From the San Francisco: Wells Fargo Home Mortgage has fired a Des Moines worker over a 1963
incident at a Laundromat involving a fake dime in the wake of new
employment guidelines.
Richard Eggers,
68, was fired in July from his job as a customer service representative
for putting a cardboard cutout of a dime in a washing machine nearly 50
years ago in Carlisle, the Des Moines Register reported (http://dmreg.co/RSh49T) on Monday.
Warren County court records show Eggers was convicted of operating a
coin-changing machine by false means. Eggers called it a "stupid stunt,"
but questions his firing.
Big banks have been firing low-level employees like Eggers since new
federal banking employment guidelines were enacted in May 2011 and new
mortgage employment guidelines took hold in February, the newspaper
said. The tougher standards are meant to clear out executives and
mid-level bank employees guilty of transactional crimes — such as
identity theft and money laundering — but are being applied across the
board because of possible fines for noncompliance.
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