So, Eff you very much.

[AmbrosiaWriter]

At the store, we brew coffee for out customers to fix that caffeine addiction. It's self serve - you take the coffee carafe off the burner (old school ones like diners use) and pour your cup of coffee.

Now, you enter to find that your particular flavor of crack is just brewing now do you;

A) Wait for it to finish brewing (a couple minutes) then pour yourself a cup.

B) Pull the carafe out but quickly stick your cup under there so the machine brews it straight into you cup - then quickly replace the carafe.

C) Pull the carafe out, pour yourself a cup from the carafe as the machine brews coffee straight onto the burner, then stick the carafe back into the puddle of coffee on the burner, and fail to mention the mess you just made.

Yeah. C happened. I don't know how long the mess had been there because I had been dealing with the morning line, luckily another - nice - customer pulled the carafe out of the puddle, carefully set it on an unused burner and informed me of the mess so I could clean it up and then brew another carafe of coffee because HALF OF IT WAS SPILLED ALL OVER THE PLACE.



Oh, yes.

To the lady who purchased a 69 cent (.69!) packet of crackers and paid for it with a twenty. Go jump off a bridge. A LOT.
That also goes to you, lady who bought a $8.00 worth of stuff (one pack of cigarettes) and paid for it with a $100. Seriously.
Oh, ALSO goes to the lady who bought $9.00 worth of gas and paid for it with a $100 as well. You can all die in a fire and then go to hell and die there again. In more fire.

[Kagato]

About a week or so back I wanted to buy some things while I was out, but I only had a $100 note on me because I had asked my boss if he could give me cash and cash the cheque himself when he had the chance (he is usually more than happy to do that if I need the cash since I have been living hand-to-mouth while I've been studying) and we didn't have enough small notes, thankfully the cashier was happy to break the note (I specifically asked him if he was able to break it, if not then I would have probably waited until morning to get my things), felt a little bad about it though since I only needed about $15 worth of things.

[Rhania506]

C) Pull the carafe out, pour yourself a cup from the carafe as the machine brews coffee straight onto the burner, then stick the carafe back into the puddle of coffee on the burner, and fail to mention the mess you just made.

This happens to us ALL the time at the bank. Most of the time we have two pots at a time, so there is a perfectly good pot sitting on the burner at the top of the machine (eye level for most people). Yet people still want to take coffee out of the one currently brewing.

Bonus: the coffee pot is directly in front of my teller window, therefore my coworkers think that I am supposed to be coffee pot moniter to keep it from happening. Which is fine if we aren't busy, but I can't be held responsible for stupid people when I'm trying to wait on customers at my window.

[bunnyboy]

At the store, we brew coffee for out customers to fix that caffeine addiction. It's self serve - you take the coffee carafe off the burner (old school ones like diners use) and pour your cup of coffee.

Now, you enter to find that your particular flavor of crack is just brewing now do you;

A) Wait for it to finish brewing (a couple minutes) then pour yourself a cup.

B) Pull the carafe out but quickly stick your cup under there so the machine brews it straight into you cup - then quickly replace the carafe.

C) Pull the carafe out, pour yourself a cup from the carafe as the machine brews coffee straight onto the burner, then stick the carafe back into the puddle of coffee on the burner, and fail to mention the mess you just made.

Yeah. C happened. I don't know how long the mess had been there because I had been dealing with the morning line, luckily another - nice - customer pulled the carafe out of the puddle, carefully set it on an unused burner and informed me of the mess so I could clean it up and then brew another carafe of coffee because HALF OF IT WAS SPILLED ALL OVER THE PLACE.



Oh, yes.

This takes me back to the later part of my grave shift at the 8-12. If it wasn't this just brewed coffee is too old it was just like that.

To the lady who purchased a 69 cent (.69!) packet of crackers and paid for it with a twenty. Go jump off a bridge. A LOT.
That also goes to you, lady who bought a $8.00 worth of stuff (one pack of cigarettes) and paid for it with a $100. Seriously.
Oh, ALSO goes to the lady who bought $9.00 worth of gas and paid for it with a $100 as well. You can all die in a fire and then go to hell and die there again. In more fire.

And this was a huge pet peeve of me and everyone, including the owners. $100 bill for purchases in the $2-$20 range, either because they didn't get that we don't keep anywhere near that amount, or they had some issues that needed compensation.

[cinema guy]

....(I specifically asked him if he was able to break it, if not then I would have probably waited until morning to get my things), felt a little bad about it though since I only needed about $15 worth of things.

That's the difference between a good customer and a SC. You ask politely and are willing to take 'no' for an answer.

[EricKei]

there is a perfectly good pot sitting on the burner at the top of the machine (eye level for most people). Yet people still want to take coffee out of the one currently brewing.

Duh. The one currently brewing is so much "fresher", of course! Note that this "logic" will still apply even if you've only been open for five minutes, and the "ready" carafe was just brewed ten minutes prior.

[BrenDAnn]

Both of those things happen to me all the time at C-Store. As for the $100s, I'm assuming that you have the right to inform them you're unable to break them, right? Yes, I know, customer will get angry...too bad. The third person through the door the other morning after I opened the store had a $100. They're just damn lucky that A) they are a well-liked regular and B) I had access to our drop bag to switch the $100 for $20's. Needless to say, though, I was NOT amused. Oh, and coffee? Has to be right out of the machine for most people. I could've brewed one pot, and then another back to back, and they still want the second I brewed. It's just how it works. Why? Ask the SCs!!

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Duh. The one currently brewing is so much "fresher", of course!

But it might not be as hot either. With my coffee maker at home (which I set the timer every evening and turn on before bed if I have to be at work the next day) if I wait about 15 minutes or so after it's finished brewing, my coffee seems to be hotter than if I'd just poured it right after the brewing has finished.

Now if I could teach my co-irkers to turn OFF the coffeemaker in the breakroom so it's not on overnight . . .

[EricKei]

Now if I could teach my co-irkers to turn OFF the coffeemaker in the breakroom so it's not on overnight . . .

I can't help you there. At my bro's office, someone often leaves the central heat/air on overnight when nobody is there...And of course, it's always "somebody else" that did so -- especially when we ask the guy who used to own the place and still rents part of the office from the company...He's the one who is most prone to showing up after everyone else has left, and he's NEVER the one who left the heater on, of course...

[An Haddock]

Can you put up a sign that says you don't take $100's?

Our local convenience store does that. It's even funnier when some whiny asshole complains about it, despite being across the street from a bank that could break their hundred into more easily-managed bills. Then again, we all know SC's are too lazy to walk a hundred feet and take five minutes of their precious time to make life easier for everyone else.

[AmbrosiaWriter]

We take 100's typically because we have the lottery and a lot of people paying with twenties for the lottery. So if we can break the hundred, we break the hundred. However, it's still annoying when we get wiped out of twenties and then we have to turn away the person who was lucky enough to win a hundred/two hundred on a scratch ticket because someone couldn't bother to go to the bank that's almost right next door.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I can't help you there. At my bro's office, someone often leaves the central heat/air on overnight when nobody is there...And of course, it's always "somebody else" that did so --

Same concept . . . does me no good, as I'm usually coming in around 6 a.m (5 am. on Wednesdays) and the night crew I hardly ever see (add to the fact that most people at my store work flexible shifts) so it just adds to the frustration.

And I can tell it was used after I leave b/c I've gotten into the habit of making sure it's turned off when I leave around 3 in the afternoons . . . so you know somebody went back there and made a pot later in the day.

One of these days I'm going to show up to see fire trucks in the parking lot b/c somebody did a Randall and left the damn thing on all night long again . . .

[EricKei]

Can you put up a sign that says you don't take $100's?

Many stores (especially those that do NOT deal in lotteries) have signs up saying that they are not allowed to accept anything larger than a $20 bill. Certain SC's seem to take this as a challenge >_>

[strawbabies]

Now if I could teach my co-irkers to turn OFF the coffeemaker in the breakroom so it's not on overnight . . .

At the last place I worked, it wasn't just the coffee maker people wouldn't remember to turn off. I saw one guy making a pizza in the toaster oven when I was getting ready to leave on a Friday afternoon. It only had a timer for toasting, not for baking, and wouldn't shut off on its own if baking. You had to turn the temperature knob to "OFF." I came in on Monday morning to find a note from the cleaning company saying that when they came in on Sunday, the oven had been left on. Basically, we had a freaking programmer at a tech company who couldn't work a toaster oven properly.

[VenomX]

They do that coffee crap where I work too.

Try this one.
Someone wants a 60 cent item and only has a $100 at 2 am in the morning.
FU even if I did have the money to break it no way at that hour. What are you going to do? Go find 60 cents then come back.