By brunurb - 29/05/2012 11:40 - United States - Norwood

Today, I had to get the manager of a grocery store to explain to his employee how coupons work. The employee had refused to accept the coupons I was using, for fear that, "they will be deducted from my paycheck." FML
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I hope he wasn't too overwhelmed... I was checking out 5 items, and had a single coupon for 50 cents off one of the items. He just looked very confused when I handed him the coupon! :)

Top comments

Someone needs to watch extreme couponing.

2ndSucks 15

The next generation looks promising.

Comments

SheepShoop_fml 20

While said employee sounded pretty naive, I certainly hope you weren't a condescending buttface about the whole thing.

crammer1 6

If she's a couponer she most likely was. I've had a LOT of experience with them and most of them are horrible! They don't care if they back up the checkout line and have no consideration for anyone but themselves.

#122, I'm a guy, not a girl. Read the details under the original post. and no, I'm not a couponer, it was a single coupon... for 50 cents. #13, no I wasn't a jerk about it, but I did laugh my ass off after I left the store.

Today, I realized I F'ed up my own FML post. It should have said "refused to accept the coupon" (singular) since I only had one. this caused some confusion in the comments and made a few people think I'm an extreme couponer. FML :)

He was just making sure that it wasn't in the fine print. People change policies all the time. Sounds like the employee must come from a different country.

robinhood007 9

If another country does that then its ridiculous...i would NEVER want to save money on my groceries if it were to take money out of the cashiers paycheck...and if anyone else did then they're mean and the store is mean for doing that to the employees.

RedPillSucks 31

They may come from another country that doesn't use coupons so they're unfamiliar with how coupons work.

robinhood007 9

42- some countries may not have coupons and don't know how they work. Maybe they came from a country that does all their grocery shopping through produce stands. Who knows?

robinhood007 9

I said 47 was right, meaning that the whole idea of him coming from a country without coupons makes sense. But, the way you worded it was not that he came from a country without coupons and you could have easily said this in your original comment.

Yea, I see where you could get that. Next time, my comment will be so crystal-ball clear, I will even throw in a horoscope in there for ya.

bettyc4 26

Intelligence these days jeez

Another indictment of the american education system. GOD BLESS AMERICA

unknown_user5566 26
unknown_user5566 26

70- How did I fail? Indictment is a legal term, it wasn't the appropriate word usage, which is why I corrected it with "indication".

The_Big_Boss 20

And that is why he works there, haha

robinhood007 9

More life f his life than fyl. Poor lad doesn't even have a brain...

FatKidsJiggle 2

sounds like its the manager's fault for not properly training the cashier before putting him on the register

robinhood007 9

I was a cashier for a two years and I was never taught that either. I wasn't because its common sense. A manager shouldn't have to teach their employee something like that..

During training I was always told to assume the trainee knows nothing. If I was to skip the basic stuff it was after a conversation of the person telling me what they know. Maybe ask a few questions about the business. If someone knows nothing or never had experience with coupons, it wouldn't be common sense to them. Toss in some coworkers may find this amusing and plant the idea that the money comes from their check to screw with them, or during training deductions from pay was went over and scared the employee. Yea, it sounds stupid to not get how it works but there could be 100 reasons why, including a simple brain fart. I've had web jobs where we had to teach people simple computer things like cut and paste. If they can code, you think they'd know that. More often then not, it came more from nerves then stupidity.

unknown_user5566 26

110- I feel like you looked too deeply into this FML. Regardless of any reasoning, "the customer is always right", especially when it comes to something as simple as accepting a coupon.

challan 19

F his L not yours... Sounds like "cashier" might be the highlight of his resume.