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a.k.a. the reason why we don't accept $100 bills.
So this guy comes to the counter and asks for 4 cartons of cigs and hands me a few $100 bills. I tell him that I can't take them becasue of our policy. Of course he gets pissed off and starts to argue but soon leaves. Less than 10 minutes later a couple of police officers walk in asking me if a guy tried to buy something with $100 bills. Well it turns out that this guy has been going to all the gas stations in the area buying cartons of cigs with counterfiet bills.
Yes! Please go there for my own sanity.
There's this older guy who lives near the station and rarely uses his car. He fills up $10 worth of gas every week. But of course this week he decided to bitch about the gas prices.
Me: Alright. That'll be $10.
Old: You know these prices are ridiculous. Do you know that the price of gas in Hamilton is 5 cents cheaper per litre?
*Note: Hamilton is about 60km away.*
Me: No...
Old: Well why should I buy my gas here if I can get it cheaper there? *expectant stare*
Me: Good question. Guess I won't be seeing you next week.
Old: *Walks away looking defeated.*
Seriously, I've said it once and I'll say it again: I DON'T CONTROL THE GAS PRICES!!
Don't end up like me?
This lady just really pissed me off today. She came in to pay for her gas but it seemed she was having a bit of a quarrel with her son. I didn't really care to listen but I did hear this: "If you don't raise your marks you'll end up like this guy. Now you don't want that do you?!"
Oh no you didn't!!!! It's bad enough you're using me to try to discipline your son, but to question my intelligence when you've only known me for the 30 seconds you've been in the store was just too much.
"Actually ma'am I work here to help save money to pay off my future tuition fees as I'll be going to the University of Toronto next year (which is notorious for being expensive, especially after their new method of calculating fees
)" She just looked at me for about 5 seconds (I guess she needed some time to comprehend the fact that the lowly cashier actually talked back to her) and left. 
An "I Don't Work Here" Story with a twist
Well the gas station that I work at has a uniform of a blue shirt, black pants, and black shoes. And of course a major electronics retailer also has the same coloured uniform. And being the geek I am I decided to visit them right after work...BIG mistake.
So it first started out with me helping a couple who seemed lost trying to figure out what the specs of the laptops they were looking at really meant. They were really thankfull and finally chose a laptop. Now this is where things started to go downhill. They told me which laptop they wanted and asked me to get a boxed on for them. I told them that they should ask an employee since I don't work there.
Couple: "Of course you work here! You helped us pick out a laptop so you have to work here to understand this stuff."
I started explaining to them that I really didn't work there when they decided they wanted to speak to the manager. At that point I just gave up and walked away. But as I was still shopping for the latest shiny gadgets, a person who looked like a manager came up to me and started asking me why I didn't help out the couple with the laptop.
Really? I mean you don't even know the people who you employ? And the fact that the name of a gas station was on my shirt didn't tip you off to the fact that I didn't work there? I ended up putting down all my shiny gadgets and just walking out, and the whole time the manager kept saying how he would fire me if I didn't listen to him..
Well that's all for now. Sadly, more is sure to come.
So this guy comes to the counter and asks for 4 cartons of cigs and hands me a few $100 bills. I tell him that I can't take them becasue of our policy. Of course he gets pissed off and starts to argue but soon leaves. Less than 10 minutes later a couple of police officers walk in asking me if a guy tried to buy something with $100 bills. Well it turns out that this guy has been going to all the gas stations in the area buying cartons of cigs with counterfiet bills.
Yes! Please go there for my own sanity.
There's this older guy who lives near the station and rarely uses his car. He fills up $10 worth of gas every week. But of course this week he decided to bitch about the gas prices.
Me: Alright. That'll be $10.
Old: You know these prices are ridiculous. Do you know that the price of gas in Hamilton is 5 cents cheaper per litre?
*Note: Hamilton is about 60km away.*
Me: No...
Old: Well why should I buy my gas here if I can get it cheaper there? *expectant stare*
Me: Good question. Guess I won't be seeing you next week.
Old: *Walks away looking defeated.*
Seriously, I've said it once and I'll say it again: I DON'T CONTROL THE GAS PRICES!!
Don't end up like me?
This lady just really pissed me off today. She came in to pay for her gas but it seemed she was having a bit of a quarrel with her son. I didn't really care to listen but I did hear this: "If you don't raise your marks you'll end up like this guy. Now you don't want that do you?!"
Oh no you didn't!!!! It's bad enough you're using me to try to discipline your son, but to question my intelligence when you've only known me for the 30 seconds you've been in the store was just too much.
"Actually ma'am I work here to help save money to pay off my future tuition fees as I'll be going to the University of Toronto next year (which is notorious for being expensive, especially after their new method of calculating fees
)" She just looked at me for about 5 seconds (I guess she needed some time to comprehend the fact that the lowly cashier actually talked back to her) and left. An "I Don't Work Here" Story with a twist
Well the gas station that I work at has a uniform of a blue shirt, black pants, and black shoes. And of course a major electronics retailer also has the same coloured uniform. And being the geek I am I decided to visit them right after work...BIG mistake.
So it first started out with me helping a couple who seemed lost trying to figure out what the specs of the laptops they were looking at really meant. They were really thankfull and finally chose a laptop. Now this is where things started to go downhill. They told me which laptop they wanted and asked me to get a boxed on for them. I told them that they should ask an employee since I don't work there.
Couple: "Of course you work here! You helped us pick out a laptop so you have to work here to understand this stuff."
I started explaining to them that I really didn't work there when they decided they wanted to speak to the manager. At that point I just gave up and walked away. But as I was still shopping for the latest shiny gadgets, a person who looked like a manager came up to me and started asking me why I didn't help out the couple with the laptop.
Really? I mean you don't even know the people who you employ? And the fact that the name of a gas station was on my shirt didn't tip you off to the fact that I didn't work there? I ended up putting down all my shiny gadgets and just walking out, and the whole time the manager kept saying how he would fire me if I didn't listen to him..
Well that's all for now. Sadly, more is sure to come.
Wow that is one I have not heard yet. How can you not know who works in your store? Its not like this was a huge store with hundreds of employees 
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