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I worked as a cashier. I’m not here to do math that’s why I’m using the register no you can’t give me another dollar to get an even $10 back. NEXT. Also as a customer no I do t have another $1 so you can give me an even $10 back
Edit: the machine does the calculation once I type in the amount you hand me. If I type in the amount and press enter and the drawer opens and you want to give me more money (not always an extra $1 or $0.01) I can’t input another number, the transaction is done. I’m not doing more math to keep my drawer even. Take your change and leave.
Yall sound like customers who’ve never had to be a cashier before.
As someone who worked at a register on and off for over a decade in their youth... This is a dumb take. Learn basic math
You never had scammers come in and try to fast talk you for some extra change with switching bills or making change and then Have your boss chew you out over being short $5 It’s all good
I get you, but cashiers are trained to be impatient and never wait for me to pull my change purse out to round it up, even if I tell them there's more coming.
This is how it typically goes:
Cashier: Your total is $10.50. Me, handing them $20: Here, hang on to this, I've got some change. Cashier snatches the money, enters $20.00 in the machine and stuffs it in the drawer as I fish out the appropriate change. Me, as they are in the midst of gathering a large amount of change from the drawer: Here you go. Cashier, interrupted during their change counting, furrows their brows at me as if I just tried to pull a fast one on them.
It can't be a quick change scheme if you haven't given me my change yet. Just don't be in such a rush.
You have to do it like an old lady. First you hand over the 50 cents. Then you wait for the cashier to acknowledge that fifty cents is pretty fucking far from 10.50. When they say you're ten short, then you pass the 20.
Telling me you have more coming and magicking more money out of thin air are 2 different circumstances so I get where you’re coming from.
Huh? The point in giving an even 10 back to the customer is that it keeps more change in your float. It’s for the cashiers benefit not the customers.
It's a win win.
Just go to the safe and get more cash? It’s not that hard
Where did you work as a cashier where you can just go get more cash out of the safe without having to wait an eternity for a manager to do it?
When I was a cashier I didn't care if anything took an eternity for anyone.
Pet store chain. They weren’t doing anything more than sending emails or helping guests and filling my cash drawer is helping guest check out faster
You are literally here to do math and the register is just keeping track of it and helping you out to make sure the math you are doing checks out.
I didn't ask for more to make the change even either as a cashier, but I did understand when they gave extra to get even change because doing math was my job.
You seriously couldn't be bothered to add 1 in your head? Honestly, that is terrifying. It also makes it so you have less work overall. Handing a $10 is much easier than handing a $5 and 4 $1s.
Absolutely, yes! This is something he has to do all day, and gets fired if he does mental math wrong. An easy thing 1000 times is hard.
No, an easy thing 1000 times becomes trivial. I am speaking as someone who worked as a cashier for a long time. I agree with the person above you... It's terrifying. They are making their own job more difficult because they don't want to add 1. You're more prone to making an error the more change you have to give back.
I was a cashier too! Errors came from doing something weird outside of the process, not numbers that didn't end in .00. In the training they explicitly said to not play that game because people will scam you.
I just don't see how this isn't the process. If you understand what the dollars and cents mean then it's still just adding 1. I was also a cashier for years and never ever saw this be an issue. I met or trained dozens if not hundreds of cashiers and this was never such a problem that couldn't be learned. If you can be trusted to handle cash you should be able to handle adding small values to a number
The register machine literally let's you input the amount of cash given by the customer and it tells you how much to give back as change. You are just refusing to do your job at this point for no reason when the machine is already doing the math for you.
Same. I'll sometimes grab an extra coin from the coin jar so I can give them $5 instead of $4.99, but outside that I'm not taking more money to give them more change. We have a nice sign telling people we can't make change, go to the bank ma'am.
Doesn't the register tell you which bills and coins to hand back? Just punch in what the guy handed you lol.
That's what he's saying. Everyone is mad that he won't suddenly do mental math for them when they realize the missed opportunity after he opens the register.