Saw this story last night about WF on the news here in SF.
SF Wells Fargo's employee security procedure stirring controversy
https://abc7news.com/videoClip/15148232/
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San Francisco is much more dangerous than is being reported.
Weird Fargo
The dirty little secret of urban law enforcement is to prosecute very little, and report even less to the FBI. Presto, crime has been 'solved'. Nevermind your lying eyes, crime is down. C'mon man!
Odd things happening in SF, is that even news? The entire city is odd
They care because it makes for an exciting story.
Some of what the media points out in terms of logic gap makes sense - the difference between shooing someone away at 8:50 and then welcoming the heck of them at 9 is weird. The reality is that audit people and RSC’s are pretty intense human beings are branch employees are scared out of their wits at them. So that’s pretty much the root cause here.
Additionally however, I’m sure at one point there was an ambush or two during opening which caused this policy to be created. Cut WF some slack, they’re just reacting and doing their best. They’ll probably react and change something again as a result of this but you gotta remember they gotta set controls that like 40k people can easily follow.
One thing though: did I hear correctly that there’s been EIGHT bank robberies YTD in San Francisco?! That’s a ton. The gist of the video was: San Francisco is super safe and look out how big corporations and the rest of the country are misjudging us! When in reality eight is a ton and they should be super embarrassed.
they care because on appearance it seems very odd especially when they have hundreds of non branch employees entering the wf office building right next door. there is also the narrative that SF is this dangerous city when the crime numbers don't jive with that so this furthers that narrative.
Media people don't know anything about threat assessments, clearly. These things are more granular than selecting an entire city for upgraded security procedures. There's also nothing illegal about asking a person to step away from the entry door. That person can tell the WF employee to pound sand of they want. It's not an order, it carries no legal weight, it's a request and plenty of people in public spaces make such requests. Ever seen a delivery guy moving a pallet of stuff out a hand truck around in a metro area? They ask people to move all the time. I'm not sure this opening procedure brings much value with respect to security, but the insinuation that is illegal or immoral is ridiculous. SF media types seem awful defensive too. Why do they even care?
Wow, Wonder what happened.