BOI atm's

legs11 · 03-02-2008 05:28PM #1

is it just me or are all BOI atm machines always fcuking down?

I live in the sticks an thought this was an isolated problem due to our prehistoric infrastructure and inability to fill up hole in the wall machines on a regular basis.

but no, other day in citywest centre realised i would need more cash for my food so went to said atm and lo and behold, out of order, i mean wtf.....

i have never seen AIB atm's out of order.

stupid fcuknits!

right, thats it off my chest, thanks and good bye.:)

Barlow07 · 03-02-2008 05:33PM

I have a different argument about TSB Atm's, everytime i go and say withdraw €200.00, it throws out 20 x €10 notes, even once got 40.

legs11 · 03-02-2008 05:39PM

well at least you get money!

boi cnuts dont even put money into the machines, fat bastards are too lazy to go about thier job imo..

Barlow07 · 03-02-2008 05:42PM

Yes, but if your on a night out, the last thing i want is a wad full of ten euro notes.

layke · 03-02-2008 06:51PM

They mostly go out of order when they run out of cash.

...and yes it happens to AIB ATMs in Firhouse all the time.
The shopping centre is the only one close to me after 10pm and it's a nightmare.

Creamy Goodness · 03-02-2008 06:55PM

Barlow07 wrote: »

Yes, but if your on a night out, the last thing i want is a wad full of ten euro notes.

and then when you want to take out a tenner, they never ****ing have them.

Jimbo · 03-02-2008 06:57PM

Has anyone ever hear of a Laser card?
There's only so much cash they can stuff in those machines

connundrum · 03-02-2008 06:58PM

Carry Laser peeps.

It seemed that every time I went into town, all ATMs within a 2 mile radius of wherever I was would automatically break down. Laser is the way to go

Edit - damn joo Jimbo!

Red Alert · 03-02-2008 07:39PM

AIB ones seem rock solid - the old school OS/2 screens are really cute too.

Dudess · 03-02-2008 08:39PM

legs11 wrote: »

well at least you get money!

boi cnuts dont even put money into the machines, fat bastards are too lazy to go about thier job imo..

It's Securicor who put the money in.

Zapp Brannigan · 03-02-2008 08:58PM

AIB atm in NUIM is always fecking out of money. As people have said, Laser and cash-back is the way to go!

irlirishkev · 03-02-2008 09:00PM

AIB ones do go out of order aswell, but usually at the end of a weekend, or long weekend. For example, the one on Capel Street seems to be down every Sunday evening.

But yes, the BOI ones are notorious for being empty/out of order. Especially in Spars etc.. very annoying.

Creamy Goodness · 03-02-2008 09:02PM

i hate using laser in shops, maybe it's because i always get the ditzy cashier that sighs when i hand them the card and then proceed to take ages to do the transaction.

ejmaztec · 03-02-2008 09:30PM

JCBs are quite useful if you've left your Laser card at home.

keen · 03-02-2008 11:03PM

I agree my local one is more times out of order then working.

Sparky · 03-02-2008 11:12PM

One atm robbed me of a 20 note.

Opened hatch, beeped for ages.
No money in hatch.
Put my fingers to hatch to see if a 20 was stuck.
Hatch nearly bit my finger off

Machine then pops up message "out of service"

Got my 20e back 2 weeks later

Toots · 04-02-2008 12:08AM

Dudess wrote: »

It's Securicor who put the money in.

Tis indeedy, the only ones that the staff fill up are the ones outside branches, and only the smaller branches fill their own atms, the other ones are done by Brinks. Brinks ones are usually only done once a week, whereas in the BOI branch I work we just fill it up whenever it needs money. And we'd fill it on friday regardless so there's money for the weekend. Dunno what the deal is with the ones in shops though, any time I go to one of those they're always empty!!

Sam Vimes · 04-02-2008 01:07AM

laser people. I laugh at people in the massive queues at atms. I buy pretty much everything with it so i can keep track of what i'm spending and i usually get a bit of cash back when i buy something so i won't have to stand like a plonker for 20 minutes while i wait for some granny to remember her pin

Overheal · 04-02-2008 01:18AM

ATMs go out of order when they have no cash to give. Saves you the time of putting your card in, punching your PIN, and trying to withdraw your arbitrary amount, and then 20, and then 10, before you realise "...theres no money in this!"

Its a time saver. Quit whining. The only thing that pisses me off about BOI ATMs is that they won't let you pick your own value of how much to withdraw.

monkeyfudge · 04-02-2008 03:07AM

The machines are probably all empty as Roma's have stolen all the cash through a needlessly complicated scheme...

But yes... The Bank Links are just as bad. My card only works in the AIB machines and on Friday I had to pass 3 machines before I found one which would dispense cash and then it only had fifties.

layke · 04-02-2008 06:52AM

jimbo78 wrote: »

Has anyone ever hear of a Laser card?
There's only so much cash they can stuff in those machines

Lol, silly Jimbo. What about paying off that Kilo of heroin you bought? You can't exactly pay off your drug dealer in laser now can you?

On the other hand a lot of pubs don't take laser though

Visa sometimes but not always laser. If they all did it would be fab.

Baudelaire · 04-02-2008 01:38PM

I only use Laser or Credit cards, I got sick of being lumbered with loads of change that you never spend.

Terry · 04-02-2008 01:42PM

AIB recently issued laser cards to all their customers.
I don't see any reason for BOI not to do the same.

seamus · 04-02-2008 01:48PM

Cash is faster than laser or credit card. There are also plenty of smaller shops that don't take either.

TSB atms irriate me because they're so slow, you'd swear they were running on ZX spectrums. You press a button and it literally takes about 3 seconds for it to acknowledge that you've pressed anything. In this day and age there's no excuse for an ATM to not react as soon as you press the button.

FunkZ · 04-02-2008 02:25PM

As yis have already said..... Laser FTW!

Lizzykins · 04-02-2008 03:42PM

The National Irish ATM in Superquinn Knocklyon is the slowest there is. Pointless questions like "Your bank may charge a fee for this withdrawal-do you want to continue? YES!!! I'm standing here in the rain freezing my butt off! I want money!!!!

oneweb · 04-02-2008 05:34PM

The people who programmed these yokes should have their fingers removed. Seriously, the logic applied to the simplest of transactions is attrocious!...

[FONT=Arial Black][COLOR=SeaGreen]   TALK TO AN AIB ADVISOR
   ABOUT OUR GREAT NEW
       BANK CHARGES.

       PLEASE INSERT
         YOUR CARD[/COLOR][/FONT]

* Inserts card

[COLOR=PaleGreen][COLOR=SeaGreen]Please select the service
you require

                         Mini statement     ->
                         Balance enquiry    ->
<- Change pin      Cash without rec  ->
<- Other services  Cash with receipt ->[/COLOR]
[/COLOR]

/me wants cash, and a receipt just in case there's gonna be a tribunal
*Cash with receipt

[COLOR=SeaGreen]Please select the amount
you wish to withdraw.

20 <-          -> 100
40 <-          -> 150
50 <-          -> 180
80 <-          -> 200[/COLOR]

/me would like 80, please
*80

[COLOR=PaleGreen][COLOR=SeaGreen]Sorry, cannot dispense 
the requested amount.

Please select an 
alternative denomination,
for example 100[/COLOR]
[/COLOR]

/whatever, I'll easily spend 100 anyway.
*1 0 0 ENTER

[COLOR=PaleGreen][COLOR=SeaGreen]AIB believes in a better
environment. If you would 
still like a receipt, press YES
[/COLOR] 


[COLOR=SeaGreen]<- NO            YES ->[/COLOR]
[/COLOR]

/I need it so stop trying to make me feel guilty
*YES

 [COLOR=PaleGreen][COLOR=SeaGreen]AIB, helping to protect 
the environment.[/COLOR]



[COLOR=SeaGreen]            CONTINUE ->[/COLOR]
[/COLOR]

Well done, aren't yez great.
*CONTINUE

[COLOR=SeaGreen]Sorry, receipts are not available



[/COLOR][COLOR=PaleGreen][COLOR=SeaGreen]            CONTINUE ->[/COLOR][/COLOR]

Twats
*CONTINUE

[COLOR=SeaGreen]Transaction complete[/COLOR]


[COLOR=SeaGreen]Please take your card and
your cash[/COLOR][COLOR=PaleGreen][/COLOR]

seamus · 04-02-2008 05:40PM

Lizzykins wrote: »

The National Irish ATM in Superquinn Knocklyon is the slowest there is. Pointless questions like "Your bank may charge a fee for this withdrawal-do you want to continue? YES!!! I'm standing here in the rain freezing my butt off! I want money!!!!

Sorry, you're right. NIB are slower again than Ulster bank. That particular one in Knocklyon I will actually go out of my way to avoid using if I possibly can.

The people who programmed these yokes should have their fingers removed. Seriously, the logic applied to the simplest of transactions is attrocious!...

I wouldn't necessarily blame the programmers. ATM software is one of those software that would have a painfully strict change management process that needs all sorts of signatures and weeks and weeks of UAT. Any system dealing with actual, factual monetary values undergoes testing on a scale far exceeding overkill.

It's easier to add a non-decisive step in the process (e.g. "Sorry, can't issue a receipt"), rather than alter an existing decisive step. If you alter an existing step, you need to go through a full test of all of the functionality in that step as well as all of the subsequent steps which stem from that one.
If you add a new non-decisive step, you just need to make sure that the step can be reached from the previous step and that pressing the button will get you to the next step.

I'm sure the software programmers have a ream of stuff that they'd like to fix but they either can't get the sign-off (With the logic that management are happier with an inefficient working system rather than a possibly buggy efficient system) or the testing process isn't worth the hassle.

Sierra Oscar · 04-02-2008 06:04PM

oneweb wrote: »

The people who programmed these yokes should have their fingers removed. Seriously, the logic applied to the simplest of transactions is attrocious!...
<SNIP>

Haha great post:D

But yeah, I always try and make sure I have enough money at the start of the weekend to do me. By the end the machines are all OFS.

Jimbo · 04-02-2008 07:13PM

layke wrote: »

Lol, silly Jimbo. What about paying off that Kilo of heroin you bought? You can't exactly pay off your drug dealer in laser now can you?

What kind of low-life are you buying from?
My dealer carries a laser reader in his Escalade, hooks up to his mobile via bluetooth, very laa dee daa

BKtje · 04-02-2008 07:49PM

I was gonna defend BOI's atms earlier since the one near me is rarely out of cash. Of course when i went down earlier ot was outta action

BOI atm's

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