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What is with people who are reluctant to accept $1 coins, $2 bills, and other such odd change when they get change back? It's just money, take it and go away already!
It's been rare to get these pieces of money in most places I've ever worked, but the store where I work now seems to get tons of odd currency like $2 bills and $1 coins. It doesn't bother me to take them as payment, but it sure seems to bother some customers to get them as change. The only reason I try to get rid of them as fast as I can is because it's just easier to count money at the end of the shift. I usually end up buying them myself if I have the money, or selling them to the next shift's drawer if I don't have the money to buy them. Then again, I'm smart enough to realize that I can use them other places or take them to the bank just as easily as I can any other money. Geesh! Ignorant people like that just annoy me because they have to be so whiney and picky instead of just taking their change and leaving!
A couple of weeks ago, I had a small pile of $1 coins in the drawer. I didn't have the money to buy them myself, so I decided to give them in place of a $1 bill when a customer would have 3 or 4 $1 bills coming back in their change. So, if a customer would have $4 change coming back, I'd give the customer 3 $1 bills and $1 coin to make the $4 change. I'd keep giving them out that way until they were gone. I thought it was a good plan to circulate the change without loading one poor customer down with a bunch of $1 coins or having a bunch of $1 coins to sell to the next shift.
I get this one jerk who decides to make an issue out of getting the $1 coin in his change. He first insisted that I short-changed him until I pointed out that one of the coins was a $1 coin. By that time, I'd already shut the drawer and started ringing up the next customer. I told him that one of the coins was the $1 coin. Of course, he didn't want that. He wanted a $1 bill instead. So, I told him he'd have to wait until I got done with the customer I was ringing. He stood there grumbling about being in a hurry until I finally got the drawer open. He threw the coin on the counter rather than handing it to me, so I threw his $1 bill at him in a similar fashion as I grabbed the coin and put it back in the drawer. The other customer just looked at him, and had this puzzled look on her face. I just looked at her and made a comment about a dollar being a dollar the same as an idiot being an idiot. She just laughed, and made a sympathetic comment about it all spending the same.
Then, yesterday, my first customer of the evening pays for her small coffee and snack purchase with $100 bill. I barely had enough change, but it was feasible, mostly small bills. I had several $2 bills in the drawer, so I decided to use one of them to replace two $1 bills. She knew we'd just changed shifts because she stood there waiting through it. I thought I was being nice by not loading her with the $2 bills just to get rid of them at once.
As soon as I pull out the $2 bill, I hear her yell, "Don't you give me a $2 bill. I want ones!"
"I've got you a couple of ones in the stack, too," trying to fake a grin that was mostly a grimace at recognizing the typical PITA demanding tone. "I wouldn't load anybody with $2 bills like that."
"No! I don't want the $2 bills. Give me ones instead!"
I just sighed to myself and rolled my eyes, "Okay.... fine...."
I proceeded to recount the change after resorting the pile of money as she continued rattling on about how I probably wouldn't want the $2 bills either.
I sat her money on the counter without counting it back to her, and shot her a sarcastic grin. "It's just money to me, and I have quite a collection of $2 bills in my stash at home. They don't bother me because it all spends the same. By the way, thank you for foisting your $100 bill off on me first thing of the day. That way, I still have time to rebuild my change."
So, the lesson is that the customer thinks it's okay to foist whatever they see fit on us. It doesn't matter if it might be slightly more difficult for us to work around, but we shouldn't dare inconvenience them in the slightest.
It's been rare to get these pieces of money in most places I've ever worked, but the store where I work now seems to get tons of odd currency like $2 bills and $1 coins. It doesn't bother me to take them as payment, but it sure seems to bother some customers to get them as change. The only reason I try to get rid of them as fast as I can is because it's just easier to count money at the end of the shift. I usually end up buying them myself if I have the money, or selling them to the next shift's drawer if I don't have the money to buy them. Then again, I'm smart enough to realize that I can use them other places or take them to the bank just as easily as I can any other money. Geesh! Ignorant people like that just annoy me because they have to be so whiney and picky instead of just taking their change and leaving!
A couple of weeks ago, I had a small pile of $1 coins in the drawer. I didn't have the money to buy them myself, so I decided to give them in place of a $1 bill when a customer would have 3 or 4 $1 bills coming back in their change. So, if a customer would have $4 change coming back, I'd give the customer 3 $1 bills and $1 coin to make the $4 change. I'd keep giving them out that way until they were gone. I thought it was a good plan to circulate the change without loading one poor customer down with a bunch of $1 coins or having a bunch of $1 coins to sell to the next shift.
I get this one jerk who decides to make an issue out of getting the $1 coin in his change. He first insisted that I short-changed him until I pointed out that one of the coins was a $1 coin. By that time, I'd already shut the drawer and started ringing up the next customer. I told him that one of the coins was the $1 coin. Of course, he didn't want that. He wanted a $1 bill instead. So, I told him he'd have to wait until I got done with the customer I was ringing. He stood there grumbling about being in a hurry until I finally got the drawer open. He threw the coin on the counter rather than handing it to me, so I threw his $1 bill at him in a similar fashion as I grabbed the coin and put it back in the drawer. The other customer just looked at him, and had this puzzled look on her face. I just looked at her and made a comment about a dollar being a dollar the same as an idiot being an idiot. She just laughed, and made a sympathetic comment about it all spending the same.
Then, yesterday, my first customer of the evening pays for her small coffee and snack purchase with $100 bill. I barely had enough change, but it was feasible, mostly small bills. I had several $2 bills in the drawer, so I decided to use one of them to replace two $1 bills. She knew we'd just changed shifts because she stood there waiting through it. I thought I was being nice by not loading her with the $2 bills just to get rid of them at once.
As soon as I pull out the $2 bill, I hear her yell, "Don't you give me a $2 bill. I want ones!"
"I've got you a couple of ones in the stack, too," trying to fake a grin that was mostly a grimace at recognizing the typical PITA demanding tone. "I wouldn't load anybody with $2 bills like that."
"No! I don't want the $2 bills. Give me ones instead!"
I just sighed to myself and rolled my eyes, "Okay.... fine...."
I proceeded to recount the change after resorting the pile of money as she continued rattling on about how I probably wouldn't want the $2 bills either.
I sat her money on the counter without counting it back to her, and shot her a sarcastic grin. "It's just money to me, and I have quite a collection of $2 bills in my stash at home. They don't bother me because it all spends the same. By the way, thank you for foisting your $100 bill off on me first thing of the day. That way, I still have time to rebuild my change."
So, the lesson is that the customer thinks it's okay to foist whatever they see fit on us. It doesn't matter if it might be slightly more difficult for us to work around, but we shouldn't dare inconvenience them in the slightest.
I actually kinda prefer dollar coins to dollar bills... for that matter, I'd much rather we used the euro system in the US, with 5cent, 10cent, 20cent, 50cent, one dollar, and 2 dollar coins, then go into bills.
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