And FYI for anybody working in the South who might be unfamiliar with old black guy slang - a “case quarter” is an actual quarter, not two dimes and a nickel. It only took me once to figure it out, but it was a tortuous once. “Can I have a case quarter in change?” “A what?” “A case quarter.” “What’s a case quarter?” “You know, a case quarter.”
Nevermind you missed it – but how did she not notice and just go off on her merry way? 
“Subtraction” isn’t a skill you often need? 
About a year ago I was at the local Mcdonalds during the busy lunch rush and I see that cashier whose line I am in (she is a very tiny meek asian girl) has given all three customers in front of me the wrong change. She gets the bills right, but completely screws up the coins to where the customer has to help her. When she is counting out my change, (nothing complicated, I didn’t give any extra coins or anything) she seems to be randomly grabbing a couple of each coin. One manager notices what she is doing and says to another manager, “Hey, has she been trained on how to give change?” The other guy says nonchalantly, “yeah but she doesn’t understand American coins.” Then he turns back to what he was doing. My problem is not with the poor girl on the counter, but the supposed manager (he was wearing a tie anyway), who didn’t think that a cashier who does not understand the value of coins was a problem.
FWIW, I was worked at Mcdonald in high school twenty or so years ago, and we spent at least 4 hours in the back being tought how to count up change without a register, including many combinations of extra coins. Our registers were digital, but we were expected to only use them to double check. If we were seen using the register to pick up the change rather than counting up, we were reprimanded.
Well, you oughta put numbers on the damn coins like other folks do. 
Must be related to the seasonal cashier I met at Sears last year that screwed up a post-sale price match and sold me a 50" plasma TV for $970.
Who was I to argue with price-matching $2399 against $1999 at another store, but having it mis-keyed as $1099 and getting 10% of the difference to boot? It wasn’t entirely her fault as the department manager had to give their override because it was such a large discount. 
Go to grocery for a few items. Bill is $8.47. Hand over ten dollar bill.
Cashier rings up one hundred dollars and starts handing me the change
My Face:eek: :smack: :rolleyes: 
I did point out her mistake. Much as I could have used the extra ninety dollars, it would have been wrong and mean to take it.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am the proud owner of a fourth grader and he (and his currently-sixth grade sister before him) learned to count out change as part of math class.
I would’ve just said, “Then Jesus wants you to decide which item you’re going to give me for free.”
An easy mistake given that all American notes are the same bloody colour and size
Unlike ours which are different sizes and colours and have pretty pictures on them
You know, after thousands of transactions, a person should know the best coin combinations and proper change simply from rote memorization. I was a cashier and when someone gave me $2.00 for a charge of 1.27, I automatically knew that the change was .73 and that the fastest combination was two quarters, two dimes and three pennies. Sure, I knew how to figure it out quickly without trouble, but after 503rd customer for the day, I knew the numbers.
You don’t subtract when you make change, you count up. So, what you meant is that I don’t need counting very often.
And as for the poor foreign girl, haven’t you ever noticed that our quarters don’t say “25 cents”? They say “quarter dollar”!
People do use cash less and less now. My retail slave sentence was served at Suncoast and mostly I sold DVDs and such, which skews it (it’s not like I worked at a hot dog stand) but in a given day I’d run far, far more credit cards than cash. Also, when I did get cash half the time people wouldn’t offer change at all, they’d just throw you two twenties. So you didn’t get a whole lot of practice with being handed a sweaty handful of folding money and a pocket full of change.
Which one?
Well, I was a cashier at a grocery store. So that sort of skewed the experience for me. A lot more cash purchases. Credit card readers on the keyboard appeared during my time as a cashier, but the customer had to hand me the card to me to swipe it. That only lasted a year before another reader was put on the other side of the checkout counter so that people could just swipe it themselves.
And the credit/debit cards rock in my opinion.
Here’s a somewhat different money story and I’m telling on myself.
The first time I use the self-checkout at the supermarket AND take cashback ($50.00; I had checked myself through many times before), I take the receipt and the money and put both in my pocket.
I gather my bags and proceed over to the “overseeing” cashier and ask for the cash I had just requested. :smack:
Cashier looks at me like I’m crazy, checks the data from the checkout station I was just at, then looks at me like I’m crazy and I’m trying to steal something.
In the meantime, I realize what I’ve done.
Somehow, in my mind I had only grabbed the printed receipt and coupons that are dispensed. Since, up to that point, I had never associated picking up anything else at the checkout station with cashback, I mentally needed a human to hand me the cash, as is usually done when a cashier checks you out!
:smack: :smack: :smack:
On Broadway off the Beltline
Today I wanted to charge an uneven amount to my debit card. I want the account to be zeroed out so I can close it more easily.
The clerk said, “do you want cash back?” I said, yes, $18. He said, "I can’t enter that, I can only enter $20 or $40. I saw the screen had room for any amount, so I asked him just to try it. He refused. I asked for the manager, who wanted “a good reason” why I wanted $18 back. When I told him, he entered $18 just as I’d asked them both to do and it worked fine.
A clerk may be new, but the manager should have known better.
You should have pointed out the the money has “In God We Trust” printed right on it.
Chowder, this mistake has nothing to do with the size and color of the notes. It was caused by the cashier keying an extra zero in when entering the amount tendered, so that the register instructed the cashier to give an extra $90 in change.