pinhead bank people...

[markmopar]

How hard is it to remember to place an order for a customer?

This week BOTH of my banks forgot to order my halfs.

Then my primary bank main branch tells me that they may not be able to order any on a weekly basis. the teller syas they are only allowed to have a certain amount of money on hand at any time and my measly $500 order might screw them up. I have to call the manager Monday.

Pickings were slim today, too. Half a dozen banks got me $115 but only yielded one 40%.

 

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[jewelerdave]

Sounds like more signs of the future and things to come, we are slowly being worked into a Cashless system, its cheaper.

Less to search though, less sliver, more competition, and new corporate policies. inflation, All eroding this hobby away.

just think 20 years from now people will talk about how in the mid to late 0's you could find silver in boxes. back when there was still cash some of the old money was mixed in with the new.
talk about how back when they had coins. And how back then $500 an hour for minimum wage was unthinkable as it was just $6 then.
A $100 bill will be as valuable as a one dollar bill is today.

 

[Codes]

I don't think we should be calling people at our banks "pinheads." After all, they are the ones that make this hobby possible.

Maybe they should just stop ordering coins altogether so they don't get insulted. Wouldn't that solve the problem?

 

[bigtime400]

Im with you markmopar. If you can't vent your frustrations with fellow CRHers then who the heck can ya!? I understand their ideas about you catch more bees with honey then vinegar, and I think you should always be polite and civil and not just to tellers so they give you halves. But this is our forum...

I went to the bank today to pick up my halves last week when I went in the teller told me they didn't have them. She was appoligetic. I just said "thats ok..no big deal... its just if I had known they weren't here I wouldnt have drove over here but I got some shopping to do anyway so its cool" Which I did. But when I went and asked for my halves today the one teller told me they were actually there from last week and she didnt know how she couldnt find them. So they were there the whole time.

 

[jewelerdave]

Sometimes always the tellers just dont know,

one bank I had asked about halves for a while back said they had none, I checked with them a month later, still none.
I went in last week and asked again, they said no, I asked if I could buy the ones in there bag. They said, let me check, They came back and said they had $930 in back rolled.

HUH

I said Id take them, and asked how long they had had them, They said they had been back there for like 2 years.

Pulled a decent amount of silver out. But still, some tellers are just clueless. It pays to know the right questions to ask, This is how I am able to line my pockets with silver and thousands of dollars!

 

[markmopar]

I don't think we should be calling people at our banks "pinheads." After all, they are the ones that make this hobby possible.

Maybe they should just stop ordering coins altogether so they don't get insulted. Wouldn't that solve the problem?

They are indeed pinheads when they don't do their JOBS. Both of these banks specifically told me they would make sure they placed the orders-and then they didn't do it.
How hard can it possibly be?
Beside, I didn't actually call them pinheads in person. How stupid would I be then? No chance of getting anything then. I am ALWAYS polite and accommodating when dealing with people, even when they screw me over(see my post about getting screwed http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,142957.0.html ). I do expect them to do their jobs.

 

[Silver_Fox]

I don't think we should be calling people at our banks "pinheads." After all, they are the ones that make this hobby possible.

Maybe they should just stop ordering coins altogether so they don't get insulted. Wouldn't that solve the problem?

They are indeed pinheads when they don't do their JOBS. Both of these banks specifically told me they would make sure they placed the orders-and then they didn't do it.
How hard can it possibly be?
Beside, I didn't actually call them pinheads in person. How stupid would I be then? No chance of getting anything then. I am ALWAYS polite and accommodating when dealing with people, even when they screw me over(see my post about getting screwed http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,142957.0.html ). I do expect them to do their jobs.

Maybe YOU should just think about quiting. A hobby is supposed to be fun. Doesn't sound like to much fun for YOU.........LOL

 

[markmopar]

I'm enjoying the hobby just fine. I just have a low tolerance for pinheads.
It has been a little low-and I haven't even been doing this long.

 

[Cat J]

Actually the banks tell me it is not their job to order money for you. Only businesses. They are not in the business of ordering money.

Oh well
Cat

 

[markmopar]

When they agree to perform the transaction it BECOMES their job.
Kinda like when I agree to fix someones bike. It is now my job to fix it. I can't just 'forget' to do the job. Makes people testy.

 

[Silver_Fox]

I'm enjoying the hobby just fine. I just have a low tolerance for pinheads.
It has been a little low-and I haven't even been doing this long.

So what exactly is a pinhead? You sure like throwing that name around. Do you think sometimes people think you are a pinhead? Would you like someone in your family to be called a pinhead? Do you fix bikes for a living? Just curious.

 

[Cat J]

Actually it is not their job it is a service for their customers that they can decide not to do at anytime. It is like the complimentary coffee or popcorn you can get at the bank. If someone forgets to make it that morning then you don't get any and it is no big deal to them. ANd unless we a nice to them they might forget to order everytime. Think about it. A change of attitude may be in order. Maybe you got off on the wrong foot with this person why not pick and new bank and start over with a different attitude and see if that helps.

Good Luck

Cat

 

[jewelerdave]

CatJ is Right.

Its all about attitude,
Early on I blew it with a couple banks. But quickly found out how far you can get just by having the right attitude.

There is another CRH in my neck of the woods that the banks dont like at all. he is an old man, who is greedy, inconsiderate to the tellers and the tellers say that he reminds them of a Child Molester, or comes across like one.
This is one of the reasons why I am so cruel to my competition and am always demoralizing him and making his life difficult, he ruins it for local bank tellers and causes problems around here.

I cracked up the first time one of the tellers told me that he looked like a Child Molester, but whats kinda scary, is that I have heard the same thing from other tellers at other banks say the same comment...yikes. thats a bad reputation to have.

I am just glad I have a network of tellers that save me things from non US coins to Silver!
he does not get that lol

 

[markmopar]

I'm enjoying the hobby just fine. I just have a low tolerance for pinheads.
It has been a little low-and I haven't even been doing this long.

So what exactly is a pinhead? You sure like throwing that name around. Do you think sometimes people think you are a pinhead? Would you like someone in your family to be called a pinhead? Do you fix bikes for a living? Just curious.

Yes, I do "throw that name around". It's much more kind than I usually use due to so many 'delicate eyes' reading. Don't like it? Don't read my posts or put me on 'ignore'. I have insulted no one here. And before you ask, yes, I would tell someone to their face that I think they are a pinhead. I wouldn't say something here that I wouldn't say in person.
I'm sure some think I'm a pinhead now and then and they are probably right, We all are sometimes.
Some of my family are pinheads at times. Do I care if someone calls them pinheads? NO. I also don't care if they call me one-especially if I am one at the time.

Yes I do fix bikes. Older Harleys and Brit bikes. I also build/fix musclecars and hot rods. I also deal in car and bike parts and drive trucks(18 wheelers and dump)

 

[markmopar]

Actually it is not their job it is a service for their customers that they can decide not to do at anytime. It is like the complimentary coffee or popcorn you can get at the bank. If someone forgets to make it that morning then you don't get any and it is no big deal to them. ANd unless we a nice to them they might forget to order everytime. Think about it. A change of attitude may be in order. Maybe you got off on the wrong foot with this person why not pick and new bank and start over with a different attitude and see if that helps.

Good Luck

Cat

Again, when they agree to perform an action for a customer, that action BECOMES a part of their job. They can decline to do it beforehand and that is fine. They can decide not to do it afterward and that is fine also. Just plain forgetting is not doing the job agreed to.
I have said before and will repeat- I am ALWAYS very polite and courteous when dealing with the bank people. I don't get huffy when they forget. I smile and thank them anyway. In this case, I never even met the person that was to make the order. It was placed through a manager at another branch. When she called to make sure I had picked up the order and I told her what had happened, we shared a laugh.

 

[markmopar]

CatJ is Right.

Its all about attitude,
Early on I blew it with a couple banks. But quickly found out how far you can get just by having the right attitude.

There is another CRH in my neck of the woods that the banks dont like at all. he is an old man, who is greedy, inconsiderate to the tellers and the tellers say that he reminds them of a Child Molester, or comes across like one.
This is one of the reasons why I am so cruel to my competition and am always demoralizing him and making his life difficult, he ruins it for local bank tellers and causes problems around here.

I cracked up the first time one of the tellers told me that he looked like a Child Molester, but whats kinda scary, is that I have heard the same thing from other tellers at other banks say the same comment...yikes. thats a bad reputation to have.

I am just glad I have a network of tellers that save me things from non US coins to Silver!
he does not get that lol

I know what you're saying.
One of the tellers nearby was telling me about a guy that comes in looking for coins about once a month. They hate him because he's so miserable and rude(not to mention the smell). They are now holding stuff for me instead.

 

[Cat J]

I use to have a 69 Cougar Convertible. I loved that car. Wish I could get another one. It was custom made with black leather seats 8 track tape deck. Canary yellow with black top. I had an Afghan hound that would ride in the front passenger seat and everyone thought from the back that it was two girls. LOL We would cruise down the freeway listening to Neilson Smelson... Put the Lime in da Coconut and drink it all down.... LOL

Thanks for the memory
Cat

 

[markmopar]

I've always liked the Cougar but never owned a Ford/Mercury.
Funny you should mention yellow convertibles! I have a 1964 Dodge Polara convert. It's apart for restoration right now. Here are a couple of my other rides-

my 1966 Plymouth Fury III owned since 1988

my 1969 Coronet

and my 1973 harley Sportster

 

[Goes4ever]

well Mark I tend to agree with you, we are the customer and they are there to SERVE us, I havein the past removed all my money from a certain bank because they had "pinhead" tellers....lol

 

[Cat J]

My husband drove a 67 Malibu when we were dating. My first car was a 62 Chevy impala. I use to work on it myself. I took auto machanics in high school... LOL I would get calls for a date and my mother would tell them I was out working on my car. It had a carberator that would stick. I remember one night my car died at the light right in front of the gas station and all the guys were standing there laughing at me just knowing I would come and ask for help. I got out of the car opened the hood took the air filter off and stuck an ink pen in the butterfly. Got back in and fired it right up. So I rebuilt the carberator. The car also had a small exhaust leak at the intake manifold which made it sound like an airplane. When driving to Florida for Spring Break I had a guy at a station tell me the car needed major work and we would never make it to Florida. He came up with some bull crap that I KNEW was out of line. He said it would blow up if I did not let him fix it that night for $800. I laughted and took off. Never had a problem.

You sure can not work on cars today like you could then.

You have some nice rides.

Thanks for sharing
Cat