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[apocalypsos]

So I go down to the bank to withdraw nearly all of my paycheck for my rent. Because it's not a long enough line already two days before Christmas, all three of the tellers were new. When I finally get a teller, he makes me run up to my apartment and get my driver's license. When he sees it's a Pennsylvania license, he makes me run up to the apartment again to get my voter registration card.

So, to be optimistic ... YAY! I win at not ripping off the head of a poor, defenseless bank teller with my bare, trembling hands anger management!

Comments

[spyderqueen.livejournal.com]

I swear banks have gotten so much more difficult to deal with lately. I've had my own problems with them

[xerne.livejournal.com]

You are a far better woman than I.

(I like small town banks. My local bank will let me access not only my account, but my girlfriend's, because we've been going in there for like two years now.)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I miss my hometown bank. I never had to whip out my ID, since the bank president was the father of my high-school boyfriend and I graduated with the son of one of the tellers.

[alexislogain.livejournal.com]

In defense of all bankers out there, we have very specific guidelines set up by the Federal Government that we have to follow. If we don't, we could get fined anywhere between 100,000 to 1,000,000. In addition, the employee could/would/should lose their jobs and possibly pay a fine and/or do jail time.

In addition to all of that joy, there is so much identity theft going on these days - so much theft in general - that I personally think that he should be commended for making sure it was really you instead of letting someone else into your account.

We do have regular customers that we recognize and don't use the same rules on them because we know who they are, much as how your hometown bank was. But, regardless, I'll make my best friend put in her P.I.N. number or take down her I.D. number just because downtown gets cranky if we don't.

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

Yay! You Win!