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
I done the dumb version: it’s 9.50 and I give 20.50
I’m just trying to help.
(For those who can’t math, that means they get $11 back)
I paid in euros, so you should take into account the exchange rate
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…
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.
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.
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.
They didn’t haves 5s, and didn’t want to hand you a wad of ones.
Because sometimes people get mad about that shit.
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Putting 3000 yen worth of change into the 711 self-checkout for a 100 yen item while pretending I don’t understand the cashier saying “its enough” in english and japanese because gives me back useful notes.
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
Since 4 is less than 7, I subtract 10 from 54 to make it into (14-7)+(40-40). It’s basically what you do on paper.
It’s often because they have a limited number of ones.
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.
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.
I just don’t see how this isn’t the process. If you understand what the dollars and cents mean then it’s still just adding 1. I was also a cashier for years and never ever saw this be an issue. I met or trained dozens if not hundreds of cashiers and this was never such a problem that couldn’t be learned. If you can be trusted to handle cash you should be able to handle adding small values to a number
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.
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.
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.
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
You never had scammers come in and try to fast talk you for some extra change with switching bills or making change and then Have your boss chew you out over being short $5 It’s all good
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.
I worked a register, and just made change out of the drawer like I was taught–start at the pennies and work your way up. The register had the option of entering the tended amount, but I never used it. It’s not hard to do at all, I’m terrible at math, but I can handle adding and subtracting below 10.
This was 35 years ago, though. Public school has been shit since Bush.
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