Money and Work: Today, at my retail job, a woman came to my till with her purchases....

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 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 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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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 ihatebeingacashier - 11/07/2016 21:06

Today, I handed a middle-aged woman her change of $0.75 with three quarters. She looked at the change bewildered and threw the coins down, asking if she thought I could get away with only giving her thirty cents. I had to explain to her how much a quarter is worth. FML

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By Elmoo - 01/06/2012 01:20 - Netherlands

Today, I was at work when a customer, who was going to pay for her groceries, started sorting through her money. She put some coins in her mouth, seemed to suck on them for a while, and then gave them to me. FML

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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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That's how I roll

By StellaSanguina - 09/10/2009 03:17 - United States

Today, a buttmunch customer brought in $7 worth of pennies I had to count and roll. As I was putting them in the deposite box at the end of my shift, I fumbled and dropped the rolls. All but one broke, spilling their contents on the floor. 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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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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Foldin' money

By E_Sauce - 24/03/2019 12:00

Today, I went to the bank to get a jar of coins exchanged for cash via a fancy counter machine. After 30 minutes I was handed a bag of rolling sleeves and was told to do it myself. Good news, I have a lot more money than I thought. Bad news, I have A LOT more coins than I thought. FML

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thefella 10

Sunday 3 February 2013 1:24

Those types of people are a dime a dozen. Why wouldn't she bring enough money to a store? That doesn't make much cents.

Senseless_487 29

Sunday 3 February 2013 1:28

Wow. Every retail job I've ever had had a policy stating if someone were to pay with only coins, they had to be rolled. It gave people the opportunity to short the store a few pennies, but that was on the management.

Comments

boarderlyne17 8

Sunday 3 February 2013 23:25

So what you're saying is... she didn't have enough cents? :) Sorry, had to.

kristi_185 8

Sunday 3 February 2013 23:52

This happened to me too today. Since the customer brought in the coins, I decided I'll take my time counting them. 10 minutes later, he didn't look happy-I was only halfway done :)

jdime209 2

Monday 4 February 2013 6:25

FYL. I would have called another employee to come and help count it.

angel55033 12

Monday 4 February 2013 15:25

"The other was filled with cents". making no sense, made me laugh though. money machines for large change use should be mandatory.

redhedsaysrawr 18

Monday 4 February 2013 16:20

It sucks you guys didn't have a coinstar around.

scr_sensei 14

Monday 4 February 2013 22:49

I guess she was a little centsless. Maybe she should have taken a more accurate centsus. But it sounds like she was either a centenarian or cent by the devil. At the very least, I think we can come to the concentsus that there's just no change in some people.

VampTat 10

Tuesday 19 February 2013 7:05

I see a lot of puns here...

angelofsaturn 23

Friday 8 February 2013 8:19

i bet that woman is related to these motherfuckers who always order pizzas and pay in ridiculous amounts of change. like i stood on their porch with their order in the bag on my arm and i counted out every last penny from the baggie they handed me before i handed over the food and it was around 26 bucks so i was on the porch for awhile. **** that shit hard. if you're gonna be that big of a douche then i'm gonna be that much of a ****.