Money, Customers, Annoying and Work: Time waster

Time waster

By Anonymous - 19/11/2010 03:34 - United States

Today, I was just about done with my late-night shift at Ralph's. As I was about to put up my "Closed Lane" sign, an elderly women starts putting items on the conveyor belt. The cost was $14.79, and she paid with pennies. It took her ages to count them all, and I wasn't being paid overtime. FML

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By Anonymous - 29/11/2009 13:49 - United States

Today, I was shopping at the grocery market and was next in line. Behind me was a woman who only had two items, so I nicely let her in front of me, as it looked like she was in a hurry. When she was all rung up, she decided to pay her $16.45 in loose change which needed to be counted out. FML

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By fuckedbyretail - 02/02/2013 14:53 - United States - Charlotte

Today, at my retail job, a woman came to my till with her purchases. After I scanned all her items, she handed me two small bags. One was filled with nickels and dimes. The other was filled with cents. Her total was $28.53. The coins amounted to $22.30. FML

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By Chels - 04/12/2009 06:27 - United States

Today, I had an elderly man come to my cash register. His total came to $15.50 He handed me $5 in nickels and dimes. A full roll of quarters. Before I could take the roll, he bust it open, making me count it. After that was all counted he was 50 cents short. So he handed me a $10 bill. FML

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Coinbased

By Keekee - 19/01/2023 14:00

Today, I rang up a customer’s items. The total came out to $24.67. She handed me a bag full of coins and looked at me expectantly. I asked if she had any other payment methods; she got irritated and said ,“If I did, I wouldn’t have given you this, stupid!” I had to count them. She was still 6 dollars short. FML

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By Anonymous - 14/09/2011 15:47 - United States

Today, a lady came into my workplace to pay her $120 bill in one dollar bills. I kept losing count. FML

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By micheal - 21/06/2011 16:52 - United States

Today, while I was delivering pizza in the torrential downpour, I waited 5 minutes in the pouring rain for an old lady to dig 20 bucks out of her purse. Her total was $19.99. She told me to keep the change and make lots of money. FML

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By Anonymous - 13/01/2011 11:07 - United States

Today, I was tending the cash register. I scanned a lady's items which totaled $89.68. She paid with a $100 bill. I gave her $11.32 change. She angrily gave back the extra dollar and complained about "schools nowadays". I'm an AP Calculus student. FML

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Checked out

By $$$ - 29/05/2013 04:49 - Australia - Chatswood

Today, an elderly woman couldn't afford all of her groceries at the checkout so she started to take out a few things. I offered to pay for her groceries; she thanked me and walked out. An onlooker then came up to me and told me that she does it to someone every week. FML

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By richgirl - 25/02/2010 00:15 - United States

Today, I was doing takeout orders at the restaurant I work at. I spent a long while putting together this guy's $135.00 order. When he finally got there to pick it up, I told him to fill out the credit card slip. I looked at it after he left. He gave me a 40 cent tip. FML

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By Anonymous - 13/01/2011 23:00 - United States

Today, while working at a dollar store, I was clobbered by a woman because apparently, I was ripping her off by charging two dollars for two doughnuts. She didn't understand that she couldn't buy multiple items at once for one dollar. FML

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kimbaheartsyou 0

Friday 19 November 2010 12:28

I know 5 or 10 minutes here and there doesn't sound like much, but it adds up. Up until recently, people at my work didn't get paid to close up, which takes around 15 minutes if all goes well. Over 5 days, that's 1.25 hours - around $25. If you work 50 weeks a year, that's $1250 you're getting screwed out of. People need to learn to stop undervaluing their time. If you're working, you should be paid. It's that simple.

justsomgirl 4

Friday 19 November 2010 8:55

I've been there and it sucks.

Comments

Aniblecoby 0

Friday 19 November 2010 18:02

you did a favor to an old lady. try looking at it positively next time, it just might change the way you work and live :)

IBMoondance23 0

Friday 19 November 2010 18:18

been there done that! luckily we have one of those coin counting machines in our store! either way we can refuse to take pennies that aren't already rolled up. if she had thrown a fit call management and make it their problem cause thats what they're there for and then you'll get to clock out on time. PS it is illegal to not get paid overtime unless there is another arrangement like there is for state jobs where they get paid comptime they can use later on to make up for the ot

doomsauced 0

Sunday 21 November 2010 8:06

You must be one of the lucky ones that has management that will actually back you up. That's getting to be quite rare these days.

daleftw 0

Friday 19 November 2010 18:49

Sounds like America needs to get a concept of "legal tender". Here, if you pay with any more than 20 of a denomination it is not considered legal tender and you can be asked to find another way to pay. Also we got rid of 1c and 2c pieces here probably 15 years ago because they're just plain shit and worthless.

mswimsfla 0

Friday 19 November 2010 19:09

Wow, that's all I can say. Your life must be blissful if the worst thing happening in your life is having to help some elderly lady (who is probably counting change because of living on a fixed income), count a whopping $14 in change. Sounds miserable. you and anyone who sympathizes are mentally handicapped.

doomsauced 0

Sunday 21 November 2010 8:09

I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume you've never worked in customer service have you?

iheartbreak 8

Friday 19 November 2010 19:44

bull

cavanz 0

Friday 19 November 2010 20:13

Daaaang that's a lot of pennies. O.O

XbambiX 3

Friday 19 November 2010 21:40

I no how u feel!! sux tho....

varkey 7

Friday 19 November 2010 22:08

well, obviously you're not intelligent enough to get any other jobs because you can't even spell "paid" properly. if you fail kindergarten, you pay the price. YDI and FYL