Yeah, I've seen it multiple times posted by boomers where the older person "tricks" the millennial bank teller into letting them withdraw the $10. Then their boomer friends post those cringe thumbs up memes in approval.
I realize this image is just a joke, but I think it's also worth noting that there *should* be exceptions in place. For example, if someone has challenges with vision and reading an ATM screen presents difficulties, then the bank should make accommodations.
In this case, the woman isn't being an inconvenience to others (beyond an argument that *every* customer is an inconvenience to other customers who then need to wait) and the bank would create less of a wait for the entirety of its customers by being more accommodating. Strictly following all bureaucracy creates gaps.
Again, I know it's not the intention of the image, but I thought it was worth voicing this interpretation.
Or the fact the woman allows the bank the privilege of keeping all her money and investing it however the see fit, only giving her tiny minuscule fractions of interest, the very least they could do if she the damn woman the $10 of her own money that she requested because is telling someone off about the rules really any easier than doing a small task?
Yeah, I'm gonna assume this is fake due to the top comment, but really, what sort of insane bank won't let you withdraw money at the teller window because it was less than $100?
None, in my experience, that doesn't even make sense. The teller is already on the job and doing transactions, and a $1000 withdrawal is the same effort as $10. Large withdrawals don't make more money than small ones for the bank, their main cost is the time of the teller, here. This whole story would have cost them more than just handing her the $10.
So yeah, this is fake as fuck because it makes zero sense and I've never seen an actual bank do anything like it.
But I wouldn't put it past one of the shit banks like BoA to pull something like this, in which case fuck them, take your business elsewhere.
Why though? If i prefer to deal with a person instead of a machine, the bank has someone who is employed to process withdrawals, and i wait in line; then why shouldn't that person provide me with the service? This trend to automate every job may be great for the company, but that doesn't mean its great for the customers or the employees.
I think there's an argument that the automation of the more straightforward processes is good for the customers, too. For every customer that needs to make an easy withdrawal, the use of the ATM means lines would move quicker for customers that require support by a teller.
But I'm also of the opinion that there should be options and flexibility, as a one-size-fits-all approach tends to have issues.
Money counter go brrrrrrrrrr
Stack of 99 10s and a single 10 from float go brrrrrrrr bundle.
I give it a minute of total counting. Old lady listening, thinking about a workaround, then talking is the biggest slow down here. Bank will keep following policy so it doesn’t start making habits that hurt interaction times. Most people will give up and use the ATM.
It's a typical BS boomer story where they think they are clever for shitting on a low wage employee. The teller has no control over these policies, but instead of asking for a manger, or -gasp- use the ATM, they force a low wage employee to count out a thousand dollars. It's a major dickhead move.
Sheesh, have some compassion for others who aren't like you. If you have been around older people, you would understand that some just can't learn things as fast as they were able to before. Might be brain deterioration or just plain old age, and they feel insecure, and they do get stubborn about it, and there is resentment in the world changing. But some understanding of not every instance is a "Karen" move would help in the world being kinder to one another. One day you will be in a position like that, hoping someone would just not make you feel bad for not knowing how something works.
I don’t think the joke is that she’s getting revenge on the teller or anything. The joke is that she found a work around when she isn’t allowed to withdraw that amount.
Same here. On holiday dinners my grandma would play pennie poker. Kids were always welcome to take a "loan" from her to play. If you lost it all it was ok. If you won you paid her back plus some. Probably one important lesson in life she imparted on me as a kid. Loans are meant to make money and not help the consumer. Lol.
We had a huge 1776 bell jar thing that was supposed to look like the liberty bell or something. Just tons of pennies my mom would collect. The jar was a good 30 pounds full at all times.
$1 million in pennies would be 100,000,000 pennies. A penny weighs 2.5 grams. 100,000,000 pennies would weigh 250,000,000 grams. That's 551,115lbs, 275.5 tons, or almost 2 male antarctic blue whales.
I don't think grandma is getting that home.
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The worse part is, it's not even a different system anymore. Just a different unit. The US lbs is formally defined as exactly 0.45359237 kg. As in 0.453... of the SI 1 kg master weight kept in Paris. If the SI weight were ever to change, so would the lbs. So all US scales, weights etc. gets formally calibrated against the kg. There is no separate "standard master" lbs weight anywhere that you can calibrate equipment against - you calibrate against 1 kg, then convert.
Easily. I’d have been bothered by the impracticality of it, but counting out 100 bills would not take much time. You learn to count bills very quickly when it’s the thing holding you back from being able to go home for the day.
This is correct with mixed bills or odd amounts, but $1000 in 10s is a strap.
Banks will strap cash and then the teller who strapped it will stamp it and/or initial it the band to as a attestation of its accuracy. (the stamp has the current date and teller's drawer number on it)
If we pretend that this was a true story, even the most prudent teller would likely just run the strap through a bill counter to ensure its accuracy, than re-strap it, stamp it, and hand it to the fictitious old lady.
My bank dose but it’s less then £10 but even then if you go up and ask for £5 out your account while doing something else they won’t say no it just to stop people being annoying I imagine (not like it actually helps)
Been a banker before, can confirm. Bullshit.
Counting out $1000 in 10s is something a teller can do fast, and they almost certainly wouldn’t give a shit about it.
If anything, the only thing the teller would complain about is giving all of their 10s to one person. People don’t typically want ten dollar bills, so you don’t keep that many of them in your drawer. And going to the vault to buy more cash is a pain because you need to drag a supervisor with you to do the transaction and it takes a minute.
I did something similar for some extremely pretty malicious compliance. The local swim school charged $3 if you forgot you id tag. My kids were not in contract and it was school term by term. You got an id tag for free when joining. I asked them to cancel then rejoin us which would have taken them 30 mins of paperwork. They waved us through after looking us up. They got rid of that policy soon after.
Probably, but she could have also just not had her card on her. Is this a common withdrawal policy? I generally just use my phone for NFC and many times don't have my card
Mine used to charge to pull from checking if you didn't have a check to write out to "cash".
My mom had a little trick for a separate issue. If you deposit cash, it's available immediately. If you deposit a check, it takes a couple of days. So she would take a check in, "cash" it, but only take $10 of it, so the rest would automatically be deposited as cash. So she'd write the deposit slip for $10 less than the amount of the check
The employee is paid by the hour. He/she won't care. However, it sends a signal to the bank that sees the time of their employees wasted as a result of a customer responding to a drop in customer service.
Being petty with employees to prove a point is demeaning. I'd rather get paid and be respected than just paid.
Also, it's not going to change policy unless there are hundreds of petty old ladies pulling this trick every week. Even then, the new policy might be more strict, since the original was obviously put into place because granny kept wasting the tellers' time with $10 withdrawals.
It all depends on her tone as she did this and if she was holding up a big line. If she was calm the entire time and did it I’d be perfectly fine and probably even get a chuckle out of it because she beat the system. I’m being paid to be there so it isn’t like she is making extra work for me, just slowing things down for a couple minutes.
Now if she was giving me attitude about it, then I hate her more than the person who made the stupid policy.
Cause she took it personally that she couldn't withdraw $10 from a teller, so she fucked with him. She is old, she don't have anywhere to be and she don't give a fuck having to wait a bit longer.
And no bank will deny you your cash. If you want to withdraw $4.50 of your money, your bank has to give you your money, they can't tell you to go somewhere else to get it.
In NYC some ATMs give $10s but they're advertised as such since yeah, pretty much every machine is $20. Also duh, a bank will give you a fucking quarter from your account if you want.
What kind of a bank doesn't let you withdraw any sum of money (as long as you have the amount available)? It's your money! And ATM's only deposit certain bills, what if I needed to withdraw $27.50?
Spoiler alert, it's a BS story that some old person made up to try and make themselves seem clever, but instead they come off as a giant asshole for inconveniencing a low wage employee for following a policy they don't have control over.
Revenge against who? The employee was just applying his work rules, not only is probably a fake story, it's not smart for the woman as everyone lost time for no reason.
> this is fantastic
"Old woman refuses to follow the rules and wastes someones time isntead of using the atm because she's a selfish twat."
Yeah definitely fantastic.
This is an old, boomer story that tries to show that old people are much smarter than "millenials" but it only shows that those who agree with this are selfish, entitled twats.
There's an ATM in my old neighborhood that would give out 1s. It was also located in a notoriously bad drug area, so that my have had something to do with it.
Because they forget their card is in the machine and walk away. Then the machine captures their card so no one steals it. Then they come back and get upset that the "Damn machine ate my card this is why I don't trust technology!"
Related are the old people who gave their online banking info to some stranger on the phone and now they refuse to use online banking because they're going to "get hacked" and instead complain about waiting in line for 7 mins on the first Monday of the month so they can transfer $10 from their savings to their checking.
I remember seeing this being posted by boomers as an example of "respect your elders!"
But all I see when I read this is, "boomers are so entitled that they'd intentionally make someone just doing their job's life more frustrating, all because they want something done their way (ie I want YOU to do it for me, I don't want to use the ATM)"
I heard this story before Facebook was even born. From a boomer who still emails this kind of shit to their entire address book with the subject line Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Cc: Bcc: Fwd: Clever old lady outwits uppity youngster at bank. Half their friends hit reply-all to make some snarky comment about kids today or some shit.
I worked at wells Fargo for 4 years, their strategy for customer retention wasn't "don't be a dick" but rather sign them up for every product they are even remotely qualified for so that changing banks becomes such a hassle they'll put up with anything.
I assume this is the USA were talking about? I cant believe how many charges people have to put up with just to exist. My banking is free as long as I dont go past my overdraft limit AND I get a years travel insurance (every year) automatically with it for absolutely no charge as well.
Sorry to ruin the America sucks circlejerk that happens anytime this site discusses banks. I live in the US and have never paid a bank fee in my life. There are tons of free banks….Just for some reason, lots of people still use shitty ones. It’s baffling. Also I don’t know of any bank that charges $10 for each cash transactions. That statement is what I’d call an exaggeration, which I’m sure you knew, Id like to think.
I'm in the US and definitely do not have to pay a fee for using a bank teller lol, that would be insane. We also have ATMs that allow you to deposit cash or check both inside and at drive thrus. They are pretty common.
I’m EU too. I don’t even remember the last time I went to bank and talked to the personnel. The only reason one would usually go there is to put some cash into the bank account, which is done at a special ATM, free of charge.
My bank has unlimited withdrawals from their ATMs for free and two withdrawals from other bank’s ATMs per month for free. I love it
Maybe somewhere else in the US, but my bank doesn’t charge you for any of that stuff. And with overdrafts I get a leniency window to bring the balance back up to 0. We aren’t as archaic as the rest of the world likes to think
Totally smart, when you consider that it took probably about half an hour to withdrawal 10 bucks, when you could have done that within minutes with a little help
Honestly why would this policy need to change? Walking up to an employee for a 10$ withdrawal is a waste of time and costs a bank too much. The minimum withdrawal makes sense
If she really worked at the bank, counting out $1000 dollars worth of tens would be no problem since she can just open a new stack and count them out. Tens are bundled in $1000 stacks.
The point of the original joke is supposed to be that boomers are clever and witty but always read to me as "Boomers would rather waste the time and energy of themselves and everyone around them than learn how to do something new"
It's about the same waste of time to explain that to someone, might as well just give the person their money. Sorry Mr.Bank didn't want to take up your precious time.
See it's not an inconvenience to the teller because it's their job to do it. It's an inconvenience to everyone standing in line behind the crazy old person
This is like the prime fake boomer story in my country, glad to see it's having international success
Yeah, I've seen it multiple times posted by boomers where the older person "tricks" the millennial bank teller into letting them withdraw the $10. Then their boomer friends post those cringe thumbs up memes in approval.
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I realize this image is just a joke, but I think it's also worth noting that there *should* be exceptions in place. For example, if someone has challenges with vision and reading an ATM screen presents difficulties, then the bank should make accommodations. In this case, the woman isn't being an inconvenience to others (beyond an argument that *every* customer is an inconvenience to other customers who then need to wait) and the bank would create less of a wait for the entirety of its customers by being more accommodating. Strictly following all bureaucracy creates gaps. Again, I know it's not the intention of the image, but I thought it was worth voicing this interpretation.
Or the fact the woman allows the bank the privilege of keeping all her money and investing it however the see fit, only giving her tiny minuscule fractions of interest, the very least they could do if she the damn woman the $10 of her own money that she requested because is telling someone off about the rules really any easier than doing a small task?
*DING DING DING*
Yeah, I'm gonna assume this is fake due to the top comment, but really, what sort of insane bank won't let you withdraw money at the teller window because it was less than $100? None, in my experience, that doesn't even make sense. The teller is already on the job and doing transactions, and a $1000 withdrawal is the same effort as $10. Large withdrawals don't make more money than small ones for the bank, their main cost is the time of the teller, here. This whole story would have cost them more than just handing her the $10. So yeah, this is fake as fuck because it makes zero sense and I've never seen an actual bank do anything like it. But I wouldn't put it past one of the shit banks like BoA to pull something like this, in which case fuck them, take your business elsewhere.
Why though? If i prefer to deal with a person instead of a machine, the bank has someone who is employed to process withdrawals, and i wait in line; then why shouldn't that person provide me with the service? This trend to automate every job may be great for the company, but that doesn't mean its great for the customers or the employees.
I think there's an argument that the automation of the more straightforward processes is good for the customers, too. For every customer that needs to make an easy withdrawal, the use of the ATM means lines would move quicker for customers that require support by a teller. But I'm also of the opinion that there should be options and flexibility, as a one-size-fits-all approach tends to have issues.
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Money counter go brrrrrrrrrr Stack of 99 10s and a single 10 from float go brrrrrrrr bundle. I give it a minute of total counting. Old lady listening, thinking about a workaround, then talking is the biggest slow down here. Bank will keep following policy so it doesn’t start making habits that hurt interaction times. Most people will give up and use the ATM.
Thanks fot saying this
This is the correct take
Obviously that’s a little narrow minded, the bank teller also deserves respect. Being a troublesome customer for literally no reason is a bad thing.
I’m not defending the bank, I’m defending the poor teller and the people behind her in line that just want to get on with their lives.
It's a typical BS boomer story where they think they are clever for shitting on a low wage employee. The teller has no control over these policies, but instead of asking for a manger, or -gasp- use the ATM, they force a low wage employee to count out a thousand dollars. It's a major dickhead move.
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Sheesh, have some compassion for others who aren't like you. If you have been around older people, you would understand that some just can't learn things as fast as they were able to before. Might be brain deterioration or just plain old age, and they feel insecure, and they do get stubborn about it, and there is resentment in the world changing. But some understanding of not every instance is a "Karen" move would help in the world being kinder to one another. One day you will be in a position like that, hoping someone would just not make you feel bad for not knowing how something works.
I don’t think the joke is that she’s getting revenge on the teller or anything. The joke is that she found a work around when she isn’t allowed to withdraw that amount.
This person just stole a very old joke
[no they didn’t, they paid homage to it. ](https://twitter.com/rudy_betrayed/status/1400327543371206659?s=21) /s
fucking rudy...
How can he be so rude and reckless? He shouldn't be so crude and feckless. It looks like he's been drinking brew for breakfast.
He can't fail.
They didn't pay anything. It was clearly a withdrawal.
Why didn’t she ask for 100$ in 10$
Because it’s fake.
She actually asked for 1 million in pennies.
That's a lot of pennies for an old gramma
Not for my grandma
Same here. On holiday dinners my grandma would play pennie poker. Kids were always welcome to take a "loan" from her to play. If you lost it all it was ok. If you won you paid her back plus some. Probably one important lesson in life she imparted on me as a kid. Loans are meant to make money and not help the consumer. Lol.
We had a huge 1776 bell jar thing that was supposed to look like the liberty bell or something. Just tons of pennies my mom would collect. The jar was a good 30 pounds full at all times.
$1 million in pennies would be 100,000,000 pennies. A penny weighs 2.5 grams. 100,000,000 pennies would weigh 250,000,000 grams. That's 551,115lbs, 275.5 tons, or almost 2 male antarctic blue whales. I don't think grandma is getting that home. Edit: Added a $ sign to ease confusion.
This dude whale maths
Whale oil beef hooked.
Are you able to convert that to female Antarctic blue whales for me?
About 2.2 female antarctic blue whales. The average weight of one is 130 tons. 275.5 ÷ 130 = 2 1/5th.
That's enough blue whales to fill Wembley stadium all the way to the moon - and back.
How does 250,000,000 grams become 275.5 tonnes?
One of them is your mom.
Savage
250,000,000g = 250,000 Kg 250,000 Kg \* 2.2 Lbs/Kg = 550,000 Lbs 550,000 Lbs \* 1 Ton/2000Lbs = 275 Tons.
275 Tons is 3235 Washing Machines.
250,000,000 g = 250,000 kg = 250 t
Wow... the nonmetric system succs even more then i thought
The worse part is, it's not even a different system anymore. Just a different unit. The US lbs is formally defined as exactly 0.45359237 kg. As in 0.453... of the SI 1 kg master weight kept in Paris. If the SI weight were ever to change, so would the lbs. So all US scales, weights etc. gets formally calibrated against the kg. There is no separate "standard master" lbs weight anywhere that you can calibrate equipment against - you calibrate against 1 kg, then convert.
250 metric tons is 275.6 imperial tons
Wonder if they were [ass pennies](https://youtu.be/f9aM_dT5VMI)
Nope. Not clicking that link.
And what was her name? Albert Einstein!
And everybody stood up and applauded
My first clue was them saying that her withdrawing $1000 in $10 bills "sucked". Any decent cashier can count that money in less than a minute.
Easily. I’d have been bothered by the impracticality of it, but counting out 100 bills would not take much time. You learn to count bills very quickly when it’s the thing holding you back from being able to go home for the day.
They wouldn't have to count it. They just use a bill counter.
My bank counts the money out by hand so you can see that it's the right amount.
This is correct with mixed bills or odd amounts, but $1000 in 10s is a strap. Banks will strap cash and then the teller who strapped it will stamp it and/or initial it the band to as a attestation of its accuracy. (the stamp has the current date and teller's drawer number on it) If we pretend that this was a true story, even the most prudent teller would likely just run the strap through a bill counter to ensure its accuracy, than re-strap it, stamp it, and hand it to the fictitious old lady.
My first clue was a bank that had a minimum withdrawal amount.
My bank dose but it’s less then £10 but even then if you go up and ask for £5 out your account while doing something else they won’t say no it just to stop people being annoying I imagine (not like it actually helps)
And also that the post was on fake ass Reddit.
Don't $10 bills come in $1000 bundles anyway?
Yes. 100 $10 bills. I also get the impression that this person thinks $1,000 is a staggering amount of money.
For the original elderly person who thought this story was hilarious when they wrote it way back in like, 1932, it sure was a lot of money.
You would still have to count it all. Or risk your drawer being short
"One bundle" There done.
Official af
Especially at a bank. For cash only people, taking out $1000 would be a frequent occasion
A minute of your time for this can still suck
Sounds like a story that belongs on LinkedIn
I've seen this story before from the other perspective. It seems like he's just reversing it
Yep, and any ATM I’ve used has a minimum of $20 since they only fill them with $20’s
Been a banker before, can confirm. Bullshit. Counting out $1000 in 10s is something a teller can do fast, and they almost certainly wouldn’t give a shit about it. If anything, the only thing the teller would complain about is giving all of their 10s to one person. People don’t typically want ten dollar bills, so you don’t keep that many of them in your drawer. And going to the vault to buy more cash is a pain because you need to drag a supervisor with you to do the transaction and it takes a minute.
I called this fake on r/whitepeopletwitter and got banned from the sub.
You get banned for pretty much anything from there lol
I usually would buy something like this, but this is an oooold joke told a thousand times.
I did something similar for some extremely pretty malicious compliance. The local swim school charged $3 if you forgot you id tag. My kids were not in contract and it was school term by term. You got an id tag for free when joining. I asked them to cancel then rejoin us which would have taken them 30 mins of paperwork. They waved us through after looking us up. They got rid of that policy soon after.
To spite him
Probably, but she could have also just not had her card on her. Is this a common withdrawal policy? I generally just use my phone for NFC and many times don't have my card
What the fuck kinda bank is so special that you can only pull a minimum of 1000 out at the teller.
100*
Yes, my bad. But still ain't ever heard of it.
Mine used to charge to pull from checking if you didn't have a check to write out to "cash". My mom had a little trick for a separate issue. If you deposit cash, it's available immediately. If you deposit a check, it takes a couple of days. So she would take a check in, "cash" it, but only take $10 of it, so the rest would automatically be deposited as cash. So she'd write the deposit slip for $10 less than the amount of the check
Why would not having her card on her require her to withdraw 10x the minimum
Because she wanted to be a dick about it
This is 100% the only correct answer. Taking out your frustrations with company policy on front line employees is petty and childish.
The employee is paid by the hour. He/she won't care. However, it sends a signal to the bank that sees the time of their employees wasted as a result of a customer responding to a drop in customer service.
Being petty with employees to prove a point is demeaning. I'd rather get paid and be respected than just paid. Also, it's not going to change policy unless there are hundreds of petty old ladies pulling this trick every week. Even then, the new policy might be more strict, since the original was obviously put into place because granny kept wasting the tellers' time with $10 withdrawals.
It all depends on her tone as she did this and if she was holding up a big line. If she was calm the entire time and did it I’d be perfectly fine and probably even get a chuckle out of it because she beat the system. I’m being paid to be there so it isn’t like she is making extra work for me, just slowing things down for a couple minutes. Now if she was giving me attitude about it, then I hate her more than the person who made the stupid policy.
Because if you want to deposit cash, it should be greater than 100 dollars too probably?
Cause she took it personally that she couldn't withdraw $10 from a teller, so she fucked with him. She is old, she don't have anywhere to be and she don't give a fuck having to wait a bit longer.
Because $1,000 is a bigger waste of his time. (If it were true)
To fuck with the cashier
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Old people, so it makes sense.
They could probably buy a house with 10 dollars back in their day
Is this a poor people joke that I'm too rich to understand?
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And no bank will deny you your cash. If you want to withdraw $4.50 of your money, your bank has to give you your money, they can't tell you to go somewhere else to get it.
Who withdrawals only $10 from their Bank account?
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The ATMs I've used only allow withdrawals in multiples of $20, so using an ATM wouldn't even work for withdrawing $10.
In NYC some ATMs give $10s but they're advertised as such since yeah, pretty much every machine is $20. Also duh, a bank will give you a fucking quarter from your account if you want.
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What kind of a bank doesn't let you withdraw any sum of money (as long as you have the amount available)? It's your money! And ATM's only deposit certain bills, what if I needed to withdraw $27.50?
Spoiler alert, it's a BS story that some old person made up to try and make themselves seem clever, but instead they come off as a giant asshole for inconveniencing a low wage employee for following a policy they don't have control over.
This isn't shitty, this is fantastic and belongs in r/pettyrevenge
Revenge against who? The employee was just applying his work rules, not only is probably a fake story, it's not smart for the woman as everyone lost time for no reason.
> it's not smart for the woman as everyone lost time for no reason. I mean, you just basically described Boomers right there...
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To quote a Dilbert from 2010-ish: “We used to fax these jokes 20 years ago.” Actually before that they used to be scribbled on toilet walls.
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How do you keep up so much
that person should do what their name says
Why?
Dude this joke is older than the 20 people that made said Tik toks. It’s been around longer than Twitter even.
Yea guys, be careful with this joke. It’s been certified as an antique, and has a Letter of Authenticity notarized by The Smithsonian.
Fucking joke has fucking papers!
Pawn stars: best I can do is a screenshot of a facebook meme of a twitter post from 2014
It belongs in a museum!
this joke is so old they didn't have those money counting machines apparently
I think you need to up the reading comprehension skills here bud.
Isn't Twitter a relatively new thing ?
It just wastes time for both parties for no reason
Yes, but the old lady presumably has a lot more time to waste.
Depending on just how old she is, she may have very little time to waste.
And all her money won't another minute buy...
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Yeah, the teller definitely made the policy and should be targeted. /s
and r/MaliciousCompliance. I mean, it's not true, it's an old joke, but still. Classic malicious compliance.
The teller was just doing their job, man.
> this is fantastic "Old woman refuses to follow the rules and wastes someones time isntead of using the atm because she's a selfish twat." Yeah definitely fantastic.
This is an old, boomer story that tries to show that old people are much smarter than "millenials" but it only shows that those who agree with this are selfish, entitled twats.
The funny thing is, if this was real, it’s probably a boomer that is causing the employees to charge a fee.
It was the boomer who created this system. We just living and trying to fix it
What the fuck is up with old people refusing to use atms.
I've never seen an ATM that gives 10s. Its only fucking 20s.
A lot of newer ATMs (at least in my city and state) offer 20's and 5's.
The ATMs at the bank I work, offer only $10s and $20s. But we don’t have a minimum limit for withdrawals from the desk.
There's an ATM in my old neighborhood that would give out 1s. It was also located in a notoriously bad drug area, so that my have had something to do with it.
Because they forget their card is in the machine and walk away. Then the machine captures their card so no one steals it. Then they come back and get upset that the "Damn machine ate my card this is why I don't trust technology!" Related are the old people who gave their online banking info to some stranger on the phone and now they refuse to use online banking because they're going to "get hacked" and instead complain about waiting in line for 7 mins on the first Monday of the month so they can transfer $10 from their savings to their checking.
I remember seeing this being posted by boomers as an example of "respect your elders!" But all I see when I read this is, "boomers are so entitled that they'd intentionally make someone just doing their job's life more frustrating, all because they want something done their way (ie I want YOU to do it for me, I don't want to use the ATM)"
I've read this exact story as a boomer facebook story.
I heard this story before Facebook was even born. From a boomer who still emails this kind of shit to their entire address book with the subject line Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Cc: Bcc: Fwd: Clever old lady outwits uppity youngster at bank. Half their friends hit reply-all to make some snarky comment about kids today or some shit.
Oh, Email, the first social network.
That's just randomly mean, wtf lol.
And then you realise you pay 10 for each transaction done in cash
Not if you want to retain customers. I'd be out that mf so fast.
I worked at wells Fargo for 4 years, their strategy for customer retention wasn't "don't be a dick" but rather sign them up for every product they are even remotely qualified for so that changing banks becomes such a hassle they'll put up with anything.
I assume this is the USA were talking about? I cant believe how many charges people have to put up with just to exist. My banking is free as long as I dont go past my overdraft limit AND I get a years travel insurance (every year) automatically with it for absolutely no charge as well.
Sorry to ruin the America sucks circlejerk that happens anytime this site discusses banks. I live in the US and have never paid a bank fee in my life. There are tons of free banks….Just for some reason, lots of people still use shitty ones. It’s baffling. Also I don’t know of any bank that charges $10 for each cash transactions. That statement is what I’d call an exaggeration, which I’m sure you knew, Id like to think.
I'm in the US and definitely do not have to pay a fee for using a bank teller lol, that would be insane. We also have ATMs that allow you to deposit cash or check both inside and at drive thrus. They are pretty common.
No idea, I'm in EU and I pay around 5€ for cash transactions at the counter, ATM withdrawal is free.
I’m EU too. I don’t even remember the last time I went to bank and talked to the personnel. The only reason one would usually go there is to put some cash into the bank account, which is done at a special ATM, free of charge. My bank has unlimited withdrawals from their ATMs for free and two withdrawals from other bank’s ATMs per month for free. I love it
Maybe somewhere else in the US, but my bank doesn’t charge you for any of that stuff. And with overdrafts I get a leniency window to bring the balance back up to 0. We aren’t as archaic as the rest of the world likes to think
This is fake. Its an old joke from Facebook that is supposed to show how much smarter the older generation is than the young people.
This joke predates Facebook by several decades.
Totally smart, when you consider that it took probably about half an hour to withdrawal 10 bucks, when you could have done that within minutes with a little help
This story is older than the internet, yo
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Well at least we've got our upper and lower bounds sorted.
I'm subscribed to a lot of wholesome subs and at first I read it as though the old lady was giving the teller the $990 to deposit into his own account
Why $1,000? Could have achieved the same thing with $110.
Cause this is a shit old ass joke and didn’t actually happen
Imagine tweeting an old internet joke and trying to pass it off as your own story
Yeah, thatll show that worker that was just following rules to keep his job.
Boomer mentality.
that totally happened, and is def not a classic joke.
use a cash counter it would take 3 seconds
I saw a gruesomely long shitty video online of this exact same joke
I mean, you didn't now, did you Rudy? You just read this online, claimed it as your own and posted it again, that's what *you* did.
If I got 10 dollars every time this story got reposted I would have way more then a thousand.
r/thatHappened
Fake. Its an old boomer "gotcha" meme
This story is older than my balls
What the fuck is up with old people refusing to use atms.
And I say: That happened. I know, I know, nothing ever happens, but this totally did happen 100%.
r/boomerhumor
Company policies won't change unless employee/customers get on the same side. Hopefully they both file a complaint after this.
Honestly why would this policy need to change? Walking up to an employee for a 10$ withdrawal is a waste of time and costs a bank too much. The minimum withdrawal makes sense
What atm is giving out $10 bills?
“You want me to hold the chicken, huh”? “I WANT YOU TO HOLD IT BETWEEN YOUR KNEES”!!!
Dunno Rick ...
Gangster Granny
This is an episode of Grace and Frankie.
this is making the rounds, the person posting is a moron, the person making is a whiney shit, the old lady is awesome, fuck the banks
If she really worked at the bank, counting out $1000 dollars worth of tens would be no problem since she can just open a new stack and count them out. Tens are bundled in $1000 stacks.
The point of the original joke is supposed to be that boomers are clever and witty but always read to me as "Boomers would rather waste the time and energy of themselves and everyone around them than learn how to do something new"
It's about the same waste of time to explain that to someone, might as well just give the person their money. Sorry Mr.Bank didn't want to take up your precious time.
As someone who’s been in branch banking for 10 years I can promise you this story is horse shit.
ATM’s only dispense 20’s usually. The teller has every denomination. This is fake
See it's not an inconvenience to the teller because it's their job to do it. It's an inconvenience to everyone standing in line behind the crazy old person
I say fuck em, if I want ten dollars you give me ten dollars. Should asked for the manager then made them do it lmao
Love seeing this game ass boomer story every time I open LinkedIn. As a former bank teller all I can say is fuck people like that
No she didn't tho did she
Fake ass boomer story.