Random Blahs

What an exausting two weeks these have been. Talk about getting my moneys worth from my shit job. The thing is, ive been working at this bank for two months now. But i didnt get to go directly into training because the training department was waiting for HR to hire new people so that i wouldnt be the only ass wasting a trainers time, on little old me. They like to have minimum 3 people in a teller training course. (which is two weeks long)

Anyways, i have basically been chilling on 69 hrs worth of paychecks (i never even got to get my 80 hours) the first two weeks it was cool cause i didnt really do anything, but then the days starting dragging and i was really suffering. So i started helping in anyway i could around and becoming a great goafer to these people.

After a month my supervisor thought it was about that time for me to start handling transactions, so i did and then finally they started hiring people and i was given a date to go to training. So last week i began this stupid training where apparently the HR lady doesnt like to tell people that if you dont pass the exams they give you in training you get fired on the last day of training, cause everyday you have a test on the material learned the previous day and then you get a final. 20 minutes after grading your shit if you dont get a passing grade they tell you,

"thank you very much now get the fuck out, youre fired"

Needless, to say i got a 100 on each test and a 97 in the final. So i passed, and the trainer took us out to lunch at Fridays. It was a nice gesture. Anywho - the trainer is only the most coolest guy ever and he really makes you get a love for banking and everything that has to do with it, including robbery stories, so incredible and movielike yet unbelievablly true.

I have also grown a love for money. Not your typical "i love money so much i wanna live the lotto and sip tequilas in crystal glasses" type love, but a collectors love for money and also historian. I mean, did you realize that Benjamin Franklin and Martha Washington were the only non presidents of the united states to be on the US bills. And did you know that there were real larger denominations of money, like the $500, $1000, $5000, $10000, $100000. They were mostly made for certifications of silver and gold and the larger bills were used to serve as circulatory currency with in banks.
Im telling you it gets more interesting as i go along.

President Richard Nixon removed the large bills from circulation as an executive order in 1969 in order to combat organized crime.

Well, you get the point, real interesting things like that. That make me think about how little we are really taught in school about all the things we see as uninteresting, like how currency was created in the US. I really want to also brush up on my history on the US, cause honestly i dont remember what the names of christopher columbus' ships are. And im only 24.....Our generation of kids will basically think that cell phones always existed...and im one to have seen them come into my generation, but these new kids didnt and are dumb as a rock. I think it would be a great idea to teach a course in money and the history of it and talk about how Andrew Jackson and Alexander Hamilton hated each other and fought against each other to create a banking system in the US. Its crazy,,,, i know im sounding like such a nerd but it really is interesting shit.

By the way, the new $5 dollar bills came out this month. And they are beautiful! the purple 5 dollar Lincolns are reall people, chill out. They were actually printed in 06 but came out this year. Cool huh? Take a look at it,, look how pretty they are.



Long story short, about the beginning of my blog, its been exausting waking up super early to catch traffic in the mornings towards the airport, having to driive back home, then have family invading visiting and invading personal space, and escaping to the gym to get away from it all, to only be sore as hell, and then be panicked the whole time that youre pregnant, and then find out that your not by ending the with your period, and then finally going back to work at my branch to have it be on Good Friday and be blessed by a suprise that we leave early at 3pm. istead of 6 pm :) God loves me.