If a month starts on a weekend, or on Friday itself, expect to wait it line 30+ minutes.
2 tellers will be off for lunch at the same time, leaving only 2 tellers to deal with everyone who is trying to pays bills, get their rent money, get money from their cheques, pensioners.
They legitimately don't realise that Fridays at the start of the month are going to be busy for the listed reason, and you will hear comments like "well we're open all week, but every decides to come today"... except pay cheques don't come out till thursday or friday, some bills are due at the start of the month, people need to get rent for their landlords, and pensioners or people on social support only get paid at the start of the month.
But don't worry, because despite only 2 tellers working, there will be another lady behind the counter just fiddling with office work as the waiting line extends far out into the mall, and another lady will walk down the line asking
"is there anything I can help you with?"
Yeah, open a bloody register.
Considering the place is open for 7 hours a day, staff should only be getting 30 minute lunches, and to have 2 of them gone at the same time an hour and a half after opening at 10 is insane.
There should only be one person on lunch at a time, and there should be someone brought in to cover lunches, or the lady behind the counter doing this-that-or anything else should replace the person gone to lunch.
There is 0 reason that there should ever be less that all 4 tellers open at the start of the month, especially if that falls on a weekend/friday.
What's entirely worse is the comments that accuse the patrons of the line being there fault because "we're open all week".
I don't know how the person who runs this place got their job, what their qualifications or experience were, but they're completely incompetent and need to be retrained on how to manage a business, or fired.
Tomorrow is Friday, the day I get paid, and need to get rent, I'm going to bet my life that there's going to be much more of a line than there should be, if the person who makes the schedules were competent.
What is entirely worse is that this is isn't a restaurant or retail, this is a vital service needed to keep people in their homes and their lights on.
This is a massive reflection of either how Scotiabank treats people, or how this one location does, and I've never experienced such inadequacy at another Scotiabank location.