Wells Fargo issues money orders but won't cash them

So I did some work and got paid in a money order, no problem right well here's the rub I went to western union where the money order information would be and was told they couldn't cash it, I went to wells Fargo where the money order was issued and was told that they couldn't cash the money order because there was no way to verify the funds. Now being savy in computers and information technology I knew they were full of shit so I went to the local pub around the corner and got someone to let me use thier account as a proxy to cash the money order, here's where it got interesting that same bitch that told me they couldn't verify the funds asked my proxy if he would like her to verify the fucking funds to see if it was legit. So this is how corrupt our banking system is you can give money as a money order but you'll be damned if you can get that money back as cash.