HuffPo writes: A “stupid stunt” that took place nearly 50
years ago has cost one Iowa man his job at Wells Fargo. The bank fired Richard Eggers from his job of seven years as
a customer service representative after the company found out about a
decades-old run-in with the law, the Des Moines Register reports. In 1963
Eggers got caught putting a cardboard cut-out of a dime in a washing machine at
a laundromat.
“It was a stupid stunt and I’m not real proud of it, but to
fire somebody for something like this after seven good years of employment is a
dirty trick when you come right down to it,” Eggers told the Register. “And
they’re doing this kind of thing all across the country.”
Eggers’ firing is one of thousands now occurring due to
stricter guidelines on bank and mortgage lender employees that went into effect
last year. The new rules are meant to gut the institutions of workers convicted
of various types of fraud, but the casualties have largely been low-level
workers like Eggers…
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