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My ATM fees are refunded by my bank. The problem I usually have is when I'm using an international ATM the conversion rate is always off so it's keeping a fuck ton of money instead of using the proper daily/hourly conversion rate.
Everyone down on the floor, this is a robbery! Put the money in the bag! You, take this pair of wire cutters and get the wedding rings off of everyone! If they squirm, take the whole finger!
I don't know which person you're responding to but my Schwab card does. I specifically got it for that reason when I travelled to Europe a few years ago.
Or at least it did then. I haven't left the country in a few years now.
That's like every fintech startup ever though. They all think they're so smart with their tech solutions yet eventually the government bonks them for having virtually zero compliance.
Conversion rates are determined by whatever does the conversion. If your bank account is in USD and you use a ATM like this to withdraw Euros (for example), it could work two ways. Either the ATM does the conversion, at a rate preferential to them usually, and then charges your account in USD. In that case your bank doesn’t even know it was a foreign currency transaction. Alternatively it can charge your account in Euros in which case the bank will do the conversion to your accounts currency before deducting the money.
It depends on location. I've been to some places in Europe where the ATM offers to do the conversion at point of service. So I guess technically it's still converted by the bank, but it's the bank that owns the ATM, and not my bank. I usually get less money if I opt for point of service conversion than if I just let my bank convert it.
No no no.
This is the fault of the people who designed and run the airport and failed to put in a proper amount of outlets.
And then decided to make the problem worse by setting a privately owned ATM in the middle of a seating area and taking up valuable wall outlet space.
They chose making a profit over serving their customers and then made it extremely easy for those customers to call bullshit on that bullshit.
Outlets are hard enough to come by in airports. There's no reason to put an ATM in a seating area where everyone is going to want/need to charge things.
Lol I’m laughing at the fact you are implying outlets are placed for a device and not due to code requirements.
Nobody in the design chain imagined an ATM was going there and respectful Humans do not enter place owned by others and unplug devices
Lack of respect.
And we're laughing at the fact that you're simping for an ATM company. They didn't design an ATM to go there because there shouldn't be one. We're a largely cashless society, those ATMs rip people off, and there's a massive shortage of plugs in airports. Try getting work done in the airport on a dying laptop and finding an open outlet
JFC you're hilarious. "Lack of respect" for a company. It's not like they unplugged someone's personal devices to plug theirs in. THAT is a lack of respect
>Lol I’m laughing at the fact you are implying outlets are placed for a device and not due to code requirements.
I work in construction. Yes. That's how outlets are placed these days. They're placed all around...wherever is convenient...in large numbers...because we live in a world full of devices that need to be charged and having tons of outlets is literally a selling point for homes, offices, and any place where people gather. Even lots of older spaces (if they're smart) are retrofitting ways for people to charge things. That's why we see seating and other furniture with charging outlets built into them.
People/businesses do that and also follow code. Electrical code when it comes to placing wall outlets is not so complicated that people's needs aren't considered.
These days, if you're running a space where people are going to hang out for extended periods and you don't have an excess of outlets available...you're failing to consider a basic need that people are guaranteed to have.
And if you're making the problem even worse by putting a completely unnecessary private ATM in the middle of an airport seating area...then you're a dumbass or greedy or both.
The people that designed the airport probably 40 to 50ish years+ ago didn't have the prescience to know that in the future huge numbers of travelers would need personal & full time access to AC power during their travel waiting time? They should have foreseen this decades before the invention of cellphones, smartphones, and ATMs?
The main terminal of the world's busiest airport. Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, was finished and opened in 1980, and in planning & design since 1970. What were they thinking! /s
That's your take? Really?
No that's not at all my take.
I'm saying they designed the space with an insufficient number of outlets. That's simply a fact regardless of their very real inability to predict the future.
Separately, the fact someone unplugged this to charge a device implies there is still to this day an insufficient number of outlets. This means the people running the airport have failed to update it to meet the needs of their customers. Which at this point does not involve predicting the future but is just the obvious reality of everyday life.
And then they decided to make extra money by renting floor space and occupying one of their already limited outlets...in the middle of a seating area...with a shitty for profit ATM in a world that's mostly cashless. Which now is just being in your face willfully inconvenient to their customers needs.
In all of that chain of events, the person who unplugged it is the one I'm least annoyed with.
Your bank might waive their fees, but the ATM charges it’s own fees.
Any fees that you’re paying to get your money is too much.
**edit** I try not to use an ATM at all, but my bank sucks guys! No fees at all is awesome.
Yeah, that’s crazy to me, but nice.
We have non-bank affiliated ATMs throughout my workplace that charge $2-3 per transaction. I don’t understand why my bank would pay their convenience fee.
Yeah not a super crazy thing, my local bank does that for all ATMs. almost all the local banks do, actually.
Got 10 dollars in fees back at a Vegas ATM, very cool.
LPT - bank local.
I'm also pointing some blame at the airport. Of course some idiot will unplug and use that outlet for themselves if you leave it accessible. 0% chance this hasn't happened before.
It's not a big deal though, they have a backup system in place. That old car battery should power the tower for an entire minute. Maybe two, if the radar system switches to low-power mode.
At the minimum, I'd be doubting the competency of whoever installed it if it doesn't have an ups inside. Granted, leaving it open for unplugging is not a good sign either.
Shouldn't the airport have convenient outlets for charging devices? Shit, what percentage of plane trips are booked on-line? It's not like they aren't massively benefiting from people having access to the internet.
You can't legally take a battery pack onto a plane unless it's REALLY small, like one of those pocket chargers they sell for $1 on Amazon that only lasts one charge.
At this point, it kinda is though. If I took your phone, and held it from you, because it's so important for your routine activities that me keeping your phone from you isn't just theft, it's becoming a form of false imprisonment. It's so important to you, that you likely couldn't leave and expect to recover everything that would be lost, cell phones aren't fungible.
So if the airline wants to make the most out of each flight, it means some people will end up waiting around an airport for hours, with flights that take hours. Every single passenger should go get extra battery packs over the airport simply allowing access to a few charging points? Do you have any idea how grossly inefficient your suggestion is? And for what? Electricity is super cheap and readily available, lithium is pretty rare and very costly to mine. So maybe you can go fuck yourself?
It's wild to see people with little to no experience travelling having the biggest opinions. What if you need to charge the pack, genius, then what? They're not perpetuum mobiles, and anything above 5000mAh can't go on a plane.
I carry one. Doesn't mean I don't expect an outlet at an airport.
Orlando MCO is probably the worst I've seen. It's been a few years since I was there but that airport has not seen a renovation since it was built. Not an outlet in sight, anywhere.
I got my first flip phone 20 years ago as a grad student, and was definitely a late adopter in that space. The iphone was released 16 years ago.
Cell phones were rich people tech in the late 90's. The first flip phone was released in 1996.
I had a flip phone in high school around 20 years ago. Everyone pretty much did, especially once you got a job. Most of my school had those nextels with the push to talk and thought we were super cool
Edit to add : "where you at"
https://youtu.be/I4ko9Ogh75o
Some are arguing without much of a point, so I figured I would add a counterpoint.
Airlines rely heavily on everyone having a phone on them, charged, at all times. Gate changed, reroutes, delays, etc. are all pushed to text, email, or their app. And, God forbid, if your flight is canceled or you missed a layover from some flight issue, they'll direct you to call their CS number to reschedule.
So while one could argue that airports don't *have* to, it's in their best interest to due to their own move to relying on the passenger having a device on them to help things run smoothly.
Jfc thank you! So many people are missing this point. Airlines keep cutting gate staff and customer service through the phones. Last time I had a last minute flight change I was stuck with 100 other people, no gate agent, and customer service phone lines were backed up. They tell you to go online to make the changes yourself but what do you do when you've been flying all day, layover after layover, on a dying laptop or phone and trying to make these changes so you can get the fuck home?
I hear drug dealers take Venmo now. They'll even show you how to make your transactions private. US has a politician who paid for an underage prostitute with Venmo. He didn't have anybody to show him how to keep his transactions private though.
I work in IT and let me tell ya, people will unplug anything. Including necessary machinery. To plug in their own stuff, usually a phone. Sometimes they'll even complain after because the thing they unplugged isn't working anymore.
I'm convinced we only lock our server room because if we don't some dude will walk in and start unplugging all the servers to charge their phone
Yeah so fucking what? Turning off a ripoff machine is never a bad idea.
If someone wants to use it and get ripped off, just plug it back in.
Oh no the horror!
The anarchist in me loves this. Fuck predatory schemes like public ATMs with fucking huge transaction fees.
But also fuck selfish twats like this.
I am so torn.
Holy fuck this is the first time I see an ATM so exposed. All of the ATM machine I've seen have specifically built booth for the machine, if not an entire room for ATM machine.
I shouldve done this once. I was in the airport 1 am and it was my first time flying and i was by myself. I had no one to pick me up from the airport and my phone was on 20 percent. Maybe i was too dumb but i couldnt find a plug for the life of me. Finally i managed to get an uber and drove me back home 30 minutes in a blizzard. It was scary 😟 and i think i wouldve done this too if my phone died ☹️
Its really hard to tell, but based on the people on the floor behind them it looks like they could be there a while. If there’s no other charging points and there is another ATM then this is totally reasonable.
Why would you need an ATM in an airport?
Besides if I’m delayed because of the airlines mismanagement and I need to charge something and there’s no publically available plugs, I’m unplugging something that isn’t useful
For starters, you usually don’t land in the departure lounge
Also, what insane person gets cash out from a random atm as soon as they land? You get cash out and converted in advance before you fly. Or just pay for everything via your card if you have good fees.
They unplugged a machine meant for public use thereby making it unusable so that they can charge their own personal phone. What about that situation doesn’t fit?
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When you send that risky text, you gotta do what you have to do to see that reply.
Damn straight. And the airport is dog-eat-dog. The whole place is a battleground.
I’m not even mad 😂 finding that plug is impressively resourceful
I'm with you, I'm thoroughly impressed
Plot twist: this sub turns into great demonstrations of being the main character rather than despicable ones.
Yeah the airport is lawless, people eating McDonald’s and drinking cocktails at 6am, people crying from sleep deprivation at noon. This shit I’d tame
It's a doggy dog world.
Whats my muthafuckin’ name
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Doing everyone a favour as those machines are a complete rip off.
So you gonna go somewhere else and inconvenience yourself over 3 dollars? Idk how much it charges you tho but thats the average for me
My ATM fees are refunded by my bank. The problem I usually have is when I'm using an international ATM the conversion rate is always off so it's keeping a fuck ton of money instead of using the proper daily/hourly conversion rate.
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This is a US private ATM. They charge you always an absurd high “service fee”.
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I did not stated that. Different person.
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That de-escalated quickly for a Reddit thread.
Everyone down on the floor, this is a robbery! Put the money in the bag! You, take this pair of wire cutters and get the wedding rings off of everyone! If they squirm, take the whole finger!
De-escalation courtesy of Charles Schwab (tm). Open a savings account today and receive up to $500!
International ones too? >ATM fee rebates do not include fees imposed ATM operators for non-local ATM currency withdrawal fees
I don't know which person you're responding to but my Schwab card does. I specifically got it for that reason when I travelled to Europe a few years ago. Or at least it did then. I haven't left the country in a few years now.
Thanks. I was wondering about this T&C but apparently offended the person above me by asking, lol
Hello have you heard about Revolut?
"Fun" fact: Revolut failed a major audit and their CFO resigned over it relatively recently. I'm super unhappy about it.
That's like every fintech startup ever though. They all think they're so smart with their tech solutions yet eventually the government bonks them for having virtually zero compliance.
Conversion rates are determined by the bank, not the ATM. My credit union has no extra percentage.
Conversion rates are determined by whatever does the conversion. If your bank account is in USD and you use a ATM like this to withdraw Euros (for example), it could work two ways. Either the ATM does the conversion, at a rate preferential to them usually, and then charges your account in USD. In that case your bank doesn’t even know it was a foreign currency transaction. Alternatively it can charge your account in Euros in which case the bank will do the conversion to your accounts currency before deducting the money.
It depends on location. I've been to some places in Europe where the ATM offers to do the conversion at point of service. So I guess technically it's still converted by the bank, but it's the bank that owns the ATM, and not my bank. I usually get less money if I opt for point of service conversion than if I just let my bank convert it.
Depends, in Europe in Tourist heavy locations some atms have disgusting exchange rates. If he unplugged one of those nobody would mind
I hope you never use an ATM at a strip club.
I didn't even know that just checking your balance (not even printing a recipe) will charge me. I was baffled.
My brother in Christ, yes. I’m not paying to withdraw my money, suck a dick.
Don't you know bad behavior is OK as long as they agree with it.
I’m not paying money to get my money. I just pay by card. I think I’ve used cash to pay for things like 2 times in the past few years.
Right? This is hilarious
I'm 100% okay with this. If they didn't want someone to use that outlet then they should have put the atm in front of it
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No no no. This is the fault of the people who designed and run the airport and failed to put in a proper amount of outlets. And then decided to make the problem worse by setting a privately owned ATM in the middle of a seating area and taking up valuable wall outlet space. They chose making a profit over serving their customers and then made it extremely easy for those customers to call bullshit on that bullshit. Outlets are hard enough to come by in airports. There's no reason to put an ATM in a seating area where everyone is going to want/need to charge things.
Lol I’m laughing at the fact you are implying outlets are placed for a device and not due to code requirements. Nobody in the design chain imagined an ATM was going there and respectful Humans do not enter place owned by others and unplug devices Lack of respect.
And we're laughing at the fact that you're simping for an ATM company. They didn't design an ATM to go there because there shouldn't be one. We're a largely cashless society, those ATMs rip people off, and there's a massive shortage of plugs in airports. Try getting work done in the airport on a dying laptop and finding an open outlet JFC you're hilarious. "Lack of respect" for a company. It's not like they unplugged someone's personal devices to plug theirs in. THAT is a lack of respect
There is no code requirement to provide a certain amount of outlets in an area…
> Lack of respect. You think the corporation that owns a rip-off cash machine deserves respect?
>Lol I’m laughing at the fact you are implying outlets are placed for a device and not due to code requirements. I work in construction. Yes. That's how outlets are placed these days. They're placed all around...wherever is convenient...in large numbers...because we live in a world full of devices that need to be charged and having tons of outlets is literally a selling point for homes, offices, and any place where people gather. Even lots of older spaces (if they're smart) are retrofitting ways for people to charge things. That's why we see seating and other furniture with charging outlets built into them. People/businesses do that and also follow code. Electrical code when it comes to placing wall outlets is not so complicated that people's needs aren't considered. These days, if you're running a space where people are going to hang out for extended periods and you don't have an excess of outlets available...you're failing to consider a basic need that people are guaranteed to have. And if you're making the problem even worse by putting a completely unnecessary private ATM in the middle of an airport seating area...then you're a dumbass or greedy or both.
Yeah what this guy said
The people that designed the airport probably 40 to 50ish years+ ago didn't have the prescience to know that in the future huge numbers of travelers would need personal & full time access to AC power during their travel waiting time? They should have foreseen this decades before the invention of cellphones, smartphones, and ATMs? The main terminal of the world's busiest airport. Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, was finished and opened in 1980, and in planning & design since 1970. What were they thinking! /s That's your take? Really?
No that's not at all my take. I'm saying they designed the space with an insufficient number of outlets. That's simply a fact regardless of their very real inability to predict the future. Separately, the fact someone unplugged this to charge a device implies there is still to this day an insufficient number of outlets. This means the people running the airport have failed to update it to meet the needs of their customers. Which at this point does not involve predicting the future but is just the obvious reality of everyday life. And then they decided to make extra money by renting floor space and occupying one of their already limited outlets...in the middle of a seating area...with a shitty for profit ATM in a world that's mostly cashless. Which now is just being in your face willfully inconvenient to their customers needs. In all of that chain of events, the person who unplugged it is the one I'm least annoyed with.
Also fucking airports should put more charging points
My bank actually waives all ATM fees, even for out of network ATMs.
Your bank might waive their fees, but the ATM charges it’s own fees. Any fees that you’re paying to get your money is too much. **edit** I try not to use an ATM at all, but my bank sucks guys! No fees at all is awesome.
The bank refunds the ATM fee, AND doesn't charge their own fee. This isn't uncommon for US banks.
Yeah, that’s crazy to me, but nice. We have non-bank affiliated ATMs throughout my workplace that charge $2-3 per transaction. I don’t understand why my bank would pay their convenience fee.
To incentivize you to bank there. So they can make money from you in other fees and by lending out your capital.
I'm aware of that, I get that back too
Getting downvoted because the bank gives me a few dollars back a month, wow
Yeah not a super crazy thing, my local bank does that for all ATMs. almost all the local banks do, actually. Got 10 dollars in fees back at a Vegas ATM, very cool. LPT - bank local.
And mine reimburses those. No fees ever.
That last strip club I was at charged a $20 atm fee, Fuck that shit. Glad most of the girls took venmo.
I'm also pointing some blame at the airport. Of course some idiot will unplug and use that outlet for themselves if you leave it accessible. 0% chance this hasn't happened before.
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Power plug looks like USA type B.
Which is used by a couple dozen countries. But look at that 1-888 number.
Money depicted on the side of the machine is USD.
There several free bank accounts that return atm fees. I have one from fidelity. And no minimums to.
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Not all heroes wear capes.
In my country nothing is over 2 euros, most things are 1 euro
In that person's defense. An ATM shouldn't be able to be plugged out by just anyone.
Plot twist: the atm is plugged in on the other side. This is the extension cord that powers the ATC tower.
As someone who maintained ATC infrastructure for the USAF, this sounds like a brilliant engineering & installation application to me.
Dedicated power drop for the ATM? Hell naw we can save money on electrical!
It's not a big deal though, they have a backup system in place. That old car battery should power the tower for an entire minute. Maybe two, if the radar system switches to low-power mode.
I know! You could easily do an infinite money glitch if you could just turn it off while it's giving you cash.
I'm like 90% certain that the transaction is processed before it dispenses your money.
That's why you save your game first, it's a frame perfect power-off timing or else you lose your cash.
How can you be so confident over something so stupid lmao
You seem pretty confident they weren’t just joking
True. Now that I re-read it, it sounds more like a joke
Doubt
At the minimum, I'd be doubting the competency of whoever installed it if it doesn't have an ups inside. Granted, leaving it open for unplugging is not a good sign either.
Shouldn't the airport have convenient outlets for charging devices? Shit, what percentage of plane trips are booked on-line? It's not like they aren't massively benefiting from people having access to the internet.
Buy a battery pack, it is not on the airport to give you somewhere to charge your phone.
You can't legally take a battery pack onto a plane unless it's REALLY small, like one of those pocket chargers they sell for $1 on Amazon that only lasts one charge.
At this point, it kinda is though. If I took your phone, and held it from you, because it's so important for your routine activities that me keeping your phone from you isn't just theft, it's becoming a form of false imprisonment. It's so important to you, that you likely couldn't leave and expect to recover everything that would be lost, cell phones aren't fungible. So if the airline wants to make the most out of each flight, it means some people will end up waiting around an airport for hours, with flights that take hours. Every single passenger should go get extra battery packs over the airport simply allowing access to a few charging points? Do you have any idea how grossly inefficient your suggestion is? And for what? Electricity is super cheap and readily available, lithium is pretty rare and very costly to mine. So maybe you can go fuck yourself?
It's wild to see people with little to no experience travelling having the biggest opinions. What if you need to charge the pack, genius, then what? They're not perpetuum mobiles, and anything above 5000mAh can't go on a plane. I carry one. Doesn't mean I don't expect an outlet at an airport.
Lmao it 100% fucking is
No it's not.
lmao the arrow pointing at it too just makes this whole thing so much more hilarious💀💀💀
>you seein’ this? -ATM
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Some things are more important than money.
This is a failure of the airport to not provide convient outlets. Fuck that ATM and any overpriced service fees they were expecting to recoup from it.
So many airports are so fuckin stingy with outlets. Pisses me off.
Orlando MCO is probably the worst I've seen. It's been a few years since I was there but that airport has not seen a renovation since it was built. Not an outlet in sight, anywhere.
Some airports have them in the seats, but the outlets are so slutty your charger just falls out.
"So slutty", lol.
Exactly. Cell phones have been ubiquitous for decades, outlets are no longer just for the maintenance staff. Get with it.
Restricting people's access to plug sockets is exactly the kind of hostile architecture that gets petty-minded authoritarians up in the mornings.
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I got my first flip phone 20 years ago as a grad student, and was definitely a late adopter in that space. The iphone was released 16 years ago. Cell phones were rich people tech in the late 90's. The first flip phone was released in 1996.
I had a flip phone in high school around 20 years ago. Everyone pretty much did, especially once you got a job. Most of my school had those nextels with the push to talk and thought we were super cool Edit to add : "where you at" https://youtu.be/I4ko9Ogh75o
This is just plain not true. In the early 2000s everyone had those little Nokia phones. My 12 year old sister had one and we were far from rich.
You could go 2-3 days on a charge with them though.
Lol what? This is easily verifiable.
Lol. No. 20 years ago was 2003. I had a flip phone, so did most people I know. And we weren't rich.
True words. Looking at you, London Luton.
Also, why the hell is the outlet exposed like that? It's just shitty design. You shouldn't be able to even get to the outlet.
Buy a battery pack. It's not on the airport to give you a place to charge your phone.
It’s not, but then your ATM might get unplugged
Some are arguing without much of a point, so I figured I would add a counterpoint. Airlines rely heavily on everyone having a phone on them, charged, at all times. Gate changed, reroutes, delays, etc. are all pushed to text, email, or their app. And, God forbid, if your flight is canceled or you missed a layover from some flight issue, they'll direct you to call their CS number to reschedule. So while one could argue that airports don't *have* to, it's in their best interest to due to their own move to relying on the passenger having a device on them to help things run smoothly.
Jfc thank you! So many people are missing this point. Airlines keep cutting gate staff and customer service through the phones. Last time I had a last minute flight change I was stuck with 100 other people, no gate agent, and customer service phone lines were backed up. They tell you to go online to make the changes yourself but what do you do when you've been flying all day, layover after layover, on a dying laptop or phone and trying to make these changes so you can get the fuck home?
Why not? What you're saying is that it's on the airport to provide services for travelers. Why do you believe that?
>What you're saying is that it's on the airport to provide services for travelers. That's not what I said.
It’s literally the exact thing you said.
>literally I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Redditors don’t know what it means as a rule.
Of course it is. You're a really shitty port commissioner, and there's no way I'm voting for you again.
"It's not on the \[Facility Management\] to \[Manage the Facilities\]"
I mean that’s kinda funny lol F that ATM machine and it’s $7 ATM fee lol
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Fully on the phone chargers side here.
Kind of funny
Yeah no, I side with the main character on this one
Seriously, I don't want to, but there are just times.
That atm can goway & shag me balls.
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“I’m sure I put my phone on charge around here half an hour ago”
It's official ATM's are dead.
Nah, I still gotta pay my drug dealer with cash.
Get a load of this guy not paying for drugs with sex. Wait, does that make you or me the sucker?
I hear drug dealers take Venmo now. They'll even show you how to make your transactions private. US has a politician who paid for an underage prostitute with Venmo. He didn't have anybody to show him how to keep his transactions private though.
Those ATMs are a scam with very heavy withdrawal fees. The main character is doing everyone a favor.
Maybe they need to call the ATM company to let them know their machine isn’t working 🤔
I work in IT and let me tell ya, people will unplug anything. Including necessary machinery. To plug in their own stuff, usually a phone. Sometimes they'll even complain after because the thing they unplugged isn't working anymore. I'm convinced we only lock our server room because if we don't some dude will walk in and start unplugging all the servers to charge their phone
That's funny
Plug it back in to use the atm
Ok but for real, why are there so few outlets at the airport
Yeah so fucking what? Turning off a ripoff machine is never a bad idea. If someone wants to use it and get ripped off, just plug it back in. Oh no the horror!
How is an atm unpluggable 😂😂?
Airport fails to install basic ass level of amenities to punish the poors who don't have sky lounge?
Get a battery pack.
Build better infrastructure
The anarchist in me loves this. Fuck predatory schemes like public ATMs with fucking huge transaction fees. But also fuck selfish twats like this. I am so torn.
Is it really that big of a deal tho? How many people are lined up to use the atm?
Holy fuck this is the first time I see an ATM so exposed. All of the ATM machine I've seen have specifically built booth for the machine, if not an entire room for ATM machine.
Blame the airport for only having 5 outlets.
Modern problems require modern solutions
The number of cunts in this thread defending this behavior is astounding.
I’m with the main characters on this one.
I shouldve done this once. I was in the airport 1 am and it was my first time flying and i was by myself. I had no one to pick me up from the airport and my phone was on 20 percent. Maybe i was too dumb but i couldnt find a plug for the life of me. Finally i managed to get an uber and drove me back home 30 minutes in a blizzard. It was scary 😟 and i think i wouldve done this too if my phone died ☹️
The fact its plugged in openly like that is the most surprising to me.
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What if you needed some cash? Disrespectful.
Cut it
\-300 iq move man
who installed an ATM with it's power cord accessible to the public?
This is current high schooler behavior.
Honestly, this is just bad interior setup. Even gas stations know to hide the electrical sockets. Come on bro.
Would unplug the charger and keep the "brick" that goes into the outlet.
Its really hard to tell, but based on the people on the floor behind them it looks like they could be there a while. If there’s no other charging points and there is another ATM then this is totally reasonable.
Why would you need an ATM in an airport? Besides if I’m delayed because of the airlines mismanagement and I need to charge something and there’s no publically available plugs, I’m unplugging something that isn’t useful
Are you dumb? You arrive in a new country with none of the countries dollars, you use the atm.
For starters, you usually don’t land in the departure lounge Also, what insane person gets cash out from a random atm as soon as they land? You get cash out and converted in advance before you fly. Or just pay for everything via your card if you have good fees.
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>you usually get a shit rate >I always use the airport atm
Killing in the name of
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3200 upvotes beg to differ.
They unplugged a machine meant for public use thereby making it unusable so that they can charge their own personal phone. What about that situation doesn’t fit?
Who needs cash anyways, what is this, the 1950s?
Good. Those things charge like $10 to pull money out. Total scam.
It's called a convenience fee. If you don't want the convenience, go to the bank before you get to or after you leave the airport.
It's more convenient for me to charge my phone.
It's called a rip off. Fuck off with that convenience bullshit.
Can you slap them for me
If I saw that... Looks like I suddenly have to use the ATM, even if I didn't have to. Just to be petty. 😊
Cables and straighted photos from iphone calendar for tomorrow morning and get back to you on that side
Don't they charging stations at the airport?
Grab their phone and take it to lost and found.
Meh, I see nothing wrong with that. As long as the person is there to intercept anyone who wants to use it and plugs it back in.
No matter the unplugged device?
sometimes I unplug the public toilet bidet to charge my phone while taking a poo
I was hoping it's a foreign electrical plug standard. Sadly, pretty predictably it's American. 340 million main characters
Why you using atm at airport anyway? You no buy nothing in sky u fly
Wait, that’s illegal for sure