• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I’m pretty sure the joke is that she was inside the bank, likely talking to… A teller, asking about an automated teller machine.

    Just talk to the people inside and ask them to help you. It’s literally their job.

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      You’d think, but my bank is actively becoming hostile towards people walking in.

      My debit card literally never works at the ATM, so I just take the 2 minutes to walk in and fill out a withdrawal form. It’s fine for the occasional need for cash.

      Last time, they basically told me, in the future were requiring your debit card for security. There isn’t any reason for you to come in.

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        I just hand them my debit card inside and tell them what I want. Usually with an apology that I haven’t filled out a deposit/withdrawal form. Most of the time the teller will say it’s fine and the same amount of work for them either way. I’m sure it depends on the bank or branch, and I personally try to avoid the bigger banks like Bank of America or Chase just because their fees are so much higher and I hear their service is worse, so that’s probably a factor as well.

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      2 months ago

      Last time i talked to a teller, he walked me to a machine and explained me how it worked.

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            I try to avoid banks. They generally don’t make my life easier.

            Edit: I’ll add that, if tellers direct everyone to the ATM, so much so that the ATM is the only thing people use, then tellers won’t be needed anymore. Thus unemployed.

            Short story: when I was working grocery, at the tail end of my tenure was the start of the self-service checkout. The boss wanted us to encourage people to use self service checkouts. Nobody did, for obvious reasons.

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      2 months ago

      Just talk to the people inside

      Some banks literally charge a fee to do the same transaction that is cheaper/free at an ATM from what I’ve heard.

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          No, it doesn’t. You don’t have enough information to say something like that. Maybe the ATM fees they offer are the cheapest transaction fees in the city, and you are a customer who needs to optimize for transaction fee. Someone with those needs is going to prefer a bank that charges more for services that cost more to provide and offers a price break on services that are not as costly to provide.

    • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.caOP
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      2 months ago

      There are things that you can do at an ATM that you can’t do at some banks, or will have shorter overall wait times.

      You can’t always walk into a small credit union and withdraw money/deposit cash from a bank account with a different institution, but you can do that at their ATMs.

      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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        I find that regardless of bank, if you talk to a teller, you need to have an account with the bank you are physically in.

        There’s very little they can do for you without it.

        I’ve had banks I don’t have an account with occasionally replace a damaged dollar bill of some value or another, or do some limited currency conversion, eg, getting a roll of quarters or something, in exchange for the cash I have on hand… Beyond that, they basically tell you to leave.