Slow as snail...
By Toni
@toniganzon (78178)
Philippines
July 27, 2026 7:18am CST
Ever since I was a kid and I would go to the bank with my parents, I noticed how fast the bank tellers move. They count the money fast, they move quickly but accurately.
So, when my sister told me to go to the bank to check on our staff who went there to deposit our money, I was surprised to see this particular bank teller. She was moving extremely slow. Just like a snail. Even when placing the cash in the money counter, she did it in a very slow motion pace.
And she didn't mind that a lot of people were waiting on queue!
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@kareng (80471)
• United States
11h
@toniganzon I agree, especially if not experienced! She has to be a gf or relative of someone high up!
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@toniganzon (78178)
• Philippines
15h
Not new at all. She's in her 50s and nobody would hire a teller at that age.
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@toniganzon (78178)
• Philippines
8h
@kareng Probably. I'm sure she's not a gf but a relative, that's possible.
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@DaddyEvil (176367)
• United States
27 Jul
She'll either get faster with practice or her boss in the bank will tell her she's too slow and move her to a job that doesn't require speed and precision. If she still has problems with her next job in the bank, and they keep her, she's related to somebody in the bank management. That happens here all the time.
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@toniganzon (78178)
• Philippines
15h
She's in her 50s. Not old enough to be too slow and not young enough to be a newbie. I think it was her strategy to move slow coz I heard from one employee that a bank teller in that job does too many things other than just a bank teller. I think she was killing her time to avoid doing other jobs.
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@DaddyEvil (176367)
• United States
2h
@toniganzon That's entirely possible. Several jobs I've had sent faster employees to "help" slow employees. When they sent me to help slow ones, I slowed down to their pace or slower... One lady complained I was slower than her and I was put back on my normal job. I hated helping lazy people and made it clear that I would go as slow as that person if I was doing their job. One assistant manager told me he'd write me up if he caught me doing that. I told him I'd call the Home Office and complain if he didn't write up the person who needed help... He never wrote me up and never made me help anyone else.
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@celticeagle (191831)
• Boise, Idaho
13h
Slow is a good method when it comes to money.
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@celticeagle (191831)
• Boise, Idaho
8h
@toniganzon ......oh, I wasn't aware of that. I was thinking of old fashioned times, not present.
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@toniganzon (78178)
• Philippines
8h
@celticeagle Even when I was a kid and counting money was done manually, all the tellers I knew worked really fast. They really counted the money fast enough and they do it more than once to make sure they don't make mistakes. We would deposit hundreds and thousands of money twice a week and the lowest denomination of the bill was P5. And the highest was only P100.
But these days the highest denomination is P1000.
@toniganzon (78178)
• Philippines
8h
Not when you're a bank teller. That's why the newbies are not assigned as a teller but they're placed in the new accounts desk or information desk. And these days, the counting is done by the machine, not by a human. More reason for the teller to work faster. Not slow.
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@LooeyVille (59)
• United States
19h
There’s a cashier like that at a local store. She moves at a snails pace
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@toniganzon (78178)
• Philippines
15h
Is she still working as a cashier there? If my sister owned that store, she would have been fired already.
@toniganzon (78178)
• Philippines
15h
NOpe. It's not normal for a bank teller. They're usually accurate and move at a much faster pace. Not a slow snail pace because there are too many signs to do. And what they do doesn't require that much skill since everything is done electronically. They don't even count the money manually anymore unlike before. the job is too easy.
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