Witty Retorts are Wonderful, Aren't They?

[TTAZ]

I can understand asking a cashier for change in a certain way, sometimes it can be done and you save yourself a trip to the bank or whatever. Having said that, if a cashier doesn't have the change you want or enough change for you to break $50 or $100, then just deal with it! Today I went to target and got $10 back off my debit card. This is to do laundry for the next week and a half or so. When the cashier asked me if a 10 dollar bill would be okay I asked her on the off chance if she had a roll of quarters she could spare. She did not, I smiled, said that was fine, took the ten and went along my merry way. No. Big. Deal.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, when it does I am grateful and thank the cashier profusely. Is this really such a hard concept for some folks?

[anyanka2]

I'll add my voice to the chorus that thinks that paying with large bills is a pain in the ass. Most of the people who pay with large bills seem to be the type that cash their paycheck weekly before the current recession hit. Now there's more who do that because they want to limit what they spend, something I can get.

I'm don't think having that much cash on hand makes much sense. If you get robbed, you're out of your money.

[raw456]

I recently stopped at my local coffee shop for my early morning fix and realised I only had $50 and about 70c in change. The guy who makes my coffee knows me and told me to pay the next day as at 7am he didnt have enough change as the 2 customers before me both had $50s as well.

I made real sure I tipped him well the next day


She was just being an EW and making a point of letting everyone know she had a C note

[seigus]

But you don't have to take them. You can ask for lower denominations.

True, but I tend to try to be as little trouble as possible, which usually means taking what I get. At the time, I'm not concious of the trouble I'll be for someone else down the line. On the plus side, when I spent 100s, it was generally for a large purchase anyway.

[chainedbarista]

ah, change idiots; i'd get those from time to time (we have to drop anything 20 or above for saftey reasons, so no 20's are in the till) and after getting tired of picky people trying to pick their change denomination, i basically told them:

we don't keep 20's, so 10's and 5's are what i have (while thinking, hit the bank, dumbass). after grumbling and whining, these particular idiots would grudgingly accept the lowly denominations.

after a while, i simply started to refuse anything over a 50, because i got tired of some asshat taking all my change for a purchase of under 10 (usually under 5) and trying to impress me with that holy grail of available denominations, the 100 dollar bill.

woo. i'm impressed, now step out of my line, get your drink and gtfo.

[Calie]

I went and pulled out a significant chunk of change this afternoon (on a cash-only budget, first day of the month), and the teller said "I assume you want this in large denominations?" I thought for a second...pictured this thread in my mind actually...and said, "No, twenties please." The teller was relieved, it was easier for him to do that than go find hundreds apparently.

Oh, back when I was a cashier it was always the business men on their way to work buying a soda or the old ladies with the paper envelopes and bags of pennies buying their morning coffee that would whip out hundreds. Three in a row right when I open and I'm wiped out. So many times I'd have to make change with other registers, or flag a manager to run to the cashiers. Luckily it was usually slow at the time, and I got paid the same whether I rang out one customer or ten.

[Jay 2K Winger]

I once had a COWORKER do this to me. She was literally the first customer of the day. She worked overnight that particular day, and was picking up a gallon of milk before going home. So her total's something like $2 plus change. And she hands me a $100 bill.

J2K: "Could you please give me a smaller bill? You know I don't have the cash to break this."
CW: "No. I'm the customer, I'll pay with what I want to pay with."
J2K: (inside: ) (outside: sighs, goes into cash office to get the $100 broken for her)

[BookstoreEscapee]

CW: "No. I'm the customer, I'll pay with what I want to pay with."

Bitch. I'd have to do it to her one day, I think...

My bank just gives 20s. The only time I used to get 100s was when I used to cash my check from the store's register. I used to be the head cashier so I would always have to make sure no one wanted their check cashed before doing pickups on Fridays. There were always certain people who always cashed their check, and usually they would just leave it with me and I would cash it when I could and then call them to let them know to come get it. Of course, if you're going to do that, you take what you can get. If you want something different, you'll have to wait.

[edible_hat]

Bitch. I'd have to do it to her one day, I think...

I'd do it every day.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Bitch. I'd have to do it to her one day, I think...

I'd do it every day.

Oh, I'd have loved to do that to her. Problem was, she didn't work as a cashier. So I didn't have that option.

[Mark Healey]

I guess I'm going to have to be the contrarian here. It sounds like a lot of management needs to grasp the concept of inflation. A $50 now is pretty much what a $20 was in, say, 1990. We're not talking that long ago. Back then they wouldn't start you with only enough change to handle one $20. They should start you with enough change to deal with several $50s now.

It's not a customer problem it is a management problem.

[edible_hat]

It's not a customer problem it is a management problem.

as in, management don't realise people are stupid enough to pay for an 80 cent purchase with a $100 note.

[EricKei]

I believe this sort of thing is the reason why many fast food places and gas stations have signs up which read "no bills larger than $20 accepted". Then again, that main reason for THAT is not the "change" issue -- they could care less if their workers are inconvenienced -- but rather, the fact that having a customer pay for a $3 transaction with anything bigger than a 20 should immediately set off your Scammer Sensor...

[AccountingDrone]

I used to get $100 and $50 bills from a roomie when he paid us his rent, but it worked out, he paid us then mrDrone and I would go grocery shopping for the monthly meat and bulk BJ type purchases ... in general well over $200 in groceries at any given time.

I prefer when getting a cash out at a bank to get a blend of 1s 5s and tenners. All our change goes into a jar and when it is full we lug it down to my credit union where they have a coinstar for the customers with no fee =) We are averaging over $300 a year in change which promptly gets spent as vacation money when we cash it in.

[Primer]

DH's sister lives with us. She insists on paying me $600/month as "rent," even though I've told her she needs to be sure she has enough money to pay her (considerable) medical bills. She insists on paying me in cash, with--you guessed it--$100 bills.

Yeah, getting the money from her really does help out the budget, a LOT, but I almost always end up using them at the SCO at the grocery store, if I have a small order, or I'll use one at the regular check out if I have a large order. That way *I* don't feel quite so guilty about passing them on. Last month, I made DH break them, one at a time, every time he went to the bank for other stuff.