Two days ago, in a previous question, I told of how I went to the bank to cash a couple of checks and the teller, if I had not stopped him, was about to overpay me my over $600 big ones. Well, here's the problem. Had the teller done things the old fashioned way, by physically processing the check himself, this never would have happened. Today most banks use these check reading devices that does everything automatically. All the teller has to do is insert the check into the machine, where it immediately stamps it and the dollar amount of the check appears on the computer screen. All the teller has to do is give you the money and you are off. This is exactly what happened. However, the machine instead of reading the check as being $69.52, it read it as being $691.52. The teller was in training and his supervisor was right there with him walking him through the process step by step. In the end, the teller had to manually enter in the amount because the machine continued to misread it.
2006-07-26
12:30:53
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cave man
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