Sacramento Man Writes Check For $400, Bank Reads It As $4,000. What It Took To Get His Money Back. SACRAMENTO – A Sacramento man said his bank added a zero to a check he wrote. When it put his account in the red, he reached out to CBS13 and the Call Kurtis consumer investigative team to ask for help. But, what really upset Gerald Monroe Mann was how long the bank told him it would take to fix the mess. "How can you treat me this way?" asked Mann, a longtime customer of Wells Fargo Bank. Mann wrote a check for $400. It's handwritten in words, too. But, Wells Fargo interpreted it as $4,000 and that drained Mann's checking and savings accounts. The scenario put him nearly $900 in the red. "I'm not rich," Mann said. "Yeah. Money is important." Mann spent hours on the phone with his bank. He said they told him it would take 10 business days to investigate the matter. That left him without access to his own money. "Now I'm screwed be...
cautiously. "The reason I'm advising caution is you said you and this person used to have a turbulent relationship. There's no guarantee just because they've been chummy with you to make things easier at work that they won't turn on you and throw you under the bus," user JupiterSkyFalls wrote. NBCUniversal / The Office "It all depends on your relationship with this coworker. I've been on the other side of this where I was about to be fired and my coworkers, some of whom I was extremely close to, kept their mouths shut fearing retaliation," user JG307 wrote. "I get where they were coming from now, but at the time it was an incredibly hurtful betrayal. Not that they didn't choose me over their own jobs (I would never ask that of anyone) but that they didn't trust me to take the heads up and still protect them." Tell us what you would do in the comments. Do you owe your coworker a heads up, or is it better to be safe than sorry? H/T r/TalesFromYourServer Some replies have been edited for length and clarity.

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