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  • #16
    Quoth Slow-Jo View Post
    i have the same thing happen to me but in a diffrent fashion. they will pay for something thats less then $5 with a hundred bill and then whine when i give them a 50 instead if all my 10s and 5s.
    again, if you look at one my current forms, im not a bank. 2 blocks east then turn left and 4 blocks south!

    I hated that at my old job. We would only have between $5 and $40 in the til, all the time. Whenever the owners were around, I would take the $100 and have them go cash it. When I was by myself, I would not accept them
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    • #17
      lol In canada we have 1 and 2 dollar coins. I haven't seen a 1 or 2 dollar bill in about 5 years!

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      • #18
        Quoth ArcticChicken View Post
        Oh man, I hate it when people do that. Especially when they get snarky if I try to give them a 50 as part of their change. You have to ask for the hundred special at most banks in the area, so don't tell me you don't want big bills.
        At my current job we're not allowed to put anything larger than a $10 in our registers, anything bigger goes into the drop safe. We're also to periodically drop excess $1s, $5s, & $10s into the safe. Not only are we allowed to refuse the sale when someone tries to use a large bill to for a small order (like a 30¢ pack of gum) we're required too. The only time we'd have to is if they already the gas in their tanks. In that case our manager has given us full permission to give changes in $1s, $5s, & rolls of quarters (one time he actually ordered me too).
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        • #19
          Just let me say that I adore my $2 bills.

          I wish I had more of them.
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          • #20
            I work in a big box retail grocery/department store. We offer ONLY dollar coins, which is a real PITA and I hope the trend doesn't last. I've had people force me to check 5 other registers for bills, had management called, been yelled at that the US economy was going to crash, etc. Look, I ONLY have dollar bills if someone pays with them. I hold them back until someone whines they don't want the coins. But usually, I have little in the way of bills.

            What I don't understand is that it's meant to be a conservation thing. We're told dollar bills stay in circulation 2-3 months whereas coins can last for years. But I don't get it, because aren't bills made from linen and cotton, both replenishble resources? Hell, if we are farming the plants here in the US (which I don't know), isn't that good for the farmers? Frankly, the coins are just another reason for people to bitch, thus I hate them.
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            • #21
              Quoth bainsidhe View Post
              What I don't understand is that it's meant to be a conservation thing. We're told dollar bills stay in circulation 2-3 months whereas coins can last for years. But I don't get it, because aren't bills made from linen and cotton, both replenishble resources?
              Bills last 2-3 years, actually*. It's not a conservation thing. It's a basic economics thing— it costs less to mint coins in the long run than bills. Something like a hundred million dollars per year less, IIRC.

              * Unless they're used like I saw in south america. The busses there had the guy taking money at the door who would fold the bills lengthwise, then hold them in their hands between their fingers, so they all stuck out kind of like a giant porcupine quill ball. It made giving change easy for them, but the bills wore out fast. And since when I was there, their smallest bill (and thus, the one used most on the bus) was the equivalent of 5 cents, I don't even know if it was cost efficient to print them.

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              • #22
                I'm pretty sure the people at McDonalds and Arby's hate me. At the factory, we have a change machine for 5s and 10s. All it gives are the $1 coins. The brand new ones usually. If I have any leftover come Friday, I use them when I go out to eat.
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                • #23
                  Quoth ArcticChicken View Post
                  Oh man, I hate it when people do that. Especially when they get snarky if I try to give them a 50 as part of their change. You have to ask for the hundred special at most banks in the area, so don't tell me you don't want big bills.
                  IF she got it from a bank. At my grocery store job, the manager would pay us in cash, giving us 50's. My fiance currently is paid in cash with his stub attached, and is given 100's in his pay.

                  So, yeah, may not be her fault she got the 100.
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                  • #24
                    Well, BeckySunshine if your area is anything like ours if you want some $2 bills just go to the local strip club. Most of them give them out as change at the bar to customers, that way the girls get bigger tips when dancing because instead of $1's the men all have $2's. Yeah it is only a few extra dollars per customer when stuffing $2's instead of $1's but at the end of the night it adds up. I only know this because I used to be a Doorman/Bouncer at an after hours club and would see a lot of them and ask about where they got them. I even had one guy give me some to pay the cover and ask me if I could change the rest for $1's so his GF wouldn't know he'd been to the nudie bar.

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                    • #25
                      Where do you live what you have $1 coins and $1 bills, or are you just in the US and getting Canadian money?
                      Or... does the US have a $1 coin I'm ignorantly not aware of?

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                      • #26
                        The USA has $2 bills that are not common in circulation but still in use. Last year they started up with the $1 coin. I think it's more common in larger cities. The eventual goal is to pull the $1 bill, which would be fine by me. They will probably cancel the penny, too, which appeals to my inner logician but horrifies my inner sentamentalist.
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                        • #27
                          Quoth Sylvia727 View Post
                          The USA has $2 bills that are not common in circulation but still in use. Last year they started up with the $1 coin.
                          Um, we've had $1 coins for longer than a year. XD Sacajew-...Sacajaweya? Sacagawea! was introduced in 2000, and of course you can't forget the Susan B. Anthony dollar. According to Wikipedia, that was 1979. Also quoting Wiki, "Silver dollars were minted intermittently from 1794 through 1935..."

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                          • #28
                            LifeCarnie said:

                            I've been to places that have coins that are the equivalent of 1/27th the value of a 1 cent US coin.

                            ........................

                            When I worked in Poland, a UK pound was worth 38000 (yes, thousand) zloty. So a Dollar was worth maybe 25000, at that time. Yet they still had a BANKNOTE for the value of 100 zloty. That is to say, a note worth a 250th of a dollar. Shop assistants used to hate them, and offload them onto us unsuspecting English teachers. So we would save them in a big jar, and when the jar was full we would take it to the bank because we thought we were rich.

                            So the bank would spend 15 minutes counting about a kilo weight of notes and say "Here you are, here is your 3 dollars"
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                            • #29
                              These people wouldn't last ten seconds over here - it's unbelievable.

                              Also unbelievable is the fact that I find people turning up their noses at coins to be the most unbelievable thing I've read here in a while.

                              The Euro system copies Australia in currency denomination - we currently have 5, 10, 20, and 50 cent silver (looking) coins and $1 and $2 gold coins to go with $5, 10, 20, 50, 100 notes.

                              Up until the late '80s we had $1 and $2 notes, but these were removed as part of a rationalisation process that also eliminated the 1c and 2c coins in 1991/1992 (notably, several tonnes of these coins were melted down and used to make the bronze medals at the 2000 Olympics).

                              This is despite the fact that we use polymer notes (i.e. plastic and near impossible to properly fake), which last last in the vicinity of decade of heavy use, and our coins often remain in circulation for 20 years.

                              Even given the greatly increased life of polymer notes over cotton, it remains more economical to mint $1 and $2 coins rather than print said notes.

                              Still, it's global differences like these that make being on the receiving end of global tourism somewhat interesting.
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                              • #30
                                Quoth bainsidhe View Post
                                What I don't understand is that it's meant to be a conservation thing. We're told dollar bills stay in circulation 2-3 months whereas coins can last for years. But I don't get it, because aren't bills made from linen and cotton, both replenishble resources? Hell, if we are farming the plants here in the US (which I don't know), isn't that good for the farmers? Frankly, the coins are just another reason for people to bitch, thus I hate them.
                                The conservation thing is a public relations thing. The real advantage to switching to coins is the savings of not having to print new ones as often. I wish they would stop being half-assed about introducing them, though. If you want people to use them, stop printing new one dollar bills, and let them leave circulation as they get damaged out. 4-5 years and we'd have most one dollar bills out of circulation. But that would take government thinking logically, and frankly we're more likely to see an SC suddenly start crapping rainbows.
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