Stupid Cashier Tricks

[glendalais]

OK, I can make change a lot faster than I can get a calculator. Don't they teach that in school anymore (around grade 4 or 5)?

Oh they do. It's not that I don't know how to make change, it's more of an anti-fraud thing (people trying to rapidly change the amount they give in order to confuse the cashier). We have to break out the calculator and do the math.

[Gregor]

I know what you mean, I work in grocery retail and I see the same or similar things.

When I'm cashier, and something costs $4.50, they usually give me a $5.00 bill. Then sometimes they give me an extra 50 cents. I just add however much they give me to the change.

And tour groups acually do that??? I'd just say "I'm sorry, we only sell hamburgers, but not cheeseburgers without cheese." :D:

Just checking, but you do realize that they're giving you the extra change so that that they get only bills back? Being a guy, the only place to put change is in my front pockets. Too much change becomes bulky, heavy and annoying.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Oh they do. It's not that I don't know how to make change, it's more of an anti-fraud thing (people trying to rapidly change the amount they give in order to confuse the cashier). We have to break out the calculator and do the math.

I was gonna say that would have been my guess!

"that will be $6.35 sir"

"Here's a 20, no thats a five, give me back the five and here's a 10, now I have the 35 cents in change, but its two quarters, so I need fifteen back!"

Sheesh!!!

[Ms. Matterhorn]

ok, i can make change a lot faster than i can get a calculator. Don't they teach that in school anymore (around grade 4 or 5)?

No!