Work: Today, I was tending the cash register. I scanned a lady's items...

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 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 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 Links - 20/11/2009 07:26 - United States

Today, a McDonald's employee had to correct my math after counting out $2.37 in change. I'm in AP Calculus and am currently learning how to find the derivative of an inverse of a logarithm. FML

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By monkey2069 - 13/05/2014 13:58 - United States - Elgin

Today, a lady handed me a $10 tip on a $45 bill. I was happy with it, since it was more than 20%, until she came back in and said, "I'm sorry I gave you the wrong amount." I handed it back to her and then she gave me a dollar. FML

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By Anonymous - 02/06/2009 23:13 - United States

Today, I was working my job as a waitress near my college. I handed a customer her check, and she noticed that I had added her bill wrong. I apologized, and she pointed to my "student" labeled nametag, asking what I was studying. I said English. I'm a math major. FML

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By ouch - 13/06/2012 16:00 - United States - Lutz

Today, I was cashiering, and a customer's change came to $5.51. She looked pretty stinking rich, so I just gave her $5.50. She demanded the extra penny, and I asked if she really needed it. She said, "No, but they do, asshole," and dropped her $5.51 in the charity donation box. 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 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 Anonymous - 08/08/2009 07:02 - United States

Today, I was working in the box office. A group came in for tickets but wanted to pay individually. One paid $40 for a $25 ticket. Laughing, I reached for the calculator while saying, "I went to public school, so I can't do math." They didn't laugh. They were all teachers in public schools. FML

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swift07 4

Thursday 13 January 2011 18:53

wait huh she got mad cuz you gave her an extra dollar by mistake :-/

furburger 0

Thursday 13 January 2011 19:00

Doesn't the cash register tell you how much change to give? You may want to reconsider your major if reading 4 (four) numbers on a screen is confusing.

Comments

Jadesenpai 5

Monday 19 May 2014 19:05

Check your math again....

cuntbucket 3

Friday 30 May 2014 23:31

Wow dude, you ****** up

Gerenah 9

Wednesday 8 October 2014 7:59

C'mon m8 math ain't THAT hard

jojocircus19 16

Wednesday 13 January 2016 0:12

But apparently English is......

criley221 19

Wednesday 13 May 2015 22:02

bwahahaha..the lady was right on both counts, the change should be $10.32 AND schools today are totally failing!

kittykat1501 31

Thursday 4 June 2015 16:40

It was the right amount!!

kittykat1501 31

Thursday 4 June 2015 16:42

Oops never mind

Drentiful 9

Friday 26 June 2015 16:28

Well you still have her the extra dollar calculus or not.

Motherhood 20

Monday 13 July 2015 7:59

when I worked at McDonald's an old man paid me 3 bucks extra because I could do the math for his change in my head without a calculator he said that he does it to every cashier to see if they can

brokendown12 18

Thursday 17 December 2015 5:37

people need to chill with this AP calculus kids are taught to deal with high level equations, so much so that simple math can easily be forgotten, it is a simple mistake and no one should feel bad about it .

jojocircus19 16

Wednesday 13 January 2016 0:11

An honest mistake but still......

Iris_River 15

Tuesday 15 March 2016 23:32

Does it really ******* matter about him giving her an extra dollar by mistake? He could have looked too quickly and read the price wrong. Every makes mistakes. Oh he gave her an extra dollar for her change, its such a biiiiiig deal.. God it's like it's the end of the world on this site for you people.