go to a bank!

[monolayth]

There is something that I find totally irritating at work. Becides work of corse.

I hate it when people who have less than a 10 dollar bill and pay with a 50 or 100. or heck it annoys me when you do that with a 20. I am a waitress, not a walking bank. If you want to pay with that much excess, please, go to the cashier. do not expect me to give you change. If you do so, I will walk right over to the cashier and give you your change in ones. seriously people. I had a lady with a 4 dollar bill and she gave me a 100. It is not like she does not know what to expect. She comes in everyday!

[LifeCarnie]

Hey give the people with 20's a break, most ATM's issue withdrawals in $20 increments.

The 50's and 100's I could see being an issue.

I once had a conductor on the MBTA (Boston's commuter rail) that the next time I rode the train I better have something smaller than a $20. This was on a $4.50 fair. WTF? Don't blame me, blame the banks, who won't let you withdraw small bills. And, it was like 5am, so the bank and most businesses were closed.

[monolayth]

yes, but we have a lovely cahier for these transactions.

[Ill_Used_Heroine]

OMG people do this ALL the time here at the library! Either renting a couple of DVDs or paying a few dollars in fines and they try to give 50s or 100s.

I've asked everyone here to not break those bills, unless we have enough 20s in the till to give change. I mean, this is a LIBRARY, not a bank, or even a store. We don't sell anything here but cheap, plastic shopping bags for 35 cents and we rent DVDs for $1. How much change do they think we could possibly have on hand? I once had to give a patron like 60-some odd dollars in fives and ones. They were like and I was like and reminded them that they were in a library.

[Silas G. T. Brontë]

It used to annoy me when I was a cashier at a supermarket a few years ago. The reason being because we were only given a limited amount in our tills, and asking for more change from the business department was not easy. One busy day I needed cash and I paged the department a couple of times with no answer. Then when I really needed cash now I went directly to them and found them going goo-goo gah-gah over some co-worker's baby.

It was even worse when at the end customers would pull out a $100 bill and wanted change, that is apart from their purchase.

[myswtghst]

I try to avoid having bills greater than $20's at all costs, and only have bigger bills when my dad owes me money. I try to avoid using $20's if I have any change, and occasionally will pay with my card at drive-thrus to avoid making them break a $20. Unfortunately, because (as LifeCarnie pointed out) ATM's all give $20's out, sometimes that is all I have.

Granted, what seperates us from the SC's is that we try to avoid using the big bills, and apologize when we have to. *shrugs*

[monolayth]

what killed me was that one customer today made me break a 20 for 50 cents. yes thats right i had to go scrounge up 19.50 for them. what sucked was that they had a dollar laying on that table. and no that dollar did not go towards my tip.

[Custard Chick]

Ugg, I totally know what you mean. I may not be a waitress, but I am a cashier who doesn't have access to bills over $20 (we have a small safe underneath our register we slip all bills $20 and higher into), therefore when a customer hands us larger bills we need to call over a manager and have them open the safe for us.

I had a man order an espresso from me, a $1.95 espresso, and pays with a $100 bill. He doesn't have any smaller bills (of course) so I call a manager over, who looks at my screen, looks at the customer and asks, "Are you seriously doing this?"

I loved that manager.

[PepperElf]

Hey give the people with 20's a break, most ATM's issue withdrawals in $20 increments.

Most of the Dollar / Yen machines here give out dollars in $20 billsand Yen in 5000-yen bills. (and i've seen a couple that only give out 10,000 yen bills)

Luckily most of the vending machines take the 1000 yen bills but...that doesn't solve the 5000-yen bill issues.

[edible_hat]

My favourite one ever was at my old karate school. It was $5 per class, payed in cash at the start of the class. In one class, somebody payed with 100 five cent coins. Then I payed with a $50 note, the look on the instructor's face was hilarious at the time. Especially when I explained I also wanted to order a uniform which was $45.

[powerboy]

Whenever I give a $20 for a small bill, it is never a problem.

[Tito]

Yes, I too used to find that very irritating back in my cashiering days, especially when I was on the express lane! When I was on that lane, most of the orders were under $10, but people would be forever paying with $20s, $50s, and the occassional $100. I once had a guy buy a bottle of soda, which was under a $1, and he paid with a $100 bill! Thankfully, I had been on the registers for some time, so I had enough in my drawer to break it. Otherwise, I would have had to go up to the courtesy booth to break it. I've had to do that as well, if I was just starting my shift, and my first customer wanted to pay for a $10 order with a $50 or a $100.