he does and laid them on the counter. She asked for his ID and he thinks for a minute, he looks around the building and in walks a business depositor, and the guys painting the building this week start getting back from lunch ...WACK... he bangs his bag against the counter edge when he reaches back to grab his wallet. His accounts were closed TWO YEARS ago! Carrie tells him this and he way too politely says, "Oh OK. I'm sorry," and leaves. He then checks out the front of the building before leaving.
The guy was creepy. Maybe he is anti-social or something, but he was acting way shady. We knew he had something hard in the bag because he smacked on the counter. He wanted me to wait on him and not Carrie. He checked to see how many people were in the building before he came all the way in. Carol, Carrie and myself all said, "We'd hate to know what might have happened had the painters and the business not come in when they did."
It's off-beat people like this that give tellers like me heart-attacks. With the economy the way it is, people are desperate for money. The liquor store had their POP MACHINES broken into with a CROWBAR last night! That's not a 2 minute job, that person was there for sometime to get 20 bucks in quarters. Dumb people, man, go get a job like the rest of us.
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