Crazed Change Guy

[Lace Neil Singer]

Argh. Just, argh. X_x I really can't understand what goes thru some people's minds, or what passes for them, sometimes. This guy came in today and tried to pay for his petrol with a grocery bag full of coppers.



That was my reaction to Crazed Change Guy's proposal; that I count up £10 worth of pennies and two pences and process it as payment. No. Bloody. Way. Not a hope in hell. I told CCG that I couldn't take his bag of pennies as payment, cuz we're not allowed to do so (that and the fact that it wouldn't fit in my till, plus I was damned if I was going to spend hours counting it all. I didn't tell him that bit, tho) and he'd have to wait til I'd filled out the non payment form, then go to the bank or the Coinstar in the main supermarket and convert his change to cash.

CCG pitched a blue fit. He started to rant and rave, saying that I had to take any form of payment that he wanted to give me. So if someone wanted to pay for their petrol in buttons, I'd have to take that? In your dreams, twat. It was only after it finally filtered thru the layers of cotton wool, dust bunnies and cobwebs inside his skull that I meant what I said, that CCG dug out his wallet and pulled out a debit card.

A little part of my brain died at that. If CCG had a flipping card to pay for his petrol on, why the hell did he throw a tantrum when I refused his bag of copper? Why try to pay for petrol with what looked like the contents of a penny jar anyway? Especially since there are at least six banks in this town and a Coinstar in the supermarket accross the road. -_- SC logic would drive a saint to swear.

[Andara Bledin]

You know, if you had the time to count it all out...

You could have made him wait while you went through the whole flipping stack.

That'd teach him to try to be an ass. And you could be slow about it. And take other customers in between bits of counting, too, so he'd have to wait even longer before you'd let him go. Oh, and if he interrupted you, you'd lose your place and have to start over.

^-.-^

[WhiteRose]

i'd probably do something similar...and then RE-count it after being done the first time

the most expensive things i've ever had to pay for in change were usually ten or so dollar's worth of stuff at the dollar store, and even then i'd use quarters and dimes and nickels and count them out IN FRONT OF THEM to make it a bit easier...they could just repeat after me as i slide the change toward them...and odds are there'd be more quarters than anything else...i'm considerate like that.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Problem was it was absolutely jam packed at the time, and there was no way I could put a shopping bag full of coppers in my till. O.o Even if it were split between three tills, it couldn't. Besides, he pissed me off.

[WhiteRose]

you could be an ass, and do it anyway and when the other customers get mad say "this customer wants me to do this, get mad at HIM and not me..." and just turn the other way as they form a lynch mob....

[Sheldonrs]

you could be an ass, and do it anyway and when the other customers get mad say "this customer wants me to do this, get mad at HIM and not me..." and just turn the other way as they form a lynch mob....

And if anyone on line is STILL bitching at you, make sure that THEIR change IS change as well.

[WhiteRose]

And if anyone on line is STILL bitching at you, make sure that THEIR change IS change as well.

we're evil.

[Sheldonrs]

we're evil.

Evil spelled backwards is Live. That's what we do.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Argh. Just, argh. X_x I really can't understand what goes thru some people's minds, or what passes for them, sometimes. This guy came in today and tried to pay for his petrol with a grocery bag full of coppers.



That was my reaction to Crazed Change Guy's proposal; that I count up £10 worth of pennies and two pences and process it as payment. No. Bloody. Way.

Well, if there was clearly at least £10 worth of pennies and two pences in the bag, just take the whole bag as payment. Any extra is the surcharge for having to count it.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I assumed it was £10 worth cuz his petrol was £10. It could just as easily been £9 or even less than that.

In any case, I already said that I'm not allowed to take a bag of coppers as payment. It's a security risk as it wouldn't fit in the till.

[Argabarga]

At least he was paying with money, one of my co workers got into a debate with a customer once who tried paying a bill with steaks. ON the grounds that their retail value was equal to the ammount owed on the invoice.

Co worker told him he could pay in cash/credit/debit, or he could call the cops to the scene and he'd face a theft of services charge.

Customer paid but loudly declared he'd never use us again, and gives us the finger every time he drives by the place....

[Utter_iMADNESS]

I don't know about England but here in Canada it's actually illegal to pay for anything using more than 25 pennies.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Don't know about actual legalities as IANAL, but it's the policy of the petrol station. In any case, there's a Coinstar just accross the road and several banks in town. It's not like it would be impossible for him to cash in his penny jar before heading to the petrol station.

Oh yeah silly me; I forgot that if it makes sense, it's not allowed.

[Mikkel]

I don't know about England but here in Canada it's actually illegal to pay for anything using more than 25 pennies.

Here in Denmark we don't have to take more than 25 coins of each denomination. If someone feel generous there are no law against taking more.

[Mark Healey]

That's why we keep a bunch of empty coin rolls at the till. We make the customer roll them before accepting them.