Anyone still deal with large amounts of these frustrating pieces of paper?
Die a little inside everytime someone waits right till before I ring up the sale to tell me they're going to pay by a check.. because then I know on a day where theirs only 2 staff that we are going to be dealing with a huge line of customers due to the ridiculous processing time (about 10 Minutes at the moment). Most people are angels about it, but many are total SCs and eventually just walk out after ive attempted to get it validated for over 10, sometimes 15 minutes.
Only reason I am having a mini-rant about them is the fact we had a junkie come into our store this afternoon who had obviously stolen someones identity, and was high at the time of entrance.. I followed her around as she pointed out random items to purchase without much care of price or quality.. thankfully she wasn't violent (judging from her exposed arms she was doing meth or heroin), but pretty much knocked down a whole lot of shit and staggered around the store. Ringed up the sale, she brings out a ratty, dubious checkbook.. at this point I signal to my co-worker to be ready to call the cops just in case she goes a bit crazy (as I knew the check would be rejected). She makes a huge excuse for not having Photo ID, but she's carrying around pages and pages of ratty documents (she also had junk food with her, spilled a whole heap of crap out of her bags and left a pool of oily matter on our glass counter).. she scrawls the check amount, it goes through the vaildator and sure enough it gets rejected due to fraud/cancellation.. at this point I essentially tell her that it didn't go through and for her to leave the store.. which was quite a risk I must admit with many other customers milling around watching her behavior.
Thankfully she was a mellow junkie and left quickly (not without leaving her junk at the store, then breaking the plastic bag it was in). I'm just relieved she wasn't violent for getting an obviously stolen check rejected..
Thats my general experience with the checks I do see at my store.. I made this thread cause I'm curious what sort of hell everyone else here goes through with checks..
Die a little inside everytime someone waits right till before I ring up the sale to tell me they're going to pay by a check.. because then I know on a day where theirs only 2 staff that we are going to be dealing with a huge line of customers due to the ridiculous processing time (about 10 Minutes at the moment). Most people are angels about it, but many are total SCs and eventually just walk out after ive attempted to get it validated for over 10, sometimes 15 minutes.
Only reason I am having a mini-rant about them is the fact we had a junkie come into our store this afternoon who had obviously stolen someones identity, and was high at the time of entrance.. I followed her around as she pointed out random items to purchase without much care of price or quality.. thankfully she wasn't violent (judging from her exposed arms she was doing meth or heroin), but pretty much knocked down a whole lot of shit and staggered around the store. Ringed up the sale, she brings out a ratty, dubious checkbook.. at this point I signal to my co-worker to be ready to call the cops just in case she goes a bit crazy (as I knew the check would be rejected). She makes a huge excuse for not having Photo ID, but she's carrying around pages and pages of ratty documents (she also had junk food with her, spilled a whole heap of crap out of her bags and left a pool of oily matter on our glass counter).. she scrawls the check amount, it goes through the vaildator and sure enough it gets rejected due to fraud/cancellation.. at this point I essentially tell her that it didn't go through and for her to leave the store.. which was quite a risk I must admit with many other customers milling around watching her behavior.
Thankfully she was a mellow junkie and left quickly (not without leaving her junk at the store, then breaking the plastic bag it was in). I'm just relieved she wasn't violent for getting an obviously stolen check rejected..
Thats my general experience with the checks I do see at my store.. I made this thread cause I'm curious what sort of hell everyone else here goes through with checks..
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