"Yes… 'banker' really does rhyme with w_ _ker!"

Check out this priceless little excerpt from an article in the New Zealand Herald recently…

"An Auckland, New Zealand man thought it was an April Fool's joke when an ASB bank teller tried to charge him $5 to split a $20 note. Only thing was… it wasn't April 1!

"I was shocked," said business college lecturer Peter Brown after making the request at the ASB in Lynnmall Shopping Centre, New Lynn.

I thought he was joking and I said, 'This isn't April 1, you know. You've got to be kidding'…… 

ASB has a policy of charging non-ASB customers $5 to change cash, but only in certain circumstances, such as retailers changing large sums of money.

Mr Brown went to the bank at the weekend to break a $20 note into two $10 notes. The teller told him it was the bank's policy to charge $5 because he did not have an ASB account. When Mr Brown asked if it was a joke, the teller re-iterated the bank's policy with a "frozen smile".

"I've never had that experience," Mr Brown said. "With this attitude to the currency of New Zealand and its citizens, I will not exactly be hurrying to open an account with this bank."

Mr Brown persisted and eventually had his money changed without charge, though the teller added, "We're not meant to do this".

Can you believe what you just read???

That's a classic example of why they say… "banker rhymes with wanker". It's also just another in a long list of reasons why - after more than a decade - "I" chose to get out of the banking industry for good!

Ok, to be fair, i'm sure that banks the world over have their fair share of ignorant morons who deal with the unsuspecting public on a daily basis. Not just ASB!

However, it does concern me that an alarmingly high number of banks in this country have actually threatened to overtake supermarkets and fast food chains in their seemingly relentless quest to hire the most 'intellectually bewildered' staff per capita of any industry in existence!

Put yourself in Peter Brown's shoes… I mean, let's face it; if YOU walked into a bank and politely asked the teller to split a twenty dollar note into two tens, and then got charged a 25% fee for the privilege, how the f**k would YOU feel???

I know this much for sure - I'd be wiping that bank teller off my Christmas card list faster than Donald Rumsfeld could avoid answering a direct question at a press conference!!!

 

 

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