What are you people DOING to it?!

[Nelsonette]

I just...sometimes I don't understand what people are doing with their money.

While working at Deal$, this man handed me a $20 covered in-and I swear on this-peanut butter and cheeto dust.
It was disgusting. I refused to touch it. As she was handing it to me I 'accidentally' let it fall, and said "Oh, no worries, I'll get that later, let me get you your change."

After she left I went and got some vinyl gloves to pick that up, and went to the manager, holding it up to her and said, "You need to get me a ten to replace this. I am not putting this into my till, and I am not going to give it to another customer." She looked confused, and then paled as she saw the bill, and got me a new ten.
It was just...undeniably filthy.

Then, just tonight, this woman had a total of about $17.53.
The coins were fine, she got them from her boyfriends pocket. The bills, however? She pulled from her bra.
Keep in mind that today was a normal Missouri spring day, meaning that it was 85 degrees and horribly humid. She pulled these bills out, three fives and two dollars, and started to hand them to me,
You could...you could see the sweat on them. Something must have shown in my face because she paused and I quickly said "Uhm, one moment, please, the computer just froze, I need my manager to put her keycode in."
I then fled for the manager and convinced her to cash this lady out while I apologized for our "faulty computers, they've been messing up all day ma'am."

Is...is it that hard to keep your money in decent condition? I don't need (Greatly PREFER but do not need) freshly pressed, crisped bills.
But for the love of christ on toast, I am not going to handle money that is that disgusting. It's bad enough letting people touch my pens to sign their receipts, filthy money is just...ew. It's horrible.

[fireheart]

Nice way to avoid both of them without calling the customer out on their suckiness.
Although I'm wondering, is there a policy (or a law) against handling gross money? We have a rule at work with the reusable bags that if they're dirty...they don't get packed. Simple as that.
Money-wise, we have polymer notes so they don't absorb the sweat of twenty pairs of boobies, but it's against the law to deface them.

[LillFilly]

I was curious too if stores could make judgement calls on whether or not to handle 'gross' money; seriously, it could be a health hazard. But then there's also the law about stores being legally required to accept all legal tender, so I wonder where the balance is.

Though I did see a video of a guy try to pay for an expensive meal in pennies and they refused, so maybe that law applies to paper money only.

[joe hx]

i once had a lady pay with a dollar bill that had written on it real big with permanent marker "sex slave." there was no way i was going to use that bill to give someone else change.

[bainsidhe]

After handling slobbery money, I actually asked a manager one day. The answer is NO. Wouldn't want to turn away business, now would we.

Not so bad working retail, but in my fast food days I had kids pulling money out of swimming trunks, shoes (ewwwww), and other loathsome places. When you can smell the piss, that's downright disgusting. Don't put money in your mouth kids.

[BethB]

As a cashier for fast food we had a guy who would hand me bills from his wallet(good), get change from sweats pocket all sweaty(bad) but the pocket was inside near his nether regions(ugly). I started bringing in antibacterial gel. Thats just beyond gross. I didn't care about his exact change. Wonder how he got the change. he always paid exact.

[Nelsonette]

I keep a bottle of that handy, sure, but just...touching it to even begin with. Blech. I really really want to bring in some gloves and wear those at work. I won't even make the company pay for them, I'd buy my own, just so I can avoid the entire issue to begin with.

I wonder if I could actually do that, I mean, since I'm working in fast food it shouldn't offend anyone that I'm wearing gloves...for all they know I was just making food, right?

If I had it my way, I would have all my money bankfaced and neat, and any money that looked particularly gross would go straight into a 'Ew' bin, to be periodically replaced by new, cleaner money. I feel so bad when I have to hand a customer a dingy, torn dirty bill for change.

[Erin]

What I always hated (and refused) when I worked as a cashier in a McD's drive thru was bloody money. I have a serious blood phobia. It always made me a bit ill whenever someone would hand me money that had FRESH blood on it. And it happened fairly often.

If they refused or didnt have any other money, I'd call the manager back there, and hold up the drive thru because there was no way I'd accept money with blood on it. My managers were cool about it sometimes, we'd just give the customer their food free so that they would go away and bleed somewhere else.

[chinashirtgirl]

Here I've seen people using gloves at checkouts for a long time. It only makes sense because you can get colds easily if you handle lots of money all day and then touch your face or something.

Oddly enough I haven't seen it at the bank! Strange?

[peoplesuck]

Here I've seen people using gloves at checkouts for a long time. It only makes sense because you can get colds easily if you handle lots of money all day and then touch your face or something.

Oddly enough I haven't seen it at the bank! Strange?

I've seen this at two different banks.... in China [Shanghai and ZhenJiang]. The Shanghai bank was really fussy about taking $20 USD bills, only those that were near perfect; A single bend, a tattered edge, or even a tiny mark would get the bill rejected. Fun times.

[fireheart]

Hey uh...in regards to the title....

....they're using it at strip clubs?

[Primer]

At the wally world in my town, there is a checker that wears the latex(?) gloves. More power to her! The first time I saw it, I wondered for just a split second, then shrugged, figuring she has a good reason, and that management had better not fuss at her about it!

If I were in retail today, I'd probably be wearing gloves at the registers, myself!

[Becks]

Food service gloves FTW.

Not for me, though.

Reminds me too much of my last job and I'd end up wondering where my favorite cop and the at work boyfriend are.

[bainsidhe]

Bloody money Holy heck! I've never had that one, but I can tell you I wouldn't accept it either. As disgusting as the other stuff is (and I swear, I WILL use a bag to grab the bill if it's damn disgusting), I'd call management over if I realized I had a bloody bill. Our store has hazard gear for employees handling blood. Yet I will get in trouble if I refuse to accept monies. So I'll have a manager refuse or choose to take it. Yuck.

[wagegoth]

Quite a few of the toll takers at the bridges here use gloves. I'm surprised that some don't.