Gas stations used to always let you off if you went a few cents over. Pump in $20.03 and drop a twenty on the counter and no gas station attendant thought twice about it. And I always went a few cents over. Why? Because over a life time, that is a free tank of gas (plus, that is me sticking it to the man). But now with pre-pay debit and credit cards you can’t cheat the system.
(I know you can still pay cash, but I never have cash on me anymore!)
Hmm, another thief. Seems to be a trend 'round here.
I think you confused me with someone else, dickhead. I was pointing out DDG’s whining about pennies as if she is the queen beancounter. She said they won’t let her keep a penny tray on the fucking counter. I said that she should just carry some pennies to avoid all of this (evident in this thread) bullshit ABOUT A FUCKING PENNY!!
I don’t give a flying rat turd if DDG wants to rescue Walgreens from the Penny Thieves.
However, your post has jackshit to do with anything I posted. If I have pennies coming back from a purchase, I just say “keep the pennies” on my way out.
I don’t know where the fuck you got (your words) “If you want something, FUCKING PAY FOR IT, Jesus Christ, how hard is that? It’s inconvenient for you to carry change? Too motherfucking bad, don’t buy anything.” /your words
I said nothing remotely like that, you stupid fuck.
Right. I saw that. But if you already know she can’t process you without voiding him out, why would you even bring up the issue, let alone press the point by exclaiming it loudly? If you just wanna express to Karl the fact that his scanning the ground searching for a penny is holding you up, why not address yourself directly to him (“Dude, just get a debit card…”), instead of addressing him obliquely by asking the cashier to bypass him and wait on you, which in addition then makes the cashier the Bad Guy for refusing to void him out and wait on you?
This is not what you said in the OP. What you said in the OP was:
You said that (A) when the clerk attempts to give you your $4.99, you demand a minute in order to search the floor for a penny.
Just so you won’t have to carry 99 cents in change.
And that (B) if you can’t find a penny, you expect her to comp you for the penny, or give you one out of her own pocket.
Just so you won’t have to carry 99 cents in change.
And that (C) you sometimes manage to extort a penny in this manner from someone else in line.
Just so you won’t have to carry 99 cents in change.
And that (D) you threaten that if she doesn’t forgive you the penny, or otherwise make it good herself, that her employer will have just lost a customer.
Just so you won’t have to carry 99 cents in change.
Uh huh.
Here’s your solution:
Let’s say you start off with only notes. At your first transaction you receive 4.99 change. This is only eleven coins (not exactly pocket-breaking). Now here’s the good news:
This is the maximum number you will ever have to carry!
Suppose the next transaction is 10.87. You pay it exactly, leaving you with 4.12 (five coins). At the next shop the total is again 10.87. Instead of handing over 12.00, give the cashier 12.12 and you will get 1.25 change. You now only have three coins in your pocket! The trick is to remember that you don’t have to give the cashier exact change. Just give whatever it takes to get the fewest number of coins back.
Zing! The falling dollar has really put a damper on my travel plans. I guess it’s Africa or Latin America for a while.
Gas stations price gas in the tenths of a cent. Using your logic we should demand the minting of a mill coin so we don’t get screwed in the rounding process.
I am simply in favor of eliminating the penny itself. You could still price something $14.01, if you wanted, but would be required to round…
What about tax?
Since you obviously cannot read, I’ll leave you to your righteousness, Queen Beancounter.
Sales tax, you mean? Round it. It’ll even out. Unless people are cunning and motivated enough to deliberately split their purchases into baskets which round down a penny rather than up, I suppose, but that’s a lot of effort to go to to save 1c.
ETA: the USA last produced a half cent in 1857, which if Wikipedia is to be believed would be worth about 10c today. So since your cent has been the smallest unit of currency, its value has dropped by a factor of around 20. Reason enough to have done with it?
I don’t understand this animosity towards someone who is just trying to do their job correctly. You can call **DDG ** a “beancounter” all you want, but the fact is, she’s a cashier. Her job is to ring stuff up, charge the correct amount, and give the correct change. I’m sure your job, if you have one, involves having a right way and a wrong way to do stuff, too. Should people condescend to you over any effort you might make to do your job well?
What about it? It doesn’t have to be added to the price at checkout, it can be included in the price. My family once ran a liquor store in the 70’s and 80’s, and everything was priced to include tax. So the $3 six pack (hey, this was the 80’s) with 7% tax was simply listed at $3.25 instead of $3.21. All prices were to the nickle. No pennies needed at that store.
When it came time to pay the tax to the state, the tax paid was 21.26 cents for that sale, rather than 21 cents.
Check my posts in this thread. All of my posts here have been supportive of the job a cashier is bound to perform, including acknowledging that, even as I would politely ask a cashier to move on to my purchase, I would accept her choice not to do that. She admonished me twice, seeming to ignore or not read my posts which supported a cashier’s position with regard to not being able to offer the penny or move on if someone was scrounging around on the floor looking for one.
Someone else used that term first.
Calling someone a disparaging name doesn’t sound very supportive, so I apologize if I misconstrued what you meant.
I know, and they were using it disparagingly. So if you don’t want people to think you are being disparaging, it might have been a good idea not to copy it.
Thank you for your kind advice, however, it wasn’t until my words were ignored that I became disparing, i.e., when my posts were being disparaged by being ignored or not read, twice; not before. Before, I was supportive and will remain so toward clerks put in the position described by the OP and who understand that is my base position.
Perhaps you’d like to share that advice with DDG?
No, because I didn’t see her calling anyone any names. All she did was offer a more helpful way for you to handle such a situation should it arise. She was completely nice and polite in explaining it to you.
No, she wasn’t. She ignored my posts, even after I pointed out what I had actually said. That was a form of passive-aggressiveness, along with the chastizing, that was insulting by default and, and which you have chosen to ignore in your zeal to preach from a soapbox. I treat people as well as they treat me.
We’re done here.
I think you are totally overreacting to what she said, but whatever.
I think you’re trying to judge something you’re not qualified to judge. In addition to your ignoring the original namecaller, the reasonableness and actual content of my original posts and DDG’s reaction to them, you say I’m overreacting?
Whatever.
Now, seriously, back to our deep and trenchant discussion of pennies.