No one wants to learn how to count change, all the grocery stores around here automatically spit my coin change out of a machine so the cashiers only have to count bills. Its like they don’t give them credit for the intelligence Og gave a shrub. That kind of stuff would embarrass me if I worked somewhere they did that.
Yah, stop throwing change at me.
$100 bills that’s what I want!
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist]
Unless… maybe I could tour the country giving seminars on how to count change! I could get a retired sports figure, to add a little respectability.
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Reggie Jackson would be a good choice. He used to pick up the change fans threw at him in the outfield.
[QUOTE=Evil Captor]
Yah, stop throwing change at me.
$100 bills that’s what I want!
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I’ll take bars of gold. First bar covers all the medical costs from the rest of them.
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip]
What if the cashier fills her mouth with change and smacks her inflated cheeks like John Belushi’s popped zit, festooning your face and forehead with sticky nickels?
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I think I’m in love.
Sticky Nickels. Gotta get their new CD. 
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy]
I suspect the change-on-top-of-bills technique is preferred because it saves the cashier a bit of time with each transaction. Change first means s/he hands over the change, then has to pick up the bills (or transfer them from one hand to the other) and tender them. Change-on-bills can be tendered in one swoop.
A tiny savings with each transaction, yes, but over the course of the day, especially in a busy store, it can add up to significance.
Disclaimer: I’ve never worked as a cashier, so this is mere hypothesis.
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Trouble is, the time they save in handing me the money like that is then spent by me having to seperate the change from the bills and put it all in their respective proper places on my person.
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle]
The noobs are sheer gold these days.
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[QUOTE=netsplit]
I’ll take bars of gold. First bar covers all the medical costs from the rest of them.
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Ta-daaaa!
Throwing change at you? But I just perfected my technique of nailing somebody in the eye!
(It irks me when people drop change on the counter instead of putting it into my hand, as a cashier, but whatever, I can deal. Flicking change back? No-no.)
[QUOTE=hawksgirl]
No one wants to learn how to count change, all the grocery stores around here automatically spit my coin change out of a machine so the cashiers only have to count bills.
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I love those things. I can reach in with my free hand and drop the coins into my pocket.
[QUOTE=hawksgirl]
No one wants to learn how to count change, all the grocery stores around here automatically spit my coin change out of a machine so the cashiers only have to count bills. Its like they don’t give them credit for the intelligence Og gave a shrub. That kind of stuff would embarrass me if I worked somewhere they did that.
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They don’t give them the credit, because on average, the cashier doesn’t deserve it.
Those change things? They’re not infallible, despite what the manufacturer would undoubtedly have you believe. They make mistakes. The last time that happened to me, the drone behind the register first wouldn’t believe me, then took a loooong time (with a people pile-up happening behind me) to count up the change, glance puzzedly at the screen showing how much I should have recieved, count it again, look at the screen again, look at her register, stare at me with a bewildered frown, count the change AGAIN, and finally call her manager.
When that bastion of intelligence arrived, he swiftly undertook the only obvious course of action: he counted the change, glanced at the screen, counted the change again, then glanced at me suspiciously like he thought I’d pocketed the rest when the cashier wasn’t looking.
Finally they opened the cash drawer and handed me my 35 cents. And did nothing about the malfunctioning change dispenser. sigh
[QUOTE=Frank]
Reggie Jackson would be a good choice. He used to pick up the change fans threw at him in the outfield.
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…Buyer steps up to the register, here’s the pitch–
he’s going, and what a jump he’s got, he’s trying
for double-coupons, here’s the throw, it’s in the dirt–
Holy cow, he got the discount!
[QUOTE=vetbridge]
I think I’m in love.
Sticky Nickels. Gotta get their new CD.
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You saw her first. Can I at least high-five her at the reception?
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist]
Unless… maybe I could tour the country giving seminars on how to count change! I could get a retired sports figure, to add a little respectability.
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How 'bout Pete Rose?
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip]
What if the cashier fills her mouth with change and smacks her inflated cheeks like John Belushi’s popped zit, festooning your face and forehead with sticky nickels?
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You are my favourite poster.
I think this is important:
“…counting change wtihout relying on the magic box…”
If a cashier counts change back properly, the coins will hit the hand first. The “magic box” has eliminated the need to “count back”, and I think that’s why the bills land first these days.
VCNJ~
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist]
I did work behind the counter for many years (10 or so) - during rush hours we could easily process a customer in 30 seconds while still smiling, counting out change without relying on the magic box, placing the bills in their proper slots (and all facing the same direction) and try to sell a car wash, hardly ever did we throw anything at anyone. This I was taught by my first boss and I later passed on to my employees.
I don’t believe that the generation behind the counter today is any dumber/stoned-er/drunker/apathetic-er than we were back then, I place the blame for crappy customer service directly at the feet of their boss. Someone has to teach them how to do things efficiently and inoffensively but no one bothers.
Maybe if enough people complained things might change. But I doubt it, and I’m not really interested in running a business again. Unless… maybe I could tour the country giving seminars on how to count change! I could get a retired sports figure, to add a little respectability.
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[QUOTE=Hal Briston]
Trouble is, the time they save in handing me the money like that is then spent by me having to seperate the change from the bills and put it all in their respective proper places on my person.
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Well, yeh, I agree, but the cashier doesn’t care; doesn’t affect him or her except if you slow down the line by blocking the next person in line while you fumble with all your nitpicky little bodily receptacles. 
[QUOTE=hawksgirl]
No one wants to learn how to count change, all the grocery stores around here automatically spit my coin change out of a machine so the cashiers only have to count bills. Its like they don’t give them credit for the intelligence Og gave a shrub. That kind of stuff would embarrass me if I worked somewhere they did that.
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The stores around here used to have those, but they malfunctioned so much they did away with them. I used to love them - if I was getting back less than .10 I didn’t bother, and so did a lot of other people. So there was usually a “need a penny” tray right there!
As for the OP, I consider it bad enough that they put the coins on top of the bills in my hand. If a cashier ever threw change at me, it would land on the floor and sit there while she called a manager to hear my complaint. I have sympathy for people who do those type of jobs - I have been there and done that. But the money is already dirty, your precious hands aren’t going to get any dirtier touching mine.
It’s a shame that decent customer service is becoming so rare I go out of my way to look up a manager to compliment someone who is nice. Not even going out of their way, just nice.
[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose]
Well, the next time someone comes up to your register and takes a half-unwrapped, well-chewed, slobbered-over Snickers bar out of a toddler’s mouth and hands it to you, or takes a slobbered-over unopened toy away from a kid and says, “We don’t want this”, so you have to take it and drop it in your reshop basket, let’s see how long it takes you to zip around to the front of your Speed Rack as soon as they’ve left and grab an 8 ounce bottle of Walgreens hand sanitizer “For Store Use”.
It is a statistical fact that money is dirty. Cite. Cite. And from the Kindergarten Unit, Cite.
If you have a problem with cashiers using hand sanitizer, then I think you’re the one with the problem. Are you interpreting it as some kind of personal insult, if as soon as you walk away from the register, the cashier gets out her bottle of Purell? Need to get over that, I’m thinking. When car horns honk in traffic, do you also assume they’re honking at you?
One of our other cashiers is a delightful little old lady who has eczema all over her hands. Trust me, you’d prefer she wore her little gloves.
Here’s a thought: maybe they’re not flicking change at you out of new-fashioned germophobia–maybe it’s just old-fashioned laziness. Why not summon a manager and complain? “She threw, literally threw my change at me!” Bet you 10 to 1 she’s not supposed to be doing that.
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Having been the ticket taker at a movie theater I know exactly how people, no matter how nice they are by themselves, can be complete jerks in crowds.
However, just because costomer A behaves as you describe is that any reason to take it out on customer B?
That reminds me, on a trivial level, of invading Iraq because some Saudis, Lebonese and Egyptians based in Afghanistand crashed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
*Don’t throw my change at me
Don’t fear my germs too much
Don’t use that Purell too much.
People will say you’re a nut.
When I cough don’t turn away from me.
Your bugs are so like mine.
If you think your hand can’t touch mine
People will say you’re a nut!
Don’t start wearing rubber gloves
Just hand me my goddamn change
Sweetheart, you’re a paranoid
People will say you’re a nut.*
(Adapted from “Oklahoma”)
I hate the coins on top of the paper money because of one major annoyance. The bills make a little “slide” and many times the coins slide right off and on to the floor. Then I have to bend over and pick’em up and I hate flashin’ my ass.
I gotta start bendin’ at the knees, yea that’s it.
And gimme my damn coins back first!Then the paper!
My thoughts on the coins on top of notes are well documented:
But, back to the OP, what do you mean thrown at you exactly? I assume you mean they toss it into your hand and sometimes it spills. You surely don’t mean actually thrown at your head/body or whatever? Or do you mean tossed across the counter?
Whatever you mean, i’m with you. Staright back between the eyes.
Forget the hygiene angle, forget the speed thing, it’s just rude not to hand you something appropriately.