Community banks seize opportunities to help desperate clients

Forget banker’s hours.

Bankers across the region have been working more like bartender’s hours, or, in some cases something akin to the lifestyle of a partying college student. Some are staying at the office until 2 a.m., and many are coming in on weekends. Some are wearing shorts and flip-slops to work, while others are eating pizza straight out of the box — practicing social distancing — and humming along to rock music while they crunch numbers. One more similarity to the college kid-bartender image: Bankers, normally a close-cropped and well-coiffed group, aren’t getting haircuts. (They don’t have time, and no places are open anyway.)