Thursday, October 16, 2008

Undressing your "customers" for your convenience

Seen posted on the window of the M&I Bank branch on Mill Avenue in Tempe, Arizona:


Seems a little extreme, doesn't it? Even my female companion at the time, who is of the liberal persuasion and professes not to mind the ever-increasing loss of civil liberties in this country, remarked that "That seems like a bit much".

None of this silly stuff is going to stop a determined bank robber anyway, so why make your Sun Belt customers with an armful of documents fumble with their sunglasses before entering, or force your patrons in more northerly climes to practically disrobe before coming inside to give you their business? What if the customer is wearing a pair of those eyeglasses that turn into sunglasses outdoors, and they're a little slow to change back once inside?

No, thanks. I bank at Wells Fargo, which doesn't have this insulting policy and isn't robbed more frequently as a result, and which is quite happy to handle the business of a legally armed patron such as myself.

1 comment:

Bike Bubba said...

No hoods? Yeah, that'll go over good at 20 below.