Wells Fargo Moral DilemmaFollow

So occasionally my boss has me run to the bank to deposit a few checks for co-workers that are out of town on special projects. (Why we don't have direct deposit is beyond me)

So I pull up to an empty lane and hit the Call button. The teller gets on the intercom and tells me a tube is on it's way. I reach out and grab the tube and inside is 6 - 100 dollar bills](cha-ching!) and a deposit slip inside.

Here's where it gets complicated.

My immediate thought is "Take the money and run fool!" I check the location of the cameras and to see who else might be watching. It appears I'm golden. I can grab and go, yet I can't make my hand reach out and put the truck into drive. I sit in the cab for a good 5 minutes, which feels like a year, pondering... What if this was my money and someone else found it in the same manner? What would they do? I would love to think that they would do the same thing I did. I put it back in the tube and told the teller.

She was a bit shocked that I would return it because she had no idea it was there.(FU[/red]CK!) She called me honest or something, I didn't really hear her that well. I was to busy kicking my own as[red]s.

In the end I feel empty and that would have made a nice addition to my new TeeVee fund (Saving for a 42'' Sony Plasma)


So Asylumites, what would have done?

Edited for clarity. 6 - 100 > 6, 100

Edited, Fri Feb 24 17:32:36 2006 by Kaelesh

Pocket that sh[Aliceblue][/Aliceblue]it. If it were a piece of paper, you would have never thought twice about removing it and disposing of it. That paper just happend to have green printing on it.




Edited, Fri Feb 24 15:56:43 2006 by Elderon

Filled out a deposit ticket for yourself, cash $600. You wouldn't even have to had touched the money.

It wasn't the banks money, it was some couples.



Not really, it's not a crime to keep something you found on the street. I kind of put it up along those lines. I sent it back because I thought about if it was my money, I would love for someone to have sent it back also.

Tit for tat. Karma does come 'round.

Like I said. It wasn't the banks money. It was some couple's cash. I more then likely would have taken it IF it didn't have a Deposit Slip in it with peoples names on it. That made it hit a bit closer to reality. I wasn't "ripping off a bank" just some couple that is trying to survive like the rest of us. (Of course I don't know that for sure, could have been some rich old bast[red][/red]ard)

I love the naivity of kids these days. Gives me the warm fuzzies.

Mr Winky would have given it back covered in blood.

Mr Winky is a firm believer in blood money.

If the bank cannot match it to a deposit, it becomes profit for the shareholders of that institution. I love how people have such a rosy picture of the banks that ***** them out of their hard earned cash every single day with record high surcharges, and record low savings interest rates. Did monopoly teach you nothing? "Bank error in your favour, you recieve $150". Ask anyone who lived through the depression what they would have done, I'm sure the answer would be very different.

Again, I'll attribute this to youthful naivity and ignorance. To prove my point, once I withdrew $60 from an ATM and for whatever reason left it there. The person behind me got the $60 because I returned instantly. They did not return it to the bank or anything. I contacted the bank, and about a week later after filing the approriate paperwork, my account was credited for the $60. Banks make mistakes and have a system to protect the little guy. If the people who deposited the $600 obtained a record, they are free and clear. The counts at the clearing house is what will be off. Bank errors happen everyday.

I would have given it back as well. Not for fear of getting caught, but for lack of wanting to deal with my guilty conscience. I would end up driving myself nuts with guilt.

That hardly obviates his point.

I'd give it back. Like the OP, I'd like to think if it was my money, someone would return it.