Bank managers post on Humans of Bombay's Facebook page offers a glimpse of heightened tension.
The shock announcement of the government's currency ban has meant hours of queues at banks and ATMs for the common man. On occasions some of them have even spent a night in the open, keeping their place in a queue for when the bank opens. But how has life been for those who sit on the other side of the doors?
Last week, all banks stayed open over the weekend.
A post in Humans of Bombay's Facebook page offers a glimpse of heightened tension, long work hours and missed lunches for bank employees - and days that are literally 'breathless'.
"We're receiving black money that had been stashed away for years possibly and all this cash smells like rotten leather to the point where every one of our branches has ordered masks for the cashiers - that's how unbearable the stench became!" reads the post, written by a manager at one of the city's banks.
There's also the question of an added stress when one deals with customers who are also hungry, thirsty and irked.
"What's ridiculous is how people are behaving- they're treating us so badly. Just 4 hours ago I received a call from a man from a place called Nanded who screamed at me non-stop. He went on yelling, blaming me, cursing in Marathi and I'm sitting there just wondering what I could possibly do and we've received dozens of such calls each day," the post read.
And then there is the unpleasantness from people who have been forced to declare their black money.
"Threats have also come. We get calls from people who are politically endowed and threaten to 'send media to expose us' or to 'create a scene' if we don't move money."
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