After all votes are cast, the tellers tally the ballots and the result is read to the cardinals.
For many years people walked right past ATMs because they trusted the tellers inside more than they trusted machines.
They trusted only banks with granite facades, marble floors and thick bars on the tellers' cages--and passbooks they could fondle.
Maybe we -- the tellers, the talkers, the watchers -- simply can't admit it's over because we just got so caught up in it, right from the start.
The historian Robert Darnton compares the oral tale tellers to the Yugoslavian bards studied in the twentieth century by Albert Lord and Milman Parry, in the effort to understand how the Homeric epics were composed.
Oddly, many seem to like the hassle, as it provides a welcome opportunity for personal contact with the bank tellers and postal clerks.
Business might be slow, but along with the fortune-tellers and healers, the henna tattooists, acrobats and gnaoua, the spiritual musicians, they know the importance of claiming your space before the sun goes down and the big breaks come.
The premodern tale tellers might also be thought of as descendants of the scops of the Anglo-Saxon Dark Ages or of the griots of West Africa, men whose job it was to carry stories.
The cardinals draw lots to select three members to collect ballots from the infirm, three "tellers" to count the votes and three others to review the results.
Several American banks have tried to do the same by giving bonuses to tellers who refer customers to the affiliated mortgage bank or mutual-fund firm.
Although police will not disclose the contents of the notes she has passed to tellers, we can infer that the Cellphone Bandit started out using the threat of a bomb or gun and then escalated to brandishing an actual firearm.
Or, better yet, has technology enabled more creativity on the part of story-tellers, giving rise to such recent classics like "The Ring" or "Pulse" in which technology is simply a paranormal conduit?
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"We put the best platform in the hands of the best story-tellers, " said Mr Moore.
ATMs and online banking have similarly reduced the demand for bank tellers.
Users get a slip which they must redeem for cash at the counter, giving tellers a chance to persuade them to open an account.
Beall did not have a gun on him during the robberies though he told tellers that he did.
They were in the minority, as technical analysts in those days had about the same standing as fortune tellers.
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Purposeful story tellers must engage the listener(s) in a dialog.
That bank branch now makes a point of hiring a mix of ages for their tellers, and has the highest customer satisfaction rating in the country.
Most people want to make sure their doctors and lawyers have the proper credentials to work, but should the same be expected of fortune tellers and florists?
Once the checks are collected, participants in the fraud take them to bank tellers or employees at money-service locations who often have taken bribes, according to court documents submitted in several cases.
But, before tellers motivate their listeners, the teller, him or herself, must first be motivated.
Because they pay out less in rent, employing tellers, electricity, and all the rest, online banks can pass along part of their savings to you in the form of the highest savings rates.
They are followed in the late morning and early afternoon by fortune tellers, diviners of various techniques, with their charts and charms, by people who claim to be able to cure broken hearts and others who occupy themselves with broken bodies, their stalls an assembly of snake skin, chameleon and desert fox, dried herbs and wild trees.
Nowhere, explicitly, but the bank says it is doing computer modeling to determine the busiest times at bank branches and how many tellers to schedule.
The people who used to line up in front of tellers are now doing their banking electronically.
Old-style banking required the public to travel across town, line up before tellers and fill out complicated forms.
Bus companies need more drivers for the morning rush than at 11am, and banks require more tellers at lunchtime than at teatime.
The manager of a particular bank chain noticed that even when other tellers were free, his older customers were gravitating towards one particular window.
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