An interesting day at work

Yes, that's right folks, working at a bank can be interesting.

Today started out as another typical stressful yet boring day. We as a banking center were short of our quarterly goal for credit cards by 16 cards this morning. (Tomorrow is the last day of the quarter.) We as personal bankers have been working our tails off the last few weeks trying to close our credit card gap, so we were pretty excited to get down to 16. Other banking centers began volunteering their help last night, and with their help and a little elbow grease from me and a TON from Robert, we ended the day ONE credit card short of our goal. Wooohooo!! That means that tomorrow if ANYONE gets a credit card, our banking center makes its goal and funds for a bonus. Let me tell you, we personal bankers were pretty enthusiastic when we walked out of work (an hour late) today. We are wiped out, exhausted, and frustrated by the lack of customer volume, but very excited that our hard work is going to pay off. If of 18 people working tomorrow, NO ONE gets a credit card, then we really don't deserve to fund. But it's a Saturday, so we'll be busy, plus with Robert working, well there's just no way we won't get it.

Now for the interesting part. Michelle (my manager) thought she'd given us a young man's information to open a checking account and he came in to cash his check today. Well, somehow, it slipped by all three of us, and the account was never opened. So I sat him down to go ahead and set him up. He was easy to talk to and as we were chatting he somehow got out of me that I am getting a divorce. He was shocked. (Or he was at least he was a very good actor...) Anyway, he kept saying, "I can't believe anybody'd be willing to give up a girl as pretty as you." I said, "Well, really, I left him," to which he replied, "If I had a girl as pretty as you I'd never let that happen." He kept trying to flirt; to see if I'd be interested I guess in possibly going out. But as my divorce isn't final yet, that's a definite no. Plus even though he himself was pretty good looking, I wasn't attracted to him. (I could smell his cologne from across my desk! Yuck!!) I was trying to be polite and I guess he thought he was embarrassing me. I told him I just hadn't flirted in a really long time, but thanks for the ego booster. It really was an ego booster. It made me feel really good that somebody (besides my super supportive family members) thought I was pretty. It totally trumped all the stress I've had this week.

The other fantabulous part of my day was I got to see an old friend. Ben, one of our former pb's who got promoted last fall came by for a visit. I hadn't seen him since our big divisional meeting last January. It was exciting to catch up. He is doing well in his new position and I am very glad for him. He was very supportive of me when I was a teller and especially when I was a new pb. If it weren't for him and Luci, I don't know how I would have survived the transition from teller to pb.

Now that I think about it, I guess today was pretty darn interesting. It was just as tough but much more fun that most other days. It's the rare days like today that make me remember why I do what I do.