u/thrownawayguyyy

TLDR; I have never worked at a desk before and always been blue collar or working outside. I’m not that great at math, I’m constantly having to work on my math skills. I’m very proficient in computers though. This is my first teller job. I’ve been here a month. This is a small bank, we deal with the same people almost everyday and a lot of stuff I do feels outdated technologically but it’s a good mix so I can’t complain.

Anyways, with that out of the way, last week I got a “verbal warning” and they also documented it in our paycheck system app that they talked to me about it about being over and under in my drawer (I had 3 that week.) and if I “kept making mistakes like that” I would be terminated because it’s an operational risk. Not just that but I was using the counting machine “too much.” (I use it to verify large transactions and anything that’s a large amount after I count it out) Understandable. But honestly the only true training I have gotten was on week one and since then I’ve been running my own line, handling my own transactions — just under supervision and the rest of the training I get is on the fly or as a transaction or situation comes up, I learn something then. With that said, since the warning I have been hyper vigilant and am recounting, and logging every single transaction to a tee. Now they’re hiring a new teller (since they fired the last one that I came back from lunch one day and she was gone) and “moving” me to the drive thru line from the front.

Maybe I’m just anxious because of my rough history of employers but I’m very concerned they’re going to just sweep me under the rug and fire me now that this new teller is coming in. To make matters worse, I already feel like I’m on thin ice with this verbal warning and me barely even being here a month. I set my bank front door key down in my house and I have not been able to find it, but I know it’s not lost outside of the house but I legitimately have not been able to find it. And it’s made me so ANXIOUS they’re going to use that against me. I haven’t had the best luck with employers the last couple of years and this job pays very poor ($15.50hr) but it is the first job I’ve been able to just put my mind to it and have a reasonable workload that means not being severely overworked and I am doing my absolute best to keep this job.

Advice?

TLDR; I have never worked at a desk before and always been blue collar or working outside. I’m not that great at math, I’m constantly having to work on my math skills. I’m very proficient in computers though. This is my first teller job. I’ve been here a month. This is a small bank, we deal with the same people almost everyday and a lot of stuff I do feels outdated technologically but it’s a good mix so I can’t complain.

Anyways, with that out of the way, last week I got a “verbal warning” and they also documented it in our paycheck system app that they talked to me about it about being over and under in my drawer (I had 3 that week.) and if I “kept making mistakes like that” I would be terminated because it’s an operational risk. Not just that but I was using the counting machine “too much.” (I use it to verify large transactions and anything that’s a large amount after I count it out) Understandable. But honestly the only true training I have gotten was on week one and since then I’ve been running my own line, handling my own transactions — just under supervision and the rest of the training I get is on the fly or as a transaction or situation comes up, I learn something then. With that said, since the warning I have been hyper vigilant and am recounting, and logging every single transaction to a tee. Now they’re hiring a new teller (since they fired the last one that I came back from lunch one day and she was gone) and “moving” me to the drive thru line from the front.

Maybe I’m just anxious because of my rough history of employers but I’m very concerned they’re going to just sweep me under the rug and fire me now that this new teller is coming in. To make matters worse, I already feel like I’m on thin ice with this verbal warning and me barely even being here a month. I set my bank front door key down in my house and I have not been able to find it, but I know it’s not lost outside of the house but I legitimately have not been able to find it. And it’s made me so ANXIOUS they’re going to use that against me. I haven’t had the best luck with employers the last couple of years and this job pays very poor ($15.50hr) but it is the first job I’ve been able to just put my mind to it and have a reasonable workload that means not being severely overworked and I am doing my absolute best to keep this job.

Advice?