Big Bill Epidemic [Language]

[Tama]

Your bill: [insert figure UNDER $10]
You pay with: [insert bill OVER $20]

I know this has been mentioned constantly. But seriously, what the fuck possesses you to do this shit?

If I buy something, and it's over, say, $5, and I only have a $20, I pay with my card rather than the cash on hand that I have--either that or add something to the order so the poor cashier doesn't have to practically give me the entire contents of the register.

But do you? No! Shit no! You are entitled to all the contents of the register!

A big FUCK YOU to all the twits who do this!

It's just gotten on my last nerve. I had no less than 3 people yesterday (in a 4 1/2 hour shift) do this...

[chainedbarista]

while paying with a $20 isn't so bad, using a large bill is; buisnesses aren't there to break down large bills, but for some reason, these morons can't seem to grasp that fact. even worse, policies that allow this type of crap to continue ignore the fact that it can leave a worker with the inability to service other customers due to a lack of funds.

people like this need an appointment with one or more of the following:

[BrenDAnn]

Oh, my g*d, you just described my morning this morning! It was bad enough that I had to get my AM to get me $100 in $20's from the safe before she left! And you would think that warning people that they'll get small bills would be a deterrent but nooooo...Hell no! They want their $100 broken NOW! Grrr...Goooo awaaaaayyyy, people!!

[TonyF]

Before we had our debit cashback limit set to $40, it was $100.

There would be some mornings where we (I) would get three or four people straight who would buy a stick of gum or a drink and then get $100 cashback or pay with a $100 bill. So that's $300-$400 cashback or change in two minutes, and they got irritated when I had the manager go back to the safe, like we're supposed to keep it all there in that drawer.

Idiots.

[KMMCurly]

This pretty much matches my Sunday mornings.

I start with £100 in the till.

Me: Any cashback?
SC/1st customer of the day: Yes, £50.

Thanks for halfway clearing me out asshole! and I guarantee the person after them wants £50 as well. I've gotten to the point I just point blank refuse to offer cashback for at least half an hour. This helps but if they ask I have to at least try to give it to them. AAAAH!

[Shatteredillusions]

Huh.. So its not just here that happens..

Our cashiers have 2000 NKR ('bout £200) in small change. Some days there are less coins and more 50 and 100 NKR bills. Its only by the grace of the gods that we actually get through the day without being completely wiped out.

The day will start with some old hag paying with a 1000 NKR bill for some cheap book costing 99 NKR and "I don't have anything smaller than that" as an excuse. And they will see me squirming and grin, insist that they pay with that large note and leave with all my bills, all my 20 NKR coins and half my 10 NKR coins.

I've learnt to say "No". We pay a hefty transaction fee for our coins from the local bank, into the thousands each year cause people are idiot enough to use ATM's and not getting their bank to give them smaller notes, they cant. Just customers are too fucking lazy.

"Well why certainly dear customer, I know the sign states "Bookshop", but we are really a bank in disguise"

I said that to a customer not long ago and all she did was laugh and shrug before she left..

[Android Kaeli]

I've gotten those that ask if I can break a $50 or a $100, and they aren't buying anything. <Random Craft Store> isn't a bank....no, wait, it's every store known to man combined in one, forgot about that. o.o

[HYHYBT]

Large bills exist for a reason. (Edit to clarify: that reason is so that you can carry larger amounts of money with fewer bills, *not* so that you can only buy something that costs almost as much as you have.) Businesses should keep enough change in the store to break them, unless they get too many too close together. Likewise, customers should understand that sometimes you run out, and try to break the larger bills while they still have something else to fall back on.

[ralerin]

I've gotten to the point I just point blank refuse to offer cashback for at least half an hour.

This.

Before Aid of Rite went to till sharing, we started with $75. I was taught NOT to give out cashback until a half an hour went by; and if my drawer was getting low on change (say $5 and $1 and I had no spare $20's or larger), not to give out cashback until I had sufficient funds to get the change I needed.

One guy was PISSED when he saw I had a $20 and I told him no to his cashback. I told him, "I need that $20, I have next to no $5 left. Sorry". He went away a bit mollified after that.

[Tithera]

I am regretful to admit that i have been one of those people, but when I get my refund, the bank gives me big bills and when I ask if I can get smaller bills, they get all huffy and say no. When I've used all my smaller bills, the bigger ones are all I have. I always apologize to the cashier though, knowing that that one bill will almost certainly clean them out. I will buy more things so the change isn't so grand, but sometimes it is unavoidable. I do not have the luxury of a debit or credit crad either, so it makes it much worse. I feel terrible when I do it though Poor cashiers.

[Krivak]

Generally, we keep 100 dollars in 5's, 1's, and quarters and the like in each of our registers. We refuse any big bills until people have paid with enough 20's that we can give them change. I always say to myself "Tonight, NO Large bills are going to be accepted." Then i accept a 100.

[sarasquirrel]

people walk into my store and get mad if we dont have an actual atm in the store. some BVS's do

our cashback limit is $35

our tils start out at $100.

reg 5 apparently wasnt rung on much today as it was at least 20 short of 100. and i def gave a guy 35 in cashback

the best?
kids come in to buy 99 cent arizonas and pay with 20s...all night.

also there are parking meters out front. eeeeeeveryone wants quarters. $1 is fine by me, otherwise bring your own

[BrenDAnn]

Awww, but sarasquirrel, one of my FAVORITE things is the look on people's faces when they ask for a roll of quarters and I tell them I am only allowed to give them $5 worth--Manager's rules. There's always that crestfallen look, a moment (or two, or ten, depending on how fast the customer is) of contemplation, then they either say "well I guess that will work" or "never mind". Yes, I am evil enough to enjoy watching their faces fall like that. **shrugs** Oh well! Not much I can do when it's manager's rules!

[EricKei]

Large bills exist for a reason. (Edit to clarify: that reason is so that you can carry larger amounts of money with fewer bills,...

I can certainly see where you're coming from -- but the thing is, stores try to keep only the minimum amount of cash in the tils as possible so that less will be lost in the vent of a robbery or quick-change scammer attack.

Likewise, customers should understand that sometimes you run out, and try to break the larger bills while they still have something else to fall back on.

Well, that's just it -- from both experience and from reading tales on here, it seems that many of the people who pay "in large bills only" not only have plenty of smaller bills around, they usually get exceedingly angry when stores are incapable of acting as banks for them; it normally only takes one customer doing this to drain a till of a reasonable array of smaller bills, unless it's during a rush and they haven't had a chance to do a cash drop -- in many stores, cashiers are expressly forbidden to keep more than a certain amount of cash in their register; most places I've worked, a manager will pull ALL bills larger than tens during a drop, sometimes leaving three twenties if we're lucky. First thing in the morning, in particular, they'll almost never have anything bigger than a five; the (usuallly true) assumption is that the overwhelming majority of customers will pay in small bills.

[Spork4pedro]

We don't technically accept bills larger than $20 per company policy, but the sign that corp. gave us about 5 font and hidden around our tills so no one can read/see it and we're not allowed to make our own larger one.

The main reason why I don't like to take bills (besides the clean out my drawer reason) is that in my area counterfeiting larger bills is a major problem! (I even have to check my fives with the pen! It's that bad..) so I always refuse to take them. People get all huffy about it...but really? Is it that much more difficult to carry a few 20s? Yes I understand that carrying $500 in 20s is worse than in 100s but do ya really need to carry that much cash on you at ALL times?!?!