Ask deadbody About managing a bank in the Ghetto

[Howard Beale]

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It isn't 'Ghetto' if the bank doesn't have the tellers behind bullet-proof glass. Did you have these?



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For some reason, I don't see any bulletproof glass banks anymore. The last bank I saw that had them was one in a upper middle class neighborhood in Maryland. I even lived in, been to some rough neighborhoods since then and none have the glass.

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Probably because the staff is told to comply with the robbers every request. No need for bullet proof glass if you are gonna do whatever the robber asks anyways, gives them no reason to shoot you, and disturbs the customers who think the bank may not be safe because the need the glass.

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The Wells Fargo at Scottsdale Rd. and McDowell Road in Arizona installed these a year or so ago. I hadn't been in that branch in a long while. It felt like 'home' since I'd been in business in the South Bronx and all the banks had them. The teller told me they'd been robbed 4 times and since putting in the glass the robbers must be going somewhere else because it's deterred them. I always wondered about that because a robber could always grab an employee or customer and, with a gun to their head, rob the place anyway.