Many DBS Bank/POSB branches with manned counter services have either closed or been replaced with ATM-only booths.

[mlmooy]

Face the reality. Unless your parents have few hundred $K, don't expect to be treated like king. These older folks are the one that cost most to service as far as the banks are concerned.

But you know hor, without these old folks (grandpa and grandmas), Singapore won’t be what she is today hor. Posb or Dbs won’t even be in existent if all these old folks kept all their money in tin cans. Unlike foreign banks, I feel that local corps, esp those supported indirectly by our CPFs, should not forsake these old folks. Yes, it costs money to service them, but don’t forget that these old gens sinkies are stakeholders too. Not everything is about $$.

Be it tens of dollars or millions, some old folks die die also like to go counter update passbook hor. It is sort of their hobby hahahaha. Realistically, we cannot expect everyone to be proficient with internet banking stuff.

I don’t like paper transaction too but I feel that the rate at which the outlets are winding up is shocking. Not as if they are bleeding money. Do they have such considerations when opening physical branches overseas? I don’t think so.

 

[jack-320]

Counter services being relocated to other jobscope is a code word for restructuring

aka fire

 

[coyote]

So question is how does having foreign trash or economic refugees here create jobs as claimed by pappies?

How much of db-ass work are outsourced?

Oh so your objective is to stir xenophobic emotion here? I thought we were talking about why we have less bank tellers? Everything also can be used to stir xenophobia?

 

[Omnia1]

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Be it tens of dollars or millions, some old folks die die also like to go counter update passbook hor. It is sort of their hobby hahahaha. Realistically, we cannot expect everyone to be proficient with internet banking stuff.
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I don't think it is the job of banks to waste time and money in pandering to the "hobby" of these old folks. Maybe old folks need stronger "encouragement" to keep up with the times, like shutting down their favourite manned branch and converting it to an ATM only branch.

If the excuse of old folks is that they cannot see the small words on their phones, there are bigger words on the screens of ATM machines. If even that is not big enough, perhaps the bank can have an old folks mode. When selected, the ATM will blow up all words to font size 500 ...


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[LeiHongYi]

with @LeiHongYi ?

I still queue up at counter with my bankbook to withdraw $10 everyday to jiak png.
I cannot remember my pin. thumb print don't need to remember.

 

[miko66]

Posb was people's bank then ..
Now is rubbish bank

 

[pwongkk]

Oh so your objective is to stir xenophobic emotion here? I thought we were talking about why we have less bank tellers? Everything also can be used to stir xenophobia?

Not i say but gov say we need foreign trash and economic refugees to create jobs. So where are the jobs? And what is the % of such created jobs goes back to locals?

We have no obligations to ensure foreigners get a job here. We shoukd not be solving other countries unemployment problems by letting these people come in take our jobs. Sinkies should be in 1st priority for any jobs.

 

[coyote]

Not i say but gov say we need foreign trash and economic refugees to create jobs. So where are the jobs? And what is the % of such created jobs goes back to locals?

We have no obligations to ensure foreigners get a job here. We shoukd not be solving other countries unemployment problems by letting these people come in take our jobs. Sinkies should be in 1st priority for any jobs.

I think you

Not i say but gov say we need foreign trash and economic refugees to create jobs. So where are the jobs? And what is the % of such created jobs goes back to locals?

We have no obligations to ensure foreigners get a job here. We shoukd not be solving other countries unemployment problems by letting these people come in take our jobs. Sinkies should be in 1st priority for any jobs.

You may have mistaken. Whatever jobs they said going to create, it will not be the old tellers job. It will be something else....

 

[annisaaa]

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