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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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
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.
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.
I done the dumb version: it’s 9.50 and I give 20.50
I’m just trying to help.
Eh, I’d still prefere a 10 and a 1 over a 10 and a 0.50.
(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.
I just tell them to keep the change at this point
Honestly, I have no idea, if the cashiers are allowed to take extra change here, at least in the supermarkets.
I still want to try that at the town market, where I’ve always been too stupid to think of that so far, so I once got told that I could’ve kept that 1ct coin and one time, the guy actually gave me extra change, because he did not want to deal with those small coins. 🥴
I guess it isn’t significant enough for people to care
Might be different if you live in a country that is very strict on rules (like Germany or Japan)
Good guess. I live in Germany. 😅
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
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.
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
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.
Huh? The point in giving an even 10 back to the customer is that it keeps more change in your float. It’s for the cashiers benefit not the customers.
It’s a win win.
Just go to the safe and get more cash? It’s not that hard
Where did you work as a cashier where you can just go get more cash out of the safe without having to wait an eternity for a manager to do it?
When I was a cashier I didn’t care if anything took an eternity for anyone.
Pet store chain. They weren’t doing anything more than sending emails or helping guests and filling my cash drawer is helping guest check out faster
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.
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In Poland they would just say “do you have extra .50/1.73/3 zł”. No need to explain why. Everyone knew why.
