{"id":465,"date":"2017-06-07T06:59:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T22:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2017\/06\/07\/bank-staff-close-to-retching-counting-huge-stash-of-mouldy-notes\/"},"modified":"2017-06-07T06:59:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T22:59:15","slug":"bank-staff-close-to-retching-counting-huge-stash-of-mouldy-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/bank-staff-close-to-retching-counting-huge-stash-of-mouldy-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank Staff Close To Retching Counting Huge Stash Of Mouldy Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Employees at a bank in southwest China spent 11 hours fighting back the urge to vomit while counting 200,000 yuan (US$29,400) of fetid, mouldy banknotes stored by an old couple under their bed for three years, a local newspaper reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Employees at a bank in southwest China spent 11 hours fighting back the urge to vomit while counting 200,000 yuan (US$29,400) of fetid, mouldy banknotes stored by an old couple under their bed for three years, a local newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1.png\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fh8SW7hGfo31hHJc22IsCbRIMOyR?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" height=\"346\" width=\"621\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_73 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/bank-staff-close-to-retching-counting-huge-stash-of-mouldy-notes\/#A_bank_teller_wearing_a_mask_counting_the_rancid_smelling_notes_Photo_Chengdu_Commercial_Daily\" title=\"A bank teller, wearing a mask, counting the rancid smelling notes. &nbsp;Photo:Chengdu Commercial Daily\">A bank teller, wearing a mask, counting the rancid smelling notes. &nbsp;Photo:Chengdu Commercial Daily<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/bank-staff-close-to-retching-counting-huge-stash-of-mouldy-notes\/#Some_of_the_foul-smelling_notes_Photo_Chengdu_Commercial_Daily\" title=\"Some of the foul-smelling notes.&nbsp; &nbsp;Photo:Chengdu Commercial Daily\">Some of the foul-smelling notes.&nbsp; &nbsp;Photo:Chengdu Commercial Daily<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/bank-staff-close-to-retching-counting-huge-stash-of-mouldy-notes\/#Photo_Chengdu_Commercial_Daily\" title=\"Photo:Chengdu Commercial Daily\">Photo:Chengdu Commercial Daily<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_bank_teller_wearing_a_mask_counting_the_rancid_smelling_notes_Photo_Chengdu_Commercial_Daily\"><\/span>A bank teller, wearing a mask, counting the rancid smelling notes. &nbsp;Photo:Chengdu Commercial Daily<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>The cash was given to the couple at a village in Chengdu in Sichuan province for safe keeping by their daughter three years ago, the Chengdu Commercial Daily reported.<\/p>\n<p>The daughter, who needed the money for the down payment on a house, asked her parents to give her the money back.<\/p>\n<p>When the three of them opened the box where her parents hid the cash under their bed, they were shocked to find the banknotes covered in mould and sticky.<\/p>\n<h5><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2.png\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FkCTuAEzLykO1ZMlA0ciLGld71mE?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" height=\"341.6709956709957\" width=\"589\" title=\"\"><\/h5>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Some_of_the_foul-smelling_notes_Photo_Chengdu_Commercial_Daily\"><\/span>Some of the foul-smelling notes.&nbsp; &nbsp;Photo:Chengdu Commercial Daily<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>The daughter stuffed the money into a shopping bag and brought it to a bank the first thing the next morning, hoping to exchange the notes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe smell was very pungent, with a rotten odour,\u201d the manager of the bank told the newspaper, adding that a bank teller immediately started retching after she opened the shopping bag.<\/p>\n<p>Six employees were tasked to count the banknotes. They stayed two extra hours at work, but still could not finish it and had to continue the next morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to separate each note from each other, one by one. We have to be very cautious,\u201d an employee was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3.jpg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/Fr4oid-Njlt2N17pmq9n10gFXNu4?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Photo_Chengdu_Commercial_Daily\"><\/span>Photo:Chengdu Commercial Daily<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<hr>\n<p>They also had to dry the money with a hair dryer before they could put them into a currency checker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to insert each banknote into the machine many times even after blow drying them,\u201d the employee said.<\/p>\n<p>About a third of the banknotes were damaged and 247 \u201ccrumbled at the slightest touch\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The bank finally exchanged 193,000 yuan for the daughter.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GIC QR.jpg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FlXXlKXBxtykYAuKbjvAxKMwIbVH?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" height=\"543.2937181663837\" width=\"500\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Employees at a bank in southwest China spent 11 hours fighting back the urge to vomit while counting 200,000 yuan (US$29,400) of fetid, mouldy banknotes stored by an old couple &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}