Calhoun07
07-30-2002, 05:20 PM
Well, as some of you may or may not know, I was on vacation for a couple of weeks, a couple of glorious weeks! I got back into the full time routine yesterday at the bank, my full time job. The day was pretty average and not as hectic or busy as a normal Monday.
Around 12:35 or so, the guy I work with in the drive thru went to lunch, so I was back in the drive thru by myself. In the lobby there were two tellers and my branch manager was standing between their two stations in the lobby, leaning against the counter, asking us about our referrals and leads and telling us she needs our sheets we keep track of those things on. So it's a slow time at the bank, there is nobody in there, and my manager is talking to us.
This guy comes in and walks right up to the middle window, just an inch or two from where my branch manager is standing, and he had this white paper bag in his hand, and he said, "Every one stay calm, this is a bank robbery." He was so nonchalant, so at ease, sounded like he was talking to us about the weather, nobody took him seriously. He repeated that this was a bank robbery, and handed the plastic bag, which was like one of those plastic bags you get from the grocery store, and told the teller to put her cash in there. He told us he wasn't going to hurt anybody as well.
Now I was standing in the drive thru, and you have to keep in mind the way our bank is set up, there is no partition dividing drive thru and lobby, it's all one open space. So I am staring at this guy trying the best I can to get a mental image of him, and he looks up at me and says, "DON'T MOVE!" Ooohhhkay, don't have to tell me twice! I moved my head back down and didn't look at him for the rest of the time he was there. I didn't want to aggrivate him any further. And he didn't show us a weapon, but my branch manager told us she saw he had a gun in the front of his pants that she could have gotten if she had been desperate. But of course the best thing to do is do what these guys tell you to do, keep calm, and get them out of there quickly as possible.
Well, I can't get into much more detail than that. But we shut down the bank, and within minutes the place had cops and over the next two hours, men and women from the police department, CSI, and FBI and even some of the higher ups in the bank came in and asked us questions.
I went to work that night at my second job, which wasn't as easy as I thought it was going to be. The entire time I am there, I am leery of anybody walking thru the door, waiting and wondering if I was going to see that guy come in and what I would do if I ever saw him again. Today has been a tad better, but you keep imagining what things may have been like if he had chosen to use his weapon. And you just need time to sort things out as well. So that's my day after vacation story.
Around 12:35 or so, the guy I work with in the drive thru went to lunch, so I was back in the drive thru by myself. In the lobby there were two tellers and my branch manager was standing between their two stations in the lobby, leaning against the counter, asking us about our referrals and leads and telling us she needs our sheets we keep track of those things on. So it's a slow time at the bank, there is nobody in there, and my manager is talking to us.
This guy comes in and walks right up to the middle window, just an inch or two from where my branch manager is standing, and he had this white paper bag in his hand, and he said, "Every one stay calm, this is a bank robbery." He was so nonchalant, so at ease, sounded like he was talking to us about the weather, nobody took him seriously. He repeated that this was a bank robbery, and handed the plastic bag, which was like one of those plastic bags you get from the grocery store, and told the teller to put her cash in there. He told us he wasn't going to hurt anybody as well.
Now I was standing in the drive thru, and you have to keep in mind the way our bank is set up, there is no partition dividing drive thru and lobby, it's all one open space. So I am staring at this guy trying the best I can to get a mental image of him, and he looks up at me and says, "DON'T MOVE!" Ooohhhkay, don't have to tell me twice! I moved my head back down and didn't look at him for the rest of the time he was there. I didn't want to aggrivate him any further. And he didn't show us a weapon, but my branch manager told us she saw he had a gun in the front of his pants that she could have gotten if she had been desperate. But of course the best thing to do is do what these guys tell you to do, keep calm, and get them out of there quickly as possible.
Well, I can't get into much more detail than that. But we shut down the bank, and within minutes the place had cops and over the next two hours, men and women from the police department, CSI, and FBI and even some of the higher ups in the bank came in and asked us questions.
I went to work that night at my second job, which wasn't as easy as I thought it was going to be. The entire time I am there, I am leery of anybody walking thru the door, waiting and wondering if I was going to see that guy come in and what I would do if I ever saw him again. Today has been a tad better, but you keep imagining what things may have been like if he had chosen to use his weapon. And you just need time to sort things out as well. So that's my day after vacation story.