A tale of two cities (or at least two banks)
I do the finances for a dance school with several studios in DC and MD. I wear a bunch of hats in my job and one of them is making deposits of donations and grants. We have an account with Bank of America which has branches conveniently close to all of our studios. Sometimes I make a deposit when I'm visiting our Friendship Heights studio in NW DC. Though there is fair amount of street activity a couple blocks away near the Friendship Heights Metro station and shopping areas, there is very little foot traffic in the vicinity of the bank. The bank branch usually has a young guy at the front desk greeting you as you come in, asking what you need help with and directing you to one of two or three tellers at the windows or the assorted managers in cubicles for loans or opening accounts. I typically ask the tellers who wants to take care of me, as they rarely have any customers doing transactions and it's usually a quick deposit. They have ...