No, you can't just leave money

[mattm04]

This occurred a while ago but to keep it short, I leave my dept and go check a few store displays. I get distracted and return about 10 min later. A few minutes alter SC appears at the register holding a coffee.

SC: I can I pay for this coffee here?
Me: sure *ring up coffee* that will be $1.59
SC: I left money here earlier.
Me: what do you mean?
SC: well I came by and no one was here but I wanted a coffee so I left a $20 so i wouldn't get in trouble for stealing and i would come back to pay later. I want to pay.
Me: Sir, well no money was her when i came back. Let me call a manager.

I call the MOD and explain the situation. They call LP. Sure enough the SC left a bill by the register and walked off some old guy took it and apparently use it to pay for his groceries as he imminently went to the front end registers. The MOD comes down.

MOD: sir, our Security has determined that you did indeed leave bill on the counter in plain view and walked off. Someone took it and as elf the building.
SC: NOOOOOOOO! You stole it.
MOD: Sir, I have seen the video and our employees did not steal it.
SC: YES THEY DID!
MOD: Sir, i have gone as far as I can go. If you wish to peruse the matter further you will have to contact the Police yourself.
SC: fine whatever. I pay for the coffee AGAIN!!!

He pays with exact change and stops off. Never heard from this moron again. But sadly this is not the first time this has happened. I have caught SCs just tossing a few bucks on the counter and walking off. Depending on my mood I will either politely offer to ring them up or just give them their money back and politely tell them that they are idiots and that leaving money on the counter does not equal paying for a item.

Somehow they have decided that getting the coffee and drinking it while they shop then paying for their groceries AND coffee up front then leaving is stealing but tossing the money on the counter paying for the groceries and leaving isn't.

[friendofjimmyk]

I have left 50 cents on a counter for a paper before....but I never could walk away without making sure that someone saw it. But I would never leave a 20! on the counter and walk away. I can't throw that kind of money away and that's what that is to me - throwing money away.

[4love]

Oh good lord. I remember I was working one Sunday morning and a lady tried to make me take money for a paper- I was at the info. desk! No register, no way to handle the money or ring up a sale, nothing. Finally I got her to just wait in line like everyone else by saying, quite firmly, "Ma'am, that will get me fired."

She said there was no need to yell, which was an effing lie, and stomped off. I don't yell unless it's at kids horsing around on our escalators and putting themselves/others/our escalators in danger.

[hobbitt97]

pay for it

Once upon a time i lived in Long Island. I had gone to the grocery store and was in line on the express checkout. I was about 10th in line. This was before the days of bar codes (I know I am dating myself).

With each purchase the cashier would have to call for a price check for items w/o a price tag. After waiting on this line for 15 minutes. I had enough. I figured out the price of my purchase (2 bottles of Coke) plus tax and put it down on the register counter and told them to figure it out. I walked out of the store.

[tropicsgoddess]

Uh duh! Common sense, NEVER leave money where somebody else could take it. That was a major ID10T error.

[donruss]

Once upon a time i lived in Long Island. I had gone to the grocery store and was in line on the express checkout. I was about 10th in line. This was before the days of bar codes (I know I am dating myself).

With each purchase the cashier would have to call for a price check for items w/o a price tag. After waiting on this line for 15 minutes. I had enough. I figured out the price of my purchase (2 bottles of Coke) plus tax and put it down on the register counter and told them to figure it out. I walked out of the store.

While I understand your frustration, kind of a jerk move IMO.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I've had people leave exact change for the newspaper but never something as stupid as leaving a $20 when no one's around to take it. Sometimes I'd have to ask the person to show me which paper they had so I knew they gave me the right amount, but most people were smart enough to actually show me which one they had when they gave me the money. Awhile back they stopped using the newspaper key and started scanning the barcode so they could track which papers were selling, though, so people can't do that anymore.

I had one regular who came in most mornings right around opening time, and if he got there after the store opened he would come in our front door, grab the paper, hand me 35 cents, and go into Starbucks for coffee. If he got there before our store opened he would get his coffee first, come in from the Starbucks entrance, hand me 35 cents, then grab the paper and leave. He was the only person I would ever have let get away with that one.

He was always in a shirt and tie, obviously on his way to work. One morning he came in in jeans, got his coffee, then came up a few minutes later to buy a book. I said, "No paper today?" and he said "No work today!"

(The one that really bugged me was when we'd come in at 7 and find a paper missing from the bundles outside and two quarters sitting on top. We could usually figure out which one they took, but it was annoying because we had to log the number of each paper we received, and the next morning we would strip the previous day's leftovers and log how many we tossed, so we could be billed properly. And we did not necessarily get the same number of each paper every day, either, and sometimes the bundles would have more than one title in them, and/or a title would be split between two bundles.)

[Anakah]

Kind of related but in a different circumstance... This moron left his money in the slot machine so he could find his wife and was shocked to find out later that someone hit cash out and left with his ticket lol Slots actually gave him back his money! The moron decided it was the casino's fault that he was a moron!

[hobbitt97]

absolutely...i had little patience back then

[ChillyIllusionist]

Ugh, when I worked at Dunkin Donuts we had this one woman who would get just a newspaper, and just leave the change on the counter and leave the store entirely. She never said a word to me, and she'd do it when I was helping other people, so I didn't always notice her doing it. it always annoyed me to no end, because if the register was short, it was my fault ><

[mattm04]

Ugh, when I worked at Dunkin Donuts we had this one woman who would get just a newspaper, and just leave the change on the counter and leave the store entirely. She never said a word to me, and she'd do it when I was helping other people, so I didn't always notice her doing it. it always annoyed me to no end, because if the register was short, it was my fault ><

Before we used to have a newspaper key on the register now we have to scan the barcode. That pissed off the people who would do just that because they would have to wait in line just lie everyone else.

[Gravekeeper]

I see the occasional self entitled douche suit do this at 7/11. They can't be bothered to wait in line behind the plebs so they just walk to the front of the line, while the person at the counter is ringing someone up, toss their money on the counter and walk out with their technically stolen goods.

Though to the staff's credit, the 7/11 downtown near my office doesn't put up with it at all. They go right for the jugular if you pull this and put a hand on the exit door. I saw one guy try to argue with the clerk who told him basically get the fark in line or be arrested if you walk out with that.

He threw it all on the counter and stormed out. Dick. -.-

[Dreamstalker]

At GameStore, there would be a few instances of people leaving $ for books and used gaming stuffs...it was always when I had to nip to the bathroom or deal with something downstairs (beating on the server to get it to work, helping a customer find $book that someone stashed in a weird place, etc). I gave them points for leaving the correct amount, but a lot of times it was hell trying to figure out what the money was for. You really couldn't wait 45 seconds?

Of course if the counts were off I got screamed at...well, if there was another person working so the register was always covered we wouldn't have this issue would we?

[depechemodefan]

I see the occasional self entitled douche suit do this at 7/11. They can't be bothered to wait in line behind the plebs so they just walk to the front of the line, while the person at the counter is ringing someone up, toss their money on the counter and walk out with their technically stolen goods.

Though to the staff's credit, the 7/11 downtown near my office doesn't put up with it at all. They go right for the jugular if you pull this and put a hand on the exit door. I saw one guy try to argue with the clerk who told him basically get the fark in line or be arrested if you walk out with that.

He threw it all on the counter and stormed out. Dick. -.-

I was at a gas station, paying ahead for my gas, and there was one guy ahead of me and 2 kids in the grocery store. The guy ahead of had a credit card, which the clerk was running. One kid just goes up to clerk and hands him $.35 for the cup of ice (not even adding for tax; gas stations tax everything). I was going to say something, but figured the clerk would. He said nothing. Finally my turn, and one of the kids comes back into the store, picks up a paper and tries to hand $.50 to the clerk. I tell the kid to get in line, and I hand in my cash for gas.

I go outside to put gas in my car and I see those kids sitting in the car as a relative pumps the gas.

I sort of understand if auntie was about to leave and has no time to wait for the kids, but just cut in line to sit in the car?!?!?! I can just imagine how auntie would pay for her gas.

[taxguykarl]

Kind of related but in a different circumstance... This moron left his money in the slot machine so he could find his wife and was shocked to find out later that someone hit cash out and left with his ticket lol Slots actually gave him back his money! The moron decided it was the casino's fault that he was a moron!

They actually refunded this idiot!?!
We like to travel to Sin City, so I speak from experience--the tickets spell out the amount of the payout--there's no need to summon a witness, unless there's a "CALL ATTENDENT" message.