"You're going to hate me."

[wolfie]

Offhand, I later asked ASM if there was any amount of unrolled change we were allowed to refuse. He said no

I wonder if he'd change his mind if a customer backed a "live bottom" 18 wheeler full of pennies up to the door.

I don't even have to count the change, if one coin is missing, there is a gap that shows, if one too many coin, the sleeve just doesn't close properly.

Those gizmos sound like they work on the same principle as the Royal Bank's "Penny Pinchers" (also made in other denominatons). Many years back, Canada changed the penny so it was thinner, and cheaper to produce (cue swearing from vending machine manufacturers - and this was NOT the change that made the penny "close enough" to fool the TTC's automated token gates, forcing them to rework everything). Result of this? 52 "new" pennies would fit into a "Penny Pincher".

[Halo_miles]

Where I work, I deal with a lot of white trash and idiot, gross truckers. I've seen (and had to take) coins covered in oil, gum, some unknown white powder and god knows what else. I think they get the message when I run to the back and throw on a pair gloves to count the change....

[bhskittykatt]

I use these or close enough replacements : http://www.napcoinsorter.com/

Ooooooh! Nifty! So simple and so smart. Can we keep stacks of these next to tills and hand them out to SCs who pay huge amounts in coin and tell them to come back when they've rolled them?

[KellyHabersham]

Reminds me of back when I was a teen, and I had to pay for an album which I wanted in change.......felt bad about it, but I didn't have a checking account or debit/credit card at the time, and my mom was NOT the type to buy music for me.

[Dreamstalker]

I wonder if he'd change his mind if a customer backed a "live bottom" 18 wheeler full of pennies up to the door

Conveniently, he's always elsewhere when an SC pulls this crap...so as far as he's concerned it doesn't happen

I would think that we can refuse a full roll's worth of loose coin on principle (won't fit in the drawer, among other reasons).

[Jay 2K Winger]

The only time I've used scads of change to pay for something, it was only a few dollars, and I made sure to pass the coinage to the cashier in stacks of four or five for ease of counting.

But then, I've got that rarest of superpowers, common sense, and am not an asshole.


...well, okay, I'm not an asshole to undeserving cashiers.

[Anakah]

They should roll it, go to coin star or if they have casinos (like mine) that take coin go there! It is NOT okay to make someone count out that much crap! It's like the idiots who bring us like 2 or 300 in ones and we don't have a front counter and get pissed when they realize we're going to count their money by hand.

[Dentarthurdent]

An hour or so later a lady comes it and says "I hope you don't mind some change!" all fucking cheery and bubbly.

There's always a rash of this kind of behavior. I go days and sometimes weeks at the front desk without making change or having someone pay cash, and then five assholes want change for a $100 bill in two days. MY BANK IS ONLY $600, NO I DON'T WANT TO GIVE YOU CHANGE BECAUSE I HAVE TO GO TO THE CASH CAGE THE NEXT DAY BECAUSE I CAN'T KEEP BIG BILLS (actually I don't mind that aspect, it's like a field trip, but when it's this hot I don't really want to go every day).

I think it was yesterday when I had five people in a row come up to me in the space of about three minutes wanting change for a 5. My coworker was staring at me like something was wrong with me. They wiped out a third of my ones in three minutes. Luckily I also got a $50, so I had an excuse to go get ones without messing up my $20s or something.

[MelindaJoy77]

I had a lady pay me once with $30 in quarters. We have a coin machine right up at customer service and you can even pay with the little receipt the machine gives you.....

Someone mentioned the other folks who insist on paying with $100 bills first thing in the morning for their $10 worth of stuff...yes, SC's, we do hate you.

[Dreamstalker]

We have a Coinstar machine too. Depending on who's running the front end, I can refuse excessive coins and not get reprimanded for it; next time ASM decides to talk to me about refusing $15 in quarters...I shall remind him that the store is within its legal rights to refuse (and his accepting any amount of loose change is why the cash office clerk is pissed off in the mornings). Plenty of stores around here have signs "no bills larger than $XX".

I had to mail something for a petsitting client this morning, and the total was $15 and change. I didn't have the coins on me, but gave her three 5's and a 1...I thought she was going to hug me. Apparently it's not uncommon for them to get a $50 bill for a single stamp at 9AM.

[Trixie]

Last night I had a guy buy a pack of cigarettes and mention that he wanted to get rid of some change. He dug out a handful, counted it out and went off. I was laughing to myself because I'd take that situation of change ridding than people with plastic bags any day!

Towards the end of my night our drawers get counted and switched so we start from scratch again. I have people come in at 10 at night and buy small orders with a 100, rarely a 50. It's always a 100. I tell people I have to call the manager for change and usually get a snotty "Well, that's all I have!" I secretly hope it takes a long time. I have more people ask during the day if a big bill is okay when I do have the money in my drawer. I'm also glad that our limit for cash back went down to $20. It used to be $100 and some days it wouldn't take long for my drawer to get wiped out.

Whew that paragraph was kind of rambling. Sorry had to work last night and head back earlier than normal today. Hooray for lack of sleep!

[BowserKoopa1]

Tonight I actually made a delivery to a house, and the morons were about to give me a bag full of change. ICC= Idiot Change Customer
Me: I'm going to have to count all that out.
ICC: You do?
Me Yup I have to make sure its all there.
ICC: Its all we got.
Me: Alright, but I gotta count it out.
Him and his wife look at each other confused.
Me: You can pay with credit card. We can simply call it in.
ICC: We don't have a credit card.
They hand me the change, and I once again tell them I will have to count it out.
ICC: Come on, man.
Me: Sorry.
Lo and behold, they pull a $20 out, and then a coin as well. I leave. As I said before, I will make them wait while I count it out. I don't give a fuck if they get mad, you shouldn't pay with a bunch of coins like that. Its inappropriate and nobody likes when you do it.

[Captain Trips]

As I said before, I will make them wait while I count it out. I don't give a fuck if they get mad, you shouldn't pay with a bunch of coins like that. Its inappropriate and nobody likes when you do it.

Especially when they lie about it being all they had. (Sounds like they KNEW it would be short.)

[thatcrazyredhead]

I have paid for gas a time or two with all the change I could scrape together, but

1. I was a broke-@$$ college student and I HAD to,

2. I apologized profusely,

3. It was $3 or $4 at the most, and

4. I counted it all out, out loud, so the cashier wouldn't have to count it again to verify it.

The one time I recall specifically, it was probably about 10:30pm and I was the only person anywhere near the gas station. The old curmudgeon behind the counter sighed and said that he'd take it, but he wanted me to know that he didn't have to. Look, jerk, I feel bad enough that I'm so broke that I have to be doing this in the first place. You don't need to shame me.

On the other side of the coin, after college I worked in a Hallmark store in the mall in a somewhat affluent part of the city. I saw Coach, Louis Vuitton, and Gucci bags every single day, sometimes on the arm of girls younger than me. One day, a little girl comes in with her dad to buy a Webkin with her own money. At first I think this is great, until she pulls out a gallon sized ziploc bag full of change. Groan. I look at her dad, waiting for him to say he'd take care of it with plastic or bills and she could give him her change, but no, he only watched as she struggled painfully to count out over $13 in various coins. He didn't even tell her to start with the quarters. I wanted so very badly to refuse the sale, or at least request that they pay with something else, but I probably would have lost my job.

[Mike Taylor]

I only have patience for this when dealing with one particular kind of customer-- kids. We had a little girl come in the other day at the Big Yellow Price Tag who bought her first iPad with an assortment of different bills, including a LOT of singles. Because she earned that herself by holding a yard sale, and her mom was teaching her to count money, we took extra care to be nice.

Anybody else gets the stink-eye.