Speaking of jobsworths
I was only a head-office tech support monkey for a bank. I know why I was a jobsworth, but I still don't know why most branches insist on opening between 9:30 and 4:30.

Most people in the UK work 9-5.

If we want to go to the bank, we have to skive off, or go during lunch, when the queue's at least an hour and a half long. It's worse on pension day, when the coffin-dodgers have been in since opening time and some of them are still waiting waiting waiting at half one and I need to pay in a fucking cheque because the useless bastards don't let me do that remotely but I need the money by the end of the week and will you move you grey-haired cunt are you still breathing oh you are you heard me calling you a cunt well it's because you are, love.

And breathe...
(DigitalRaven will have to make do with gin, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 11:20, 1 reply)

the reason
In the dark ages, everything had to be done by hand. So it would take hours at the end of the day to balance all the books, and do all the paper work. Imagine having to settle a couple of 100 cheques by hand. So they would open to the public from 10am-3:30pm but be working 9-5.

But not sure if it takes just as long these days. I am guessing that they probably still have a lot of procedures and checks to run through.

However, they /could/ employ more staff to stay open longer, which is what most shops with extended trading hours do.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 2:08, closed)