Today I went to an ATM to withdraw some cash. I had my card out anyway. But there was a lady in the bank lobby telling me that the ATM wasn't working. But also that I couldn't go into the bank. Because right now you can't get into any bank lobby without an appointment. No exceptions apparently.
Banks could ask why stores of comparable size can have, say, fifteen customers inside and they're apparently capped at zero. They could also petition to get the ban lifted now that infection rates are shown to be dropping, which was true basically at the time the law(?) went into effect. There are lots of potential reasons why they haven't objected, but the simplest and therefore the most probable according to Occam's razor is that they don't object because they have no objections. They've decided that the day-to-day business of their average customer isn't worth the time of their tellers, now or later.
I hope I'm wrong, because if I'm right a lot of people are going to be displaced. There's only so many people they need for loan interviews.
Banks could ask why stores of comparable size can have, say, fifteen customers inside and they're apparently capped at zero. They could also petition to get the ban lifted now that infection rates are shown to be dropping, which was true basically at the time the law(?) went into effect. There are lots of potential reasons why they haven't objected, but the simplest and therefore the most probable according to Occam's razor is that they don't object because they have no objections. They've decided that the day-to-day business of their average customer isn't worth the time of their tellers, now or later.
I hope I'm wrong, because if I'm right a lot of people are going to be displaced. There's only so many people they need for loan interviews.
2 comments:
It occurred to me that your bank may be acting out of caution what with all the disruptions that have been going on in some American cities. Hopefully, this will prove to be temporary and when things settle down you'll soon have your usual access. Strange times.
That was a very nice video you found of Pt Pleasant Park. Unsurprisingly, he missed a number of our favorite areas but you got the general idea. There were indeed lots of sailboats.
Well the banks being closed to regular customers as a policy predates the civic unrest by a few weeks. In RI it does seem to be a regulation. Probably in some other states too. But it's annoying to customers and I've heard from others, and with other businesses loosening their restrictions it's a weird anomaly.
And (changing subject here to match your second paragraph) that's actually the nice thing. When you have a favorite place like that you'll know more than will show in a video. Unless maybe you made it.
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