There is a social class gap happening here. On one end, I do think many people assume cash is dead because for some people that is true. On the other end, the cash economy is very much alive for many, many people.banks.
The top doesn't know the bottom exists and the bottom doesn't know the routine banking exchanges that people mostly in the middle execute but the folks on the bottom THINK they know how the top banks, based on social media and movies.
So lots of people are going on about why a rich man doesn't have a private banker or special banker at BoA. But they also don't know bank slips exist. Maybe the middle is gone.

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Let's also tackle this one. Maybe you've never been inside a bank branch or you're mostly an app person. Twelve thousand dollars is a lot of money for a lot of people. It is not a lot of money to a bank because they have all the monies. You don't ask a banker to withdraw $12,000
If your branch even has personal bankers in the branch (many of them do not, especially in minority communities), there is a wait to see one. If you wait to ask them to withdraw $12,000 they are going to walk up to the teller and have the teller do the withdrawal.
It makes no sense, therefore, to add 20 minutes to your bank visit when either of you is just going to the teller to do the transaction. And the banker (they're mostly called relationship managers now) will wonder why you wasted your time and theirs.
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This type of comment exhausts me. EXHAUSTS. It’s “why are you shopping at Fendi when you’re broke??” It doesn’t matter. It also isn’t bizarre behavior. And it does not matter.
I have worked as a credit union teller. I actually do withdraw large sums of cash often and have done so recently. I bank at BoA. Literally nothing about the teller or manager’s behavior is normal. Nothing.
It blows my mind that so many people think writing a note to a bank teller is criminal or strange behavior. I just did it six months ago.
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I am livid. I block them on all things.
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I really see the mask as a comfort now. I don't anticipate a total end to wearing it.
I haven't been extreme by any definition. I have been back to restaurants for months, within reason. I live alone and that really reduces my exponent. But I still don't like face-to-face airflow or recycled air.
And I haven't had a sinus infection in over two years now. I've had six a year since I was born. This is HUGE for me. Huge. Incalculable, really.
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Look at this.
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Same for men in New York who start trying to make me a third wife or do mathematics or whatever. As soon as I open my mouth, they kind of go away.
So, I may not be impervious to joining a cult but cults are definitely resistant to recruiting me. It all works out.
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