I did something sucky, and am not ashamed.

[unholypet]

Okay, I just gotta ask: is this the only store around you? No other place to shop? I mean, why put up with this kind of crap for four years?

Wally World kindof killed all the other businesses that sold groceries/hair stuff. So, I have no other place to go unless I want to drive more than 20miles out of my way (gas, blah).

I wouldn't complain about someone only paying with change. There are a lot of folks on welfare and such who only have change, who gets to judge? Honestly.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I once had a woman pay for something that cost about £50 in change. What bugged me was firstly it was obviously a collection for a leaving present, and there are at least six banks in the town she could have changed the money at. Second, she was really obnoxious about me counting it to check it was the correct amount. There was so much change, it wouldn't fit into my till and I had to call a supervisor.

So sorry, but I can't pat someone on the back who tortured a cashier with loads of change. I understand she's sucky, but there's no need to lower yourself to her level. Just ignore her.

[Boozy]

I wouldn't complain about someone only paying with change.

If you truly don't believe that paying with that much change is sucky, then why did you title your post, "I did something sucky..."?

If that's all you had to pay with, then I can understand that. You're right - sometimes we all get stuck and have to pay with change. If the customer is polite about it, I don't mind.

But that was not the point of your story, was it?

[MystyGlyttyr]

I'm a vengeful little bitch, we all know this. That being said...

There's a difference, to me, between a cashier who has one bad interaction with a customer and the customer "gets even" for that single slight; and a cashier who lives in a perpetual piss and goes out of their way to make every transaction miserable, and someone deciding one day to return the favor as a prank or a way to let off steam. The first is sucky, the second is just a way to ease your own feelings.

The woman who gave me crap about my headphones was a one-off thing. I've been back through her line again (not on purpose, I must say) and she acted like a human being this time around, so I can't imagine just up and deciding to nail her.

Then again, there is a clerk in the same store who is a constant effin' A and sneers down her nose at everyone (no offense to any Wal-Mart cashiers, but that's hardly a job where I'd feel inspired that I was so much better than everyone else like this female seems to) and makes it very clear how it is a PRIVILEGE that she allows you to come through her line. I try to avoid her, but she seems to always land in the express lane and wouldn't you know I'm always buying less than 10 items and all the other lines are piled back to the clothes.

Her, I can see gathering up all my loose change and paying a visit just for the hell of being snotty back. It might be petty, but I'm a petty person when I get pushed too far. Some people would say "If you feel that strongly about it, get in one of the other lines and just wait." Well, why should I? I haven't done anything wrong. I'm not going to take an extra half hour out of my day to avoid someone just because they can't stop being a bitch for 30 seconds. It's not sucky to expect not to have to inconvenience yourself just because one clerk is determined to use her attitude to ease her workload, which is what I suspect this one is up to.

The way I see it, if I can pretend to give a damn about all the people I have to deal with all day long-usually people so ignorant, stupid, rude, condescending and entitled that I could cheerfully poke them in the esophagus with my letter opener-I don't see where anyone else gets off not being able to fake it at their work.

Just my opinions, of course.

[Geek King]

(that is what interest on your savings is, practically free money)...

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Actually, it's payment for loan of your money to the bank for use in making loans and investing in stocks and goods. Not a bank in any country would have enough liquid assets to cover cashier checks if even half (cash value) of their account holders suddenly decided to take their money out in one day. They would have to take a loan out with the feds (in the US) or sell off some loans/investments to cover it. A true savings account is really you lending the bank money.
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Oh, and the pennies wouldn't be that hard to get ahold of. We would order about $500-$1000 worth of pennies from the bank (when I was in the moneyroom at Kings Island) every week during peak season. They would usually come in boxes of $25 per box. About 15-20 pounds per box, all pre-rolled. Kind of a pain to move into the vault, though. $187 wouldn't be too bad for them to come up with.

[unholypet]

I'm a vengeful little bitch, we all know this. That being said...

The way I see it, if I can pretend to give a damn about all the people I have to deal with all day long-usually people so ignorant, stupid, rude, condescending and entitled that I could cheerfully poke them in the esophagus with my letter opener-I don't see where anyone else gets off not being able to fake it at their work.

Just my opinions, of course.

/share =D I couldn't have put that whole thing any better lol

[Princess-Snake]

I'm sort of in the middle on this. On one hand, she was extremely sucky to you for years now and it's probably unlikely she's going to change. But, on the other hand, dumping a purseful of quarters on the belt is completely sucky. But on the other hand, she did ask you to. But on the other hand, it takes up too much time not only for you and the cashier, but also to those around you. And taking up one's time when they obviously just want to pay and leave is rude and sucky. But on the other hand, you did say that you were shopping at 3am and the place was pretty much deserted. Ack! Too many hands...

[Difdi]

It's just a way to keep the man down.."

And giving a $0.03 tip doesn't keep the working man down?

What she didn't know, was that I had packed every quarter I could get in my purse. There were only my I.D. and my keys, along with nearly $50 of quarters. So, I did as she asked, and she went .

I'd say she had it coming. Though I'd have been a bit more sadistic, and used dimes. Three of them weigh less than a quarter, bulk about the same, and take more than twice the work to count.

I once did something similar. I once paid a $50 restaurant bill in nickels (long story behind why I had over 1000 nickels on hand omitted for brevity). The waiter had treated me badly (I and my co-workers came in in work clothes, he treated us like a bunch of potential dine & dashers, told other wait staff in my hearing not to let us leave without paying, etc). So I offered to pay for my buddies lunches, just to be able to dump 1000 nickels (loose, I kept the bag) into the hands of the asshole.

And no, I didn't leave a tip.

[wagegoth]

I try not to be petty, I try not to be small, I try to be the better person, but now and then, once in a while, I have to get a jab in. If you don't, then it builds up and comes out on the people who don't deserve it and haven't caused it.

Four years of attitude, after being nice, friendly, concerned, then complaining to management, complaining to corporate, and it's still going on? The cashier got off light. I think it was a fairly mild bit of suck in payback for all the misery and attitude she has handed out over the years. You should have Super Glued some of the quarters together by twos.

[Kogarashi]

As a cashier, I've been on the receiving end of large loads of change before. And I have to say I really didn't mind, even when I had little to no room in the till for it. It was a change to my work day, and each and every time I could tell that the person paying in change didn't mean it as an insult/prank/etc. to me. It was what they had. If customers behind them got mad, I just smiled and apologized to said customers for the wait.

As for prank versions, like the OP, I might've been mad if it were obviously a prank, like having all of one coin and no others. However, in the OP, Unholypet made it clear that she only dumped out her purse when the cashier told her to (after knocking over stacks of quarters Unholypet was counting). That, to me, says "asking for it." I would've been less inclined to call it awesome of Unholypet had just gone straight to dumping out the coinage.

Same goes for using smaller denominations. Quarters aren't much of a problem. Four makes a dollar, that's easy enough. Had it been all dimes or nickels (or, heaven forbid, pennies), I would've been less sympathetic with the OP because that's just cruel. But as a cashier, I ran out of quarters a lot, so having a customer hand me a whole bunch as payment saved me from having to break open yet another quarter roll. That's welcome change. Yes, even in $50 quantities.

So I stand by my statement. Petty? Sure, ok. Stooping to her level? Yes, but in a much less antagonistic way. Still awesome? By my book, yes, largely for the karmic "just dump them out" factor.

[SuperB]

It could be she's like this with everyone and management just doesn't care about the complaints or it could be that no one ever takes the time to complain. Or, she may have an issue with you that you aren't even aware of.
We all like to think we treat people the way we want to be treated and sometimes we get frustrated when another employee doesn't do things the way we think they should be doing them.

To give an example, I have a regular whom I cannot stand. He doesn't get the same "chattiness" everyone else gets. He gets bare minimum civility and no more. He's an arrogant ass who doesn't think he can do any wrong and I feel otherwise for good reason. He'll even try to be chatty but I've no desire to be friendly or chatty even though he hasn't acted in the manner that originally pissed me off for a while now. And I don't feel very inclined to explain anything to him despite the fact that we could probably get past the irritation if I did.

Just another observation.

[wolfie]

As a cashier, I've been on the receiving end of large loads of change before. And I have to say I really didn't mind, even when I had little to no room in the till for it.

I find (as a customer) that change tends to accumulate, and I have to make a concious effort to get rid of it (i.e. pay out the cents portion of my bill in coins, rather than pay out in dollars and get more coins). Occasionally, I'll hear the cashier in my line say to another "I'm running low on nickels" - if my purchase comes to $xx.42, the amount tendered will include 8 or 9 nickels, depending on whether I'm also trying to unload pennies. For some strange reason, the cashier never seems to mind that.