Pants! Now!

[Keiara]

Hello everyone!

Long time lurker and now decided that it is time for me to share. So enjoy my misery you sadistic people

From nice to psycho in 2.5 seconds
Background: I work in a hardware store as a cashier. Our drawers only start with 5's 1's and some change. We aren't allowed to open our drawers to give change to a customer( more like a non-customer)

M: me!
Pb: Psycho bitch
(): My thoughts

Hi!
Hi *slides a box of nails to me*
*scans the nails and totals* That'll be 6.52
I can return this if it's the wrong one?
Yes, just bring your receipt with you and it should be fine
*takes out a 50* (Seriously? a 50?)
*takes money and puts it in the computer and starts pulling out 5's*
I don't want 5's!!!eleventy!!!!!!
It's all I have
What about those? *points to a slot in my drawer*
Those are 50's
Jesus Christ!!!!!!eleventy!!!!
*tries to count out 5's for her change*
What about those? *points to the adjacent slot*
That's a 2 (Like I would hold one back I just want you to go away)
That's bullshit! It's bad maths!!!!(Wait what? What the hell are you talking about)
*grabs money and counts it out* Thanks!

I was going to call her a manager to see if they would give her some 20's but after she went psycho on me fuck her.

[MoxisPilot]

Totally not the point, but I love paying or changing out with twos. The look of utter confusion the cashier/waitress/customer gets is priceless.

[Gerrinson]

Totally not the point, but I love paying or changing out with twos. The look of utter confusion the cashier/waitress/customer gets is priceless.

Until you get a stupid that tries to report you for using 'counterfeit' money.

When I was a supervisor at the grocery store, one of our newer cashiers called me over because she was sure the customer was using counterfeit money. I knew the guy from previously. He was nice enough, but he always got his paycheck cashed at the bank in the form of $2 bills. When you pay for $170 in groceries in 2's we like you twice as much as the guy who pays in 1's. Which is to say, we don't like you very much at all.

Not to mention the five minute argument I had with my cashier who finally conceded to taking the money if I included a note in her drawer saying that it was my decision to accept the bills.

Please, don't use 2's for large orders.

[PepperElf]

i didn't know they still made those. i mean sure they're legal tender but... oy.

but seriously if you want to break big items but not get small amounts... go to a freakin bank

[Keiara]

The 2 is for security...just in case we get robbed

[Amina516]

Is the $2 bill a a ninja in disguise?

Otherwise, I m not sure I understand how it helps with security if you get robbed?

[Sliceanddice]

i love 2 dollar bills i had a guy once pay me in 12 $2 and 4 $5 dollars (it was a 22 dollar order) tellingt me to mark them online because he where's georged them all.

[smileyeagle1021]

Otherwise, I m not sure I understand how it helps with security if you get robbed?

the logic I've heard is that a robber is likely to see the $2bills and assume (as the SC did) that they are $20bills and think they are getting more money than they really are and will be more likely to leave with what they have than take the risk of staying longer and going after employees or customers.

[PCGameGuy]

When it was explained to me, they said it was for verification of the robbery. They have the serial number written down elsewhere and only one $2 bill in the till. If they are robbed and the guy is caught, they use the $2 bill to verify it was their till that was robbed and that the person they caught is the robber. Bummer for those of us who like to collect odd cash.

[fireheart]

Gotta love stupid psycho people.

And to Cs.com. Cookies are with Evil Queen, Brain bleach is with Irv.

[blas]

I love reading stories like this, and how SCs get all bent out of shape over getting 5s and 1s back when they use a large bill. Honestly, what do you expect? Especially if you're one of the first customers of the day or you just saw that cashier get a drop done?

It used to piss me off when I had first opened the gas station and all I got were large bills right away. I'd have to go into the safe and get more 10s and 5s. It was as if most of our customers felt they always neede to carry 50s and 100s around just to prove how great they were.......except that they weren't.

[RedRoseSpiral]

Reminds me of when I worked at Six Flags. I wasn't allowed to carry anything over a $10 on me and had to get permission to take a $50 or higher. I remember one guy who handed me a $20 for a $4 game and got pissed off when I gave him a $5 and eleven in $1s. Not my fault the guy who played a 1/2 hour before paid with a $50 and I had only gotten $1s since then.

[Bosch]

Dude came in the other day and bought $19.62 worth of stuff and I watched him pull out a wad or $20s and then a $100 and hand the $100 to me. This SC is my first one of the day. I ask politely "do you have anything smaller, cause I can't break that you are my first customer of the day?" No I don't I need those 20s. "Ok" I tell him and get on the radio to my boss to bring me change to break a large. SC starts getting pissed off cause he has to wait for my boss to run around trying to find $20s for this ahole.

I'm a back up cashier so my drawer is not stocked quite as well as the main cashier, I one 20 on the start of the day so I have one $10 a bunch of $5s and a crap load of $1s which makes perfect sense with most of our regular customers..

Finally after 5minutes of waiting since my boss had to go to the back and get money the SC goes "fine I will give you a $20" Sorry sir I already punched in that you paid with a $100 we have strict orders to not differ the payment tender, once payment is in my hand transaction can not be changed til completed. This is half truth half BS cause I told him I couldn't break a $100 and now he's pissed he had to wait for change. I could have taken a $20 given him is 38cents change and get him out of there, but I wanted him to maybe listen next time someone tells you they can't break a large bill. I just kept smiling at hime telling him "he had to go to the back get money for your, it will just take a minute".

I don't mind when I tell them and they wait patiently for change those people I just mention that the grocery store down the mall can handle $100s first thing, we a clothing store not so much. But be a dick and you will wait cause my cool boss will take her time walking to the back for change for you too..

[Muses_nightmare]

When I worked at the gas station we were only allowed to have less than $70 in the till, less than $30 in bills. We did not, and could not take $100's for small purchases. There was one time a coworker of mine explained to a SC that if he was pre-paying for gas with a $100 he would have to be using $70+, guy says fine, and then proceeds to use $5. Then he had the gall to be mad when she paid him out $95 in $5 (Canadian, so we don't have $1 bills, though, paying some jerk out in $95 in loonies would amuse me greatly)

I had no less than 3 cab drivers stop by, on graveyard shift, to ask for change for $100. Which resulted in me telling them "sorry this is not a bank, the sign out front says we have less than $30 in the till" It always astounded me how many people thought that it made perfect sense for a gas station, with very little else around it, to carry large amounts of cash in the till.

[crashhelmet]

Totally not the point, but I love paying or changing out with twos. The look of utter confusion the cashier/waitress/customer gets is priceless.

A friend of mine goes to the bank almost every day and gets the cash he needs in $2 bills. If he has to pay cash for something, that's what he pays in.

CH