I can count, thanks

[Brandy]

Has anyone ever noticed that when they recieve money from a customer, some customers feel the need to tell them how much it is? Like if they are handing you $4, they say "And here's $4". It's not really sucky, but I do feel like saying, "I can count thanks, I did manage to graduate from high school." It just has that vaguely condescending feel to it.

[Sliceanddice]

..... i like to say how much it is so i can at least seem polite and im giving them a whole bunch of ones..... *cries because shes been told shes rude*

[powerboy]

If I give a bunch of 1's, then I like to say how much also. I was taught, that it was polite.

[Anakah]

I do it too. For me its not the fact that the cashier can't count, in fact I'm a cashier myself. Its the way I am trained at work. I have to count everything out and just saying what I am giving is sort of a force of habit.

But I do get the jerks who actually say: Wow, you can count!

Those people make me want to rip out my hair.

[purplecat41877]

I can also count. In fact, I can even speed count.

[DesignFox]

I don't take it as rude. I actually prefer the person tell me what they are handing me...I count it out in front of them anyway, but this way we both agree on what was handed over, and then we both know what change is coming. Prevents the problem of the customer saying they handed me a 10 when they handed me a 20 sort of thing...

And jeez, when they hand me a fistful of ones, I certainly appreciate the heads up! (don't get that much anymore, but got that frequently at the mall)

I have to agree that proclaiming, "And here's FOUR dollars!" is a little silly... Guess it just depends on the person's tone of voice as they are handing you the money.

[RichS]

I do it too. For me its not the fact that the cashier can't count, in fact I'm a cashier myself. Its the way I am trained at work. I have to count everything out and just saying what I am giving is sort of a force of habit.

Exactly how I started as well. When I had to work with a register and count out change, it just became a habit. I only do it when I'm giving the cashier the exact amount owed, though.

[CaroPhoenix]

I usually say the amount when I'm handing the cashier a $20 bill or higher. That way we both know the change coming back. When I worked cashier at Roy Rogers, I didn't mind if the customers told me what they were giving me. But then again, I can be patient when need be.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I usually say the amount if I need to dig out more money. I try to have enough in my hand but if I miscalculated or need to count out coins, I'll say "that's $4" in a tone that says "more to come" so they know I am getting the rest.

[MMATM]

Slightly off topic, but apparently some people expect that if they hand you a bunch of ones and just say it's (for example) seventeen, that you won't count it. There have been instances in which customers have handed me a whole stack of singles (invariably mixed between brand-spanking-new and tattered/taped) and just say "there's X there". When I count, usually it totals up to X but often enough its a dollar or two short, or a dollar or two over, especially if the bills are new and sticking together. I always tell the customer to wait while I count, "in case some got stuck together" and anyone who's not trying to run one by me will have no problem with it.



On a barely-related note, I had to pay a toll in New York (visiting the gf) of $4.50, and I had no notes less than a twenty. I hauled out eighteen quarters (barely a dent in my cup holder stash) and stacked them neatly to hand to the tollbooth operator (or whatever they're called). He, clearly relishing his almost-as-official-looking-as-a-rent-a-cop uniform, announced "I'M COUNTING" with a delightful smirk (no exaggeration, he looked like he'd love to come up a quarter short). I shrugged and said "go for it" and waited while he laboriously counted the quarters until I heard his "ok, you can go". I had two friends in the car and about a hundred yards down the road the humor caught up with us and we all lost it laughing. Really, if there is one place you don't want to try to screw over, it's on a major, heavily patrolled highway, at a tollbooth with security cameras up the wazoo, for the astounding sum of twenty-five cents.
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A cookie and a sympathy pat for those who read the second paragraph.

[Sliceanddice]

wait i dont suck *clapps her hands rapidly and hops* yeah me!

[ColonelInTheKitchen]

I always double check when people hand me lots of ones and fives. I'm really horrible at math but I try to make up for it by being careful, ESPECIALLY since there is a new policy at work stating that if we are more than two dollars over or under on our register balance that we'll be written up. And I never noticed before, but now that I think on it, most of my customers don't even tell me what they give me. I still count it back though.

[JustAGirl]

My fiance and I both do it and I don't think it is rude at all.

I call it CYA for BOTH the customer and cashier.

Customer says "Here's $14", that way they know how much they are giving you and you know how much they are giving you and you can verify the $14 and give them appropriate change.

I especially do this if I have a buttload of change or ones or whatnot.

[l F0CUS l]

People do it to me, say, "Heres a $50, heres a $100."

Like they are trying to impress me or something.

I still take the counterfeit checking pen and use it before I even punch it in the computer, and hand them their change back, while still counting it out for them.

Getting a mess of singles or any other bills are particularly annoying. And people never seem to understand why you would attempt to uncrumple them.

[BowserKoopa1]

One time while working the concession stand at a movie theatre, I was giving a young teenage girl and her friends their change back, which was about $4.50. As I was about to count back the singles to them, they were counting them.

SC: One.... two.... three.... four....
ME: Thanks, I know how to count.
SC: Oh, you're so rude!
ME: Whatever, I don't need help from you to tell me how to do my job. Good bye.