Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a fabulous New Years! I hope that 2010 is even better than 2009.
I'll leave you with one last thought for 2009.
Via furk
Friday, December 18, 2009
Hasta la vista baby!
I am off to Mexico for the next two weeks. I am packed & anxiously waiting for my mom and sister to come by and pick me up. I have looked forward to this trip since I bought the tickets back in October. Many celebrations will be taking place starting tomorrow and I hope my 30 year old self can handle them. Ha!
Friday, December 11, 2009
A Day of Ups & Downs
Nobody told me there'd be days like these.
I had been looking forward to Tuesday since I had plans to meet with some of my old coworkers at one of our favorite Mexican restaurants and have our annual holiday dinner. This is the 3rd year that we get together. Whenever we get together throughout the year, we always have a lot of fun. But something spoiled my fun that day. At around 11:30 am, the branch where I have been working out of got robbed at gun point. Now, I have been in banking for 10+ years and this is the first time I have been at the location where the robbery happened. It was surreal.
My office (which has glass walls and door) is right behind the teller line and out of the corner of my eye, I saw this black shadow move over the teller line. I looked up from the documentation I was reviewing and found myself staring at two men all in black with ski masks and a gun. One of them stayed in the lobby and pointed the gun at the staff (myself included) and the other jumped over the counter and was demanding that the tellers open up their cash drawers & he was removing the money from the cash drawers. They were only in there for a minute (we looked at the security tapes) but it felt like the longest minute ever. Part of me felt like I was watching a movie. Like this couldn't be happening to me. The police & FBI arrived three minutes later. They probably won't catch these losers since there isn't much to go on. On the security tapes, they are two shadows. Thankfully nothing happened to any of us. One of the tellers is a young gal in her early 20's and she was clearly shaken up. We closed the branch and had to do cash counts and cooperate with the police with all their questions. They were taking pictures of the branch and interviewing all of us.
For the rest of the day, I think we were all in a daze. And even during dinner with my friends, I still couldn't get this event out of my mind. I did manage to have some fun thanks in part to the mojitos I was drinking but I kept thinking about that effin' gun being pointed at us. I just felt so helpless. It's what pisses me off the most.
I had been looking forward to Tuesday since I had plans to meet with some of my old coworkers at one of our favorite Mexican restaurants and have our annual holiday dinner. This is the 3rd year that we get together. Whenever we get together throughout the year, we always have a lot of fun. But something spoiled my fun that day. At around 11:30 am, the branch where I have been working out of got robbed at gun point. Now, I have been in banking for 10+ years and this is the first time I have been at the location where the robbery happened. It was surreal.
My office (which has glass walls and door) is right behind the teller line and out of the corner of my eye, I saw this black shadow move over the teller line. I looked up from the documentation I was reviewing and found myself staring at two men all in black with ski masks and a gun. One of them stayed in the lobby and pointed the gun at the staff (myself included) and the other jumped over the counter and was demanding that the tellers open up their cash drawers & he was removing the money from the cash drawers. They were only in there for a minute (we looked at the security tapes) but it felt like the longest minute ever. Part of me felt like I was watching a movie. Like this couldn't be happening to me. The police & FBI arrived three minutes later. They probably won't catch these losers since there isn't much to go on. On the security tapes, they are two shadows. Thankfully nothing happened to any of us. One of the tellers is a young gal in her early 20's and she was clearly shaken up. We closed the branch and had to do cash counts and cooperate with the police with all their questions. They were taking pictures of the branch and interviewing all of us.
For the rest of the day, I think we were all in a daze. And even during dinner with my friends, I still couldn't get this event out of my mind. I did manage to have some fun thanks in part to the mojitos I was drinking but I kept thinking about that effin' gun being pointed at us. I just felt so helpless. It's what pisses me off the most.
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