He also knows that seven cents is totally going to break your bank.
(Yes, I agree the cashier was a bitch. I’m just saying)
I’ve got a thing for dollar stores, seeking out the weirdest stuff I can find and all that. Anyway, several times I’ve found myself behind someone – an obviously impoverished someone – who’s paying in nickels and pennies. Sort of breaks my heart and sometimes I’ll pay for their stuff (if they’ll let me), but it’s not hard to see why every cent counts.
Which is ironic, because if you pay me a quarter, I’ll bend over.
It’s stored right next to the bottles of “Blinker Fluid” in auto parts stores…
I find that the Orange flavoured WWS tastes the best and works the best, the Blueberry stuff just sucks
So I went to get my hair cut at Supercuts this morning and paid with a credit card.
The way it works is that the person who cuts your hair “swipes” your card and then gives you a little slip to fill out, where you can write in the tip and the total - just like in a restaurant. Then the person enters everything into the computer and your card is charged for the total amount. The beautician is then allowed to take their tip in cash out of the register.
Well, I wrote down $2.00 for her tip, and when she was entering it, I heard her say “oops.” I asked for a final printout of the charge, and it turns out she had entered $3.00 instead of $2.00. Thus my card was charged $17.00 instead of $16.00.
I told her it was wrong, and she shrugged her shoulders and said “Well, I took only $2.00 out of the register.”
I assume you told her that she should also take out another dollar and hand it to you?
pkbites, when your wife finally kicks you to the curb for referring to windshield wiper fluid as sauce, I’ll be happy to take you in. I use the term “slice” for paper all the time! 
Retail employees abuse customers behind their backs all the time. The problem here is that you don’t do that in front of another customer.
Not that the OP’s reaction isn’t more than a little over-the-top.
I shall evermore regard you as a poster of remarkable restraint and good humor.
And that, folks, is not a sentence you will read every day.
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I have never in my life been called a c*** until recently. The woman who did it was obviously aggravated since I happened to point out several inconsistencies in her statements and her increasing anger associated with my pointing them out. Then the c-word flew out.
I am always amazed at folks who get angry to such a point to insult the one who pointed out an error. Total lack of an ounce of character, IMO.
Not exactly. I said something like “Come on, that’s ridiculous,” and after giving me an annoyed look, she voided the transaction and re-did it.
I guess I finally know why one time when I was at Media Play, and I noticed they’d given me a Canadian quarter in my change, and I asked for an American quarter instead, instead of just opening the register and handing me my quarter, the girl working the register had to call the manager from the back to open it, and I had to stand around waiting far longer than I would’ve had I realized it would take so long.
I mean, jeez, can’t you just scan a pack of candy from the display right in front of you then void the transaction after the drawer opens? Is that really much so worse than making the manager come out to open the thing and a customer stand around forever?
Wonder what colorful things they said about me after I left. Maybe another customer heard and called them cunts.
Media Play’s out of business now. Coincidence?
Yeah, probably. I mean, the virutal lack of customers every time I was in the place probably had more to do with it.
Depends. Some places, only a manager can do a void, and a lot of the times, they give you shit for doing a void.
And like others have said, sometimes, once the drawer shuts, you can’t open it without a sale.
What Guin said. In a lot of cases voiding a transaction requires at least as much managerial intervention as opening the drawer without a sale – and for much the same reasons. Customer buys his $10 item, gets rung up, hands over money, leaves. Cashier then voids the transaction and pockets the $10.
I don’t think I’d stick around for 7 cents, but it’s my decision as the customer. If I’m the cashier there’s no way I’d brush it off or be pissed at the customer for waiting – if I screwed up, it’s on me to fix it.
What an interesting thread…
Firstly, I don’t see the outrage about the word “Cunt”. It’s a not a particularly polite term, but it’s not Extra Offensive either, IMHO (Bear in mind I do live in Australia, where we swear a lot more than you lot in the US do). It would be entirely appropriate to be sitting at the pub with your mates and relate a story along the lines of “And so I was sitting outside Maccas when some cunt comes up to me and starts arcing up about how my dog was chasing his kid, and I kept trying to tell him I don’t have a dog…” In short, it’s not a Big Bad Word here, but you probably don’t want to use it in front of your grandmother.
Moving on from that, though, the OP is right, it is the customer’s change and they are entitled to it, regardless of whether or not it’s 7c or $7.
As someone who works in a retail store, though, if someone was slightly short on the price of an item (Say they wanted a widget worth $5.30 and only had a $5 note on them) it’s not problem for me (or any manager) to just change the price and make a note that it was for goodwill reasons.
The staff can’t open the till sans sale (or change prices, for that matter) without manager authorisation, so in the scenario in the OP the staff member would have to come and get myself or the manager to authorise the till opening- which does seem like a lot of hassle for 7c, but as I said, it’s their money so I’ve got no problem at all with it and neither do our staff.
On a related note, why don’t you guys just get rid of pennies and save yourselves a lot of hassle?
This wasn’t Family Dollar was it? Isn’t that where the gang banger cashiers club deaf people for not talking? Man, don’t disrespek those guys.
It’s a much more offensive word in North America. You might tell a story like that here, but I’d guess that any women and a significant percentage of men who happened to hear it would think you were a knuckle-dragging mouth breather if you did.
To be clear, I’m not suggesting that you are, I recognize the cultural relativity of the situation (I use a lot of curse words that are very mild here but tend to arch the eyebrows of my British friends).
In what decade, and for how long?
In the 1960’s? But you weren’t even born yet.