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
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I had this twice in the same day the other day. Was travelling, had cash to get rid of and the poor teenage cashiers these days can't wrap their brain around the concept at all cos they never had to. Both times I get a "this 20 is already enough" and I said I'm trying get rid of coins. I could watch their brain rebooting, give up, punch it in the till and then be really baffled when they hand me back a 10 euro note.
Yesterday I was buying groceries and, having been a grocery store cashier before, I faced the UPCs towards him to make it easier. He picked up each item individually and checked every other surface before finding the UPC on every single time.
I wanted to grab him and shake him by the shoulders yelling “This was supposed to be easy for you!”
I do this a lot for cases of beverages and usually let them know verbally since most people are just on autopilot. Most thank me for making things easy for them.
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I struggled with this when I got moved to the front end of my store at 22
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I done the dumb version: it's 9.50 and I give 20.50
I'm just trying to help.
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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.
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Cash transactions now get rounded to the nearest 5 cents here in Estonia so you won't even get the 2 cents anymore. 5 is the minimum now
Think it'll reduce usage of the tiny coins, but no idea if they're also slowly removing them from circulation or not. In your scenario you would've received just 5 cents
Doesn't invalidate the extra 5 cents to get 10 cents back, just nice to get back even fewer small coins I'd say. Sometimes you pay an extra cent or 2, sometimes you lose a cent or 2. Never more than 2 anyway
Yeah, our government occasionally discusses that idea again, but unfortunately nothing has been put into law yet. I would certainly prefer not having to carry around extra copper, just because companies want their .99 prices.
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.
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When I was a cashier they recommended we not do this kind of thing, because there are some fast-talk scams people will do to get more money. Like they'll give you more money, say something confusing, take the money back, and then you give them the extra change, except more sophisticated than that.
They were called “quick-” or”short-change artists”. They still exist, just not as common because people carry far less cash than they used to.
One of them almost got me back in the day as a cashier. It was one of my first days. After the transaction I felt something was off so I told my supervisor. The supervisor had gotten scammed by the same guy when he was new. Apparently this guy sought out the new cashiers. My supervisor actually went and got the guy before he left and actually said "excuse me sir, I believe the cashier gave you too much change." The guy didn't even dispute it and gave exactly the amount he shorted me. ($50) He absolutely knew what he was doing, and almost got away with it.
I understand what you're saying and it's good policy. Many cashiers get confused by those things. I cashiered for many years at a place where if my drawer was perfect to the penny I got a free meal for my break. I got a free meal every single fucking day. Those scams just don't work on some of us.
I know someone who did the scam by accident. Mentioned the number 50 talking to his friend while he was handing the cashier a 20. Got change for 50 euros instead of 20, noticed it later lol
At least someone gets it
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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This is why I prefer using a card. I can't handle impromptu math. It makes my brain perform an emergency shutdown.
It’s not that hard: sum everything you’ll give (20+1=21), then it’s obvious you’ll receive 10 back.
When you're talking to someone who's expressing a great deal of anxiety ("emergency shutdown"), phrases like "it's not that hard" and "it's obvious" become "if you struggle with this, you're an idiot".
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Social impromptu math does not follow logic
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Have we just given up on putting the currency symbol in the correct place?
(I know some currencies have the symbol after it, but I'm not aware of any dollar currencies that work that way)
Putting the currency symbol after always made more sense to me. It's how every other unit of measurement works, why should currency be different?
afaik it's on the left to stop people adding in more numbers on cheques.
Yes? Is it going to confuse anyone?
No, the US doesn't have sole authority to dictate what the correct place is to the entire world.
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Correct is whatever next generation of society adapts. It's 10 dollars not dollars 10. I personally don't care, I just don't see the problem
Just the other day I was thinking we should use the currency symbol as the decimal marker. So something could cost 9$99
Just pay with card plsthx
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.
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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
music
math heavy
Dang it, there goes my plan of fleeing computers to escape math
Well in reality everything in the universe is math, so there's no escape ha
Well, so long as it doesn't involve me solving the integral of ([the limit of {the square root} or {the arctan} of x] over [some other shit on the bottom of a fraction]), I'm good yeah I'm feeling alright
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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.
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