MUMBAI: The employees of PMC Bank who were left to deal with irate depositors through Tuesday were putting up a brave front. They hold salary accounts in their own bank, doubling the anxiety of possibly losing their jobs as well as their savings.

Swati Thakur, manager of the branch at Manish Nagar, Andheri, addressed depositors’ concerns, saying they were “like her family”. “We are confident they will not harm us,” she said, referring to reports of customer aggression elsewhere. “I am telling them that we ourselves have salary accounts in PMC Bank.”

This means the same rules of withdrawal that apply to clients are in place for staff members also. So, though the staffers may continue to receive salaries in their accounts for now, this is hardly a help since they cannot withdraw more than Rs 1,000 in six months.

About 16-17 employees work in the Andheri branch, most of them young women in their twenties or thirties. “Who is saying that we will lose our jobs? We are confident that the bank will tide over the crisis,” said one, as another fetched water for waiting customers.