Counting out change

[laborcat]

Xcashier, I can beat you in that. I had some idiots pay for a gadget (I think it was a DVD player, all I remember for sure was that it was something electronic), price about $100...

...with penny rolls. 200 of them.

They actually said that they cashed a check and ASKED FOR IT like that.

To me, that sounds like they did it on purpose, for just that purpose. Which makes them complete and total jerks in my opinion.

[Tama]

They wanted to be the "first ones to do it"...whatever the hell that meant.

[emax4]

Everytime I see this entry in the lists of posts I have "Counting Out Time" by Genesis in my head.

[Deserted]

While I'm out driving, I almost always have a soda with me. (Big time caffeine addict, but I hate coffee.) In the Phoenix area, sodas are generally either 86¢ or 87¢ after taxes, depending on which town the store is in. For my first soda, I pay with a dollar bill, getting back 13¢ or 14¢. For the next few sodas, I use the small change I keep getting back (for my second soda I pay $1.11 (or $1.12, depending) and I get back a quarter, my third soda I pay $1.01 and get back a dime and a nickel, etc). The quarters I get, I keep. (Well, actually, I use them for change; a couple accounts require exact change, with no tip allowed. )

[Magic And Pancakes]

I get a lot of people paying for a $70 room in ones. A little irritating, but I can live with it. I had one just 5 minutes ago come in and do it, and this one irritated me slightly.

Now during night shift, the lobby is locked and guests have to go to the night window. I had a local come in (it's ALWAYS the locals that give me trouble) and pay me in all ones. Then he was bitching at me to hurry up because it was cold outside. Well, if you don't want to be cold, DON'T check-in at 3 in the morning and DON'T pay in all ones.

I went a little slow on purpose.

[bhskittykatt]

I get a lot of people paying for a $70 room in ones. A little irritating, but I can live with it. I had one just 5 minutes ago come in and do it, and this one irritated me slightly.

We have one regular that pays in ones. I could go on a whole rant about him, but that's for another thread (he does some pretty scammy panhandling stuff, not even just regular panhandling but a scammy kind, which is why he has mostly $1 bills to pay in).

Last night, though, was a new one. A guest paid for a large portion of his room in $2 bills. Unfortunately I only had enough cash to buy one of them out of the till (Hubby likes to collect them).

One guy's change came to $14.xx, so I gave him a ten and two of the $2 bills, and he had to do a double-take.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I don't mind people giving me exact change at all; it's better than the people who decimate my change drawer by handing over large notes for small purchases. And the people who pay with bags of pound coins... I once had a customer buy £50 worth of fuel with fifty pound coins. Argh.

[AmbrosiaWriter]

Today was fun. I had a bunch of people come in and buy (literally) $1-2 worth of stuff and pay with either a $50 or $100 bill. On top of being on recovery (or in a recession) of some kind of stomach bug, you can guess how my mood was when the 6th person of the day tried to do this.

[EricKei]

From when I worked in retail ...? Anywhere from $50 to $150 as a float, almost all in ones and fives. Higher amounts tend to be in places like GameStore, where individual items can cost more than $50 easily. Most places have far, far less.

The thing is, everybody KNOWS that cashiers logically don't keep too much in their tils (that's with ONE 'L', boys and girls ) if they can help it (then again, it's that most uncommon thing in the world, common sense...), mostly so the company doesn't lose too much money if they get robbed -- the people who do this sort of thing regularly seem to be under the delusion that they are impressing someone.

[AmbrosiaWriter]

How much money do you people have in your tills to change these 50s and 100s?

I only have an €80 float so I'm wiped out if 2-3 people try it.

Well, people buy a lot of scratch tickets here and pay with twenties. I was lucky enough that between the jerks paying with big bills for $2.00 worth of stuff I had people coming in and buying ~$60.00 in either scratch or prepaying for gas.

Typically we're only supposed to have about $100.00 in twenties (the rest is supposed to get dropped into a safe we don't have the key to) but I had a bad feeling about today so I never dropped.

[XCashier]

cashiers logically don't keep too much in their tils (that's with ONE 'L', boys and girls )

Nope, it's two "L"s. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/till?s=t Scroll down to the third definition, the noun.

[blas]

Hell, people with 20s could wipe me out in a matter of minutes, if they all came in and got less than $10 worth of stuff in a row.

[AmbrosiaWriter]

Ah lottery, bringing in people to buy $20/$10 tickets constantly to refill my till. <3 I appreciate it a lot more now.

[wolfie]

I get a lot of people paying for a $70 room in ones. A little irritating, but I can live with it. I had one just 5 minutes ago come in and do it, and this one irritated me slightly.

Now during night shift, the lobby is locked and guests have to go to the night window. I had a local come in (it's ALWAYS the locals that give me trouble) and pay me in all ones. Then he was bitching at me to hurry up because it was cold outside. Well, if you don't want to be cold, DON'T check-in at 3 in the morning and DON'T pay in all ones.

Brain go BSOD. I can understand an attractive young woman paying in singles (and your desire to use PLENTY of hand sanitizer after handling them),but a man?

[EricKei]

XC -- OK then, I sit corrected. I guess that every official handbook I've ever (personally) encountered has it wrong -- definitely NOT outside the realm of possibility -- either that, or it's retail jargon that never made it into common use.