Sniper Teller Payback

[BRChiver]

At my local credit union the lead teller is a major sniper. She even has a big picture in her station of the AG she has swiped. I figured if i ordered halves I would be safe. Well when they arrived, I ran by to pick up my box. Jane grabs the box and then says that she will have to count to verify it is correct, this is her policy on halves. I thought that she would just count the rolls but NO, Jane opens them! After three rolls a sweet '64 pops up. She grabs it and replaces with a clad. I had enough and left without the box.

I am a firm believer in Karma so here is what happened.... I saved up $230 in '71's, rewrapped in OLD wrappers and wrote SIL on all of them. Had my dad bring them in to her and deposit into my account. She told him "I would love to deposit any other halves you have, please bring them by." You ask and you shall receive! I followed shortly after and deposited 4k of rewrapped 10 min before her lunch break. Made her count it all (since this was HER policy with halves) while eating a huge sandwich that I happened to have in bag.....HH to all.

 

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[solielj]

Yeah, this would not have happened to me. I wouldn't leave that bank without my silver coin.

 

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[Local_coins]

In the words of William Wallace: "Burn it."

 

[bigscores]

That's tantamont to theft and I'd treat the incident as such. I like the penny box idea, time to order 4 boxes of cents and get them counted.

 

[CoinFetcher]

I demand all my cent rolls counted twice!

 

[mark1982]

I have been on t net a few times since this thread has been posted , but i just clicked on it now thinking it was going to be your typical sniper teller storie. This blows my mind. I cant beleive she did that. People always tell me i have a lot of patience with people , but this would have made me blow a gasket! I would have got managment right then and there. Thats is stealing plain and simple!

 

[BRChiver]

Looking back I realize that I should have gone straight to upper management and raised all kind of hell. I guess the holiday season made me a little soft; I've seen a great teller let go because some a** of a customer went to extremes over a simple misunderstanding. I plan on making her feel like quitting when I come in. Since her "policy" is to count halves, maybe I'll duct tape all the rolls next time...all 4k.

 

[oxbowbarefoot]

I would have been unbelievably mad. Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction mad. Joe Peschi in Casino mad.... She got off light.

 

[Coinstriking Michigan]

Wouldn't the teller have just as much right to silver as the customer. They are there to make sure you get the correct amount of money...not to insure you get silver. Hell if I worked at a bank why would I pass on silver to give it to someone else?

 

[CoinFetcher]

Wouldn't the teller have just as much right to silver as the customer. They are there to make sure you get the correct amount of money...not to insure you get silver. Hell if I worked at a bank why would I pass on silver to give it to someone else?

First off - the Bank exists to server customers - not to the collection habits of it's employees and tellers.

Not sure if you have ever ordered a box of halves - but they come in Machine wrapped rolls, that once opened - cannot be used again. The proper was to count a box of coins is to count the rolls. That is why people use the example of a box of pennies. That is 25,000 pennies. Does the bank want to pay a person to count these pennies?

Okay, halfs were used - that is 1000 coins per box. Anyways, this teller is bat-shiat crazy counting the WHOLE box. It is clear she is not ensuring you get 1000 coins. She is ensuring you get zero silver.


It's akin to being sold a pack of baseball cards, except the merchant has searched it, and removed any cards of value.

 

[Coinstriking Michigan]

First off - the Bank exists to server customers - not to the collection habits of it's employees and tellers.

Not sure if you have ever ordered a box of halves - but they come in Machine wrapped rolls, that once opened - cannot be used again. The proper was to count a box of coins is to count the rolls. That is why people use the example of a box of pennies. That is 25,000 pennies. Does the bank want to pay a person to count these pennies?

Okay, halfs were used - that is 1000 coins per box. Anyways, this teller is bat-shiat crazy counting the WHOLE box. It is clear she is not ensuring you get 1000 coins. She is ensuring you get zero silver.


It's akin to being sold a pack of baseball cards, except the merchant has searched it, and removed any cards of value.

I could see how that could be frustrating but banks aren't a hobby shop. They aren't employed to make CRH convenient for people.

 

[CoinFetcher]

I could see how that could be frustrating but banks aren't a hobby shop. They aren't employed to make CRH convenient for people.

I would not argue that banks are a hobby shop, nor did I.

As long as we agree the banks were not constructed to server the teller's coin collecting needs. And BTW, the "none banking" needs of the customer are more important that non-banking needs of the tellers.

 

[Coinstriking Michigan]

I would not argue that banks are a hobby shop, nor did I.

Then why get frustrated when they don't cater to your hobby?

 

[leaker]

I believe I wood be talking to a manager real fast. Bankers sure don't want to lose any business over what a teller does..what comes around.goes around. Don't drink and drive you might spill your drink

 

[CoinFetcher]

As a bank customer, it would be maddening ( synonym for frustrating), if a teller was to crack open EVERY ROLL ( 50 rolls per box) and count EVERY COIN in a box.

That is a very unique situation, and has never happened to me. The Original Poster sure has a novel situation.

A senario: I operate a movie theater. I buy 3 boxes of coin a month. Teller 1 exchanges cash, and hands me the boxes. total time, ~1 minute.

Scenario B: I operate a movie theather. I buy 3 boxes of coin. Teller 2 gets the boxes from the vault. Tears open the carry-handle on the box. Dumps 50 rolls of coins in the counter. One, two, three ...fourty nine, Fifty. Then gets the coins back into the roll, and set it aside "50 cents". She then takes roll number 1. One, two, three ...fourty nine, Fifty. She has just counted 1 dollar in pennies. The line behind me grows with angry customers, and my eye twiches. "2400 more pennies" to go she says. Total time ~ 2 hours.

If you still don't understand, I don't really care, I'm done explaining.

 

[mark1982]

coinstriking michigan i understand what you saying about not catering to our hobby , but this has nothing to do with that. When the owner of lets say a gas station goes to the bank and asks for 4 rolls of quarters, 3 rolls of dimes, 3 rolls of nickles, and 2 rolls of pennies do the tellers say ok give me 45 minutes while i count every coin to make sure they are all there? Nope. What she did was completley rediculous , and un professional. When we order halves we order the halves in the sealed box that are in sealed rolls not opened ones. When you buy customer wrapped rolls from banks a lot of times they will say to you "i can sell them to you , but if they are short, or there is something other than coins in them i cannot give you your money back". Once this teller opened those rolls they became customer wrapped rolls not sealed rolls from the coin supplier, and that is what he ordered , and that is what services the banks are supposed to give customers CRH or not.

 

[FormerTeller]

I could see how that could be frustrating but banks aren't a hobby shop. They aren't employed to make CRH convenient for people.

I can assure you they aren't employed to count out every single coin either, or to frustrate paying customers. I can also guarantee you that teller violated her bank's policy.

Then why get frustrated when they don't cater to your hobby?

I see you metal detect. This type of action would be akin to asking a property owner for permission to hunt on their land, receiving it, then having them show up every time you dug something up and taking it from you.

If you still don't understand, I don't really care, I'm done explaining.

I should have read this post first, before getting hooked by the troll...

 

[CW3(ret) US Army]

At my local credit union the lead teller is a major sniper. She even has a big picture in her station of the AG she has swiped. I figured if i ordered halves I would be safe. Well when they arrived, I ran by to pick up my box. Jane grabs the box and then says that she will have to count to verify it is correct, this is her policy on halves. I thought that she would just count the rolls but NO, Jane opens them! After three rolls a sweet '64 pops up. She grabs it and replaces with a clad. I had enough and left without the box.

I am a firm believer in Karma so here is what happened.... I saved up $230 in '71's, rewrapped in OLD wrappers and wrote SIL on all of them. Had my dad bring them in to her and deposit into my account. She told him "I would love to deposit any other halves you have, please bring them by." You ask and you shall receive! I followed shortly after and deposited 4k of rewrapped 10 min before her lunch break. Made her count it all (since this was HER policy with halves) while eating a huge sandwich that I happened to have in bag.....HH to all.

You got her good, but maybe you will have to make this a dump bank to let her have the pleasure of checking your coins all the time. Seriously, I see you left without the box. I would have told her to leave the rest of the rolls alone & if she insisted she had to count the rest of the rolls, I would have had the manager come over to see how she was wasting the time of a customer along with her time to check every roll in the box. I'm sure the manager wouldn't be too happy with her doing that. She is there to help customers not coin roll hunt. When she is doing that, she in not taking care of customers which is what she is being paid for. I would go to the manager anyway just to let them know what she is doing. I would also file a complaint with them about so so it would be in her record there. That is way she deserves.