We don't give fucking change!! (language)

[Tama]

I am so sick and tired of this I am ready to spit acid!

A woman came up to my Malmart register and asked to exchange her $1 for 4 quarters. Only, we don't do change.

I tell her this, she gets snippy, then storms off to tell her friend what i just said. She proceeds to give me the catbutt face from her position a few feet away.

This might sound like overreaction, but what the FUCK is wrong with people? We haven't done change for YEARS! Are people just that slow?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

People really need to start understanding that a regular checkout lane is not the place to get change. If you need change, go to the service desk.

In some stores it's actually verboten for the cashiers working the regular lanes to give out change. That is the policy at the swamp, and that's because of short change artists.

[Tama]

That's the thing, I mean. NO ONE in the store is allowed to give out change.

And they still persist.

[Sheldonrs]

Just give 'em the classic response, "True change comes from within, BITCH!".

[McGoddess09]

I have a question for you about this.

What if they had bought something with cash and wanted $1 in quarters back as a part of their change? I'm just curious about this.

[Tama]

You can do that all you want...but 90% of these people are not willing to buy anything. They just want to treat you as their personal bank.

[tropicsgoddess]

Just give 'em the classic response, "True change comes from within, BITCH!".

Damn, Sheldon you put out the best one liners EVAR!!!!

[Sleepwalker]

That's odd. I used to get rolls of quarters for the laundromat from Walmart all the time. Only stopped once I got access to the safe at my own work.

Maybe not a national policy?

[malmalthekiller]

The Walmart I worked at gave out change.

Now I'm at another retailer, and we strickly do not give out change.

[underemployeed]

We make accommodations at work based on mood and fund availability. People don't seem to understand we aren't a bank especially on 3rd shift, and maybe you should bitch and complain at the bank about not wanting $100 bills they honestly should be able to give the domination you need. OR USE DEBIT/CREDIT


Pretty much the only thing that will work every time is handing me $1 bill so you can get quarters for the air machine, otherwise its great you thought of us while doing your laundry but um if management forgot to get change order and it sat night, bank not open till monday, it won't be till 2pm that they actually can make it there, so I can't give you an extra roll of quarters, sorry.

and I'm also sorry when we have a sign that says we need $1s PLEASE, I clearly can't give you $10, however if for some reason, I have $60 extra in $1s, I will gladly give you $20 of them if that is your wish. It really just comes down to what I have. I loved this SC few weeks ago who wanted $10 in ones told him I can't do change and I don't have spare ones anyways, so he bought .99 bag of chips, gave him 4 ones and a five. He looks at me hands the $5 back and says "I told you I wanted all ones" . "Really, and I told you Im short on ones, (grab last 3 from drawer and shake them)"

We work well with pizza drivers, if we need ones we hit them up, if we have extra we see if they short, usually they have more need than we do.

At least at wal-mart they have mangers 3rd shift, I only have so much available to me and a single $100 bill if your not buying much is enough to clear my drawer if people aren't paying in $20s, especially when out changer is empty, which Im not supposed to really use to give large amount to people, just when I'm short on something for my drawer.

[KabeRinnaul]

This might sound like overreaction, but what the FUCK is wrong with people? We haven't done change for YEARS! Are people just that slow?

Because they think it's not a big deal. It's small change, you handle money all day long, you give lots of people change. You ought to be able to give them change since it isn't even as much as you normally handle.

SCs, especially EWs, tend to approach the world from a very self-centered point of view. They simply don't process that policies exist for reasons beyond their experience, that other people's opinions honestly differ from theirs, or that their actions may cause problems for others.

Thus, their thought process rarely goes beyond "you-have-change-me-want-change-give-now."

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

I remember growing up you could go into most small stores and get change without a problem but that's very uncommon now. I suspect it's largely due to two reasons:

1) Thieves asking for change and then cleaning out the cash drawer when it gets opened
2) The famous "change scam" where the scammer will attempt to confuse the cashier and rip the store off.

Where we can open the register without ringing up a sale, but we do not give change this is because of the reasons above and also because we aren't a bank and sometimes it would be too inconvenient for us to say, break a $50 bill.

[Kimmik]

At the mart that I work at we cant open the drawer just to make change and if you want a roll you need the csm or send them to service desk... Stamps to cause some dumbass at my mart lost a shit ton.. now we have to do an action code for them... oooo people get peveed waiting

Between reach around, quick change artists, etc...

[bean]

Making change in my store... is up to the cashier. We're not supposed to average more than 4 no sales a day, and get bitched out if we wind up with more than 7 or 8 in a shift.

If someone's asking for change while I'm already handling a transaction for them, I'll do it. Or if it's slow. But if you butt in my line and ask for change, you get sent to the service desk - which doesn't have much more change than me anyway (most of it is kept in the safe, on the other side of the store). And if someone starts trying to confuse me while making change, I close the drawer damn fast and get a manager over to count it for me.

We do start with rather large tills - $400 for cashiers, $500 for the service desk. But a couple of $100's or cash back transactions early in my shift can wipe me out pretty quick, today I ran out of $20's on my 3rd transaction of the day and out of $10's by the 10th transaction (but I had plenty of large bills and plenty of 5's).

[Android Kaeli]

I tell customers that I can only make change if they buy something with cash or I call a manager to open my drawer. Usually they ask when they use their card, I have no keys to get into the drawer so I can't get into them. If I have the change to do it, then I will.

Anything over a $1, I tell them to go to the bank.