Bank staff under threat due to cash shortage
Published: 2 Sep 11 14:56 CET | Print version
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Swedish banking giant Nordea’s decision to stop all cash handling at certain offices is exposing staff to threats and offensive behaviour, according to the Financial Sector Union of Sweden (Finansförbundet).
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She said that the threats are often verbal, customers complaining about the drop in service.
“It can be anything from personal slurs to more concrete criticism,“ she said to SR.
In many instances guards have been called to solve threatening situations and the union now urges all its members to report any threat they feel directed at them.
But according to the head of information at Nordea, Helena Östman, the threats that have been reported have nothing to do with queues or waiting times.
“The small number of threats that staff have received is about other things. Some customers can get very irate with the personal questions that we are obliged to ask due to money laundering laws,” she said to TT.
Today Nordea has 200 offices that handle cash.
It is, among other things, the risk of robbery that has made the bank actively work to decrease the cash handling in many offices.
Customers are also increasingly doing their banking online, according to the bank.
“We have great understanding for customers getting irritated by the long waits, but in general queuing times haven’t increased,” said Östman to news agency TT.
But Gunilla Klingberg, a Nordea customer, turned around when she realized how long she was going to have to wait to cash a cheque.
“It is remarkable. I think that there are 40 numbers before me. They’ve just closed down the service at my local office so I cycled over here to get cash. So, this is very bad service,” she said to SR.
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Let a bank who wants the business take over.
In general, I have found service in Sweden to be overwhelmingly lousy. The Swedbank nearest me closes its doors at 4pm (1600) on weekdays. I don't know about you, but I don't leave work until 4pm. Or later. Either they want me to use my lunch hour to do my banking, which is bad because every other working stiff has to do that, too (imagine the lunch-time queues); or they want me to use my work time to do my banking, which lowers my salary or my productivity/efficiency or both (thus slowing the economy); or they only want to serve retired people and the homeless. Genius. Pure genius.
Keep what cash that you need for your monthly expenses, and make one trip every month to deposit money in an account in Luxembourg.
The banking there has superior advantages to most banks, and when enough Swedes began to bank out of the country, the banking in Sweden will improve over night.
Luxembourg would be glad to have your banking, and perhaps devise a method whereby you could wire funds to your account as well.
The banks in Sweden are not doing anything for you, so go elsewhere.