They didn't haves 5s, and didn't want to hand you a wad of ones.
Because sometimes people get mad about that shit.
Have we just given up on putting the currency symbol in the correct place?
(I know some currencies have the symbol after it, but I'm not aware of any dollar currencies that work that way)
Putting the currency symbol after always made more sense to me. It's how every other unit of measurement works, why should currency be different?
afaik it's on the left to stop people adding in more numbers on cheques.
Just the other day I was thinking we should use the currency symbol as the decimal marker. So something could cost 9$99
Yes? Is it going to confuse anyone?
When I was a cashier they recommended we not do this kind of thing, because there are some fast-talk scams people will do to get more money. Like they'll give you more money, say something confusing, take the money back, and then you give them the extra change, except more sophisticated than that.
They were called “quick-” or”short-change artists”. They still exist, just not as common because people carry far less cash than they used to.
I know someone who did the scam by accident. Mentioned the number 50 talking to his friend while he was handing the cashier a 20. Got change for 50 euros instead of 20, noticed it later lol
At least someone gets it
I once did this in reverse- I gave the cashier a dollar extra so I could just get a 10 back, and she said "here, you gave me too much", and handed the 1 back
Same, I bought something years ago that amounted to something like $15.05, I had a $20 and some change so I tossed in an extra dime so I wouldn't have to fill my wallet with singles and have a bunch of change in my pocket. Nope, cashier looked at me like I was stupid and handed me back my worst nightmare because they had to make up being short a quarter in dimes and nickels.
Yeah, my experience has been the reverse, where cashiers look at me like I'm stupid if I give them an additional $1 bill with the $20 I give them for something that costs $10.50.
I had this twice in the same day the other day. Was travelling, had cash to get rid of and the poor teenage cashiers these days can't wrap their brain around the concept at all cos they never had to. Both times I get a "this 20 is already enough" and I said I'm trying get rid of coins. I could watch their brain rebooting, give up, punch it in the till and then be really baffled when they hand me back a 10 euro note.
Claiming this an idea no teenager can wrap their mind around has some serious boomer vibes. Especially given the context of the meme which is saying the customer is unable to process such a transaction at the moment which alludes to the fact that anyone on autopilot is capable of this sort of lapse.
Yesterday I was buying groceries and, having been a grocery store cashier before, I faced the UPCs towards him to make it easier. He picked up each item individually and checked every other surface before finding the UPC on every single time.
I wanted to grab him and shake him by the shoulders yelling “This was supposed to be easy for you!”
I do this a lot for cases of beverages and usually let them know verbally since most people are just on autopilot. Most thank me for making things easy for them.
I struggled with this when I got moved to the front end of my store at 22
I done the dumb version: it's 9.50 and I give 20.50
I'm just trying to help.
To be honest, I'm always a bit amazed that this doesn't happen more often. Yesterday, I had to pay 50.93€ and handed the cashier 51.05€, because I'd rather have a 10ct coin and the cashier typically needs smaller coins more often.
In this case, it was obvious that I didn't hand them the 5ct by accident, but that's the sort of mind games I'll play and so far, the cashiers were always a step ahead of me...
Cash transactions now get rounded to the nearest 5 cents here in Estonia so you won't even get the 2 cents anymore. 5 is the minimum now
Think it'll reduce usage of the tiny coins, but no idea if they're also slowly removing them from circulation or not. In your scenario you would've received just 5 cents
Doesn't invalidate the extra 5 cents to get 10 cents back, just nice to get back even fewer small coins I'd say. Sometimes you pay an extra cent or 2, sometimes you lose a cent or 2. Never more than 2 anyway
Yeah, our government occasionally discusses that idea again, but unfortunately nothing has been put into law yet. I would certainly prefer not having to carry around extra copper, just because companies want their .99 prices.
Shouldn't you have received 12cts? In order to get 10cts back you ought to give 51.03€. Or am I just not mathing today?
No, no, you're mathing correct. I did receive 12ct back. But 12cts is a 2ct coin + a 10ct coin. If I would have given 51.00€, it would have been a 2ct coin + a 5ct coin back. I didn't mention the 2ct coin, because it's always involved.
And I didn't have 3cts myself, otherwise I would have made it 51.03€, yeah.
I fail at basic math so I hate giving change lol. Just cant grasp stuff like 54-47, I end up having to count it out. I can do multiplication fine but never learned the tables, whatever those are. Cant do division...always wished I was good at math but it doesn't make sense to me. Oddly everything im into like electronics and music and computers are all math heavy ha
music
math heavy
Dang it, there goes my plan of fleeing computers to escape math
Well in reality everything in the universe is math, so there's no escape ha
Well, so long as it doesn't involve me solving the integral of ([the limit of {the square root} or {the arctan} of x] over [some other shit on the bottom of a fraction]), I'm good yeah I'm feeling alright
Just don't get too deep into mathrock, haha
Just pay with card plsthx
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
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.
I worked as a cashier. I’m not here to do math that’s why I’m using the register
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.
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.
In Poland they would just say "do you have extra .50/1.73/3 zł". No need to explain why. Everyone knew why.
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