Comments on: Graphic Artists Should Not Be Bankers

By: Rach

Rach — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:33:47 +0000

I am truly losing my friggin mind… I had all my friends at the bank read Matt’s comment- it was incredibly accurate and very funny. I’ll put Da Kine’s project at the top of my list.

By: Kin-Girl

Kin-Girl — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 02:24:34 +0000

I wish we got mail like this more often. It was a nice change from the usual junk and bills.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:22:35 +0000

I agree with Kin-Shay wholeheartedly on this one; graphic artists shouldn’t be bankers. I was the shittiest graphic artist/bank teller known to man. I never balanced my drawer, saw no reason to charge a little old lady $5 for a cashier’s check if she had an account with over $300,000 and I took it upon myself to talk people down from ledges when making poor finacial choices. Like the people with three accounts overdrawn in the thousands, two credit cards maxed out who were trying to make a cash advance on their Mastercard for $50. Conversations with these people usually went something like this:

“I could run this for, but you don’t want to do this.”
“Why not?”
“It’s not worth it, man. You’re in debt up to your goddamn ears. Save face. Instead of going out drinking, just go to the liquor store and steal something when the clerk isn’t looking. Drink the stolen hooch at home.”
“Yeah, you’re probably right”

My favorite story happened on a Friday evening (payday, first of the month and the teller line was out the door). A visibly intoxicated woman comes stumbling up to my window, asks for a withdrawl slip and fills it out for (you guessed it) $5. Of course, her account is in the negative $700. I inform of her of this and she breaks down and starts sobbing uncontrollably. Being the big softy that I am, I ask her to move aside and cry in the vacant teller window next to me as I need to help the “real” customers behind her.

Good times.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:15:15 +0000

It amuses me that Matt, who is our graphics guy at my job, was also a bank teller in a past life.
Perhaps it’s a standard right of passage for the graphics profession.

It also falls into the types of jobs I believe everyone should work at least once in their life, like retail and food service. The experience helps one from being an ass to other human beings.

By: sean

sean — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:41:30 +0000

It is not “esquire” -it is Gaelic that translates to “is queer”

By: Jenn

Jenn — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:42:48 +0000

Hey, I can post comments again!

All I did was search Google, you are the one who used brain power.

Comments feed is still broken.

By: kinyahbrutha

kinyahbrutha — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:07:16 +0000

since when are you an esquire ?

By: Kin-Shay

Kin-Shay — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:18:43 +0000

Jenn you marvel, that is the stamp exactly. Nice to know my analysis was correct too.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:01:58 +0000

Did your stamp look like this:
http://www.concealcarry.org/rubberstamp.htm

A quick Google search also led me to this site of a collector of various dollar bills stamps:
http://www.cruelty.com/money/

The “I Grew Hemp” one is pretty funny.