No. This is a bank

  • scops@reddthat.com
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    1 month ago

    I know some bank tellers who say they are taught to comply with ANY robbery instructions. Even if it’s as simple as someone slipping them a note saying, “This is a robbery” with no explicit threats. If they feel comfortable, they can slip him the marked bills or dye packs, but they won’t be punished if they don’t. Get the robber out, lock the door, call the cops.

    I could totally see the tellers recognizing the avocado for what it was and figuring it was on the cops to catch him, not theirs.

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      1 month ago

      How interesting! Which banks are these, by the way? So we know which ones are safest to work at, of course.

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      1 month ago

      Get the robber out, lock the door, call the cops.

      For us it was ‘hit the silent alarm as soon as it is safe to do so’ instead of calling the cops ourselves. Hitting the alarm would trigger a whole chain of events, which included alerting the cops, region manager and an emotional support team and sending out a notification to our intranet that your office would not be reachable for the rest of that day and the day after. It would also immediately notify the correct police departments, which was another reason why we were instructed to not call the alarm number.

      Our robber wrapped a plastic bag around his arm so probably didn’t have a firearm, but you simply do not take that risk. Although my colleague had to tell that nitwit that he walked into a branch office that didn’t handle money and had nothing on premises, which was clearly advertised at the door. It did have an ATM, but, as was also made very clear on the outside, we didn’t have access to that. Never seen somebody so confused, fortunately he 180’d out of there. We were lucky that it was probably just somebody who acted on an impulse, another office a few streets down had a real armed robbery, where one of my colleagues got a gun put to her head. Took her years to get her live back on track.

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    1 month ago

    “…for 32,000$, thus breaking even with the money he initially invested buying avocados to commit the heist”.

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    people are fucking sheep.

    “I HAVE A GRENADE! GIVE ME MONEY!” (it’s an avocado)

    “OH GOD! HERE! TAKE IT!”

    Still not as bad as that time Verizon handed over their customer’s data to some idiot that said he was an FBI agent. And in case it wasn’t obvious, he was a fraud and he didn’t have anything that looked like an official warrant either.

    • velvetThunder@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      Why would I protect some corporate property when somebody threatens me with an avocado.

      At least I hope he only robed the bank and not the employees wallets.

      • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Robbing the bank means you’re stealing money from regular people. That’s not the corporation’s money, that’s the bank-client’s money.

        Which means that the clients lose money and the banks get another reason to have free money from the tax payers.

        Double-theft where only the corporations win.